X is just a BAAAAAAD brand
So - a perfectly accurate name for the company then.
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Intel is not fine on servers - ARM servers are about 20% faster for outright performance and 40% faster for performance-per-dollar. Since it's literally just selecting a different option in a dropdown menu (assuming your software runs well on ARM, which it probably does these days), why would anyone choose Intel on a server?
And they're not fine no a laptops either - unplugged my ARM Mac from the charger seven hours ago... and I'm at 80% charge right now. Try that with an Intel laptop with an i9 Processor and a discrete NVIDIA GPU (those two would be needed to have similar performance).
They're only really doing well on desktop PCs, which is a small market, and people who can't be bothered changing to a new architecture — a big market but one that is going away.
Microsoft will never beat apple when in comes to how well their system runs on ARM hardware
I dunno - cellular networking, touch screen, detachable keyboard... Apple is pretty easy to beat if you ask me. All Microsoft needs is an ARM chip that is "fast enough" and also has competitive battery life. Something Intel can't deliver on.
Windows on ARM will not be used by anyone unless AAA games or AutoCAD software is build for ARM
That's not how the transition went on a Mac. Software compiled for Intel is generally faster on ARM than it ever was on Intel Macs... not because the CPU is faster (it's not), but rather Apple Silicon Macs have faster SSDs, faster RAM, more L2/L3 cache, etc. Those aren't proprietary secrets, they're just expensive. Anyone can do the same. Intel has caught up but only on their expensive desktop processors. If Qualcomm can do it on with a reasonably priced laptop chipset, that could be pretty special.
Games aren't limited by compute performance, they're mostly limited by how fast textures can be read. And it's the same with AutoCAD.
Also you missed a massive use case - browsing the web. Chrome/etc is already optimised for ARM, since nobody uses x86 on a smartphone.
The convenience comes from leaving your wallet at home. Also, a lost card is a major problem. A lost phone is fine, nobody can do anything with it unless they know your PIN and you can locate it through cell network/bluetooth tracking.
There's not that much fuss with my phone - double tap the side button, look at it to pass a face recognition check, then wave it over the chip reader.
Then there are fairly good projectors for like $80 or less
Um. You and I have a very different idea of "fairly good". The only good projector I've used (at work, not my own) cost $12,000. It's overkill for a home theatre, but not by a wide margin.
If you want a projector as bright as a TV you could buy for 20 bucks at a goodwill store, you need to spend quite a bit of money on it... especially if you also want decent black levels and of course significantly larger than a cheap LCD (otherwise why get a projector).
You also forgot sound. Good speakers aren't cheap either. And you definitely don't want the sound coming from the projector itself. Or from your laptop speakers.
I recommend rectangular cable ducts where one face can be removed instead of using conduit. Also, it should never run parallel to a 110/220V power cable - you can cross them, but don't run alongside them. Low voltage power (like PoE) is fine.
Finally - tell anyone who works on your house that if you find any electrical tape or cable ties — you're going to ask them to come back and remove them - I wouldn't do it yourself especially cable ties since there's a non-zero risk you might damage the cable and have to run a new one.
Those two things should never be used — they're quick and dirty tools used by lazy people who want to spend 10 seconds less time on today's job, and don't care if it creates hours of extra work in a few year's time.
Velcro strapping tape is the way to go. It lasts longer and is easily removed. The only drawback is it's a little ugly - I'll use tape or cable ties if the wiring is exposed... but you shouldn't have any exposed wiring in a house.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Reusable-Fastening-Cable-Double-Sided-Management/dp/B09C3SVY9Q
https://www.amazon.com.au/Rectangular-Cable-Duct-25-16mm/dp/B07QM6X9V7
2.4Ghz is the right frequency to use - it has pretty good internal wall penetration and you want that. You don't need much bandwidth to turn alight on, so there's nothing wrong with a bit of competition on the channel.
Your TV/etc shouldn't be on a wireless connection.
Why doesn't your survey include email? That's by far the most widely used decentralised messaging system.
I would probably just uninstall the app and switch to something else to be honest.
I can't remember the last time I cleared a cache. Ten years ago maybe? Also, I don't need to be told to clear a cache when I'm not having any problems.
I don't — I just use S/MIME which doesn't require a server. You could argue PGP is more private, but I'd argue it's only "Pretty Good". 😋
Both are more than secure enough for anything I'd be willing to put in an email.
Because people already had a server to run Exchange, which is actually pretty good, and if you're already paying a fortune for Windows, why not use it?
Linux is definitely not free, you need to hire staff who know how it works and you probably also need to pay a support contract for someone even more qualified where necessary (e.g. Red Hat, who can patch the kernel if that's what it takes to fix your problem).
Since you're already paying for both of those with your Exchange server, it was cheaper to use IIS as well. These days Linux is a lot lower maintenance and support contracts are cheaper, so it's less of a concern.
You can safely ignore those tickets and the police won’t do anything
Wait what? No.
It's entirely possible if you ignore the ticket, a human might review it and find there's insufficient evidence. But if, for example, you ran a red light and they have a photo that shows your number plate and your face... then you don't want to ignore that ticket. And they generally take multiple photos, so even if the one you received on the ticket doesn't identify you, that doesn't mean you're safe.
