Hmm
Pictures that are made up. Cameras that are always on. Artificial Stupidity on the phone by default.
You're not selling this...
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Exactly. How many folk have applications that benefit from a 3% clock speed interest, particularly when you have to hang around for the beastie to cool down before you can do it again?
Now when I was a lad, processors ran at megahertz speeds...
Round here there is a problem with wild boar. Every now and then they have a boar hunt; stick a few signs on the roads warning of hunters, dress in camo, and then man and dog are carefully arrayed in hi-vis jackets so they don't accidentally shoot the wrong thing.
Surprising as it may seem, there are a number of youtube channels around made by serious people, knowledgeable about their subject, who have something important to say.
They are vastly outnumbered by the 'I was shocked!' brigade, and even more so by cats, but some are worth watching. Mentour is one of them.
"a unique and persistent device identifier" with its Jumpshot analytics business to track internet users' activities – including "each webpage visited, precise timestamp, the type of device and browser, and the city, state, and country."
It's none of your fuckin' business.
And websites wonder why people use advert blockers and script blockers...
There is a certain charm in using a system which contains all that you need it to - and nothing more, though. This was (is?) the premis of Gentoo.
And yes, I know I can go through and remove all the unneeded modules, but it's a bit too much like hard work. I'm tempted to try this and see what happens... though there will be automatic bloat, I feel, as soon as I install the first program that requires Java, for example.
Yes. I suspect that AMD very much wants to be able to write HDMI on the side of the box.
But I also suspect that if e.g. they made a displayport output which just happened to go through a HDMI-style connector and claimed 'compatibility' they'd probably be fine: isn't this what the Raspberry Pi does?
(I am not an expert at video at those sorts of resolutions - and how that applies to the higher resolutions I don't have the faintest idea.)
Indeed. I'm still awaiting an urgent return call from June... 2021. They're much faster when I sic my accountant on them, and the website was, um, strange, but I managed to pay some excess tax. But I haven't yet received any notification that they're changing next year's tax code in consequence...
Oddly enough, replacing my expiring passport as a foreign residence was a piece of cake: posted it about a fortnight ago and the replacement back this morning. The website is single-minded, asks straight-forward questions, one to a page and with mostly yes/no answers... designed for idiots and so suited to me.
Other than the obvious approach of taking a large axe to the memory banks...
Is it necessary to retrain the entire model again, without the (potentially) offending material? Or are the designers hedging around with tests to say 'if the output looks like this: <> then don't do it/apply credits'? I know too little about these statistical models, but what I have seen recently suggests that for the average bloke on the Clapham Omnibus, they're not holding any great benefits.
As the owner of a handful of ancient shares part of which appear to generate minimal returns in the states - I've just had to fill out a US infernal revenue form to account for automated withholding. It delights me to realise that the costs of posting the form to me significantly outweigh any tax due on a 40c dividend...
This, one hundred percent. And add to that, a player in the car which will accept an external music store - either bluetooth from a phone, or from a USB memory stick - but which offers a very tedious way of moving between directories, starting at the top of the tree every time, and will only play the contents of one directory in serial order. Or random order, if that's your choice (which on a long journey it often is; I like to be surprised) but only of one directory. Neither parent nor child directories are included.
I finally located a phone application which will allow both playing a complete album and playing tracks at random and can stream music from their to the car bluetooth. It would still prefer me to make a playlist... sigh, life's too short.
What happens to a 'file' which has no owner? You've deleted the Olympus application, and the Sony program, and Irfanview, and Lightroom; nothing remains on your computer that owns those pictures. So now what?
Or building a new system, which you might like to have things similar to your existing system. So you copy your data across, but how do you associate it with any new applications? File types? Magic numbers? Other metatdata?
In answer to The Spectactularly Refined Chap upthread, I'm not trying to dismiss out of hand the new and unfamiliar. I'm trying to understand how it might work for me... but I am reminded of the observation that 'if you can't open your data with something other than the original application that created it, you don't own it. You are hostage to the original software'. We all know how well a 'standard' format for word processors worked out... requiring a file type to be owned by a particular mediating program, and that all access to that data be through that program, well, that worries me. It's too similar.
How do you differentiate between the zillions of pages of deathless prose you have composed, and scratch notes that can be deleted? How can one generate a file with one program and open it with another? (Something I do very regularly). Perhaps I'm missing something obvious?
(as a side note, I observe that a number of music applications seem to have given up on the idea of, for example, selecting a music album and playing it from start to finish. Instead, there is just one big pool of tracks, which one curates with playlists. I find this a pain - surely, the producer of the album has already curated it for you? (And I ignore the extension of this to not owning any music/not having any on your local storage))
Um, no, the requirement is (at present) that the brake lights are illuminated when the brake pedal is used. Operating at the start of brake pedal movement is a good idea; it provides a few tenths of seconds advance notice that something is likely to slow down.
The proposal is that that be changed to use actual deceleration values, which has advantages in that it will respond both to engine braking and pedal braking, but doesn't do anything until the car begins to slow. So I would suggest that both methods are used. I have no idea what's being discussed in the automotive legislation at present.
I like it in Germany: the governing group is the Traffic Lights - red, green, and yellow - with outliers from the far right (we're not nazis, honest!) and left (Communists? Us?).
I much prefer a system where no one party has an absolute mandate and discussion and other points of view have to find their way into state decisions.
True, but I don't remember any that landed on their side... obviously getting a human in the control loop has certain advantages!
Nonetheless, kudos and one of these for the team --->
Of course, 'pictures or it didn't happen' is all a bit passé now. But I'm still looking forward to seeing them.
After all that effort to provide high contrast displays with black backgrounds, I know, let's replace them with something of much lower contrast with the added disadvantage of your view being cluttered by whatever is behind the screen (as well as Aleph0's observation).
Hell, I won't even have semi-transparent windows on screen.