I had a few dates with an asian woman in the US who called herself only half-sarcastically a “Twinkie,” which the Internet told me was yellow on the outside and white on the inside. I laughed to be polite not knowing what she meant, but when I learned it made me feel racist by proxy.
This is the typical Jack Welch stack-ranking nonsense. The theory is that there will always be a bell curve or similar distribution that requires a certain percent (Welch said 10%, but it’s all over the map) be cut while new hires are constantly brought on.
It kills morale and forces employees into short-term impact patterns to avoid the constant churn of cuts. It also means that performative work rather than actual substantive work is encouraged, since the appearance of productivity in whatever metric is stack-ranked is all that matters.
Finally, it encourages people to do the minimum, because the alternative is to compete for bonuses that are only going to the people who meet the highest appearance of productivity metrics, which doesn’t correlate strongly with actual productivity, just as actual productivity (in terms of “producing” output) is also not strongly correlated with value (such as by knowing enough to efficiently complete tasks such that you are not appearing to “produce,” due to being extremely efficient).
HDCP isn’t DRM’s ultimate form of course. HDCP “3.0” or its successor will not be so easily cracked, and Widevine is not as cracked as past protection schemes have been.
All of our non-Linux platforms will tighten DRM over time. Apple is already locked down. Android is moving to require boot-lock strong encryption and authentication to access sensitive apps, which is very difficult to spoof. Media companies will require that for future versions. Windows is on the TPM train. HDCP is just part of that “trust” chain, and it absolutely will be strengthened to match the base protection.
Edit: Didn’t realize HDCP is already at 2.2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection . Some interesting developments - namely a reminder that movie studios will also use lawsuits under the DMCA to try to suppress any technology that defeats DRM.
It’s funny because the majority of voters thought voting for meat grinders means they’ll get the meat, not be the meat.
Piracy is resilient but there is no natural law that says piracy will always be available.
There will be a TPM 3.0. All those mechanisms in XBOX Series and PS5 that are actually effective for extended periods at preventing mass piracy, like one-directional fuses and minimum software updates for new releases with per-device keys, are not going to disappear. Tech and media companies are now working together to bypass the user in trust chains, so they only have to trust each other.
In a streaming-only world, I predict there will be a time soon where pirated content is not a bit-perfect copy because the digital environment is fully locked down. Maybe an analog reencode of display output will be a workaround. But like TPM, HDCP will advance, and maybe that avenue will be cut off too.
Once we lose physical media, we may be cooked.
Jensen Huang said a few years ago in an interview that Moore’s law is effectively dead, and that they are focusing now on optimizations rather than transistor count.
I suppose that means optimizing their pricing structure for maximum profit, and optimizing ways to improve performance metrics without significantly improving actual performance, like these frame generation routines.
Some weren’t connected? For most PCs that had it, it was a real thing, though counterintuitive and marketing-speak, because enabling “turbo” was just normal speed and disabling would run in a slower mode for compatibility.
You can cut down on your pencil quota by also adding free FedEx boxes to your furniture.
Edit: Remembered why I thought of this: http://web.archive.org/web/20060821064958/http://www.fedexfurniture.com/pictures.html
I know we’re taking about LG, but firmware updates really are as likely to break as to fix core functionality in my experience.
My Hisense TV is automatic, full-on lockdown-until-you-update. You literally can’t use the TV until it updates. And lo and behold, after an update that I did everything to try to decline but couldn’t, we couldn’t connect to the Internet. Cue to 4 months of arguing with Hisense support to get a working TV again - a TV I paid for, to which Hisense applied an update against my will, that broke it.
The only updates I trust at this point and welcome are Valve updates to my Steam Deck.
Yeah, there are way too many people here nitpicking about whether it’s functioning as an auto-complete. That is entirely inconsequential to the fact that its results were deceptive - not incorrect or vague or “not actually AI” - and were structured to mislead the authority.
It’s a likely intractable problem because you can’t just give a stronger system prompt or remove deceptive techniques from training data, when it’s specifically contradicting the prompt and the training data is the Internet. That’s the real problem here.
Yes, not really better at all. These donations are all symbols, not meaningful except as a show of obeisance. So we should interpret it along the same symbolic parameters.
It’s being framed as a personal donation because Cook is acquiescing to Trump’s pending authoritarian takeover, but wants plausible deniability that that imputes to Apple. But since Tim Cook is the one acquiescing and he leads Apple, it’s indistinguishable from the same thing. It carries the same message: Apple won’t get in your way, do what you will.
Logan Paul edition… Just wow.
Sorry, do you mean a link to a Roku TV? Assuming you mean a link to Projectivity, here’s a link:
https://xdaforums.com/t/app-android-tv-projectivy-launcher.4436549/
You can scroll to the bottom - basically you should just be able to enable installation from third party sources in your Google TV android options, and install the APK. I don’t have Google TV, but worked fine on Android TV. I forget if you have to fiddle with any other settings to get it to boot into Projectivity, or if you just change the launcher app in settings.
No way, that is so smart. I’ll have to look for a guide.
Yeah, this is the answer. My wife does a lot of arduino/pi stuff so this is on our to-do list, but we just can’t find the time (building in cushion for inevitable network and setup troubleshooting).
Note about the second bullet: Not all TCL TVs are Google TV, which can be switched to Protectivity - Roku TVs at this point, as far as I know, cannot disable ads if connected to the Internet.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’d swap Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight and Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown as blocks.
Pulp Fiction at the time was perfectly calibrated and groundbreaking, but I don’t think it holds up as well as actual film-making and feels gimmicky re-watching it - lots of needledrop moments but not a ton of character development. Jackie Brown is better but the pacing and script aren’t very tight. Reservoir Dogs was a few setpieces and filler. On the other hand, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained are I think much more mature, tightly written and directed, and re-watchable. The Hateful Eight I think gets a bad rap because it seems like a small scope, but it’s again tightly written and reveals/develops characters in constantly interesting ways.
Agree on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood being at the bottom, though. That’s my reaction to most Hollywood-focused movies.
Oh, if so, then nevermind.
So they think that… All game code runs through the EA app? That these proprietary launchers are not just a glorified .bat file that runs another file?