In my experience it is, how effective it is is directly proportional to preexisting project complexity when the commands are run. The bigger the project, and the more parts that are interfacing together, the worse it performs. But for small, simple projects and creating frameworks, it can be amazing.
I'm not sure what "Building the Metaverse" is supposed to even mean anymore. Is he still obsessed with Ready Player One fantasies?
I mean, if he's just talking about generating 3d assets and the like, then maybe? AI 3d model generation is pretty useful if you don't care about every tiny detail matching up to some specific form. For example, I used an AI tool to make an image of an ancient mug with cave-art scrawled around its edges. It got the broad shapes of the model right, but had trouble with the fine engravings, making a lot of them part of the texture rather than the shape, but overall it was good enough that I just left off the engravings, had it generate a mug without them, then re-applied them with a displacement map. It got all the cracks and weathering and such on the mug really nice, and the print came out great after post-processing (cold-cast bronze + patina & polishing).
(I ended up switching from cave art to Linear A, because I also plan to at some point make a Linear B mug so that I can randomly offer guests one of the two mugs, have them rate it, and thus conduct Linear A-B Testing)
It's a cute "attack", but not practical in the real world. The "poison" stands out like a sore thumb on your loss graphs.
It's so easy to get tempted into feature bloat these days. You need a microcontroller for some simple set of features, like doing PWM control on a fan and handling a rotary switch, so you get something like a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 that's the size of a thumbnail and costs like $10, but then all of the sudden you have way more processing, memory capacity, pins, etc than you need, and oh hey, you now have USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and surely you should at least do SOMETHING with them, right? But the hey, for just a little bit of extra cost you could upgrade to a XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, and now you have a camera, microphone, and SD card, so you can do live video streaming, voice activation, gesture recognition...
The irony though is that nobody really seems to bundle together everything one needs. Like, could we maybe have such a controller that also has builtin MOSFETs, USB + USB PD charging, BMS (1S-6S) functionality, and maybe a couple thermocouple sensors? Because most small devices need all these basic features, and it's way more cost, space, weight and effort to integrate separate components for all of them. The best I've found is a (bit overbuilt) card that has USB + USB PD (actually 2 of each, and reverse charging support), BMS support (1-5S), one thermocouple sensor, and a small charging display - but no processor or MOSFETs.
A valid point... when discussing advertising. The article was not about advertising.
Broadband labels are required to be presented at the point of sale.
The article was about a requirement to itemize fees added to the bill as opposed to lumping them together as "unspecified fees".
The NPRM is proposing wholesale elimination of such requirements not changing presentation.
"We propose to eliminate the requirement that providers itemize discretionary, recurring
monthly fees that represent costs they choose to pass through to consumers and which vary by consumer location. Examples include state and local right of way fees, pole rental fees to utility companies, and other discretionary charges where the provider does not set rates or terms directly."
Now they do go on to solicit feedback about other approaches including lumping them together however this IS NOT what they are actually proposing.
They simply want to add up all the stupid charges they have no control over as one simple line item - it's not really that big a deal.
I disagree with this interpretation. Here is the full text of the relevant statement:
"We propose to eliminate the requirement that providers itemize discretionary, recurring monthly fees that represent costs they choose to pass through to consumers and which vary by consumer location. Examples include state and local right of way fees, pole rental fees to utility companies, and other discretionary charges where the provider does not set rates or terms directly.
We seek comment on whether providers should instead display on the label the aggregate amount of such fees."
They are proposing elimination not replacement with one thing for another. Separately they are seeking feedback on whether aggregate amounts should be displayed instead. This I believe is nonsense because it cuts against the stated excuse for this change in the first place.
"Commenters state that itemizing such fees requires providers to produce multiple labels
for identical services. And nothing in the Infrastructure Act leads us to believe that Congress intended to require itemizing pass through fees that vary by location."
"should we require that the amount associated with the line be the actual, precise amount of those
fees? Or should we instead require only that it state the maximum (or âoeup toâ) amount consumers would
incur? "
If there are different prices in different locations aggregating the fees still leaves you with different prices in different locations.
