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Beskamir reacted to podkall in Nvidia now offering day passes for $4 and $8. But at least we got G-Sync and Reflex right? Right?
What better way to experience GeForce NOW, than toDAY?
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Beskamir reacted to TetraSky in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.
They just gave up without a fight...
Because Nintendo 100% would've dragged this on, costing them way too much in legal fees.
I went ahead and saved the latest version of Yuzu when this whole thing started. Considering it's open source, though.... Cut one head and 10 more will spawn from it. They will just be more careful about it.
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Beskamir reacted to jaslion in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.
Well this sucks. This is going to severely hamper emulator development.
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Beskamir reacted to OhYou_ in White House urges developers to avoid C and C++, use 'memory-safe' programming languages
heh thats gonna get replaced with low standard LLMs
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Beskamir reacted to StDragon in OpenAI unveils "Sora." A prompt-based short video generator with amazing results
Can't wait to animate this. All this AI technology just for the lulz.
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Beskamir got a reaction from LAwLz in Disney Invests 1.5 Billion in Epic Games to create Disney branded titles
My concern with this is what the shareholder percentages are now. Tencent's got like 40% last I checked, Tim has 51%, and the rest is divided up among a bunch of other investors. 1.5 billion is a sizable percent of the 22 billion so I'm most curious who gave up their shares or if new ones were created or if investors in Epic Games have no influence over the company's direction.
Basically as long as Tim has more than 50% ownership I'm not too concerned about Epic Games becoming terribly awful. He seems like a fairly sensible person with reasonable and not overly exploitive business practices. Obviously it's difficult thriving in business without being sociopath so I wouldn't argue he's completely perfect, but it is rather nice that he's using his fortune to buy up forests in order to preserve them.
Either way, as much as I despise Disney, I prefer them to Tencent so if Tencent's grasp on Epic Games decreases because of this that will only be a positive imo.
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Beskamir reacted to manikyath in Sam Altman seeking 5-7 TRILLION in backing for Open AI CPU Creation
i'd love to have 7 trillion as well.
i think this man has been around big numbers he forgot their meaning..
SpaceX quoted their first generation of falcon 9 rockets to have cost 300 million to develop
NASA quoted that if they had developed such a platform using their own strategies, it would have been in the 3.6 billion category
SpaceX estimates that starship will cost between 5-10 billion to develop
nvidia spends 7.34 billion on R&D each year
so.. what this man is suggesting, is that his endavour will cost the same as:
- nvidia funding their R&D for the coming 950 years
- spacex developing starship, estimating they double their original budget at 20billion
- NASA copying SpaceX's homework and making a falcon bureaucracy edition.
- still have enough money left over for spaceX to throw away and re-invent falcon 9 not once, not twice, but 11 times.
please.. someone quote me to tell me that the order of magnitude got lost in translation somewhere...
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Beskamir reacted to filpo in Two thousand year old scroll decoded using machine learning
is it just me or does the scroll look a bit like shit? (literally)
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Beskamir reacted to Fasterthannothing in Google will no longer back up the internet, kills off cached pages
Hot take the Internet shouldn't be forever. If someone wants their personal information gone from the web even if it's an important figure they should be allowed a full data purge.
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Beskamir got a reaction from Dracarris in Alternative app stores will arive on iOS - but there are substantial caveats
It keeps confusing me how they intend to enforce that. VPNs exist. European expats exist. Buying phones from abroad is a thing. And so on. For example, I'm technically an EU citizen that's living in Canada. Would that be enough to qualify me as an European customer if was to buy an iphone in Europe and bring it back with me to Canada? Not that I have any intention of giving such a terrible company any money.
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Beskamir reacted to duncannah in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi
I still wonder about the technical specifics of this "detection" by the public Wi-Fi. Even though Snapchat is not E2E, it should still be using HTTPS.
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Beskamir reacted to BuckGup in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi
Encryption doesn't matter when you hand the keys to the authorities.
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Beskamir reacted to Lunar River in Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice [Update, see 2nd page]
What is everyone's obsession with buying appliances that connect to the internet...
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Beskamir reacted to Levent in Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice [Update, see 2nd page]
Nice, another Chinese company to my blacklist.
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Beskamir got a reaction from Avaviel in Norwegian consumer law makes all new electronics sold, required to have 5 years of software and app support
This is an anti-competition law pretending to be a pro-consumer one. The effect of this will be that large existing tech companies with the resources to provide 5 years of software support will happily comply and support this law. Meanwhile new or smaller companies that are unable to guarantee software support for that long will no longer be allowed to sell their products in Norway. Starting a hardware company is already difficult enough that very few companies try and this will lower the amount of those companies even further.
