Dran

The problem with this is it doesn’t work for home users that want to pay for their software. Crazy… I know… but those people do exist.

It’s a little deeper than that, a lot of advertising works on engagement -based heuristics. Today, most people would call it “AI” but it’s fundamentally just a reinforcement learning network that trains itself constantly on user interactions. It’s difficult-to-impossible to determine why input X is associated with output Y, but we can measure in aggregate how subtle changes propagate across engagement metrics.

It is absolutely truthful to say we don’t know how a modern reinforcement learning network got to the state it’s in today, because transactions on the network usually aren’t journaled, just periodically snapshot for A/B testing.

To be clear, that’s not an excuse for undesirable heuristic behavior. Somebody somewhere made the choice to do this, and they should be liable for the output of their code.

I cut the sleeves off of mine, that was probably my crime. Sleeves are like pants; the fewer you wear the better your day is.

It was an adblock-spcific paywall

What browser/adblocker(s) are you running? (For everyone else, simply blocking JavaScript on their main domain seems to do the trick)

I’ve always wondered why board partners didn’t just raise to scalper prices and take a $2200 profit per card sold.

And tbh, it’s Nvidia’s fault that the partners don’t have enough dies, I’d much rather a partner take the margin than an unnecessary middleman.

You take that back

I’ll roll the dice

Is she hot?

I’m convinced I’m the only person on the planet that thought it was a banger.

IIIITTTSSS BEEEN A LOOOOOOOONNNG ROOOAAAADDD

Shran is one of my favorite recurring characters in any series. So is weyoun.

Do…people not share our opinion?

Super dodgeball for the NES.

Deceptively simple, but much deeper than it seems on first glance. Each character has 2 different special abilities that change the way you throw. Especially if you can get a few buddies to huddle around the tv with you, will keep you all entertained for hours.

This is probably the play they’re making; the only thing that makes me think it might be something else is that they also announced ditching proprietary code in favor of kvm in workstation. Makes me wonder if they instead are deciding to slowly kill the product line, and instead of just stopping development entirely, they’re giving it out as if it’s some huge gift to try and “buy” good will before it becomes an inferior product?

Either way, support costs for the product are now $0 (because you can’t buy it) and development costs are about to be near-zero if they’re forking upstream kvm.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Workstation-KVM

I don’t think anyone should expect a battery replacement to be free after 10 years, but it shouldn’t cost $100,000

I guess I should rephrase.

I label a lot of boxes and spice containers but nothing unhinged lol

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DYMO Embossing Label Maker

They’re like $9 on Amazon and I label everything. I have 2 myself, and they’re also my go-to for white-elephant parties.

Devil’s Advocate:

How do we know that our brains don’t work the same way?

Why would it matter that we learn differently than a program learns?

Suppose someone has a photographic memory, should it be illegal for them to consume copyrighted works?

Or you know, if it’s impossible to strip out individual data, and it’s too expensive to retain/retrain models with data removed… Why is everyone overlooking “just don’t process private data, and only use public data in model training”?

I can’t think of a more fair model than "sum up what the user watched, divide that across what they watched, distribute according to whatever agreements they have with those rights holders. At least then Netflix gets out of the business of being the bad guy.

“Hey if you don’t think you’re getting your cut, take that up with the network that sold us your show for pennies”