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by belval 5y ago
Oh please. My 300$ 55" TCL TV with Roku does show ads for TV shows in the start menu, but it very far from what is described in this article. Same goes for my Fire Stick which is shows ads for their new shows in the main menu. I have n
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by belval 5y ago
That is so comically inaccurate. Amazon made about $9B in advertising against half a trillion in revenue. That's like 2% of their revenue.
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by belval 5y ago
I get the sentiment, but it's not like the Netherlands don't use Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp. There needs to be a data center to address those requests and it will be built somewhere. The NIMBY attitude is not really pro
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by belval 5y ago
To me that's just the system working as intended, if people voted against it then that's that.
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by belval 5y ago
> "This is a purely political decision," Dutch Data Center Association managing director Stijn Grove said in a reaction sent to Reuters, adding that it had been made "largely because it is Facebook." Conflicts with &g
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by belval 5y ago
> I do have problem if publishers / media / shops are actively promoting it. And what does active promotion mean in your example? Is having it on display in the "historic" section promotion? Should it not be in librar
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by belval 5y ago
I don't think it's a Republican thing, the Liberal party and the NPD in Canada are both left-leaning and they have a majority yet they aren't pushing for this. Pretty sure it's just run-of-the-mill lobbying and corruptio
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by belval 5y ago
I know that ship has sailed, but I really wish politicians would go back to making promises that have an impact on everyone like abolishing tax fillings. It might be different in the US, but in Canada I file my taxes using the CRA's da
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by belval 5y ago
You seem to be reposting variations of that same comment, not sure what's up with that. Now to address your point, thinking of the elderly is great, usability is a good point. That being said, Samsung's is absolute garbage designe
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by belval 5y ago
Marketing 101, make the buyer think that defects are features.
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by belval 5y ago
From what I can recall, their tips were questionable at best. I remember the police telling us that the shooter thought he was playing Call of Duty in real life and that by covering the windows it meant he "couldn't go into that r
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by belval 5y ago
We had one in Quebec, Canada (~2012). It was in high school though and we did not do an actual drill, only had a police officer come and explain the situation, what could happen and how to handle it, etc... Each door had a little cardboard
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by belval 5y ago
I had a teacher do something like that for a "communication" class and I hated it. Not only on the basis of class average/GPA, but mostly just because it was a complete joke. You'd have people that could barely speak the
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by belval 5y ago
GM is replacing all the batteries with better, newer ones. You can be pessimistic about it, but I have yet to find a Bolt owner that isn't happy with their replacement.
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Python is for all intents and purposes a "glue" language. You don't do the heavy computing in Python, you just pull in a C++ library that has a Python interface. This adds a ton of friction because these dependencies will oft
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by belval 5y ago
Because it's a hard problem and people love hating on Python because it doesn't come with a way to handle all the compiled dependencies that work for every OS. Data science has a ton of moving library parts, it is genuinely diffic
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by belval 5y ago
> non-programmers trying to get their Conda environment up and running I see this issue brought up a lot, but I have yet to see a language that addresses this reliably. By definition setting up an environment for non-programmer is a tall
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by belval 5y ago
I don't know how easy it is in Ruby so I cannot give you a comparison. However it is very very easy to write Python bindings for a C/C++ library with minimal work. Solutions range from "just works" like ctypes to "a
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by belval 5y ago
People don't like that explanation, it's hard to look in the mirror and accept that you are part of the problem. It's like printed high-quality investigation journalism. We all decry that it's on its way out but the vast
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by belval 5y ago
What does "Pentagon-friendly" mean in that context?
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by belval 5y ago
AWS Graviton aren't toys, they work pretty well for a wide range of workloads
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by belval 5y ago
Pretty sure they want to break out of the core userbase. I once interviewed there and they really stressed that they were a 3D platform and not just a game engine. In that context it would make sense to make demos for the capabilities that
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by belval 5y ago
That's not what I meant, the articles from Buzzfeed News were good, I don't deny it. That being said, their reputation as "Buzzfeed" is bad, if you repeat a piece of information to someone and say that you "read it
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by belval 5y ago
Oh please, Buzzfeed does not have a good reputation, yes some articles were pretty good, but it's far from something people would be willing to defend as a good news source. Investors don't have to shoulder costs for a service tha
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by belval 5y ago
Considering that even GCP/Azure/AWS can't even get enough A100 to fill all the demand, it's getting a bit funny seeing launches claiming "2x performance improvement over previous gen" when the previous gen is s
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by belval 5y ago
> In Australia, dogs have become addicted to mouthing the toads and getting high from the venom. There are even said to be humans Down Under who boil the toads and drink the broth, with all kinds of psychedelic and horrible consequences.
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by belval 5y ago
We agree on that part, I am not advocating for editing every foetus' genome in the next 10 years. I just think it's short-sighted to put a ban on that kind of research based on fear of inequalities.
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by belval 5y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with having a blind or deaf kid. I take issue with the idea that given the technology we would refuse to fix their disability before they are born. Try explaining to your son or daughter that t
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> A society of 120 IQ adults would probably be an insufferable hell beyond comprehension, considering the track record of intellectual movements and the proclivity of smart individuals, probably like yourself, to vastly overestimate the
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by belval 5y ago
Equality is great, but the situation would be no different than someone having access to healthcare/higher education/equal opportunities. After a few decades that technology would become commoditized just like everything else. It&

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