Of course, I don't think it's okay to make a hardware product with a major software component with the expectation that it won't be supported after some number of years, but I don't think there should be an expectation that it will be supported either.
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Beskamir got a reaction from unv in Norwegian consumer law makes all new electronics sold, required to have 5 years of software and app support
This is an anti-competition law pretending to be a pro-consumer one. The effect of this will be that large existing tech companies with the resources to provide 5 years of software support will happily comply and support this law. Meanwhile new or smaller companies that are unable to guarantee software support for that long will no longer be allowed to sell their products in Norway. Starting a hardware company is already difficult enough that very few companies try and this will lower the amount of those companies even further.
Of course, I don't think it's okay to make a hardware product with a major software component with the expectation that it won't be supported after some number of years, but I don't think there should be an expectation that it will be supported either.
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Beskamir reacted to williamcll in Rabbit R1, can it replace the use of smart phone apps in the future?
Essentially a phone with just the smart assistant and nothing else. Great for the elderly but useless for everyone else.
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Beskamir reacted to Blue4130 in Rabbit R1, can it replace the use of smart phone apps in the future?
So it's just a smartphone that can't make calls?
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Beskamir reacted to LAwLz in Hyperloop Bankrupt and Busted.
I always dislike when the US talks about "it doesn't work because we're too big", as if having a train network (or fiber, which is another area where it often gets brought up) is a binary thing where it either has 100% coverage or none at all.
All of these major infrastructure projects has to be done in stages, and it's most likely going to be a neverending project since cities change. New cities are built, parts of cities become more or less relevant, and so on. Same with fiber-optics-based Internet access networks. You can't view it as something you just build during a period and then it's done.
I am not even sure if it's true that the US is "too big". It's all about priorities.
China is slightly bigger than the US when looking at land area, and China is heavily investing in railways. If China, which is larger than the US, isn't "too big" then I don't see why the US is.
I am fairly sure the US has more railroads than China does at this point in time. Two of the big issues with the US railway network are:
1) It seems to mostly be used for just transporting goods, not people.
2) It's really old and outdated. Electric trains are unarguably far superior to coal and diesel trains. The US has about 2,000 kilometers of electrified railway. China has about 100,000. China's electric railroad network is about 50 times larger than the US's network. Even my country, Sweden, has over 8,000 kilometers of electrified railway.
The US's railway network is massive and already covers (in my opinion) >90% of the important stuff. It's just that it's old and outdated because it hasn't been a priority to fix and upgrade it.
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Beskamir reacted to Uttamattamakin in Hyperloop Bankrupt and Busted.
He as much as admitted this. Which is why I compared it to Microsoft's known past strategy of proposing vaporware or otherwise taking a competing technology. Embrace: Mass transit.
Extend: Mass transit that requires new barely possible, if possible at all technology.
Extinguish: What bro I was just musing about that. You thought that was a real product? LOL.
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Beskamir reacted to Shimejii in Hyperloop Bankrupt and Busted.
Trains. Just use trains. Whole idea was to prevent High speed rail from getting funding so they had to "Show" something.
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Beskamir reacted to Uttamattamakin in Hyperloop Bankrupt and Busted.
Summary
When the hyperloop was unveiled it was tech news. Hyperloop one has gone bankrupt and fully ceased to operate. Lets talk about it and maybe about how to recognize vaporware in general.
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Hyperloop One Is Shutting Down, Ending a Literal Transportation Pipe Dream - PC Magazine.
The hyperloop is dead for real this time -The Verge
Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit - Bloomberg
Granted this company had some non technical problems that are part of its specific story. Hyperloop One Suffocates in its Vacuum Tubes -Spiceworks
My thoughts
It should go without saying that the portion of a news post that is someone thoughts is opinion and personal observations. What to say about a story that took so long to unfold.
Looking at where Hyperloop was uncontroversially discussed on this forum before, it was tech news when it was unveiled, and in many post since then. If this is somehow someway not now tech news then how would I know that?
It was not "obvious" that this would not work.
Those who know the basic sciences as their profession could see it was never likely to work.
Those who beleived in this should not have known that it would not work. It was sold by a person who has a lot of money and success beyond just degrees and academic credentials. Sold by someone who supposedly knows how to get things done and how to do them. There is a place for that and that is a very valuable thing. There is also a place for just knowing what works and what does not work and why this works and that does not work. This way we can make real progress using the wheel (in this case high speed rail) rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.
The basic laws that govern nature are unforgiving. Laws which if something breaks them will not exist. Laws which if they are tested to the limit will crush that which pushes their boundaries into twisted metal if not into a black hole, censored from the rest of the universe, without a court of appeal.
