@arstechnica Because it is a more advanced autocomplete algorithm with so much training data that it can autocomplete entire pages and answer questions. If it wasn't trained on something than it can't fully autocomplete it, which is why it can get a perfect score in survey courses but cannot pass more advanced courses with real work involved. It wasn't trained on that.
@arstechnica Remember that the government politely asking is the same as coercion because the government can do all sorts of things that they have the power to do to get you to give in and do something they never had the constitutional authority to legally make you do in the first place, like censoring peoples social media posts or banning some types of video games from your app store. One of the few social media companies that consistently refuses to censor protected speech no matter who is asking is sadly gab, so the rest of alt tech should learn from their example and say no. The sooner you say no and defend your no the sooner people stop trying to walk all over you. Perhaps what needs to be done is a consortium of alt tech companies where alt tech companies pay dues to the consortium and the consortium defends their interests in court, donates to free software projects that they depend on, runs Tor exit nodes, signal proxies, a bitmask compatible VPN and other censorship bypassing technologies, to share technology between alt tech companies along with other forms of collective bargaining to advance the interests of their member because a rising tide lifts all boats.
@arstechnica These record labels are moochers. Make your own AI rather than try to shut down meaningful competition. Training AI for research purposes is fair use and AI training should be fair use period.
@arstechnica Get the fda out of my shopping cart. Just because I don't want to microdose random drugs in candy bags doesn't mean I want the government to stop others from doing so.
@arstechnica I don't see the point to consoles that are not portable. I have a Nintendo Switch and am looking at the steam deck. I don't want a tv game console if it is just PC hardware when a PC would do just fine. If Microsoft and Sony made portable consoles based of AMD Ryzen Pro laptop APUs or Nvidia Tegra ARM chips than I would likely consider them as an option.
@arstechnica All that needs to happen is a startup to realize the value of this water and start buying it in bulk to refine the minerals. Another option would be to produce lithium and beryllium in fusors. Who cares if these fusors don't produce electricity, the lithium, tritium and beryllium is what we are after here.
@arstechnica The problem with european business culture is that it is more risk adverse than American business culture and emerging industries are regulated to death by a thousand cuts. There is so much opportunity in tech and private spaceflight because it is less regulated than other industries. I can build a rocket in my garage and apply for a launch permit if I want to launch it. Tech and private spaceflight need less regulation, not more. Emerging technologies like nuclear salt water rockets, reusable spacecraft, ssto spaceplanes, AI, brain computer interfaces, genetic engineering, quantum computers, personal spaceships and other cool innovations need to be developed and the current business culture and government reactions to innovation are getting in the way.
@arstechnica Ipads suck. I don't care that it has a M2 chip if I will never be able to actually use the M2 chip to its full potential because apple has disabled general purpose computing in software. My Pixel Tablet may not have as much horsepower as a M2, but I like the software and it does what I want it to do.
@arstechnica Remember that environmentalism was the excuse for removing the charger brick from the box of the latest iphones. This is just another step in removing things from the box so that you have to buy them separately. I wouldn't be suprised if apple removed the USB type c port to make you go out and buy an apple branded wireless charger. Don't give them any more ideas, I don't want them to get courageous again lest android phones follow suit.
@arstechnica I read a book called fossil future by alex epstien. Link here: https://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Future-Flourishing-Requires-Gas-Not/dp/0593420411 The environmentalist framework, at least the mainstream one catastrophizes side effects and ignores benefits. Remember that Paul Erlich, a prominent enviromentalist in the 70's, when he heard reports of profitable nuclear fusion being available by the 80's, remarked that power should be more expensive, not less and that it should be a crime for power companies to make power cheaper and encourage people to use more. Which is why the environmentalist movement feels threatened by nuclear power, because they don't want cheap clean carbon free energy, they want less wealth for everyone, especially the poor. Then again read the book and the sources alex epstien cites, don't just take it from me. Also read https://www.amazon.com/False-Alarm-Climate-Change-Trillions/dp/1541647467 and https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691/146-9274173-6563829?psc=1. I am not defending big oil, I am simply stating what is true.
