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Comment · 11 months ago
Meta spends enormous amounts of money hiring AI experts instead of just using AI to improve its AI. AI just isn't there yet.

But when AI can be used to improve itself, that's when things get interesting.

Comment · 4 years ago
Flipping the fretboard has weird effects.

The E strings are ok (the notes are E, F, Gb, etc).

But the other strings are broken (A string is A, C, Db; D string is D, Ab, A; B string is B, Bb, B, C); etc.

Comment · 7 years ago
I can’t think of any state actors that would want to get their hands on easily-decrypted messages sent by government officials of your country.
Comment · 8 years ago
I've got a British driving license and an American driving license. The British driving license was hard work. The American driving license involved little more than proving I could make the car go forwards and that I had a pulse.

There's really a 40% failure rate? That's insane given how easy it is to pass the test.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
This is the same Sony that was famously hacked in 2014:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack

From the Wikipedia page:

“The hackers involved claim to have taken more than 100 terabytes of data from Sony”

“The data included personal information about Sony Pictures employees and their families, e-mails between employees, information about executive salaries at the company, copies of then-unreleased Sony films, and other information.”

The YouTube mistake sounds to me like a publicity stunt, but “hilariously insecure” isn’t necessarily an incorrect assessment of Sony’s infrastructure.

Comment · 8 years ago
Like the rumored Tetris movie?
Comment · 8 years ago
That's called out at the end of the article:

"But before the end of the first month of daylight saving that January, eight children died in traffic accidents in Florida, and a spokesperson for Florida’s education department attributed six of those deaths directly to children going to school in darkness."

Comment · 8 years ago
Before I bought my first iPod I got a Sony Network Walkman NW-E3. It was about the size of a packet of gum, had 64MB of flash memory, and was so unrelentingly awful that I swore I would never buy another piece of Sony hardware. I don't remember ever feeling so furious about any other purchase I've made.

That the iPod dominated the industry really shouldn't be a surprise when Sony was producing junk like the NW-E3.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
The jerky scrolling on that page isn't pleasant.
Comment · 9 years ago
A bunch of these were also Spectrum hits: Heartland, the Monty Mole series, and Everyone's A Wally are some stand-outs. California Games got converted to pretty much every platform around.
Comment · 9 years ago
From the "About" page:

> PLUS – Full sized, fully working version also coming in 2018 as well!

Comment · 9 years ago
Hmm, maybe it's just the Enterprise version that's using Electron.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's worth pointing out that CrashPlan's business client app uses Electron (because the Java client app for home users wasn't bloated enough). That's reason enough for me to look elsewhere.

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