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  1. The facebook neural network is always hungry. on WhatsApp To Share Some Data With Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It craves for data. ALL the data.

  2. Re:LET'S BREAK THAT RECORD on NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams Sets New US Space Endurance Record With 521 Days (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, sending anything into the sun is very, very hard.
    You have to decelerate the ship from the 108,000KM/h we're currently in so something the sun's gravity would pick, and that's a LOT of fuel, SPECIALLY if you're talking about sending 1 billion of people to space and then decelerating.
    It's probably cheaper to just you know, give em jobs and actually good education, but that is just as politically incorrect as your suggestion sadly.

  3. Re:Who the fuck... on Apple Under Tim Cook: More Socially Responsible, Less Visionary (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple consumers, of course.
    Maximum social justice points, minimum actual effort to help anything.

  4. Re:Works for me on Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks PowerShell (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Until the foxconn mobo gives in, or the thing overheats.

  5. Re:Close call. on Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Given how many are running on this track yes.

  6. Re:Close call. on Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    This race is not over yet.
    Microsoft still can do something so horrible with windows 10 that may dwarf those two.

  7. Re:Good on Facebook Knows Your Political Preferences (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    But she is not interested in rounding up everyone, only Sarah Connor.
    Also expect google to get a lot more funding for some specific projects.

  8. Re:Not *my* political preferences, I'm special on Facebook Knows Your Political Preferences (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    When you're lumped with a party, generally a lot of your opinions you didn't stated get "assumed" for you.

  9. The 30 games are all you got.

  10. Modern televisions are absolutely atrocious with old console signals.
    They add a lot of lag to the input, like some adding a whole half second, and as the consoles work with a kludgy 240p signal (repeating the same field over and over), the scalers just can't deal with it and make a lot of distortions.
    So, HDMI ends being your only option for modern screens if you want a decent input lag.

  11. Well, you just gave people that know how to spoof IPs a shinning new tool to remove who they dislike from the internet.

  12. Why anyone would use an DSP to perform fine CPU tasks like that?
    Those things are meant to perform a crapton of multiply operations and/or shitty youtube videos.

  13. It is possible to do optical connections at this scale yet?

  14. To be more specific, as it didn't got very clear, those parts are not just "cores and GPUs", but caches, integer/FPU pipelines, branch predictors, instruction decoders etc..

  15. I think one of the possible ways they will go is following that HBM memory idea.
    The idea would be to manufacture the CPUs/GPUs etc into physically separate parts, and then assemble em into this "megazord" into a single package. This allows you to get around the yield problems of manufacturing "giant" chips, and even get more fine grained prices/performance setups.
    Of course, this idea brings its own problems like coolling the thing, having precise machines to get a good yield on the chip aligning, the reduced overall number of connections per part etc etc etc..

  16. Re:Good. on Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, it ifs a weapon against automation like that, then i see no issue whatsoever.

  17. Re:Good. on Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Moderators in real life can be argued with and generally have to adhere to strict rules.
    Twitter moderators would be like having an debate where the moderators are hidden snipers in the audience with sleeping darts, and that are allowed to "moderate" whatever they define as hate speech.

    The filter idea is not that bad, but it should be under the control of the user itself, rather than being something defined by "the invisible hand".
    Basically you define the words that indicate that its not an subject you don't want to talk about, and the bot use some smart detection to detect obvious filter breaking stuff like n1gger instead of you know, the actual word and that's it.

    Of course, you could also have an ready made anti harassment pack with a big list of words but, this list should also be visible to the user, to avoid things like AMD being a banned word.

  18. Re:Good. on Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you're letting a third party control for you what you get to read.
    It's their definition of "hate speech" being applied here, which could be something along the lines of "every mention to a product rival to the one on our payroll", or "mention to an event your local government want covered".

  19. Re:GamerGaters can finally get laid on RealDoll CEO Aims To Make Its Sex Dolls Love You Back Via AI App (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not much better than being "free" to use java or flash i suppose.

  20. Well... on Flaming 'Blue Whirl' Could Be Used In Fuel Spill Cleanup (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What possibly could go wrong?

  21. Re:GamerGaters can finally get laid on RealDoll CEO Aims To Make Its Sex Dolls Love You Back Via AI App (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Not really.
    Soon enough they will release an GG AI that will do the usual thing of posting random anime girls and bullying everyone that makes a game that have .htm instead of .exe as as the main game file.

  22. Re:SoC stuffs. on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Very proudly (and loudly).

  23. Re:SoC stuffs. on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed.
    A 300 watt SoC laptop would fare better as a flame thrower than a laptop.

  24. Well, if they actually got a CPU that can actually at least don't get shamefully annihilated by the intel offerings, they will do quite well on SoC solutions with their superior GPUs, which means nice laptop deals.

  25. Well, it's kinda like choosing between getting shot in the head with an .38 several times or a GAU-1 machine gun.
    It's not because one is worse that the other is automatically acceptable.