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Comment Re:Used (Score 1) 74

I dunno, I've been really enjoying watching old movies from 20+ years ago in 4k. I can finally see everything in the background, it's a big improvement. Never mind I own a 4k projector and a big wall to use it on so anything less than 1080p looks junky nowadays.

Ah, well, with a huge screen I imagine it might matter more, yeah :)

That's another thing I've never got into. Our living room and bedroom are small-ish, or medium-ish at most; I really can't imagine using a huge TV screen in them. I never really understood the whole "cover your wall with a TV screen" thing :D

Comment Re: They shat in their bed (Score 2, Interesting) 99

Some recipe sites also jumped into generative ai fairly quickly as well. Generative AI is great for recipes. A couple of years ago someone gathered lots of recipes for chocolate chip cookies, took the average in Excel, and won a chocolate chip cookie baking competition. This is essentially what generative ai does when generating recipes, and they are generally decent.

Comment Re:Used (Score 2) 74

All the games I want for the next 10 years are available on the PS4. A long time ago I realized that used video game consoles were still as good as the day they were released yet they are a quarter of the price. My kids buy new games yet when they saw me playing my 10 year old game they complemented on how nice the game was. I guess graphics haven't come that far.

Similar to TV that way. Graphics are overblown.

When digital and hi-def TV came out, I was like "eh, seeing the actors' pores isn't going to improve anything. Good plots and characterization would." And so it is with games as well.

Comment Re:Should read... (Score 1) 83

I think it's safe to say that people over a certain age are never going to be watching the Oscars again because they won't know how to.

I'm not sure what age you think that is, but this semi-old guy won't be watching it because I don't want to. It's pointless and boring.

(And I'm not sure that I know of anyone, no matter how old, who "doesn't know how" to use YouTube.)

Comment Re: The Obvious Question (Score 1) 24

Paypal was never prohibited from becoming a bank. They remained not-a-bank because they believed it was a more profitable arrangement. They have now apparently changed their mind, and in my view they're many years late in that decision. Other startup financial services companies have been nipping at their heels harder and faster in the last couple years. Recent politics and are mentioned in the same story but it can not be concluded that these are directly related.

Comment Re:Too late (Score 1) 65

I've used ChatGPT to write code and Gemini to debug it. If you pass the feedback back and forth, it takes a couple iterations but they'll eventually agree that it's all good and I find that's about 90-95% of the way to where I need it to be. Earlier today I took a 6kb script that had been used as something fast and dirty for years - written by someone long gone from the company - and completely revamped it into something much more powerful, robust, and polished in both its code and its output. Script grew to about 20kb, but it's 10x better and I only had to make minor tweaks. Between the two, they found all sorts of hidden bugs and problems with it.

Comment Re: It makes sense. (Score 2) 41

No, it's because your arguments about capitalism are frequently about the moral failures of capitalism. But every time I've seen you make that argument you make it as if it's not a human problem and socialism or communism wouldn't have those issues. It's not that it's a left wing argument being voted down. It's just a nonsensical argument.

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