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  1. ONE SIZE FITS NONE on Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems? · · Score: 1

    NO! Did we learn nothing from Windows 8? A desktop and mobile are such different contexts, trying to appeal to both means you don't fit either. They must have separate interfaces and designs. If you want to have the same kernel in both, with separate shells, that's fine. But they MUST have bespoke shells.

  2. Lack of feature is now a feature? on Twitter Is Reviving the Chronological Timeline (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    This is how it always should have worked. It would have still worked this way if not for bone-headed design ideas. Its not so much trying to improve as it is walking back a bunch of terrible ideas.

    The sad part is other sites like Facebook don't even give you this option. Who the hell is designing these social media sites? I hate hate hate hate this "you'll do things our way and you'll like it" mentality. Give me options. Give me choice. Give me freedom.

  3. It already happened to 4. That's what I'm talking about.

    https://www.polygon.com/2018/4...

  4. Narcissistic Egomaniac on Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor 'Bad' News About Him (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical Trump, thinks the world has it out for him and things are so unfair for him. When in reality he's just a complete dipshit dumbass moron who can't do anything right. Google isn't biased there's just a lot of bad news about you Donnie, because you suuuuuuuuuuuuuck at being president. Its pretty simple.

  5. Removed Music on How 'Grand Theft Auto' Is Changing the Way the World Experiences Music (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I figured this was going to be about Grand Theft Auto removing music tracks from games it already sold years ago, in a patch. That's a really shitty move and shouldn't really be legal.

  6. Re:In a word, yes! on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    EXACTLY. Its all perception bias.

  7. Re:Yes, a thousand times more on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    >I remember convincing my parents

    Because you were a child. That's why it seemed cooler. How does everybody fall for this bias? Its psychological, not reality. You were younger so you thought it was more special. That's natural.

  8. Perception bias on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    Typical psychological bias. You were younger back then, and there were fewer advancements back then, so they seemed more important. Its purely perception, not reality.

  9. Re:So it's an AI-fied static code analyzer? on Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    OP doesn't know what he's talking about, I'm guessing. This is just static analysis.

  10. Static Analysis on Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is called static analysis and has been around for YEARS. Tons of companies are doing this.

  11. Re:Several decades? on Google Unveils 72-Qubit Quantum Computer With Low Error Rates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Quantum computers have absolutely nothing to do with graphics processing and never will. They don't work well for processes like that at ALL. GPUs are vastly superior to CPUs which would be vastly superior to QPUs for this purpose. Quantum Computers aren't magic. They can do a few specific things better than CPUs, but ONLY those specific things!

  12. Random Circuits? on Google Unveils 72-Qubit Quantum Computer With Low Error Rates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    "Random circuits" ?? Who wrote this drivel?

    Man I am so sick of hearing people who don't know anything about QM talk about QM.

  13. 12 year old streamer on Two More 'SWAT' Calls in California -- One Involving a 12-Year-Old Gamer (ktla.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are the parents? 12 year olds should not be streaming live on the internet.

  14. Why should I care about some youtube teenager? Please don't post this to /. This isn't "news for nerds" This is clickbait buzzfeed bs.

  15. It sucks on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    It sucks and somebody needs to come along and offer a competitive alternative so we can all dump Adobe already.

    Screw these subscriptions.

    Its short sighted making your legal customers jump through so many hoops while pirates just crack it anyways. DRM doesn't work, its backwards.

  16. Re:I don't think these conversations help on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    As a society we're going to have to move beyond scarity-based thinking regardless of AI or not. The rich have simply hoarded too much wealth. We're going to have to move to a society where everybody earns a living wage without doing anything and you only work if you want more. But people in power right now resist that change, as always, so it'll take a few more decades.

  17. Re:So what on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Shit dude, machine learning is at least something. Most people spend all their time thinking of videogames as AI or google as AI which is so far from true hard AI that it's crazy. But technological advancement doesn't depend upon everybody understanding something or we'd never get past making fire. All it takes is one crazy person in his basement who believes in order to build a thing that works.

  18. Re:So what on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    1. is incorrect and a bad assumption that shows you don't know the difference between strong and weak AI. They're apples and oranges. 2. It is very conceivable that any sentient being would have a survival drive. AI are not yet sentient. The whole question though is what happens when they are. 3. That's a very narrow understanding of profitable. Engineers are profitable and want fair working conditions. If the AI can out-perform engineers it will still be massively profitable. 5. This massively underestimates the complexity of hard AI. I think AI will be benign and I think most people are being needlessly alarmist about AI. But you're wildly off-base, everything you said is wrong.

  19. Re:So what on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Most people do not use phobia to describe a true illness but simply an aversion. Under that colloquialism what he said is perfectly fine.

  20. Re:Downside? on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Same. What's the problem? If anything recent history has shown Humans are woefully lacking as a species. We deserve to be replaced.

  21. When, not If on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is purely a question of when. AI will replace all of us. Its just a matter of when. Doesn't mean its a bad thing.

  22. Of course, not truely free on Netflix Is Not Going to Kill Piracy, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    A 45-day temporary trial account isn't the same thing as free. This no doubt had a huge effect on adoption numbers. Its seen more as an advertisement than anything else.

    Overall I expect that legal services have had a huge impact on piracy but lots of people simply cannot afford them and so piracy will always be preferable. If we want to fix that we need to raise minimum wage.

  23. Re:That's to say: on Why Xbox One Backward Compatibility Took So Long (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    Compilers these days will do this automatically with the right flags.

  24. Re:That's to say: on Why Xbox One Backward Compatibility Took So Long (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah this is spot-on. I don't know what he's talking about either. You maybe do a few hand optimizations but its almost all taken care of by drivers / compilers / etc.

  25. Re:Did it need a GPU emulator? on Why Xbox One Backward Compatibility Took So Long (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    No because GPUs instruction sets are baked into the GPU drivers which the CPU processes naturally. You just need the OS, program, and drivers to be in the native CPU instruction set. Otherwise we'd have to get new programs or recompile every time you changed GPUs!