In this case, it's a different kind of memory - High Bandwidth Memory, HBM.

Facial recognition is really neat technology, and we are all slightly better off thanks to its development. It's also imperfect, and nearly-guaranteed to be a net negative if you fully trust it, without human verification.

If you want to come out ahead by using cool technology, you're going to have to think about how to use it. There just isn't any shortcut around thinking.

If you have something which is only 99.9% reliable, that can be useful but it's going to be wrong sometimes. How are you preventing that wrongness from breaking your system? Insulting (much less turning-away) regular, recurring, paying customers is usually considered a really bad move, generally resulting in lower profits.

Free money falls out of the sky. Should we take it? Today we'll be interviewing Republicans, and learning that the answer is No because asceticism is a fundamental ideal that we should all strive toward. Burn a sacrifice instead!

Prices of video games have gone down, when adjusting for inflation. Looking at a couple of games from the 90s - TIE fighter in the mid nineties cost 50 USD, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 launching around 2000 had similar pricing. Adjusted for inflation, that's around 100 USD (slightly more) today.

I believe part of the reason for this is digital frontends resulting in a larger proportion going to the developer/publisher - about 50% went to the store, physical production, and physical distribution, now they get to keep 70% or more.

Here's an article from 2010 demonstrating this... and incredibly, prices have stayed stable since then.

As you increase the size of the bulk licenses' box, the amount of expensive cardboard increases as a square, but the number of licenses that fit inside the box increases as a cube. This results in a reduction of the amortized cardboard cost per license.

If a cost reduction isn't happening, then I would suggest people look into the shape of their bulk licenses. It may be that a same-sized box holds fewer licenses than it did ten years ago, due to the addition of "AI features" being tacked onto everything, resulting in irregular, difficult-to-efficiently-pack licenses.

But this is a good thing. Meta patenting this means there's only one company we need to worry about pulling this shit.

Read his comment again. His objection has nothing to do with what's being patented; it's just a super-generic anti-recording complaint. This patent does not prohibit anyone else from pissing him off by recording things.

It doesn't help that the Facebook angle (that these are Meta's glasses rather than merely "smart glasses") injects all sorts of weirdness into the imagined application.

Facial recognition to identify people: has applications, such as the obvious "crap, I always forget names. Who is this guy, again?"

Highlight reels: WTF?! You call that an application? Extremely niche at best.

There's useful technology being discussed here, but apparently Meta doesn't want that to be the focus.

It's much worse than that; you would end up preventing anyone else from doing it for 20 years, until the patent expired. Of course that would make Slashdot!

Is this something you do often?

No, it's pretty much one day a year (but usually several times on that day): spring cleanup (though my smizmar and I call it "truck day" (*)).

It's uncompostable/tainted yard waste, even furniture (if it's in truly horrible shape), and all sorts of other random trashy shit. When it happens, the amount of resulting trash is many times the size of our trash bin or what can even be put on on the curb for "large item pickup." The usual weekly process is overwhelmed and can't handle it; there simply isn't room. So we haul it.

* "Truck day" because I decided paying $72 to rent U-haul's big pickup truck for a few hours is preferable to paying $72k to buy a big pickup truck. And it usually gets used for more than just dumping trash; it's often a large-item shopping day too. (To be next decade's trash? Don't ask!)

Goddamn it! What's with this ticket about the CSV import being broken?!

We need to force these computers to join Psi Corps and obey their rules!

FWIW, many of us outside the US don't think of the US as a country manufacturing high quality goods. For those, you'd go to Germany, Switzerland, Japan, or Taiwan. Or even China. The US is the country where anything goes. Cars being one example - clunky, low quality, low tech/gas guzzling, poor to drive vehicles of enormous sizes. A US company optimizes for low production quality vs. warranty costs, it doesn't optimize for high quality and see warranties as a failure.

Now, having lived and worked in the US I know that this is only a part (the largest) of the story - you can get anything of any quality. But "Made in the US" is certainly not a positive stamp, even before your orange demi-god alienated the civilized part of the world.

You can argue that there is equilibrium right now - companies are selling and buying, it's just not at a price point consumers like. Thus we lower our demand.

You are considering the current AI tech as "... junk". Many others aren't, that's why there is a gold rush - many see the value, and that it keeps on improving. Fast. Others again just go for the gold rush. Personally, I see it as a very valuable tool in my arsenal. It's not the only one, but it's a good, multi-purpose one. And it definitely needs to be checked, but the good ones give you references you can and should check when providing information - and for coding, it gives you what you ask for. Which has finally led to improvements in one of my pet peeves - people are starting to provide better and testable requirements.

Is there a bubble? I think so. Will it pop? Yes, I think so - it will be reminiscent of the dot-com bubble. Many will go bust, and the world is changed by the remaining companies over time.

This is not like the crypto bubble, where the end value is 0.

D'oh, but DarkOx, I actually do agree with you on something: the license plates are there and they're visible in public. We don't need Flock to have our privacy compromised; everyone can do it.

We haven't denied our adversaries the capability; we're just trying to regulate their good intentions. That strategy doesn't work.

Flock is the symptom not the disease. People either need to demand anonymity and insist we stop displaying things like plates at all, and actually limit public photography, or just accept we will be tracked everywhere. There is no middle ground to be had.

Indeed. We seem pretty conflicted about that, so we're getting the worst of both worlds.