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  1. Re:Motorola, I miss what you once were. 68k foreve on The Moto G7 Lineup Offers Bigger Screens and Smaller Bezels On a Budget (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe such narrow applications where u need the last bit of juice for each watt, it's better to put it in silicon - build custom hw/asics/fpga. The point is human capital/attention is way too valuable to be mucking with bits n wasting time in debugging (a small error where u meant to store 0xcafe but did 0xcaef - like typo). I'm sure any great compiler like gcc is built for various CPU.

  2. Re:Motorola, I miss what you once were. 68k foreve on The Moto G7 Lineup Offers Bigger Screens and Smaller Bezels On a Budget (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The shipping industry standardized on container sizes and shapes because it is much easy to automate and long term efficiency shoots up. Why would you waste a human brain/attention on writing machine code when compiler does that. You want to move up the food chain. Just because Joe spent 4k hours mastering CISC doesn't mean that's the right way to go. human cost in software development is the most significant. So you develop hw that is compiler friendly not human friendly. RISC won as it's simpler and standard.

  3. Re:Total Wealth of All Speakers on A Look at the Number of Languages Popular Voice Assistant Services Support (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    So number of speakers is irrelevant; it's the purchasing power a group controls. In common parlance how rich /wealthy a group is. money chases new source of money/revenue. If there are a billion people with hardly any purchasing power, what's the use is making product for them.

  4. It's metal. After n uses or if damaged earlier, it gets recycled (melted n made again). you can of course use paper /plant based labeling/ink

  5. Re:Private Taking of a Public Good on Amazon Begins Using 'Sidewalk Robots' In Seattle Delivery Tests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    vandalism? three strikes law

  6. Re:"how can the robot leave the package if you're on Amazon Begins Using 'Sidewalk Robots' In Seattle Delivery Tests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure you can track online your package until you see the "Out for Delivery"; then likely there is a way for you to physically go and pick-up (when the item is not in the van and back at their office).
    Also amazon has something called lockers (name?) where you can enter a code/PIN and get your item. If you are ready to do the driving, there must be many ways to get your package.

  7. Re:Wait, where did that planet come from? on Planet Crash That Made Moon Left Key Elements For Life On Earth, Scientists Say · · Score: 1

    Once you believe this story, we will then issue the source of the planet (Our God sent it :p). Yeah in that planet, life was seeded by another planet colliding there.. u see turtles all the way down.

  8. I believe any strategy or interesting technique is bound to be some equation at some level. Just we use different names - if it's easy to see the algorithm we call it simple bruteforce math; if we can't grasp the whole algorithm, we call it strategy. At the end it's all math computation. Unless of course if we name intelligence as something outside the grasp of math (things like insight/intuition/faith(?))

  9. Re:How much entertainment can people consume? on Netflix Says It's More Scared of Fortnite and YouTube Than Disney and Amazon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    With automation and post-scarcity, the "work" and "chores" are done by machines; so what do majority of humans do other than getting entertained thru' the visual/auditory inputs?

  10. Re:Due to carbon fiber to stainless swap? on SpaceX to Lay Off 10% of Its Workers (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No one put a gun on head and asked to do slave labor. Modern day slavery is mind control (matrix movie; I need that fancy house/car, need to show i'm bigger/better than that guy). Musk does because he doesn't do slave labor. He follows his passion. No reason why a rank-n-file can't follow his/her passion. Yeah be willing to live like a beggar/homeless - no one stops you. Freedom always asks the highest price. If you can say 'no', you can be free.

  11. please turn on camera to authenticate on Netflix Password Sharing May Soon Be Impossible Due To New AI Tracking (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Seeing AI mentioned, I thought the screen is going to see you to confirm it's you. I'm sure they can ask to turn on camera (yeah handle privacy someway) and ensure it's a live person and the account holder [i guess movie theaters using photo id to confirm reservation is similar]

  12. Re: Goodbye Sears on Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    your power drill in the ladies lingerie

    sounds like a movie title ;)

  13. Re:Maybe it's just natural on Scientists Find a Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    When other animals are not venturing out due to unfavorable weather, you being extra high/jubilant, has better chance of spreading your genes. This is the counter argument had things observed is opposite.
    logic is a whore, I read somewhere. You can always explain why it is xyz and also why is not xyz.