The way the labels are structured is already misleading. Top line price can either be an introductory rate or normal rate and you have to do added gymnastics to consider the added charges, discounts..etc on top of that. They are also too rigid leaving ISPs to dump important details in external URLs.
If you allow ISPs to itemize arbitrary costs of doing business and leave them out of the charges and terms section of labels they become less than worthless. No information at all is better than an overt lie.
It's already tied to security. Several Windows Defender functions depend on OneDrive. Specifically ransomware protection. It's already a critical security step to have an online account.
You have it backwards. Online accounts are a critical insecurity.
Not really. Critical setup screens include several that require online accounts to work, e.g. OneDrive. It may sound like nothing but it also removes Windows 11's anti-ransomware mechanics which rely on OneDrive to sync files in the Documents folder.
Now *YOU* may not want this, but the clueless user is advertised a feature set of windows, who at the behest of some techie is told to setup windows with a local account and now sees that feature doesn't work for them.
Shilling is an art form that requires some modicum of restraint.
None of the woo "hurt him in terms of accelerating cancer". The problem is that he did that instead of actual treatment, and let a highly treatable cancer turn into a nearly-untreatable one.
60 minutes has always been the gold standard
That gold standard just yesterday lead with a piece about people with vaccine injuries.
because his 2 terms were consecutive. See how that works?
There is no limit to the number of times someone can hold office. They just can't be elected to it more than twice per the 22nd amendment.
The obvious solution is to make whoever you want to become president speaker of the house and encourage the president and vice president to resign (or impeach them).
When you mentioned "third partner" who cashed out early, I thought for a minute you were going to be talking about Ronald Wayne - what a life of bad decisions he made
For those not familiar:
He got 10% of the original Apple stock (drew the first Apple Logo, made the partnership documents, wrote the Apple I manual, etc).
Twelve days later, he sold it for $800.
Okay, but he could still try to claim rights in court... nah, a year later he signed a contract with the company to forfeit any potential future claims against the company for $1500.
Okay, well, it's not like he had an opportunity to rethink... nah, Jobs and Wozniak spent two years trying to get him back, to no avail.
Okay, but he still had, like memorabilia he could hawk from the early days, like his signed contract. Nah, he sold that for $500 in 2016.
And that contract went on later to be sold for $1,6 million.
Okay, well, I'm sure he went on to do great things... nah, he ended up running a tiny postage stamp shop.
Which he ended up having to move into his Florida home because of repeated break-ins.
Which he then had to sell after an inside-job heist bankrupted him.
Jobs committed suicide-by-woo. He didn't "turn away from traditional therapy because it can't keep up with rapidly advancing metastasis", he turned away from treatment for a perfectly treatable form of cancer for nine months to try things like a vegan diet, acupuncture and herbal remedies, and that killed him.
Steve Jobs had islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. It's much less aggressive than normal pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The five-year survival rate is 95% with surgical intervention. Jobs was specifically told that he had one of the 5% of pancreatic cancers "that can be cured", and there was no evidence at the time of his diagnosis that it had spread. Jobs instead turned to woo. Eight months later, there was signs on CT scans that his cancer had grown and possibly spread, and then he finally underwent surgery, it was confirmed that there were now secondary tumors on his liver. His odds of a five-year survival at this point were now 23%. And he did not roll that 23%.
Jobs himself regretted his decision to delay conventional medical intervention.
I did some proof of concept tests with both Pointer Lock and PointerEvents, but both failed because you don't get *any* data if you're not moving the mouse, and only get (heavily rounded) datapoints when you do move the mouse. You'd need raw access to data coming from the mouse, before even the mouse driver, to do what they did.
You *might* be able to pull off a statistical attack, collecting noise in the fluctuations of movement positions and timing in the data you receive when the mouse *is* moving. But I can't see how that could possibly have the fidelity to recover audio, except for *maybe* really deep bass. And again, it'd only apply for when the mouse is actually moving.
Neat attack, but not really practical in the browser.
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