@arstechnica The sea dragon rocket solved this problem by being so big it could launch a 550 ton third stage in the second stage. Might want to consider an ablative hull shield on the covering the capsule using a material like starlite to protect the ceramic tiles underneath.
@arstechnica I don't care how powerful the M4 ipad pro is, that means nothing when the software is inferior. I use a Google Pixel Tablet and I don't care that it doesnt have as much horsepower as an ipad pro when I can take full advantage of the hardware because the software lets me set it up exactly how I like it with minimal bloat and the ability to use Firefox with ublock origin.
@arstechnica I think interner service providers should have a duty to deal, in which they have to charge everyone equally for the same service and have to forward all traffic of their customers without preference and in the order received according to the priority header chosen by their customers. Why make a new legal framework when you can simply use one that has worked for centuries and simply apply it to current technology, just like railroads and telegraph operators were subject to back in the day.
@arstechnica When I own my own trillion dollar company I its headquarters will be a 1 mile high skyscraper in a roman neoclassical architectural style with a titanium frame, not a circular postmodern abomination like the picture above.
@arstechnica This is on top of charging to use the data you already have for a mobile hotspot and carrier locking phones so that you cannot install an improved version of android like graphene or lineageOS.
@arstechnica The cell carriers know that the FCC will protect them from any meaningful competition and that putting up cell towers is expensive even if you get permission from the government first.
@arstechnica Having to ask apple for permission to sideload defeats the point of the EU regulation and the EU needs to make sure you don't have to ask apple for permission. All apple would have to do in good faith is put a switch in the general settings called "Allow Sideloading" with a password prompt and confirmation and then you can install any IPA you want.
@arstechnica Define better, I did not really like any of the options. For example, several of the situations were about social norms. The fundamental issue is not whether someone was harmed, it is of property rights. If you are in a foreign country, you follow their rules and norms and you have every right to expect the same of foreigners living and working in your own country.
@arstechnica The problem with this is that no one can possibly compete with north korea since in the DPRK all business is owned by the state so the state uses its power to artificially suppress the cost of labor.
@arstechnica The problem with the way microsoft is doing it is that they have an exclusivity agreement with qualcomm. This prevents them from supporting Mediatek, Rockchip, Allwinner, Tegra and Raspberry Pi based devices that compose the broader arm ecosystem.
@arstechnica I think the design looks cool, I will see whether or not it is worth an upgrade. I am running out of storage space. I hope for the use of the ARM Immortalis G720 along with Arm Cortex a520, a720 and X4 cores.
@arstechnica Remember that the Zilog ez80 is also an 8 bit chip with 16 megabytes of address space and a clock speed of up to 50 megahertz, although because of its triple pipeline the programmer can take advantage of up to 150 megahertz of logical clockspeed if you use SRAM running at 50 megahertz.
@rbreich Greedflation is a myth. In a fiat currency system the amount of dollars in circulation is inversely proportional to the purchasing power of each individual dollar. Even though the percentage of inflation is down that only measures how fast dollars are being added to circulation, not how much dollars total are in circulation. Money is subject to the law of supply and demand just like everything else, so the real reason things are more expensive now is that the dollar simply is worth less than it was in the past.
@rbreich I would suggest calling it trick economics. Get the government out of the economy, and that means no corporations sucking off the government tit.
Remember when RFK Jr. seemed like a real contender against Biden? Now, it seems like Trump and his team are worried about RFK Jr.'s appeal to their voting base. With RFK Jr. potentially siphoning off votes from Trump, the dynamics of the 2024 election are shifting. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/rfk-trump-biden-election-spoiler
@georgetakei I think trump should nominate RFK Jr as his running mate if he wants a better shot at winning. I simply cannot afford another biden presidency nor can my family. I would vote for either Donald Trump, Vivik Ramaswamy or RFK Jr, I am not particularly picky and any of those three options would be better than Biden.
@arstechnica Considering how batteries degrade over time and how electric cars are more expensive and less durable I would prefer a plug in hybrid or pure internal combustion car without smart features over a electric car. Read the book Fossil Future by Alex Epstien.