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Microsoft lets it sound like fewer PCs is a good idea, especially concerning the environmental impact, but they are treating vendor dependency and gouging in a cloud like a non-issue for customers, and that a cloud outage could mean a single point of failure for businesses. Whoever buys into this must take into account that Microsoft has an increased interest in pulling all of their customers into cloud to exert power and control.

I don't really care about Netflix anymore, or any other streaming service.

I subscribe for a month, watch any new shows or movies I like, cancel and move on. All of my devices are 4K+HDR capable, I don't know why "up to 4 devices" is even relevant anymore if you can't share the account with anyone else. My family? Living elsewhere.

Now that there are dozens if not hundreds of streaming services offering exclusive content there is no paying customer growth possible anymore. What are they counting on? That consumers will pay for more than one subscription on different platforms? While they essentially only watch one at a time? How stupid is that!

/gasp/ nooooo way, really?! who would have thunk!!!

Completely retraining AIs with slightly updated datasets will be costly, energy-wise, definitely.

I am not sure if AI aging is the right term to explain what is happening there. If there is a drift in training data that is supposed to feed the model new patterns what will result is not an updated model, but rather a more and more confused one.

"Wait, you are saying: yesterday the value of money was 1.0, but today it is 0.99? When you query what is the value of money, please explain first what 'today' and 'yesterday' means please sir"

So, if I am getting this right: you cannot update an already trained model with updated data. Doing so will "confuse" the model with contradictions, without the ability to assess what information or concept is valid now.

The consequence would be to train new models with the updated training data each time, and discard the old ones. Which is not viable at all, to be honest.

Yeah, that's the real question here.

The main reason that this was possible is inattentiveness of other players. That is a usual thing when people are playing a game and then turn to other more important things in life. What grinds me most about this is the waste of money and time. Whoever puts thousands of dollars into a game and then leave it seem to have no sense of responsibility or value of money. And then cry out it was stolen. Well, it wasn't. It was taken.

This dynamic reminds me of unpopular or shady laws being passed in some parliaments in the middle of the night or during major sports events where the representative attendance and public attention is at its minimum to get enough majority votes. This "biggest heist in game history" follows the exact same dynamic.

Steadily Personal Computing has evolved into Personal Consuming.

Microsoft has a long history of abusing their market dominance within their Windows platform, coincidentally each case having something to do with online services. Microsoft has, would and will always do anything to make money and choke any competitive threats to death one way or the other. They won't even bother trying to be "less evil" like Google once tried and failed.

No kidding, huh

Usually this goes like "don't hire the spreaders, and get rid of those who are already employed". It is very difficult and costly to actually help people, compared to make it not your problem - that's capitalism for ya.

That study reeks of corporate consulting and management. And it's out there now, research is going on about this.

Oh yeah, just updated Vivaldi et voilá! AI artifacts in blurry videos! xD

Currently only supported by Chrome and Edge. Other Chromium-based browsers seem not to be supported yet (e.g. Vivaldi). Firefox is probably not (yet) supported at all. Checked on Vivaldi and Edge with the Revolution OS video on Youtube.

In the article they are actually merely guessing that what they've seen in collisions made in the lab might be the same in neutron stars. The whole article is sensationalist guesswork to produce excitement, to "wow" sponsors of the research behind it.

I have read only half of the paper and I feel like the author is holding a grudge or something.

But, in general, I wonder why old papers (that are basically a foundation to other theories) are not critically re-reviewed to see if they still hold to scrutiny today? Hmm.

What is B2B?

That means: too much money, and it's loosing its worth more quickly.

I'm sorry, but that has been a problem for decades now and has been made worse by social media and the covid pandemic. Yes. Has there been any noticeable development in better counselling and/or higher availability of any mental health professionals over those same decades?

"Business people" and programmers are inherently incompatible, because there is a clash of interests. What you need in dev team is a programmer who balances possible solutions against requirements, and only their decision counts, and guides the other programmers. "Heya, our software is gonna be great if we add this nifty feature I wrote last week" then the deciding has got to say "save that for the next major release, let's get the requirements working bug-free and testable first!"

That is an excellent question! I have been asking that myself all my professional life and I can now make an educated guess: lack of planning and mediocre specification.

I've read some comments here that I agree with; in a lot of cases the goals in dev are set to implement a solution to a problem either as fast as possible, or without a limited scope.

"We need a software that can fly rockets" - Yeah, but where to?

I studied computer science twice. Both times I have been taught to implement corner cases instead of working on clearly defined projects with scope and specification. "Write a small program that does X" yeah, but the solution space is unlimited, then, maybe? Can you elaborate? Put a scope on it? I mean, can do, may I order compute time on the campus super-computer?

Crap software was there ever since, and it got worse ever since.

Why are they using Owncloud? Is sabre supposed to be more stable than Nextcloud, or what's the deal?

No, thanks.

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Well, yes. Charging 30$ will generate those numbers for such an anticipated game.

Back in the days one would say they've boought a company that could do that. lulz

This is going to be hilarious.

OOOohhh, you have to scroll!

Elephants without tusks are more likely to survive and reproduce, so while this is a "better" survival trait as part of an evolutionary process, it's not an active response. It's just a mutation that has a better chance to survive.

Like that click-baity headline from the Telegraph, it has a better chance to get clicks phrasing it that way, instead of "Elephats without tusks are more likely to survive violent poachers", imho.

Well, this is exactly what you have to expect, because the brain does the same if there is information missing. The brain just makes up missing references to fill in the gaps from what ever information is available or accessible. Dangerous half-knowledge works the same way, where connections between concepts are made up that appear to make sense at first, but then collapse upon scrutiny. So, no surprise here, tbh.

Yes, what do they have in common indeed. I didn't quite catch that from that article.