Comment 'Fixed' the lazy AI? (Score 4, Funny) 31
The recompiling will continue until morale improves.
Comment Unsurprising (Score 4, Interesting) 24
A deserved victory, even given the competition. It wasn't a perfect game by any means (honestly one of the worst camera implementations I have ever seen in any game, let alone one of this budget and pedigree), but compared to most of what the industry has been putting out in general and in the rpg space in particular, it was head and shoulders above.
Lots of polish and attention to detail with regards to the story and side quests, and it's a massive gift to the tabletop rpg community; several of my friends' kids have picked up D&D as a result of playing BG3 and wanting more of the same.
Comment Uninstalled completely or just replaced? (Score 1) 208
How many of these uninstalls due to failed youtube blocking resulted in not abandonment of adblocking in general, but rather a switch to a different adblocker that continues to shut down YT ads?
Myself, I've had no problem with ublock origin; every time I find an ad showing up I'm simply reminded to update the filters and the problem is already solved.
Comment Translation (Score 4, Insightful) 33
"Please don't regulate us, in contrast to 99% of our actions to date, we're going to do good things for consumers instead of the bottom line this time, pinky swear."
And/or:
"Look at our 'responsible' code of conduct that sets standards in a way that makes it exceptionally difficult for anyone without our giant pile of exiting resources and technological head start to get into the market and compete with us. You should totes set any regulation to match this because we're so responsible."
Submission + - Lawsuit says EPA ignores harm of biofuel production (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "... but the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is largely ignoring those problems, a new federal lawsuit charges. The suit alleges the EPA failed to consider impacts on endangered species, as is required by law, when it set new rules that will expand biofuel use nationwide during the next three years, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), which brought the litigation. The agency has twice ignored court orders to study the impacts and is likely dodging the requirements because ethanol production 'props up' the corn industry, which has a politically powerful lobby, Hartl added."
Comment Re:Naive questions (Score 3, Insightful) 72
From what I've seen, the major causative factor seems to be trying to gouge the heck out of AI projects which, given the current buzz, might tend to have a lot of disposable capital on hand they're willing to throw at huge datasets in order to jump start themselves. Many of them have already hoovered up tons of reddit through the api, and with the ipo intentions, leaving even potential money on the table is a no-no.
The 3rd party apps were just non-regrettable collateral damage.
Submission + - US Airline Accidentally Exposes 'No Fly List' On Unsecured Server (dailydot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: An unsecured server discovered by a security researcher last week contained the identities of hundreds of thousands of individuals from the U.S. government’s Terrorist Screening Database and “No Fly List." Located by the Swiss hacker known as maia arson crimew, the server, run by the U.S. national airline CommuteAir, was left exposed on the public internet. It revealed a vast amount of company data, including private information on almost 1,000 CommuteAir employees. Analysis of the server resulted in the discovery of a text file named “NoFly.csv,” a reference to the subset of individuals in the Terrorist Screening Database who have been barred from air travel due to having suspected or known ties to terrorist organizations.
The list, according to crimew, appeared to have more than 1.5 million entries in total. The data included names as well as birth dates. It also included multiple aliases, placing the number of unique individuals at far less than 1.5 million. [...] In a statement to the Daily Dot, CommuteAir said that the exposed infrastructure, which it described as a development server, was used for testing purposes. CommuteAir added that the server, which was taken offline prior to publication after being flagged by the Daily Dot, did not expose any customer information based on an initial investigation. CommuteAir also confirmed the legitimacy of the data, stating that it was a version of the “federal no-fly list” from roughly four years prior. [...] The server also held the passport numbers, addresses, and phone numbers of roughly 900 company employees. User credentials to more than 40 Amazon S3 buckets and servers run by CommuteAir were also exposed.
