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Comment Obligatory 2001: A Space Odyssey Reference... (Score 1) 202

Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

Comment What do they consider "household"??? (Score 1) 113

What does Netflix consider to be a "household"? Is it a group of people all accessing the internet from the same IP address? I have 2 children away at college whom I still consider part of my household. Will Netflix? What if I travel away from home and bring my iPad with me to watch Netflix while I'm away?

Comment Sounds like Orphaned Drugs (Score 1) 212

This sounds an awful lot like orphaned drugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_drug#:~:text=An%20orphan%20drug%20is%20a,referred%20to%20as%20orphan%20diseases) TLDR - The technology exists to cure or treat a disease, but not enough people suffer from it to make it profitable for the drug companies, so it does not get made.

Comment Pseudo-flattening? (Score 2) 60

We've long passed the point where automation tools can place and route an entire chip all at once (flat). Out of necessity designs have to be carved up into separate hierarchical blocks that can be worked on separately. As far as I know, that type of partitioning is typically something done manually along logical design boundaries. Just a WAG here, but I would think that at least a component of this "AI" must be the ability for it to make "intelligent" choices about breaking up the design into hierarchical blocks that better reflect the physical, rather than the logical, connectedness of the design elements.

Comment Ruined Color Laser Printer (Score 1) 301

Back in the late '90s I shared my office with a gigantic Apple color laser printer used mainly for printing out transparencies (this was in the days before video projectors became ubiquitous). I'm sure it was probably a very expensive printer. It took 4 toner cartridges (CMYK). On occasion I would swap out a toner cartridge when it ran out. Well, one time, I missed removing one of the zillions of pieces of tape that were on the new cartridge. Come the next print job, I heard a lot of grinding sounds. Turns out that one little piece of tape kept something on the cartridge from turning and a bunch of gears inside the printer got stripped, pretty much totally ruining the printer.

Comment Re:Metrics? (Score 1) 137

From TFA, Finneas concedes your point...

O’Connell hands Eilish’s songs off to mixer Rob Kinelski. “Everything that I’ve sent that he’s mixed is pre-compressed and pre-panned, and all the reverbs and all the delays are pretty much already there. I’m not looking for Rob to ‘fix’ anything; he just makes it a little more balanced, because everything comes out of my bedroom at my parents’ house with too much bass. Rob and our mastering engineer, John Greenham, make sure our stuff sounds good everywhere.”

Comment Fees suck (Score 1) 122

This is like the time my daughter sold Girl Scout cookies to someone who paid with a check and the check bounced. It was 4 boxes totalling $20. So we were out the $20 and an additional $20 returned check check fee. Seeing as how the troop only keeps $0.50 profit per box, that single transaction wiped out 80 boxes worth of profit.

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