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Comment Re: 1754 was not very good either ... (Score 1) 218

The predictions were 100% that people would stop having desktops in their homes because their phones and tablets can do everything. That's the whole point of the "death" of PCs.

But that didn't happen, because people still have PCs. They don't replace them as often, but you're insane if you think "saturated market" and "dead market" are anywhere near the same thing, lol.

Comment Re:Bare with me (Score 1) 363

I've nearly eliminated ads from my life (through significant effort), so I don't really know what kinds of advertising they do. I just go to stores and read reviews when I want to buy something, so if that's an issue, I can't speak to it. That's lame, though. I agree their quality is generally shoddy. I specifically avoid all other Razer products for exactly this reason. This specific keyboard appears to be a rare exception. I also agree the registration through Synapse is lame as shit, but the shiny lights are nice!

Anyways, I maintain that the click is much quieter than I had on my Cherry MX Blues, but I guess that's not exactly saying much. Maybe I just got used to extreme volume? Anyways, my original point was just that it feels *awesome* to type on it. That's why I bought it, that's why everyone I convinced has bought it, and that's why I'd buy it again if I had to. Once they stop making this, I'll go back to avoiding Razer 100% of the time.

Comment Re: Missed opportunity (Score 1) 87

If this were even remotely true, then VR horror games wouldnâ(TM)t be nearly as terrifying as they are. Turns out when youâ(TM)re all wrapped up in something, itâ(TM)s easy to get your mind in a place where it genuinely believes your experience is the true reality.

Comment Bare with me (Score 1) 363

I know it’s kind of a joke in some circles to avoid using Razer products, and for the most part, I agree with them.

But with that being said, give the Chroma Ornata a try. It has some of the best switches I’ve ever typed on. I’ve gotten two friends to buy one just by having them try mine out for a few sentences.

Go find a micro center or whatever your nearby equivalent is and find one to test out. 10/10 would recommend.

Comment Re:The threat of AI is so Overrated. (Score 2) 51

Surprising that someone on a tech-based website would feel confident saying that because some form of tech isn't particularly effective today, it's not worth a second thought.

If you think we won't ever refine the way AI crunches through data sets, or that we won't even refine the hardware it runs on, or that we won't refine the methods used for gathering data that it runs through, you're not really in the right state of mind to even begin talking about AI.

Maybe AI can figure out how to walk a robot across a plane in 6 months, and maybe it really would take another 6 months to compensate for ice (which isn't true, but that's besides the point). In 50 years, that might take 6 minutes and another 6 minutes instead. Humans will still be at a year for that initial solution.

Comment Re:Missed opportunity (Score 4, Informative) 87

This was nothing more than a study of the mental/emotional effects of being on Mars, as well as a study of how some of the mechanical and procedural systems might work on Mars. They got plenty of data on that.

For a first run, this was about as good as one could hope, but with systems that haven't yet been refined for the unique challenges presented by living on Mars, there's no good reason to let people suffer and potentially die with such an early iteration.

Comment Re:Is it a good idea? (Score 5, Insightful) 257

It wouldn't even be that close. It would be like if we had another 500 years to develop our military technology, and these were people who had never even seen electricity harnessed before. We show up with fucking mech walkers and sniper rifles with 2 mile ranges and fighter jets that are naked to the human eye and they're throwing rocks and sticks at us.

Any alien that can come say hello would be so far out of our league we'd be like ants to them - barely smarter than the monkeys and dogs and kangaroos around us as far as they're concerned.

Comment Slightly off-topic... (Score 2) 95

But what bothers me is the fact that ANYONE uses the ones that make you tip *before* the actual food arrives. It'd be like walking into a restaurant and tipping your future waitress. Uber Eats is the only one that doesn't do this in my experience, and once I discovered that, I deleted the other apps and never looked back. What a ridiculous layout. Who puts up with that!?

Comment Re:Meh. Define "restaurant" (Score 1) 95

Agreed. There are a few places I'll specifically go to because the atmosphere is great, or because the employees are awesome, or because it has an awesome view or whatever.

But I'll be honest - I just checked, and there are 12 different indian places on my Uber Eats list. I don't feel like driving 20 minutes across town to buy some food from one of these random places. Not to mention, my average delivery tip is $4, plus an average delivery fee of $3. I typically end up tipping at LEAST that much when I go to an actual restaurant... so why would I ever go to an actual restaurant? More expense for the same food in a less comfortable location predicated by a 20-30 minute drive? (not to mention, I can only have one beer because I still need to drive home). Yeah, aside from a few exceptions, there's no good reason to bother with it.

There's a reason these things got popular, and it's because going out to most restaurants isn't a great experience.

Comment Re:What else is Google/Waymo/whoever hiding? (Score 2) 167

Nah, we need autonomous driving.

There are a huge number of benefits once we finally cross the threshold of 100% autonomous drivers. There will be a day, far in the future, when a car crashes and causes a traffic jam and it makes national headlines. You'll see posts on reddit's successor about how kids these days don't understand the past horrors of having to be awake for a 35 minute commute to work BOTH WAYS. You can train people as much as you want - you'll never reach that level if you don't just get their hands off the wheel altogether.

There are way more benefits, but you get the idea.

People are too easily distracted to ever be trusted with a 4000 pound block of metal and flammable liquids capable of going over 100 mph easily.

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