Google's Gemini AI Is Coming To Your TV

I wish all the luck to Google - to locate my TV in a landfill (or a recycling yard) where I have sent it to several years ago.

The other angle/question I had for some time: How much closed source software is really "closed", when one could try to brute-guess the prompt that was used to generate it?

How much security benefits closed source software would still have remaining?

P.S. AI-powered reverse-engineer (to automate all those tedious repetitive 99% of work) may be a fun topic too.

I'm happy that the USB-A is being phased out. Mainly because there are still too many fancy over-beautified USB-A plugs that are (a) large and (b) block neighboring USB ports.

So far, this wasn't a problem with USB-C, since it's too small to be f*cked up by the marketing.

P.S. But I guess it's only matter of time before they find a way to screw over USB-C too. "Progress."

P.P.S. Let's not forget that some companies still insist on using "USB 2.0 Mini" connector. In the past we had to stack Serial<->PS2<->USB adapters for the mice and the keyboards. In future we might need to stack adapters to connect those few remaining USB-Whatever oddballs.

My personal experience with charts for long sets of data: Excel starts going slow after I cross the magic 16K lines threshold - LO Calc basically becomes unusable when I cross the magic 10K lines threshold. Delete few hundred lines - and performance is back. Put them back - and the slowness (Excel)/the unusableness (LO Calc) is back.

What the fuck is wrong with Americans? The moment anyone says something as benign as "let's all agree to be nice to each other" you lead poisoned fucks start screaming some shit about communism. No wonder your country is descending into a socio political shithole.

While I accept your point, I feel it necessary to add that the problems you are referring to, excessive cost and poor quality, are American problems. The rest of the civilised world has low cost or free healthcare and doctors that aren't ground into apathy by the capitalist machine.

So the rest of the world would like to be cautious because we like what we have. Unlike Americans we do have something to lose.

... OMG. Great idea for a MCU movie: avengers & co as congressmen and senators try to pass a bill.

Iron Man can filibuster as long as it takes!* while Tony sleeps in the suit and Jarvis speaks for him.

Movie goers are the alpha testers.

I haven't even had a mac in decade+ now, but from my vague recollections MacOS images are generally come with their own file systems. (I've tried to recall an image format for MacOS that is a plain dumb block device - and couldn't. There is no /dev/loop on macs.)

And from this follows: there is a ton of ways one could fuck up performance with a shoddily implemented custom file system for a particular disk image format.

Animal emotions are much easier to understand and emulate than rational thought. It's literally insect-tier level of difficulty vs something only humans can do.

Journalists have been converting news into nonsense for a long time. It's gotten so bad people get their news from comedians, or from random strangers on social media. I'd say LLMs have some very good theoretical potential as a news aggregator, once they and their training set are open source.

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The fuck is wrong with Americans that they see everything as a tax.

Situation: The government wants to stop producing a currency that costs almost three its face value times to make and distribute.
Americans: THIS IS ANOTHER TAX FUCK THE GUBBERMINT AMERICA FUCK YEA RA RA

You people deserve the absolute shitfest that your country is about to become. Your broken politics and collective idiocy have paved the way for the coming storm. I for one am going to enjoy watching your oligarchs burn your house to the ground.

Wow, this idea is dumber than anything I expected to see in this thread. And I came in with low expectations.

We already have a good substitute for underwater living: being able to commute to the ocean and access its resources. There is no such substitute for celestial objects, because the commute time is too long or uses too much fuel. Earth is not limited by inability to build housing, but by resource limitations and conflicts with other humans.