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Comment Re: Some Are Pretty Good (Score 1) 26

Most of them are pretty low effort, and the ones that attempt to mimic a time period are rife with anachronisms and other errors. Because they aren't putting a ton of effort into them in terms of accuracy... mostly they're just trying to manually correct obvious AI problems. The larger problem is people using AI to rip clips from original content creators, plaster an AI generated "person" on top, and post it up as a "reaction video." Or using AI to slightly tamper with clips from movies or shows to dodge automatic content flagging systems.

Comment Re: Carrying water for nitwits (Score 0) 161

The issue is that "Liberal Media" is desperately pushing a narrative that Signal itself is insecure, when in fact it's one of the most secure comms available. ANY app on an insecure device is a problem, and using ANY non-approved comms is a problem, but apparently their target audience isn't able to understand this level of "nuance." The focus of the criticism ought to be on the complete clown show itself and not on attacking Signal.

Comment Re: right on (Score 1) 58

What I've noticed is that it seems to do a pretty good job of scraping various online coding forums/sites and returning the "top" answers with some slight modifications. But what it fails at is finding good solutions to weird corner cases or answering behavioral questions that aren't already documented. So for me personally I find it almost completely worthless, since those are the times I actually go looking for "help."

Comment Re:Oh noes! (Score 3, Insightful) 67

If only only the alternate energy pimps could avoid purchasing jetliners to solve their personal ego crises. Tends to turn an environmental business justification into another model of hypocrisy.

Do you mean like expending carbon in order to build a solar panel or a windmill? Is that also hypocritical?

No, these aren't hypocrisies, they're investments. You know, spend a little of what you want to save in order to earn back more than what you spent in the first place.

Unless you're using the energy from the windmill to actively sequester carbon, you are not "earning back" any carbon, which is what the alternative energy is trying to save. Spending less carbon per unit of energy produced as compared to something like coal production is not a bad thing, but it's spending less it's not "earning back" no matter how hard you try to greenwash it.

Comment Re: "Blood for the Blood God! Sacrifices Must Flow (Score 1) 178

Getting too far ahead of technology is an understatement. My car is 4 years old and has collision detection warning, and I can enable autobraking as well. It's pure garbage. By the time it detects a real situation I've already braked, or steered clear. Much of the time it can't detect any issue. Sometimes it decides to trigger on things that aren't a problem at all. So yes, maybe in 20 years we can advance the tech enough to slap $50-$100k worth of detectors, sensors, and avoidance systems to make it work. I'm pretty sure it was a feel-good rule either never really meant to last, or meant to try and force out private vehicle ownership for anyone not super rich.

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