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811.
by stubish 4y ago
It will be interesting. Discretionary funds being spent on virtual hats, instead of 'granny bait' catalogs. eBooks instead of physical books (bigger text for aging eyes!). Subscription services instead of vinyl records and VHS tap
812.
by stubish 4y ago
Only if you insist on buying the latest generation. It matters little to the 50+, who have enough life experience to, in general, not be the people who fall into the trap of buying the latest and greatest. To participate in gaming at the &#
813.
by stubish 4y ago
Rather than a retirement age, you could just appoint a judge for a fixed tenure. How long that is could be based on the current age of the appointee, or could be less to best avoid clusters of appointments. Tenure of course needs to be long
814.
by stubish 4y ago
Given the requirement to detect collisions and a process to reissue an ID for various legal reasons, I don't see a problem. In fact, don't use too many digits. If you use too many digits, collisions will be so rare that when they
815.
by stubish 4y ago
I don't think there is a single art form where you can expect to make a decent living, even working yourself to the bone and/or 'treating it as a business'. The successes we see are all outliers. Any medium where this tu
816.
by stubish 4y ago
How does this work these days? Many years ago, international students had to leave the country after they graduated and their visa expired, and apply for PR like any other alien. And any recognized degree as good as another. But I'm a
817.
by stubish 4y ago
If the Universities bent too far surviving COVID and ongoing tensions with China, they may have slaughtered their golden goose. But the underlying issues have been well known for decades. The existential threat has always been that Australi
818.
by stubish 4y ago
I think you need to go back farther. The problem was already starting in the mid-90s, and I think likely triggered by the Hawke government with the introduction of HECS (think student loans) and the changes that made to university funding.
819.
by stubish 4y ago
We need more and cheaper models of EV vehicles on the market. Like there are in other countries. Without this you are correct, as the only cars on the market are only affordable by the wealthy. Over here we are being told that something sim
820.
by stubish 4y ago
It is Salary Sacrifice, where an employer agrees to swap salary for some non-cash reward. Employee gets less cash and the benefit (eg. a car). Employer pays Fringe Benefits tax on the benefit, employee doesn't pay tax on the salary the
821.
by stubish 4y ago
I agree that the movie, released in 1982, is likely the source for the term sharding used by games, consciously realized or not. Most of the generation would have seen it. Or perhaps from where Henson and Froud likely got the idea of a crys
822.
by stubish 4y ago
Why do you think people expect ChatGPT will tell the truth? Because people need a tool that tells them the truth. If that expectation changes, then ChatGPT becomes useless to many people because it doesn't do what they need it to. And
823.
by stubish 4y ago
> I fundamentally believe that AI-generated content should always be attributed to the person who wrote the prompt. ChatGPT cannot be an author any more than Microsoft Word. AI-generated content is generated content. Since you cannot sue
824.
by stubish 4y ago
And this is an example of why the people creating ChatGPT will end up holding the bag. When you read a document produced by ChatGPT, no matter if you prompted it or someone else did, ChatGPT is providing you information. That information ca
825.
Concentrated solar power is an old technology making a comeback(abc.net.au)
1 points by stubish 4y ago|0 comments
826.
by stubish 4y ago
This sort of pacing is one of the problems with many open world games. The narrative pushes you towards saving the world and the final epic battle, while filling the world with tasks and sub plots that are trivial and non-urgent. And then t
827.
AI and the American Smile(medium.com)
4 points by stubish 4y ago|2 comments
828.
by stubish 4y ago
You can already fool real world voice authentication systems. No need to phish for credentials when the voice is the credential: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-sys...
829.
by stubish 4y ago
Yes, the attitude is arrogant and demonstrates hubris IMO. Next up, no thought to how to back out changes. Even if your software works perfectly as intended, you can still need to back out because someone else was not prepared or could not
830.
by stubish 4y ago
Is there any sort of anti-fungal that can be applied to frog ponds to make the water inhospitable to the fungus without creating worse problems?
831.
by stubish 4y ago
'avoid the crates that do it' requires careful vetting of all code in the crates you use and all the crate's dependencies, now and in all future versions of your crate and crate's dependencies. Which in reality turns out
832.
by stubish 4y ago
What apps on the phone do you use for live conversation captioning? I'm thinking a tablet that does this would be ideal for in-home use by some elderly relatives. AR glasses won't be suitable for some time for the elderly, as it s
833.
by stubish 4y ago
This has in some ways been happening for decades. There are a few countries where the way to take a good portrait of a person is to over expose the photo, so skin tones are lighter. People bought the cameras and phones that did this by defa
834.
by stubish 4y ago
Look similar to a celebrity? Your face gets replaced, because the number of photos of the celebrity in the corpus outweighs photos of you. And when those doctored photos end up in the corpus, weighting will be even further towards the celeb
835.
The Cost of Nutrition Misinformation(asteriskmag.com)
3 points by stubish 4y ago|0 comments
836.
Is there a better way to kill inflation than raising interest rates?(abc.net.au)
4 points by stubish 4y ago|4 comments
837.
by stubish 4y ago
If you took a raw script and fed it to an AI, sure, you will get rubbish and I don't see that changing any time soon. However, if someone carefully choreographed the performance like a puppeteer... I think someone will still be needed
838.
by stubish 4y ago
We are hitting the awkward transition period between the actor being the person performing the script in front of a microphone and/or camera and someone doing the performance at a keyboard, directing computers to create an emotive perf
839.
by stubish 4y ago
No delays (lower risk), compliance with various certifications, lower cost. Most people wouldn't buy the service though, which is why for most people it is completely free.
840.
by stubish 4y ago
Sure. Nothing will change unless enough people want it to change. And you are only able to reason with the reasonable. And maybe petrol taxes are not looked on favorably by the reasonable in your region, so you need a different method of fa

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