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Comment Re:Just... wow (Score 1) 75

many of whom undoubtedly live in momma's basement and maybe work at 7-eleven or Walmart

Tell us you don't know what a "gamer" is without telling us. I know many gamers. We sink many hours a day into gaming. One of us even has a Twitch stream and several records, and a Youtube channel with a significant number of subscribers to the point where he gets advanced copies from the developers of the games he mostly showcases.

We're engineers by the way, well except for one of us who's a finance executive, we all own our own houses, actually my "momma" is staying with us next week while visiting though she's going to be sleeping in the loft.

I wonder how many of these fledgling ATCs will only find out the hard way that THIS game is for keepsies, and that dead "NPCs" - aka passengers -and their families may come back to haunt them for reals.

I'll take a guess and say zero since you clearly have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

Plus, at some point the ones who actually turn out to be good are going to want salaries, benefits, and working conditions commensurate with the job

Airtraffic controllers earn 6 figures + government benefits. The administration even gave bonuses to those who worked overtime during the government shutdown.

It wouldn't surprise me if American airspace ends up being blacklisted by many airlines and pilots around the world.

Of course it wouldn't surprise you, because you clearly have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

Comment Re: Took them a long time to figure that out (Score 1) 218

EV proponents always try to make these things look so hard and are so disingenuous. That's like one night of snow and it doesn't look icy. A thin, loose layer of snow is no harder to drive on than the gravel or pavement as it is probably still coming through to grip the tires. You are obviously not very familiar with snow. Here there is a two inch thick layer of slick ice that develops. They try to sand it all the time but some places are better than others. There is no sand in this video because it's not slippery. Try it on a lane leading to a school parking lot after a five inch snow storm with 500 parents driving over it twice a day and having constant thaw from the sun and then freeze at night.

Comment Re:How to count (Score 1) 76

I have never touched it. Is Google counting me as a user?

No. Unless you use the assistant on your phone.

the word fraud comes to mind. Faking user counts these days really isn't any better than falsifying the accounting.

There's no evidence of that. You may not touch it, but there's 3.9 billion Android devices out there. 1/4th of them using the assistant alone would meet those numbers, and that's before you count those people who use the AI mode on Google search, or run the Gemini App, or have a subscription to Gemini through work or school, or are provided Gemini features through Google Docs. Even my fucking car has Gemini respond when I push the "voice" button on the steering wheel and that probably counts me as a second user on top of my phone.

The number is actually quite believable when you consider just how many things out there Gemini is shoehorned into.

Comment Re:Android Assistant (Score 1) 76

Not just on mobile devices. My *car* had an update roll out so that voice request now go via Gemini.

Upside: Gemini actually knows what "take the toll road" means.
Upside 2: Gemini can actually tell you "how much faster is it to drive home via the A40?"
Downside: Everything takes 3x as long to execute. "Change the AC to 22 degrees." Proceeds with the little waiting icon for a good 3-4 seconds longer than it used to in the past all while drinking a bottle of fresh water in the progress.

That last bit was a joke, but only partially.

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