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Comment It's simple to fix this (Score 1) 67

Put stereo controls on the steering wheel, even cheap cars often offer this as an option now anyway. Put physical climate controls below the screen. You might need to look to grab the knob, but you can look at the road while you turn it. With some of these screen-only climate control systems they have sliders or other stupid controls that require a lot of attention. And also a button to activate the camera since every vehicle has poor rear visibility now.

Comment Re: Sure (Score 1, Interesting) 64

"Europe" didn't invent the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee invented the basic principles and the CERN's page was the first one, but "Europe" (I imagine you refer to the european union) never capitalized on it

The WWW is older than the EU, though the general public became aware of it in the same year the Maastricht Treaty was signed. The principle of hypertext is older than the WWW, though. I had hypertext software on DOS, it "only" didn't link to other computers. That's an obvious extension, though. And it literally is obvious, because people were doing similar things with Unix, via rcp and uucp. For example, there were automated UUCP info gateways. You'd send them mail and they'd send you dynamic data.

Comment Re: Finally! (Score 1) 34

For me, the game I cannot play is Rust. Yes you can run it just fine, and yes there are maybe a couple of servers you can play on, and they have anticheat disabled. There are popular anticheat systems which work on Linux, EAC being one of them, and I've got a lot of games with online components and anticheat which do work very well. I was surprised by the percentage of my various game libraries* which could be easily installed via Lutris and work just fine. Most of them have very good performance as well.

A handful of Steam games don't run and more don't run well without Proton-GE, but a lot of games work without any addons at all. And speaking of addons, they are mostly easy to manage using steamtinkerlaunch, which supports both Vortex and MO2. There are definitely game mods which don't work well with Wine or Proton, mostly ones which have very specific runtime requirements. Some of those don't run well even with the runtimes installed with wine/protontricks.

* For a while there, Humble Bundles were awesome, and a lot of those games were on services which I never would have otherwise patronized.

Comment Re:partially true (Score 1) 69

Could the model not be trained to be nearly deterministic in it's outputs?

No. The technology doesn't do that. Instead of whatever ineffable process we use to correlate things in ways that make sense, it only and solely correlates things in ways which look like they make sense. You cannot train your way out of this problem, an entirely new technology is needed. Maybe to replace this, maybe only to augment it, but still fundamentally different.

Comment Re:No, that's what it is NOW. (Score 1) 58

Now?
Idevices have always been limited compared to their competition, deliberately so.

Yes, now is part of always. Why is this even part of the discussion?

However they're starting to need that artificial limitation more than ever as they kill OSX without wanting to kill the cash cow that is the Mac user, so your IDevice will be deliberately hobbled so they can sell you a slightly less hobbled Mac labelled IDevice for more money than it's worth.

Starting to? This is how it's always worked.

Are you stuck in a time loop or something? That might explain your confusion over these words...

Comment Re:He has a point... (Score 1) 69

We've gotten very wrapped up in the philosophical discussion of whether AI models are "thinking." But most people don't actually care whether we've reached some abstract achievement of creating "thought." Most people just care if the tool can do the job.

The tool can't do the job because it's not thinking, which is why people keep bringing that up. Think about it before complaining!

Comment Re:partially true (Score 1) 69

The best value an LLM provide, imho, is that they will like know more of the subject matter than you do.

They are stuffed with statistics about more of the subject matter than you're familiar with, which is not the same thing as knowing. Even if you trained them only and exclusively on correct information presented logically, they would still hallucinate bullshit that looks as statistically likely as factual information.

I suspect when the bubble bursts and dust settles, we'll end up with a kind of interactive encyclopedia as as useable form factor for LLMs.

An LLM could be a guide to a real encyclopedia with actual facts, but if you trained it on the encyclopedia instead of having it citing it, it would still hallucinate horseshit.

Comment Re:FFS it's right there in the summary ! (Score 1) 63

Yes, this impacts people. No, Apple doesn't care about pro audio folks. They demonstrated that long ago, and keep doing so over and over again.

You had me at "care"

As someone who had the B&W G3 Macintosh and was told by Apple "yes we fucked up the ATA controller, the same chip works OK in Sun US5 workstations but we botched hooking it up, and you can either buy an add-in card or use FWB Toolbox to slow down your devices by putting them into PIO mode so you don't get data corruption, and no we won't replace the logic board we fucked up" I know Apple DGAF in general. And hey, tie-in, that machine had firewire onboard.

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