When automated infringement systems were brand new the cameras were low quality / poorly installed / didn't gather evidence necessary to win a court challenge... getting tickets overturned was so easy they didn't even bother taking it to court. But it's not that easy now, they have picked up their game and are continuing to improve the technology.
Also - if you claim someone else was driving your car, and then they prove in court that you were driving... congratulations, your slap on the wrist fine is now a much more serious matter.
computers aren’t taking drugs and randomly pooping out images
Sure, no drugs involved, but they are running a statistically proven random number generator and using that (along with non-random data) to generate the image.
The result is this - ask for the same image, get two different images — similar, but clearly not the same person - sisters or cousins perhaps... but nowhere near usable as evidence in court:
It preemptively also includes any other future technology that aims to try the same thing
No it doesn't. For example you can, with compute power, for distortions introduced by camera lenses/sensors/etc and drastically increase image quality. For example this photo of pluto was taken from 7,800 miles away - click the link for a version of the image that hasn't been resized/compressed by lemmy:
The unprocessed image would look nothing at all like that. There's a lot more data in an image than you can see with the naked eye, and algorithms can extract/highlight the data. That's obviously not what a generative ai algorithm does, those should never be used, but there are other algorithms which are appropriate.
The reality is every modern photo is heavily processed - look at this example by a wedding photographer, even with a professional camera and excellent lighting the raw image on the left (where all the camera processing features are disabled) looks like garbage compared to exactly the same photo with software processing:
Aren’t we already in a kind of dark age?
A bit over 150 years ago, slavery was legal (and commonplace) in the United States.
Sure, lots of shitty stuff in the world today... but you don't have to go far back to a time when a sherif with zero evidence relying on unverified accusations and heresy would've put up a "wanted dead or alive" poster with a drawing of the guy's face created by an artist who had never even laid eyes on the alleged murderer.
I don't think OpenAI should be offering ChatGPT 3.5 at all except via the API for niche uses where quality doesn't matter.
For human interaction, GPT 4 should be the minimum.
Is there some huge benefit that I’m missing?
For example I recently fixed a bug where a function would return an integer 99.9999% of the time, but the other 0.0001% returned a float. The actual value came from a HTTP request, so it started out as a string and the code was relying on dynamic typing to convert that string to a type that could be operated on with math.
In testing, the code only ever encountered integer values. About two years later, I discovered customer credit cards were charged the wrong amount of money if it was a float value. There was no exception, there was nothing visible in the user interface, it just charged the card the wrong amount.
Thankfully I'm experienced enough to have seen errors like this before - and I had code in place comparing the actual amount charged to the amount on the customer invoice... and that code did throw an exception. But still, it took two years for the first exception to be thrown, and then about a week for me to prioritise the issue, track down the line of code that was broken, and deploy a fix.
In a strongly typed language, my IDE would have flagged the line of code in red as I was typing it, I would've been like "oh... right" and fixed it in two seconds.
Yes — there are times when typing is a bit of a headache and requires extra busywork casting values and such. But that is more than made up for by time saved fixing mistakes as you write code instead of fixing mistakes after they happen in production.
Having said that, I don't use TypeScript, because I think it's only recently become a mature enough to be a good choice... and WASM is so close to being in the same state which will allow me to use even better typed languages. Ones that were designed to be strongly typed from the ground up instead of added to an existing dynamically typed language.
I don't see much point in switching things now, I'll wait for WASM and use Rust or Swift.
I was reading an article the other day about a couple who bought an ocean view home to retire.
It was perfect, but the neighbours driveway ran along the beach between their home and the beach - and they thought it would be nice to have a garden there instead... so they spoke to their new neighbour about maybe buying the land for the driveway, and selling him an equal sized strip of land on the other side of their property. Basically, no change to their neighbour's home at all - but the neighbour's driveway would go between two houses instead of along the beach.
All perfectly reasonable, but somehow it fell to shit when the neighbour... turned out to be a nutcase and bought two huge rusty shipping containers, an old bulldozer, cars that had been crashed, etc and dumped all of them along his driveway right next to their house. And when they complained, he added huge a canvas tarp sections between all that mess and the ocean. So now they can't even see the ocean at all from their home - all they can see is a huge white wall and a bunch of rusty old crap along their fence line.
If they were in a HOA... they would be able to force him to remove all of that junk. But they're not, so there's nothing they can do. They tried taking it to court, but the judge said "yeah, he's obviously an asshole... but it's his land. He is allowed to have shipping containers and ruined cars on his land".
If you're in a HOA, you might occasionally be forced to do something you'd rather not do. But you will never have to deal with totally unreasonable neighbours like that example. Living in a HOA definitely isn't something I'd want - but I can see why some people like them.
But anyway... I fail to see how that is any way like X. If anything X is exactly the opposite of a HOA... it's like buying a house in a suburb that's full of trolls and assholes. A "HOA" social network is a place where everyone is boring and if you're not boring, you get kicked out.
Yes.
But also — why are you doing them any courtesies? Clearly the other person hasn't spent any time on the email they sent you. Don't waste time with a response - just archive the email and move on with your life.
Large Language Models are extremely powerful tools that can be used to enhance almost anything - including garbage but it can also enhance quality work. My advice is don't waste your time with people producing garbage, but be open and willing to work with anyone who uses AI to help them write quality content.
For example if someone doesn't speak english as a first language, an LLM can really help them out by highlighting grammatical errors or unclear sentences. You should encourage people to use AI for things like that.