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Comment Tesla constantly flashed by other rural drivers (Score 1) 195

Got a Tesla about a year ago, when out in the country I constantly get flashed by other drivers that think I have my high beams on. Like every few minutes of driving time. This looks like a NHTSA fail, most federal agencies have been distracted from core missions in recent years. At least they're finally allowing ADB (Adaptive Driving Beam) headlights which have been standard in the EU...

Comment Metaverse is dead till walled gardens are open (Score 2) 34

Those of us who helped make the metaverse possible have mostly stopped working on it. Neil's vision has been buildable for decades, but the hardware gatekeepers are more interested in building the IOI version of it from Ready Player One. Until that changes there are a few great games, but no new commons...

Submission + - Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men (phys.org) 1

jbmartin6 writes: Threatening messages aimed to prevent digital piracy have the opposite effect if you're a man, a new study from the University of Portsmouth has found. According to the research, women tend to respond positively to this kind of messaging, but men typically increase their piracy behaviors by 18% From the study's abstract: "One threatening message influences women to reduce their piracy intentions by over 50% and men to increase it by 18%. "

I'm not so sure about the author's attribution of this difference to evolutionary psychology, so looking forward to some educational comments on that.

Comment Re:Well effin' great (Score 1) 107

It's the exact thing that devalued "literal" into actually now being defined in the Oxford dictionary as "not literal".

LOL. The figurative meaning of literal has been around since the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY! OMG...languages evolve! How many other words are you in an uproar about that have a different meaning than they did 200+ years ago?

https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Is the extended use of literally new?

The "in effect; virtually" meaning of literally is not new. It has been in regular use since the 18th century and may be found in the writings of some of the most highly regarded writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Charlotte Brontë, and James Joyce.

Comment They're working with OSM! (Score 0) 59

From the FAQ @ https://overturemaps.org/resou... Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets. Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses. Overture members are encouraged to contribute to OSM directly.

Comment Only adding so they can peek inside these too... (Score 4, Insightful) 110

They've been scanning everything on windows boxes and anything else on the local network they can access for "your security!" for years (in perfect accordance with the EULA you read, right?), they've probably just figured out how to increase advertising or government surveillance revenue by increasing the accessible file packages.

Comment Re:No change there then (Score 4, Insightful) 47

This is a fight RMS can't win, you can't buy enough GPUs on the salary of a waiter to compete with a Wall Street or Sand Hill Road funded data center. The best we can do is to continue to advance the tools and open training data sets so that academia and non-corporate models and training are usable. I look at Open Street Maps - Google and Garmin may have better maps due to their funding, but most of the interesting stuff is being built using OSM since its actually open.

Comment We need better nomenclature - released to public? (Score 1) 44

This is only an announcement that some people may begin using a new feature as part of a suite of proprietary products. The product technology with its model, weights, etc, are NOT being "released to the public" in any of the previous meanings of those terms. But hey, marketing... (sigh)

Comment Re:Figma is... (Score 1) 51

FWIW no connection to the company other than being a relatively happy customer after me and my team were unable to find anything remotely close in the foss world. Its UX is awkward, very steep learning curve, you pretty much have to already understand responsive web design to use it, but once there its a nice WYSIWYG editor & UX demo/refinement tool that emits usable code.

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