** letter. SIGH.

If only there were a noun form of the adjective "female" used when applied to a human. Maybe something beginning with the word "w", I dunno.

Did you actually expect the house to come with furniture, without an explicit statement that it's furnished?

What if the previous owner hadn't left yet, and the pictures were of the previous owner's furniture - would you have just presumed that you get their furniture?

I don't see any issue with this. Real estate agents used to virtually insert furniture via non-AI means. Here you're just going to be having an AI model that generates a depth map from the existing space and is then allowed to imagine in whatever furniture is described to fit into that depth map - it just makes the process easier / faster (letting the agent iterate through possibilities faster) and better looking.

poor people have more babies than wealthy people (Elon excluded)

Make that "Elon's fertility doctor". Or maybe "the guy carrying the sperm sample". There's no honor among eugenicists, why would there be?

"You wholeheartedly disagree" with the facts. If your theory was right, that it was that we suddenly decided to culturally devalue motherhood (never mind the question of why we would suddenly do that, I guess it's some sort of conspiracy), then why is it a global phenomenon, as OP points out? Why did Koreans, Finns and Chileans suddenly decide to devalue motherhood and stop letting little girls play with dolls at the same time?

"Represent our culture" eh? What is our culture then, in your opinion? I don't see many people with this attitude join Morris dancing groups, to put it like that. Or string quartets. If you do any culture at all it's usually some bizarre caricature version of the past with viking metal music etc.
And that's the best case. Worst case, it seems like you think "our Western culture" is about breeding and dominating, and complaining that you can't recruit enough women to your breeding and dominating project. In that case, why would you care if only some very distant cousins of you do the breeding and dominating after you're gone? Your culture will go on.

Unless the complaining is an essential part of it?

One word: rent.

Your username is Pr0nbot. Dissing on "childish" pop culture, but maybe your "adult" culture is part of the problem too?

I mean, if they can't write a trusted parser, maybe they should get out of the OS business? Jesus.

THIS. I was flabbergasted when NextCloud wouldn't do previews for security reasons, but freakin' Microsoft?! Also, this isn't something that needs network or file access, just take some memory range and spit out some results in another buffer (which should be controllable, as big as a bitmap thumbnail would be), with all the features in modern CPU/OSes can't we isolate this well enough?

This part from TFA is mind boggling "vulnerabilities that allow them to obtain NTLM hashes when users preview files containing HTML tags " ... what in the world?!

Weapons detections systems send automated alerts. The specific form depends on the system. But no system is dialing up unanticipating randos on the phone and going, "Hello, police? I've got an emergency here!"

And unless the system had facial ID, and the police knew the "suspect", what they had to go on was the picture from the security camera, so they were already looking at the supposed "gun" in the picture and still saw fit to act like this.

I was not talking about frame tweening. I was talking about tools to create game assets, as was the article in question.

The job is only dangerous in the big cities.

You have some weird conceptions about big cities. Homicide rates aren't an urban vs. rural thing, they're a north vs. south thing . It's the south that has the high per-capita murder rate. Which is in turn because said areas are the poorest places in the US. The trend holds true even in areas that are relatively culturally homogenous - for example, there's not much of a difference in culture between northwest Texas rural counties and northeast Texas rural counties, but northwest Texas is much wealthier per-capita, and also has a much lower homicide rate.

The TL/DR: crime correlates with despair, and places like the Mississippi Delta are characterized by chronic high unemployment, low wages, and limited access to quality education and resources. This combines with a legacy of racial violence/mistrust and lax firearm laws, and the result is exactly what one would expect.

One could make the argument that, well, okay, it may be the rural south that has a high murder rate per capita, okay, but there's lots of people in big cities, so it's a multiplier. Yes, that's true, but there's also lots of cops in big cities, so it doesn't change their odds of being the one responding to a situation where shots are fired, to the degree that police departments are equally well staffed per-capita.

It's also worth mentioning that the rural crime rate trends in the US are much worse than the urban crime rate trends. I hate to risk derailing this by the meremention of Trump, but he tapped into a very legitimate wellspring of anger; the economic growth in the US over the past several decades has been very uneven, and a lot of people, esp. in rural areas, the rust belt, and the south have felt left behind, with insufficient care from politicians as to their plight. While the ragebait media landscape has tended to try to focus their anger on cities and minorities, as "evil outsiders catered to by elites", US cities are, frankly, doing quite well on average, and have thrived in the US's growing service economy. But people in the rural south, the Mississippi Delta, the rust belt, etc (outside of the "energy belts", like in west Texas, that produce oil, gas, wind power, etc)... their lived experiences of a lack of opportunity and declining communities are very much real. They're just projecting them (wrongly) onto big cities outside of their region.

Bad pay, no college education required, but granted the ability to exert power over others... exactly what sort of person do you think you're going to attract with that sort of job description?

Nobody called anybody. It's a weapons detection system. They're deliberately running it. The article makes it sound like ChatGPT got bored, started watching webcams, and decided to narc on the Doritos Guy. That's not even close to what happened.