The list, according to crimew, appeared to have more than 1.5 million entries in total. The data included names as well as birth dates. It also included multiple aliases, placing the number of unique individuals at far less than 1.5 million. [...] In a statement to the Daily Dot, CommuteAir said that the exposed infrastructure, which it described as a development server, was used for testing purposes. CommuteAir added that the server, which was taken offline prior to publication after being flagged by the Daily Dot, did not expose any customer information based on an initial investigation. CommuteAir also confirmed the legitimacy of the data, stating that it was a version of the “federal no-fly list” from roughly four years prior. [...] The server also held the passport numbers, addresses, and phone numbers of roughly 900 company employees. User credentials to more than 40 Amazon S3 buckets and servers run by CommuteAir were also exposed.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 19
Right? I just launched an ad-free youtube player myself. It's the same one I've been launching for years every time I start my browser with an ad-blocking extension installed.
Comment Re:lump the crypto and NFT stories together (Score 1) 68
Submission + - SPAM: And the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2021 is...
sciencehabit writes: In his 1972 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, American biochemist Christian Anfinsen laid out a vision: One day it would be possible, he said, to predict the 3D structure of any protein merely from its sequence of amino acid building blocks. With hundreds of thousands of proteins in the human body alone, such an advance would have vast applications, offering insights into basic biology and revealing promising new drug targets. Now, after nearly 50 years, researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI)-driven software can churn out accurate protein structures by the thousands—an advance that realizes Anfinsen’s dream and is Science’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year.
Protein structures could once be determined only through painstaking lab analyses. But they can now be calculated, quickly, for tens of thousands of proteins, and for complexes of interacting proteins. “This is a sea change for structural biology,” says Gaetano Montelione, a structural biologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. David Baker, a University of Washington, Seattle, computational biochemist who led one of the prediction projects, adds that with the bounty of readily available structures, “All areas of computational and molecular biology will be transformed.”
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Protein structures could once be determined only through painstaking lab analyses. But they can now be calculated, quickly, for tens of thousands of proteins, and for complexes of interacting proteins. “This is a sea change for structural biology,” says Gaetano Montelione, a structural biologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. David Baker, a University of Washington, Seattle, computational biochemist who led one of the prediction projects, adds that with the bounty of readily available structures, “All areas of computational and molecular biology will be transformed.”
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Comment Not review-bombing. (Score 5, Insightful) 40
If a game is receiving hundreds or thousands of bad reviews because it's a bad game, that's not review-bombing, that's reviewing. People are saying these games suck because they suck. The re-released versions are completely shit when compared to the originals.
It's not a difficult leap to make: if you want consistently good reviews for your game, make a good game. Extremely good and/or popular games seem (at least from my own limited perspective) to be largely immune to review-bombing due to the actions or behavior of a company or its employees anyway, simply because most 'causes' are typically short-term outrage at best. Regardless of a company's reputation or history, the new shiny object generally distracts the masses with ease.
Comment Re:The ban on primary sources is stupid (Score 3, Insightful) 113
"In theory" is sadly the best anyone may get out of wikipedia. I gave up contributing years ago; the amount of effort required to argue any point (even well-sourced ones) with a fanatical power-editor who has 'claimed' a particular subject's page or pages isn't worth it. As others have pointed out here in these comments, wikipedia is, at best, a starting point to find your own sources and come to a better conclusion.
Comment Re:IRC is an ancient piece of shit (Score 4, Funny) 122
Because Discord is a modern piece of shit?
Comment Not surprising (Score 2) 47
When you consider that the launch lineup was so tiny as to be almost negative, it doesn't come as a shock that the only truly notable title sold as many units as the console.
I still don't see the market for the Switch, given its less-than-competitive performance; it just feels like Nintendo is counting on the gimmick to hit the same lucky timing the Wii did. I'm no expecting much longevity, particularly given the brisk pace that smartphones set as far as portable performance.
Comment Re:No bluetooth and probably 1GB RAM (Score 1) 41
Well, according to the FCC filing, at least, it does have Bluetooth:
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas...
Probably right about that single gig of Ram, though, but I expect that this baby might be just as accurately named the 'Barnes&Noble Cut As Many Costs As We Possibly Could Because Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ We're Really Desperate For Money'.
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