  14. Re:Hmm, suspicious on Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    you think Power cares about CP or children's welfare? It only wants to ensure rivals (political/economic) are kept in check so you need a way to snoop their encryption or access to their computers. So create law so that you can legally do that [get a court order of suspected CP and then hack into them - pure objective of gaining political/economic advantage.]

  15. Re:Still under-developed on India Launches Hefty Communications Satellite Into Orbit to Cap Busy 2018 (space.com) · · Score: 1

    In india, the open spaces/forest/waste-land which are public land is freely accessible to anyone. cows to graze say. Unlike so called developed nations where they fence it off and ask for special permits (ie u hv political/economic clout) to enter. Human waste gets recycled in such area may be in a cpl of days and rains wash it off too. And for billions/millions of years that's what mammals/reptiles and all other living thing on earth having been doing. This collecting of waste n sewage system is something like 100 years old, at most. All the disease talk is sheer fear mongering. Also how do you know this system is not worse than using open space like a forest as your toilet? May be the city sewage system creates an environment for more deadly virus/bacteria to develop.
    Of course in cities and towns they do hv toilets.

  16. Unless you want to learn/acquire that ability to see the difference. I don't know a word in say spanish; but if every day I listen to a radio talk-show or a kids cartoon show in spanish for say1 hour; surely in a year or 6 months, I will hv decent ability to speak spanish (exactly the way a child learns her mother tongue). Compare that with a gibberish stream of some random spanish words.

  17. Re:It's about spatial frequency on Ask Slashdot: Is There An Open Source Tool Measuring The Sharpness of Streaming Video? · · Score: 1

    Curious, why do you need that much detail? I can understand an eye or brain surgeon may want to see more; but for normal tv content? even everyday you walk around, see things / people, you only use the necessary and sufficient detail to do object recognition (I see a bit patttern n this matches my known db of object xyz). I mean just because modern tech allows something does not mean we need it.

  18. Re:Why Python? on How Microsoft Embraced Python (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I just don't see what other people see in the hype of Python.

    same reason why a racist doesn't see good in other people. When you don't want to see xyz, you will not see xyz. It's the seer effect.

  19. Re:More than 60? on SpaceX Launches More Than 60 Small Satellites Into Orbit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    SpaceX launches the largest number of satellites into orbit from the western hemisphere.
    [i guess ISRO holds the record some 90 plus]

  20. Re:More than 60? on SpaceX Launches More Than 60 Small Satellites Into Orbit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Editor's primary job is to increase attention; or jack up traffic/clicks. Secondary is to convey the facts. Here he/she made the right choice of words so as not to lie and increase interest in the reader. I'm sure even an AI will choose words that way if stated as goal as grabbing maximum attention.

  21. Re:It's the dose that makes the poison on Dark Web Dealers Voluntarily Ban Deadly Fentanyl (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are saying someone else is reaping the harvest of big pharma. I'm sure big-pharma must be upset. They should find ways to write more n more stronger prescriptions and also ensure the law department does their job so the revenue stream keeps flowing-in and not to some poor smuggler.

  22. Re:A weakness of autonomous vehicles in general on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    The question becomes then, how to make people aware of the nature of these assistive systems.

    You don't. Those who learn avoid those bad consequences. Those who think it's not worth their time and happy to think things are great will one day be rudely woken up (taking statistical probability - ie not all will face the issue but some of them surely do).

  23. Re:"complex operation" on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    The final fix may be a one line change; but your debugging methods can be "complex"; you can't expect an average CHP office to know how autopilot software works (a normal cruise will just slam on you straight ..the one without any adaptive functions). Sure moving on S curve is not complex once you know it is safe to do.

  24. passive content consumer to active participant on In the Age of the Internet, Why Has Interest in Chess Remained So Robust, and Even Risen Sharply? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I guess folks get tired of being passive content consumers like in other spectator sports (football/soccer/cricket/basket ball/tennis...); in chess you can study and work out logically for yourself. So in some sense it's more healthy and I guess people like that. It's like eating a healthy meal of veges than say gulping down a factory made sugary drink. You know one is good for you in the long run; another gives a temporary short spike in feeling-good.

  25. camel/bishop, horse/knight, elephant/rook, soldier/pawn .. king-queen same.