I just put a new touchpad in my Lenovo P15v and it was an ordeal. First of all, Lenovo doesn't have the part (not the original, nor the two alternative parts they list) , so I went with an aftermarket replacement part that is working like crap and I will have to replace yet again. The repair is was what I consider a major repair job. Had to fully remove the entire mainboard, which means thermal paste needed to reassemble, etc, in order to replace the touchpad, which is a mechanical part that will wear out in time (for example clicking down on it wears out eventually). And this is on a "workstation grade" laptop.

If only Lenovo wasn't the only company I can find with a laptop keyboard that is acceptable to me (dedicated PG UP/DOWN keys and dedicated Home / End keys), I'd like to try something else at some point.

Last time I checked, my vehicle is not a legal entity that can be cited for infractions. Whatever person is sitting behind the wheel of that vehicle is not known by a camera. I can't believe these things haven't been totally obliterated in court. In my state, the tickets you get from these things are actually from 3rd parties contractors who run them, and try to sound very official, but they are not actual summons through a court.

It absolves them of liability. If there is a law they have to validate age (even if it is ineffective and easily worked around by minors), and they are doing whatever silly thing they need to do to be compliant, then they have shielded themselves from liability.

By being involved in the process they can steer things to something easy and affordable to implement on their end. Make it work the way they want to (scan an ID, have AI look at their face, DNA test, measure their height - whatever method they're specifically wanting to do is why they are funding this and pushing for it).

From what I see, Iran is completely offline at this point, right?

And maybe that's exactly what the creators of that malware want you to think.

Serious question, why haven't they architected something better than GPUs for running inference? Surely something specifically designed for the task that could do it faster using less power? Something like Groq ASIC (that's just one I've heard of). Why aren't these the future and eclipsing the stop-gap that is GPUs because they already existed and were the best fit at the time?

AI made the code fully type-safe, implemented buffer overflow checks, verifying all parameters in and out, and the perfectly-running result can't fit into the memory of an Apple II or onto a floppy disc...
(I just made that up, but I'm sure the code is much larger after adding all the security and boundary checks)

Everyone agrees, they want the biannual time change to go away.

On the other hand, there is almost an even split on which way to go about it. About 50% want it to always be DST, the rest want the opposite. So you're going to permanently tick off half the population depending on which way you go with it.

I should have mentioned, the N64 DOES have perspective correction at the hardware level, so you can say the N64 was a 3D-first architecture.

I think that is a bit of an overstatement, and probably part of their marketing ploy. From a hardware perspective, the PS1 did have a coprocessor that could do matrix calculations, which were useful for the 3D projections and transformations (scaling and rotating) 3D coordinates. IE converting vertices in an object to rotate / scale it in world space, then project it to camera space, etc.

That is helpful, but really, processing the vertices is not the majority of the work required in 3D rendering. It's the rasterization of textures. That is mapping a texture to a polygon with arbitrary texture coordinates. The PS1 had no hardware for that whatsoever, and it was done by their software library.

However, because the CPU has to do it, and there wasn't even hardware-level floating point math (relegating them to fixed point math), they had to cut corners. There is no perspective correction on the texture rasterization. That is why the textures warp and do really weird things as you move, especially for polys close to the camera that you are looking down (IE the perspective changes a lot along the length of the poly as it goes further from the camera).

If you want to claim that the PS1 was "3D first" in architecture, then that would be in flat-shaded polygon rendering only, which the GPU could do, which isn't at all what games ended up doing - they're all texture mapped.

Maybe saying the PS1 was 2.5D first is more accurate. :)

I would stop criticizing Slashdot until 2032 for a mere $50k.

This is the only way any sanity at all can exist. Otherwise you have AI crank out an endless stream of content for the sole purpose of getting first copyright.

I really don't know how this entire thing is going to be dealt with in the future.

The other day, I was thinking about AI, as it pertains to the possibility of having entertainment (either video, music, or a full-blown interactive game) produced real-time for the consumer, on demand, based on their feedback. This reminded me of the book Ender's Game. In it, all the kids have tablets (iPads basically), and one of the things they can do is play games that are created real-time by AI catered to the player.

Super prescient on Orson Scott Card's part there. My point is what gets copyrighted and / or monetized?

The output of the AI? The weights and models that is the AI itself? The processing power required for the AI to create the content?

Right now, the third item (processing) is really being controlled by the industry, and to a very large extent the second item as well (the model itself), but I think that is going to change as purpose-built hardware becomes more commonplace, and we can run the open / public domain AI models right on our devices.

There is a fundamental flaw with these kinds of sites. Early on, they're great. People ask questions, the questions get attention, they get answered, there is a healthy active discussion about the topic.

Then... all the common questions get asked, and so anyone asking a question that already has an answer gets their question shot down. Because, you know, you're expected to thoroughly research the site concerning your question before you're allowed to ask it. Once a person gets shot down asking questions a few times, well, they don't tend to bother any more.

Worse, this policing tends to err on flagging things as a dupe, so things are mistakenly considered to be the same question. Then, the valid answers for a question can change over time, because technology / versions of things have evolved, however, since the question isn't asked fresh, it doesn't get the attention and focus of experts to create new answers.

So over time it goes from "ask questions" to a essentially a static Wiki, but in a suboptimal question / answer form, without any good categorization of things based on versions and so on, and no good way to focus people to questions that need to be "re-answered". A question about MySQL from 10 years ago has answers, but now those answers are out of date. Sure, they have a rating system to upvote / downvote answers, but since it's just a mass-democracy type thing, answers can have a thousand up-votes (from all the attention it got early on), become out-of-date, and never get enough attention to down-vote answers that are antiquated. I have come across questions that have MANY answers, and the top 4-5 answers are no longer applicable, and find one with just a few upvotes is now the correct answer.

This guy is LITERALLY the cheerleader and promotor of the Mustang, which is tied very specifically to the V8 engine. So this statement really means absolutely nothing in the scheme of things, even within Ford.

I have an F-150 for towing our camper. It has the most powerful engine available for the truck, giving me the highest tow capacity. It is NOT the V8 engine! But the V6 twin-turbo engine. Amazing engine, gives me 20 mpg with just the truck (which is impressive being a full-size bed and super-crew cab), and with twin turbo it accelerates extremely fast as well.

Point is, even those wanting maximum power aren't going with Ford's V8. Even the Ford Raptor trucks, which are all about speed and power, use the V6.

This good news, because I'm sure China, Russia, North Korea, and all the other countries have drawn the same red lines too. They would never use AI as a weapon. Never!