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byRhacman
2026 @12:58PM
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Attached to: Windows 11 Has Reached 1 Billion Users Faster Than Windows 10
Much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft's avarice saved me a lot on my PC upgrade. Granted my gaming PC was quite old, one of the big reasons that motivated me to build a completely new PC when I did was Windows 11 compatibility. Given current RAM / storage prices, I saved a LOT more than the cost of a new copy of Windows.
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byRhacman
2024 @11:26AM
(#64672896)
Attached to: New Study Simulates Gravitational Waves From Failing Warp Drive
and which would sterilize the stellar system it was headed toward with the energy that it pushes ahead of it.
That always tempered for me the giddy fantasy of sci-fi space travel. Sure, you could direct that energy somewhere safe but you don't have a lot of wiggle room for mistakes on a ship that by its very operation fires a Death Star blast of energy every time it arrives! For all the talk of interstellar travel being a way to hedge the risk of humanity's extinction just having a capable vessel could enable a doomsday cult to forever "end human suffering".
A drive that we can't build
Thankfully.
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byRhacman
2023 @12:02PM
(#63478244)
Attached to: Microsoft's $69 Billion Activision Deal Blocked by UK Watchdog
I have to wonder though: who is hurt worse and would fold faster if access to Microsoft (and Activision) products and services was at stake? Assuming Microsoft folds, do they simply accept that any sizeable acquisition they might consider will be similarly targeted? Lock-in is important to them, but it isn't the only dimension to their business. They also end up paying up to 3B if they have to back out of the merger.
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byRhacman
2023 @10:26AM
(#63477944)
Attached to: Microsoft's $69 Billion Activision Deal Blocked by UK Watchdog
Activision's revenue in 2022 was $7.53B
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byRhacman
23 @12:30PM
(#63475660)
Attached to: Avengers' Joe Russo Says Movies Soon Will Be Made By AI
The demand is clearly there as that's basically the premise and depth of every narrative about some normal seeming guy who turns out to be a super guy once his latent super-ness is revealed to the world.
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byRhacman
2023 @10:30AM
(#63253781)
Attached to: US Marines Outsmart AI Security Cameras by Hiding in a Cardboard Box
Human: Please identify the squares containing a walking marine.
[Shows images of somersaulting marines and marines in boxes]
AI: None of these fit your classification.
Human: HA! Fooled you!
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byRhacman
023 @05:54PM
(#63186282)
Attached to: College Student Made App That Exposes AI-Written Essays
Just to be safe they'll want to run the tool against the essay that they totally wrote all by themselves. If it flags they'll want to tweak it up a bit till it correctly identifies as being totally honest-to-goodness written by them.
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byRhacman
022 @11:30AM
(#63012543)
Attached to: Exhibit Aims To Present AI Images as Real Art
My understanding of AI art is that a human still needs to tune / direct the process, select from the results, and decide how to present the piece.
If folks want to start filtering art based on effort of submission, let's start with the solid colored canvases and move up from there. /s
Beyond that, if art is for the artist then make whatever you like and enjoy. If it's for the viewer, then let me decide what speaks to me and reward it with my attention.
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byRhacman
22 @02:47PM
(#62753356)
Attached to: Google CEO Tells Employees Productivity and Focus Must Improve
Homer: Are you guys working?
Workers: Yes, sir, Mr. Simpson.
Homer: Could you, um, work any harder than this?
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byRhacman
022 @04:15PM
(#62466740)
Attached to: Some Chip-Starved Manufacturers Are Scavenging Silicon From Washing Machines
Sadly probably too late to expect that considering having a backup camera is legally required. If you must have a display taking up precious dash space, you can pretty easily guess where the displaced controls are going to re-appear. And hey, if we did it for some of the controls why not go all the way and stuff the rest in there! /s
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byRhacman
2022 @02:46PM
(#62260041)
Attached to: Sony Built an AI That Can Beat Users at Video Games, With Honor
Complex behavior can arise from even simple rules. Chess has a simple rule-set that is trivial to model in a computer but it is very challenging to make it competitive against the best human opponents.
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byRhacman
018 @03:01PM
(#57481734)
Attached to: Winamp Media Player To Return as a Platform-Agnostic Audio Mobile App Next Year; Desktop Application Receives an Update
To me the thing was that out of the box it was a super-lightweight player. It could play basic formats and had a minimal interface but could be extended to do just about anything, even esoteric stuff like chiptunes from game ROMs. It got a bit more bloated over the years till the point where I still used it but only because I had it installed and not for any real advantage over other players.
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byRhacman
018 @12:56PM
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Attached to: At a Workshop Last Week, a CERN Scientist Said 'Physics Was Invented and Built by Men -- Not By Invitation'; CERN Has Suspended
Assuming the present course of evolution selects what we favor over traits that have thus far been successful enough to be selected. We like to think that evolution inexorably leads to qualities and ideals we value; strength, intelligence, compassion, selflessness. We also have a short memory of what trials mankind has survived in the past. I suspect we will survive just fine and the truth of it will, as it tends, lie somewhere between the extremes of utopia and utter dissolution we so often like to revere or revile respectively.
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byRhacman
0, 2018 @09:16AM
(#57347834)
Attached to: Times Newer Roman is a Font Designed To Make Your Essays Look Longer
The page length is the shortest document that can clearly explain $SUBJECT to $AUDIENCE with sufficient citations and references to back statements to the source material(s).
The only time I ever recall hearing of a page count in college was as a warning that if your paper was getting that long you were probably off in the weeds.
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byRhacman
2018 @10:30AM
(#57250764)
Attached to: Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit
Lately I rarely post to Slashdot and seemingly out of sheer randomness I'm granted mod points which evidently have an expiration date. Gods only know I'll get some for making this post and be encouraged to "use it or lose it" on whatever whim I might follow. I try to be constructive with them, but I've never gotten the sense that were hard to obtain, just unpredictable.
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