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Comment Re:Reality 101 (Score -1, Troll) 60

Poor are better off than ever throughout history.

That's actually why all these "we're all going to die in global boiling if we don't put poorest back into starvation by denying them cheap and reliable energy" mostly stopped at this point. Too much repetition, too many people that heard it all since at least 1980s, and oceans are still not only not boiling off, but humans are better off than ever in our history. And it's getting better.

So the language has been shifting ever since massive reckoning of "we were laughably, insanely wrong in our predictions" that happened around 2020 in IPCC. That's when they had to admit that hard predictions made in 2000 of what should happen by 2020 if any of their predictions are correct turned out so phenomenally wrong when 2020 arrived and we could observe not only none of the catastrophies predicted occurring, but that in many cases what was predicted from 2020 baseline... got better. I.e. desertification was massively pushed back for example. There's now such a massive surplus of Polar Bears, the animal that was supposed to die out due to "destruction of habitat because of AGW" that we had to roll back many of the protection measures as Polar Bears are so numerous and spread so widely that they're actively hunting humans in the Arctic towns and villages now.

So now the language shifted from "we're all going to die in 12 years due to global boiling if we don't do what we the great priests of AGW say" to "catasophe is still happening, it's just so slow that no one can see it. And no, we're making no predictions on when it'll actually happen, so you don't get another 2020 moment, when we predicted a lot of things that should happen by that year, and none of them happen, making us look like what we are: peddlers of lies for personal financial and status gain".

Comment Re:Bullying... (Score 1) 143

They didn't get anything in exchange for this action in addition to what they already had. All they got was americans agreeing that they will continue negotiations Trump stopped two days ago in response to this law. And Americans likely added a few more points to the agenda limiting taxation capabilities of Canadian state.

So all that happened is that Trump just called another bluff. This was a Canadian mistake similar to one Trump made when he stated memeing about annexing Canada, getting a much less friendly government elected there.

Some things you need to actually hold back on until ink is on the paper.

Comment Re:I see more and more products marketed as AI-fre (Score 2) 49

Porn industry embraced it wholeheartedly.

What you found is a one of a tiny handful of accounts that is trying to differentiate by saying "look I'm not doing what everyone else is doing". This is why it emphasizes "this creator". The entire selling point is that everyone has already gone for AI.

Comment Not halve (Score 1) 33

Not halve the budget per unit of work. Cut it down at least 90%. And increase work load by about 3-4 times. Where before you could ask for two samples to choose from, now you can ask for six to ten to choose from in a shorter time frame.

There's zero argument for "quality" in relation to AI in advertisement/image maintenance commercial art. Commercial art is safe, averaged out stuff. Exactly what AI is so good for. There's a reason we call the current corporate art style "corpo art". It's deisgned in that specific soulless, average out way on purpose and it all looks the same.

The argument being made in the OP is for more personalized art that isn't commercial on that scale, and that's irrelevant if you're a designer who works making corpo art. You're not just expendable. You've already large been replaced, because the entire purpose of corpo art is to be averaged out soulless and inoffensive slop.

Comment Re: Soon (Score 1) 101

There are custom ISOs with pre-stripped out spyware. There are also instructions how to do it if you want to do it yourself. Finally, in enterprise versions spyware can be turned off via group policy. It's only forced in consumer versions.

Ultimately all system services are linked to files and libraries. That you can just remove before installing. Spyware in windows isn't some fileless malware, or integrated into kernel. It's a separate service.

Comment Re:Toyota Hybrids (Score 1) 363

What on earth are you going on about? Some random marketing wank?

Toyota hybrids (and basically ALL hybrids by all companies today) are ALL built on the same patent from 1980s (or early 1990s, IIRC). The patent features an AC-DC converter, two motor generators and and ICE engine with a planetary gearbox acting as a differential between the three. MG1 is on the sun of a planetary gear set, planets spin freely around their axes while they are connected to ICE, and MG2 is connected to outer orbit. Outer orbit is also connected to the wheels.

Literally every hybrid on the market is built off this patent (exception being range extended BEVs sometimes called hybrids, in those you have a gasoline/diesel generator completely disconnected from the drive train simply spinning an inverter to charge the battery).

Primary changes between Toyota's implementation's generations usually involved incremental minor improvements. Things like specifics of the connection from orbit to wheels, extra planetary reduction gear between MG2 and wheels, etc. For example even the gen 5 (IIRC) PHEV variants just increase the power of MG2 so you can reasonably drive in EV mode at higher speeds. They may also have added a clutch between MG2/wheels and orbital output for marginally more efficient EV mode. Never looked into it in more detail, but I can see this being another step if you want long term EV mode, which is what PHEVs are built around.

For all wheel drive, the patent mentions fully drive train disconnected MGR (motor generator rear), which is ran off the battery only. Still works this way in most hybrids, though this is one point of differentiation as some European hybrids have added weird drive shaft implementations for this. Some of them resulted in hilarious lack of reliability.

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