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Comment Re:AI could solve this eventually. (Score 2) 46

It's modded funny because OpenCL is all but dead for new projects. It got weighed down by industry infighting to the point that the big feature of OpenCL 3.0 in 2020 was undoing everything added to the spec after 2011.

So the idea of using OpenCL as a CUDA replacement, rather than something like ROCm or OneAPI, is funny. It's like rewriting C++ programs to use Pascal.

Submission + - How is it that Youtube's auto-generated subtitles are so appallingly bad?

Anne Thwacks writes: I frequently use the subtitles on YouTube — either not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good.
The subtitling is terrible! Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable, and no effort whatever is made to use context to figure out whether a place name is Russian or Arabic, and often complete garbage is used in place of a common French, Spanish or Italian name.
If AI actually works (I have my doubts about this), surely it would be possible to figure out language contexts: it it is about an event in Italy, then expect a lot of Italian names. If it is about the Russia-Ukraine war, then expect places in Russia or Ukraine to be more plausible than mindless gobbledegook!
Does YouTube not know that there are places in the world that are not in America?
However, plenty of names of people and places famous in America are also regularly screwed up.
I am sure that the vast majority of the foul-ups could be fixed by the use of a dictionary — available from a very popular book retailer who would be happy to have some free publicity. (But they will get nothing free from me).
However, the situation seems to be getting worse!
Do Americans sue people for spelling their names right?
Is there another reason for this appalling stupidity?
Enquiring minds want to know!

Comment Re:Lack of information.... (Score 1) 50

Sounds like this will reduce the diversity of package management - which will help enormously with the problem of multiple Linuxes (Linuxen?) because users won't keep being told that moving between Linuxes is as complex as moving from Amiga to Mac or DEC VAX.

As for running Windows code without you having to give permission on each an every occasion in triplicate, signed in blood - this sounds like a totally unacceptable security risk to me!

Comment This is about as sensible as ... (Score 1) 139

Requiring cars to not allow themselves to be used as getaway cars in armed robberies, whether autonomous or not.

Any politician who votes for this has proven themselves unfit for the purpose for which they were elected, and should be declared to be inadequate for any office, let alone a "high office".

In my view, they should be required to get a medical certification that they are sane before they are allowed out of the house.

Disclaimer: I do not reside in the USA.

Comment Data Source Issue? (Score 5, Interesting) 81

Per TFA:

These adjustments stem from Sonyâ(TM)s ongoing efforts to manage backend services and data feeds that support enhanced guide features on its Google TV-powered BRAVIA lineup.

It sounds like Sony is losing (or is not renewing) the contracts with their data brokers who providing the listing services for their TVs? In which case this is not necessarily expected, but it is par for the course.

There is no truly free source of OTA TV listings and other metadata in the US. The stations themselves do not provide this data over the air as an adjacent data stream (which is what a rational person would expect), so the only way to get listings is from third party providers such as Gracenote. Which as a technical solution works, but it means someone is always on the hook for paying for that service. And no one wants to pay for OTA metadata services, since the hallmark attribute of OTA TV is that it's free.

This is a problem that goes back to the earliest days of TiVo. Someone needs to pay for TV listings, but TVs and other STBs last too long; hardware manufacturers eventually tire of paying for an ever-increasing bill - it costs them money they don't get to make back if they give away the listings for free. And thus you eventually end up with required a monthly subscription just to have an OTA DVR.

The eventual death of linear TV should finally put an end to this nonsense. But until then we're all going to keep experiencing the same non-free listings issues we've had since the late 90s.

Comment Re:PCPartPicker? Seriously? (Score 1) 52

This is an especially bad example.

The SN850X has been rebranded multiple times as SanDisk has slowly split from Western Digital (taking all the SSDs with them). They still sell it as the SN850X, but the full model and SKU numbers have changed over the years. As a result, prices for the old models have been volatile, as some vendors treat the newer iterations as the same product while others don't. Which means that for the latter, they see the old models as an item they aren't getting more stock of, and raise prices on the remaining stock accordingly.

Oldest Model: WDBB9H0020BNC-WRSN (The original Western Digital WD_BLACK product)
Mid Model: WDS200T2XHE-00BCA0 (The WD_BLACK By SanDisk product)
Newest Model: SDSP81200TAH-000E0 (The current SanDisk product)

The SN850X has been a very long-lived product from a manufacturer who supplies their own NAND and controller, so I can see why The Verge would want to use that as a tracking point for SSD prices. But the brand/SKU changes make it a poor choice. Samsung's drives are probably a better point of comparison here.

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