Comment Re:Dictators (Score 3, Informative) 55
The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.
Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.
Comment Re:Upgrading multiple Java versions at once is eas (Score 1) 66
Comment Indeed. (Score 5, Funny) 67
"If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them -- things like mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus," said a statement Meta issued earlier.
Early reports on the effectiveness of the training has shown mixed results -- the agents are REALLY good at mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus, but no matter the prompt provided to it, the agent just opens firefox and starts browsing job postings on Indeed.
Comment Re:Getting tired of saying this (Score 1) 403
So in this instance, you failed, because no one knows who the shit Rebecca Watson is, nor do they give a shit about whoever the fuck Rebecca Watson is, thinks
Comment Gamestops are the size of a large walkin closet (Score 1) 97
It could be freakin great though, if they adopted a bit of the Amazon logistics soup recipe. They have shitloads of pickup locations scattered about already.
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Have you seen the size of a Gamestop? They're tiny and cramped, and don't exactly scream "large amount of extra storage space"
Comment Re:Why would you buy a dead company... 2000's is g (Score 1) 51
Comment Re:I guess I stop using Ubuntu (Score 1) 135
If I'm at work and my coworker interrupts me to ask "Was Nietzsche antisemitic?," I, too, would play dumb and reply "Who is Knee Chi?", so that he'd leave me the fuck alone and go back to asking google questions and pretending he was having a conversation.
Comment Musk said he was a "fool" (Score 2) 51
Musk said he was a "fool"
No shit?
During cross-examination, Savitt clashed with Musk over questioning. Savitt asked whether Musk had contributed $38 million to OpenAI, rather than the $100 million that he later claimed to have invested on X. Musk said he also contributed his reputation to the company and came up with the idea for the name, leading Savitt to ask Musk to respond yes or no to "simple" questions. "Your questions are not simple. They're designed to trick me, essentially," Musk said, adding that he had to elaborate or it would mislead the jury.
"Ladies and gentleman of the jury, asking me whether a statement I made is true or not is a devious question designed to trick me! Did I mention that I'm a fool? You've gotta understand that being associated with a fool like me has a valuation of 60 - 70 million!"
Comment Re:OpenAI is not a nonprofit anymore (Score 1) 51
That's a really keen observation. You really got his ass with that one.
Comment Re:Nope (Score 2) 82
- Kurt Werle, for some reason.
Comment Re:I guess I stop using Ubuntu (Score 3, Funny) 135
I chat anonymously with Gemini because it can hold a philosophical conversation with me better than most people I know.
You should probably keep stuff like that to yourself.
Comment Re:I guess I stop using Ubuntu (Score 3) 135
You have a philosophy of having only what you need on the OS
He didn't say that. Before you reply to people with such surly condescension, you need to make sure you actually understand what they said.
Comment Re:Fascinating how some still believe in VR succes (Score 1) 89
it's still a fundamentally bad human interface and remains a solution in search of a problem.
I don't think you know what that phrase mean.
The problem is "we don't have a means of immersing a person's entire field of view into a three-dimensional virtual world."
Comment An iphone that you control with your ass (Score 1) 45
CNET's web sites (which include ZDNET, PCMag, Mashable and Lifehacker) are even hosting a contest "to see which of our readers can make the best Apple predictions for 2026. Answer five questions in any of our three rounds of the contest to be entered to win [$applePrize] in September. [...] This first round of contest questions will run from today, May 19."
That's amazing news, crack CNET team!!! I can't WAIT to win [$applePrize] with my prediction that Apple will finally release an iphone that you control with your ass. I already shoved three of them up my ass to start practicing!