If one knew the laws of nature aka physics (high pressure, energy production and delivery into the tube, and thermodynamic issues), matterials, thermodynamics (thermal expansion issue with constructing a big long vacuum or partial vacuum); Then that this would be at least hard if not utterly impossible was easy to see. It was not "obvious" just as it is not obvious when a computer tech item is vaporware to people who are not into that. Since it was not obvious no one who is not a specialist in the sciences should feel bad or defensive about having not seen this. It would've been like knowing a solar eclipse was coming when one was not a keen observer of the sky.
No one who knows these things is saying it was obvious that Hyperloop would not work. No one is saying that everyone should've seen that and seen past the money to see the science.
It is part of being a fan of technology that a lot of would be cool to have may be impossible. It may just be something that pushes the boundaries of physics to a degree that is not practical or economical . It may be like Hyperloop something that works at a small scale but does not scale up. Hyperloop was basically taking Pneumatic tubes whcih before email and such would be used to send doccuments within large buildings or at the drive up windows at a bank etc.
It has to be said a lot of people were not very nice to those of us who expressed doubt and pointed out that Hyperloop was very unlikely to work based on our own first hand knowledge of physics, matterials, chemistry, engineering or similar. A lot of us egg heads who do know those things were called all sorts of terrible names for the better part of a decade for not believing against what we know to be true about how nature operates.
(With guest appearances by Linus and Luke and Veritasium's Derrick and a cavalcade of stars)
Thunderf00t enjoys busting on Elon Musk in a way that is almost indecent and NSFW.
This presents a larger lesson for all tech. Remember that many things are tried in the lab and don't work out. Many things would be great but are vaporware for economic, and political reasons as well. In an age where so many of these things get invested in on Kickstarter by ordinary people who may not know better and just lose their money it is more important than ever to hear out skeptical voices without prejudice. Hyperloop is just a big spectacular example.
Signs of vaporware, in general, in my opinion:
Promising a tech product which would push the boundaries of then known physics, chemistry, engineering or matterials. A product that would make all existing products that accomplish the same or similar task obsolete. IF something requires that we first obtain unobtanium then apply it in a novel way it is likely vaporware. Example: The United States National Aerospace Plane. Never heard of it? There's a reason. Quantum Computing as anything that would be used on a daily basis especially considering ... Promising to deliver a product that fits the first criterion in a very short period of time. Not just promising to obtain the unobtanium but also to apply it, and make it cheap. Quantum computing may well eventually be crucial but there is a lot of work to do on using it in any practical way. It's a 10 to 50 year project not a 5-10 year project. So many Kickstarter projects that promise to deliver in say a year but years and years latter nothing. If the economics are too good to be true then it is likely to be vaporware. If it is something seeking investment, if the promise is that it will make you or your company or your state/city/country rich in a short time be very warry. If it is promising to overnight make obsolete other proven modes of accomplishing a task obsolete be warry. Anything that involves any sort of infrastructure takes time. NFT's and most if not all cryptocurrencies might fit this bill as well. If an idea fits the above and is announced by a large company that will be fine if it does not work out, while encouraging others to act based on their promises it might be vaporware. This comes from the example of Microsoft in the 1990's they would announce products that would just never come out. The first use of it was supposedly internally at Microsoft in reference to Microsoft's Xenix Operating system. A really cool Unix variant for X86 PCs. Immagine if they had stuck to keeping Xenix around for high end business PC's right up until the 386 and 468 era and beyond. We'd all be running Unix. They basically abandoned it and we had Dos then NT. MS and other companies would announce software or frameworks or "form factors" for products that they would then not support really at all. For example the dual screen / folding screen PC concepts and products. While cool they are hardly common. It was part of a strategy named internally at Microsoft as "Embrace Extend and Extinguish". -- US Department of Justice It has been reported that Elon Musk’s Hyperloop idea was just a ruse to kill California’s high-speed rail project --Fresno Bee Editorial Page Please be civil in any discussion of this.
Sources
Hyperloop One Is Shutting Down, Ending a Literal Transportation Pipe Dream - PC Magazine.
The hyperloop is dead for real this time -The Verge
Hyperloop One Suffocates in its Vacuum Tubes -Spiceworks
Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit - Bloomberg
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop idea was just a ruse to kill California’s high-speed rail project --Fresno Bee Editorial Page
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Beskamir reacted to TetraSky in Scammers are now selling RTX 4090 graphics cards without GPUs
US sanctions. /Edited : Political talk is not allowed.
I'm genuinely not surprised scammers are trying to sell these as genuine GPUs... without the GPU.