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Comment I wish SO the best of luck, but GIGO from the AI. (Score 4, Informative) 64

(disclaimer: I've used ChatGPT 4 times to try and solve a problem, after searching SO and not coming up with a solution).
I wish StackOverflow the best for this. While I've had fantastic luck with SO over the years, you can absolutely have a bad experience, and can absolutely not get an answer. Maybe they'll manage to make it more useful.

But man, I've tried ChatGPT. 4 times. On 3 of those I wound up going to SO and reposting my question, and got the solution I needed - the GPT answer was either wrong or actively bad (like levels of "the command would have deleted my VM" levels of bad). 1 time it worked, but those other 3 were terrifying, if only because I could see people using it and trying it - it's convincing, even when wrong).

Comment Re:Put users mind at ease?? (Score 1) 34

But the problem is, chasing down stuff like that is typically neither glamorous nor sexy, and so, much like writing documentation, it doesn't get done. Except by black-hats who have monetary incentives, or nation-states who have more complex goals.

Yes, many of us CAN do it. But vanishingly (less than 1?) small numbers of people WILL do it.

Comment It's all about the latency, stupid. (Score 1) 253

It's not the speed, it's the latency. Drop your latency by half and OMG it's screaming-fast. But there's multiple different types of latency - the service that's sending it, the back-end, the linkages between internet providers, the servers pumping the ads, etc.. I've had 50mbps with 750ms latency and holy crap it's annoying. 5mbps with 5ms lag? Dream-like.... provided you're not trying to do 4k video.

Comment Re: You know who has real VR? The Void. (Score 1) 75

The Void was stunning. I expected it as a âoeeh, who knowsâ and I was blown away. Being able to look at your hand, turn it over, see details and reflections (faked, obviously, but immersive enough), move your fingers - amazing. Look at people and judge relative heights! Feel the heat against the back of your neck!

Yes, the core of it was a shooting gallery. But the immersion made it stunning.

Submission + - Kim Dotcom loses New Zealand extradition appeal (yahoo.com)

schwit1 writes: Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom suffered a major setback in his epic legal battle against online piracy charges Thursday when New Zealand's Court of Appeal ruled he was eligible for extradition to the United States.

The German national, who is accused of netting millions from his file sharing Megaupload empire faces charges of racketeering, fraud and money laundering in the US, carrying jail terms of up to 20 years.

Dotcom had asked the court to overturn two previous rulings that the Internet mogul and his three co-accused be sent to America to face charges.

Instead, a panel of three judges backed the FBI-led case, which began with a raid on Dotcom's Auckland mansion in January 2012 and has dragged on for more than six years.

His lawyer tweeted he would appeal to the NZ Supreme Court.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 272

That may be your limited experience. Not mine by a long shot.

Specifically, I was recently trying to buy a pair of wireless earbuds. Turns out there's a bug with iOS - the volume is too high. I went through about 4 pairs trying to find one that worked. Couldn't buy these brands locally, so I'd search reviews, ask a question "does it have this bug", order, test, email the vendor, return, and try again. The ones I settled on don't QUITE have the issue, but 1 volume is still a bit too loud.

Comment So why the massive datacenters? (Score 4, Interesting) 46

Since they've been building datacenters for over 5 years, what are they using them for? Even the 500k square foot one in North Carolina was already overkill, more so if they're just holding metadata.

Fun task: on Windows, rip a new CD with iTunes, preferably something rare. Start Resource Monitor, go to Network, TCP Connections, Search for iTunes. Was trying to find a different network hog this weekend and saw iTunes uploading to AWS, which made no sense.

Comment My personal votes: (Score 1) 2

Book: Charlie Stross, "Empire Games". Surveillance state technothriller meets parallel universes.
Album: Wobbler, "From Silence to Somewhere". Scandinavian Folk Prog-rock, reminiscent of Gryphon, Yes, maybe even Jethro Tull.
TV: Expanse has been fricking great, but I'm currently watching "Dark" on Netflix and it's pretty good. Honorable mention to The Tick for actually being a lot of fun.
Movie: Blade Runner 2049. Stunned that they actually pulled it off. People complained it was derivative, but that's part of being a sequel. And I thought they handled a bunch of the concepts from the original quite well overall, in some cases better than the original.
Games: a bunch of great board games this year, from Azul to Photosynthesis, though for PC gaming I haven't come across much that was my type of game, but Xcom 2 was pretty good.

More than anything, though 2017 itself was a bit of a sh*tshow, there was a ton of good things to watch/read/listen/play.

Comment Re:While everyone was distracted (Score 2) 152

A couple points here:
1) It's not ALL of Fox, just 21st Century. Fox News and the Fox TV network aren't included
2) It still has to be approved. It's likely it will be, given the pro-business/anti-competition slant of the current administration.
3) "all the data that floods their network". To be fair, that's part of why people HAVE the internet. If your job is to provide me internet traffic for which I pay you, if you're my only option for broadband, and if you can't do it, then why do you have a monopoly and why are you preventing competition?
4) Netflix is quickly leaving the "other people's content" space and has been aggressively focusing on their own shows/movies (Marvel, Orange, House of, Bright, etc). It's actually getting hard to find movies/tv shows on Netflix that aren't created by Netflix. Netflix plans to spend $8 billion on programming next year.

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