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- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 1 day ago:
students engaged in off-task activities on their computers nearly two-thirds of the time.
So it sounds like the problem isn’t the computers, it’s kids using the computers to fuck off and being distracted.
Do these not come with any sort of parental controls?
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 1 day ago:
What does that even mean?
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 1 day ago:
You said non-humanoid is a broad description like it’s a negative.
No, I said it like it’s a meaningless phrase.
Fixating on making the robot humanoid unnecessarily narrows it down.
Its not a fixation. Its simple logic that I’ve already explained. Everything we own is designed to be used by humans, so creating a humanoid robot makes them extremely versatile.
Form and function are by definition not the same
That’s not correct at all. Function is very largely tied to form, especially in the case of robotics.
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 1 day ago:
Yes that’s the whole point
…what? Is your point?
I dont care about form, I care about function
They are largely the same in this case.
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 1 day ago:
“Non-humanoids” is an incredibly broad description. For example, a Roomba can’t empty your dishwasher. But a humanoid robot can use your existing human vacuum to clean the floors.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 day ago:
companies making it always do so in the most abusive, hostile way possible so everyone rejects it immediately as another Big Tech trap
Yes, everyone rejects Big Tech, that’s why the companies are so small.
Apple’s “Apple Vision Pro” vision was actually a reasonable assortment of reasonable ideas
Disagree. It failed for the same reason every headset before it did. The entire concept is fundamentally flawed. No one wants to wear a goofy fucking facemask all day. And I think it’s pretty apparent from their advertising that that’s exactly what they expected people to do.
Meta expected companies to hold business meetings in VR. Why would anyone do that? What’s the point?
Valve certainly understood the assignment by making it a “streaming-first headset” designed primarily to be connected wirelessly to a PC. This just made it way smaller and lighter.
They were also brilliant in developing and implementing FEX so that you can running any X86 Windows game on an ARM Linux headset.
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 1 day ago:
Strip the cybercab of all its shitty tech and they could absolutely sell it for $20k.
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 1 day ago:
Because a humanoid robot can theoretically do all the things humans can do, using appliances designed for humans to operate.
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 1 day ago:
How much do you charge for fucking vs. chores?
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 1 day ago:
I mean they demoed this thing not that long ago and it was a disaster. So yeah, my expectations are low.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 day ago:
VR is a dead end outside of gaming and porn. I don’t know why so many tech companies are obsessed with making it into something more.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 day ago:
“Earlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to reference,” the company wrote. “Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way. We’ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it’s no longer available.”
Who could have seen this coming?
- Comment on Can I Hotswap A Steam Deck SSD Into the Steam Machine? 1 day ago:
Should work just fine without any work. Just plop it in.
- Comment on The Steam Frame's "Great on Frame" Page Is Now Live 2 days ago:
Now if only there was a Frame…
- Comment on Helldivers 2 is getting a new anti-cheater policy to stop you feeling bummed out and help the in-game economy 4 days ago:
Yeah I couldn’t give a single shit if someone else is “cheating” somehow. Arrowhead, on the other hand, probably does, as it affects their bottom line.
- Comment on Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one 5 days ago:
Them selling out of stock doesn’t mean everyone who wants a laptop like theirs can afford one
LOL of course not. No one said or suggested such a thing.
- Comment on Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one 5 days ago:
Plenty of people can afford them, and they sell out of the inventory for years every time they release a new product.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 1 week ago:
You don’t need it for work. You can use any authenticator.
- Comment on Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own 1 week ago:
That’s cool that they host their own repository. Maintaining their distance from Microsoft I guess haha.
- Comment on 4chan has been fined $758,223.20 by OFCOM. 1 week ago:
Thank you. Why are they bothering? Do they think they can just intimidate orgs into compliance?
- Comment on 4chan has been fined $758,223.20 by OFCOM. 1 week ago:
I can’t see any of these links. Care to explain?
- Comment on 'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube 2 weeks ago:
What else do they have that is licensed?
- Comment on 'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube 2 weeks ago:
LOL I thought I was the only one that remembered the dark plates debacle
- Comment on dBrand Companion Cube cancelled: 2 weeks ago:
Imagine making an official announcement on someone else’s platform…
- Comment on Amid Steam Machine performance scrutiny, Valve removes '4K at 60FPS' claim, opting for a safer and more believable claim instead 2 weeks ago:
1080p low with FSR4 haha
Honestly listing only resolution and framerate is dumb because there’s just a cornucopia of information that’s omitted. If you want to give people an idea of performance, just throw up some specs for a handful of the most popular games or don’t advertise anything.
- Comment on Amid Steam Machine performance scrutiny, Valve removes '4K at 60FPS' claim, opting for a safer and more believable claim instead 2 weeks ago:
I realize editorializing titles is frowned upon but if you could please just remove the clickbait from your title, that’d be So Sick.
- Comment on "The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe 2 weeks ago:
Right, because anyone who doesn’t use tools that ruin their code with slop is archaic, right?
- Comment on "The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe 2 weeks ago:
AI stigma seems to hit competent developers with a lot to lose the hardest
No. Competent developers aren’t using AI.
- Comment on The dbrand Portal themed Steam Machine case has vanished 2 weeks ago:
the most likely case (I’m speculating here) is that Valve didn’t give them permission but you would think for such a thing dbrand would have gotten it cleared first.
You mean like the dark plates were cleared? Dbrand seems to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
- Comment on Steam Machine Reservation eBay Listings Double Retail Price as Scalpers Take Hold of Valve's New Console 2 weeks ago:
If fleaBay stopped them, they’d just do it somewhere else and then they would lose profits and solve nothing. It’s really not their responsibility.
When Ford and Tesla tried to stop stuff like this they were lambasted for infringing on customer freedoms.
https://carbuzz.com/news/ford-sues-john-cena-for-flipping-his-gt-supercar-and-making-a-profit/