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Comment Re:The best AI movies look as bad as mid-90s CGI (Score 1) 55

Punches very obviously not connecting suggests it's been trained on Hollywood fight scenes. The other giveaway is rapid hard cuts and shaky camera so you can't see how badly the punches are not connecting. Everything feels weightless and fake.

There is a lot of AI slop, but I wouldn't discount it being able to do something decent with the right person at the helm.

Comment Separating from political control is a bad thing (Score 1) 29

People who don't understand history think the idea of a currency free from any manipulation by an economic agenda is a good thing. The reality is very different. You only need to look to major economic depressions during times when some countries still had currencies backed by gold or silver. The inability to control the economy through monetary supply caused those specific countries to suffer from economic depression far longer than other countries.

The long timing and severity of the great depression for the USA, France, and Belgium is widely acknowledged to be caused by them switching back to a gold standard after WWI. In fact several countries floated their currency to enact economic controls (France) specifically because there was no other way for them to get out of depression.

But please, tell us who much you want to fuck yourself with your silly math cosplaying as a currency.

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 1) 68

If I was one of those companies now, I wouldnt be messing around with Rust. Id be giving AI my standards and my code and telling it to fix everything. No AI is not a perfect coder but it will be perfect at adopting the standards you give it. The code will be tight if the standards are well written and leave no ambiguity. And if you can't do that then go back to my first comment about training.

Comment Firefox has some kind of leak (Score 1) 4

on my PC. I can't see it in Task Manager, but start getting "out of memory" errors after a couple of weeks and have to reboot. Restarting Firefox alone is insufficient to clear it. I suspect it has something to do with the graphics card rather than primary RAM, and could be co-caused with some other app.

Comment Re:I just want a nice VR headset for my PC (Score 1) 56

The cable is only an issue because someone decided to turn VR into the Wii and the rest of the idiots in the industry followed suit.

That is an incredibly dumb assessment precisely because you completely failed to address the problem of the cable. The number of people who have accidentally ripped their headsets from the head due to the cable is near enough to 100%. A very very significant portion of people have damaged their cable or their headset, often beyond repair. The defining failure mode of the Rift CV1 wasn't the headset, but the fact that no replacement cables are available. Heck one of my friends ruined his motherboard thanks to yanking the cable with his arm mid game and reefing the USB port straight off the PCB. I ruined one cable just sitting on my arse when it was run over by the wheels of my chair one too many times.

The people who strived to eliminate the cable are the opposite of idiots. They addressed a very real problem. I loved my original Oculus Rift. I loved my Rift S, but wholly fucking shit did a whole world of usability open when that god fucking awful experience of being tethered and tangled was eliminated. And I played most of my games sitting on my arse.

But they bother most people

You are not most people, and clearly you've never met or conversed with most people. Get out, spend a bit of time on VR dedicated forums, or even just reddit. You'll find your opinion is in the strong minority. Side by side latency comparison is useless. The question is does it work for the use case or does it not. The existence of 144Hz+ gaming monitors doesn't mean that most people are perfectly fine gaming at 60Hz (in fact the majority of people are).

which is why VR couldn't break into the mainstream.

Latency has zero to do with why VR "couldn't break into the mainstream". At least not since Oculus resolved the motion sickness issue caused by latency back in 2013. By the way VR headsets have well and truly outsold the Nintendo 64. So if you don't consider that mainstream it's worth noting you also didn't consider a ground breaking and highly successful and popular gaming console mainstream either. I really question either your knowledge of the industry, or your disingenuous use of the term "mainstream".

Comment Re:Lock them up or fire them, at least (Score 1) 142

Preferably, but even in areas where police fight tooth and nail to keep them we can fix the problem. Granted the fix will probably result in them being removed.

The fix is a couple parts:
1) Requiring a warrant issued by a state judge to access the cameras at all, with the requirement that the officer personally testify to facts. No fobbing it on random informant, they are required to own it.
2) Accessing the cameras without a warrant is a felony worth a minimum of 5 years in prison, but up to 10 years.
3) Regular transparency conducted by an independent group, not associated with the police.
4) Since we're dealing with cameras make it a felony worth 10 years in prison to hamper, mute, disable, modify, or otherwise obstruct, the operation of a body / dash camera during an interaction or when discussing an interaction. No blocking the camera, mic, or secret conversations with your coworkers.

Of course the ideal solution will be to keep pushing for these things to be shoved off into oblivion.

As a side note, if they try to claim that a warrant is too high a burden because "it needs to happen fast" or whatever false emergency situation they dream up, then ask them again if the cameras are active surveillance. They have to say no. Then you can remind them that it's not hot pursuit or anything similar since they're looking at historical, not real-time, data so they should be able to take a few minutes to get a judge to issue a warrant over the phone.

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