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Comment Re: Testing? (Score 1) 90

You are clearly an idiot with a gigantic ego. These terms are decades old established disciplines. If you had any actual on-target understanding, you would know that. Do not expect everybody to think as sloppily as you.

"Communicating with a system in natural language" is a sub-discipline of "NLP". Incidentally, LLMs cannot really do that. They need an NLP layer for that to work. Raw LLM output is not something you want to use.

There is no "NLP layer".

Comment Re:Modern VR hardware is really disappointing (Score 2) 32

You are definitely in the terribly small minority of VR players who want wires on their VR headset. Tethered VR is dead, and has been for quite a while. Unwired VR is what 99.9999999% of players want.

No shit of course everyone wants untethered VR. The problem is untethered VR in the real world means shit graphics, shit battery life and a bulky HMD that generates more heat than the sun. There are enough people using VR for flying/racing/space SIMs for there to be a market for tethered VR.

Comment Re:Because... (Score 1) 148

Still hard to believe that small bills last anywhere close to coins. I regularly see Loonies (1 dollar coin) from when they were introduced in 1987, meanwhile the paper currency has changed a couple of times and then likewise with the plastic currency. Most of the changes were for counterfeiting protection.
Meanwhile the coin has changed from coated nickel to coated stainless steel.
Armoured car companies seem fine with $1 and $2 coins.
The vending machines were set up a long time ago for $1 coins and American $1 coins are compatible with Loonies in those machines, both nickel and stainless steel Loonies.
I used to hate looking at my wallet, seeing a bunch of bills and then counting them and realizing they were mostly ones.

Comment Re: Make them occasionally? (Score 1) 148

Here in Canada, when we got rid of the penny, some stores advertised that they would always round down. Didn't last before going to regular rounding and I've never heard of a business that always rounds up.
Can't remember if there is a law about it or just guidelines.
Anyways, few pay in cash today and for plastic, it is still rounded to the nearest cent.

Comment Re:They're not just blocking (Score 1) 27

Why would anyone store their primary banking credit card info on a hackable electronic device? I have a low limit card through a bank that I do no other business with. Hack it and charge maybe $1K before it limits or you get caught. Not attached to an account with a balance, so nothing to drain.

Comment Modern VR hardware is really disappointing (Score 1, Interesting) 32

Seems like VR technology is moving backwards. All I want in an HMD is something that runs OpenXR and plugs into the GPU in the back of a PC. Last HMD on the market to do that was the G2... great hardware shit optics.

Now they all have their own hardware on board which needlessly adds cost, heat and weight of course proprietary walled garden app stores. Even shit like Pimax requires a goddamn "account" just to install.

If you want to connect to PC you either have to fork out another $100 for a proprietary cable or suffer with needless quality and latency hits over shit wireless transmission schemes. This isn't even some ultra low latency high bandwidth 60ghz scheme but just plain old WiFi. They don't even care.

Instead of foveated rendering we get foveated compression and tripling down on proprietary walled gardens and data collection.

Comment Amazing deal (Score 1) 148

Getting rid of the penny saves $56 million dollars a year and costs shoppers $6 million dollars a year. 50 million dollar savings means everyone saves a dime and a nickle each year.

Suspect when you factor in friction such as updating systems and handling upset customers that 50 million dollars would look like a rounding error.

Might as well mint coins according to an optimal golomb ruler with a length around 100. That way you would only need any two coins to express any amount under a dollar. If there is not a perfect match some kind of bankers rounding algorithm could be employed to fill in the gaps. I'm sure everyone would appreciate the massive savings and it would be totally worth it.

Comment Re:Rationality versus rationalism (Score 1) 75

That smells a LOT like BS. I'm just going to eat all this food in your pantry to make sure you don't get food poisoning, and such.

Compare, instead of the nobleman charging rent, the herdsmen do get together and own the commons in common, working out a fair deal between them for sustainability.

As for the NYC situation, if there's a glut, why don't prices fall? Where are the buildings for sale cheap to someone who wants to do a residential conversion?

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