but I cannot trust you further than I can spit a two-headed rat.

Well, if not a two-headed rat, how about a three-eyed fish? D'oh!

It seems to me they could redirect the 10 figures a year they are spending on building a VR world no one wants or will use. Or did they cannibalize that already?

When there is no other option, technical tricks are all that's left
In the past, it was hand drawn animation, then CGI, now it's AI
This is completely different from artless, mercenary slop made entirely with AI

Yes, I saw that. And when combined with the quote towards the end, explains why his position is so fucking insulting.

This basically means that if your part of the movie making process can be performed by this tech, now or in the future, then your job doesn't really matter. Which is a wild take considering that he felt like he could not release the video without the parts AI provided, and which would have been handed to a person to do before AI exists, or if he'd had the budget for it.

Fact is the job DOES matter. He just does not want to have to address the difficult question of what is lost by using AI to do creative work that would previously have gone to a human profession, or what it means that he is willing to make that substitution without any apparent concern for the folks that decision harms. He is yet-another rich-fuck who does not care about the human consequences of technology, so long as they do not impact him personally. Fuck him, and fuck anyone who agrees with him.

Heâ(TM)s saying that Visual effects designers are not important. Because heâ(TM)s replacing somebodies work with AI output.

if I were someone who worked in that field, making the kind of content he used AI to create, and then dismissed my work as unimportant, Iâ(TM)d be salty as fuck.

their work is important enough that the film could not be considered complete without it, but not important enough to have a person do it. There is a clear double standard being promulgated here, that amounts to victim bling. Essentially that if AI can do your job, then by definition, your job is not important. Easy for the guy deciding where and when to us AI to decide in a way that does not put his own contributions to the process at risk of being replaced by AI. Fuck this guy and anyone who accepts this BS justification.

Maybe itâ(TM)s time we demand an actual online public square for discourse, one thatâ(TM)s free at the point of service and that ideally has the same overhead to value our public roads provide.

And what do you think /. is? Anybody can come here, create an account and post whatever they want, either using their account name or as Anonymous Coward if they want an extra level of obscurity to hide behind. Not only that, the only equivalent of censorship available if you don't like what somebody says is downmodding them, which is the equivalent of booing.

We can always go into marketing, and if that fails, we can learn telephone sanitizing.

Hebrew (at least historically, no idea about right now) and Thai for instance have no spaces between words.

I don't know about Thai, but I can assure you from personal experience that even in a Sefer Torah, there are spaces between the words although there aren't vowels. And as far as sounding words out when you've only been taught whole words, I'd imagine that figuring out how to do it on the fly can be rather intimidating if you've never even encountered the idea before, especially if you're not a very good reader, but I'm willing to be proven wrong on that point.

and if you're stuck the teacher will tell you to sound it out.

And if you've never been exposed to phonics how are you going to know how to sound words out? I learned to read back in the '50s, when teaching phonics was at its peak, and it's served me well ever since. Being Jewish, I went to Hebrew School and learned to read Hebrew but not, alas, to speak it. Up through my 20s and into my 30s I could sight read it during religious services, but gradually stopped going and lost the ability. Now, I can still read Hebrew out loud, but slowly, sounding it out one word at a time except for the occasional word that I recognize. I very seriously doubt that I could do that if I only knew whole word reading because once you've forgotten what a word looks like, it's gone for good. My older sister can also read Hebrew the same way: she knows the letters and grew up with phonics just like I did. How many people do you think that can learn to read out loud in a strange language and a different alphabet by using whole word reading? Doing it with phonics takes time and practice, but once you know that alphabet, it's just a matter of practice.

>"The Resin Identification Code(RIC) mark was deliberately chosen to look like the recycling symbol without actually being the recycling symbol. That's clearly a problem with the mark."

Is it? The only reason to need to know the type of plastic is for recycling. And plastic can be recycled. Putting the number inside the symbol makes perfect sense to me.

Tires have a speed class rating number on them. That indicates the max safe speed for that type of tire composition before it will fail. It doesn't mean it WILL be driven that fast, or that it SHOULD be driven that fast, or that there is anywhere it can be driven that fast in your area, or that it is otherwise a safe speed to drive.

In my own systems, I've just compiled my own kernel, but obviously you can't do that if you have a huge farm of devices to support.

Anyway, I have always thought that the whole point of a modular kernel for typical Linux distributions is that if your hardware or software configuration does not need a particular model, it is not loaded. If there's some piece of software (e.g. Virtualbox) that needs kernel-level access, those do get loaded as part of the software installation. Same for most package-managed software (install a VPN server, you get IPSec/ESP networking modules included). So with devices, they are autodetected (load driver module when you detect hardware, including when plugged in to USB or other removable port), and with other kernel features, they are brought in when some software requires it (some might of course be there by default, like firewall). Only case where you would manually edit /etc/modprobe.d is if you manually install some software...right? Why would a kernel load every module it has come with of most of them are not even needed?

>"The mark was originally intended to inform waste processors what polymers a plastic item was made from. But the public reasonably assumed anything stamped with the symbol was recyclable"

Then the problem is education, not the mark. Every product with the mark is ABLE to be recycled (methods do exist), but that doesn't mean it can be or will be in your area. I don't recall running across anyone who thought having the symbol means anything more than the number inside it is the type of plastic. And if you remove the mark, the already confused people are just going to say "oh, plastic" and put it in their container [incorrectly] just as before.

My biggest issue with the mark is that the number is often way too small or malformed to read. Where I live, only #1 and #2 are accepted (along with paper/cardboard, glass, and metal cans) and sometimes it is nearly impossible to see the number. Even so, by volume, I almost always have more recycling than non-recycling waste.

I'm waiting for an MKBHD review.

Europe is much more than UK, France and Italy. EVs are fine in maybe half of Europe. In Central and Eastern Europe it is like central USA - good luck with an EV there.

* It was marshmallows, not jellybeans.
* The kids were told if they could avoid eating the one marshmallow they could have two marshmallows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's also adorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...