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8 年前議論

No, it's to remove dollars every month from the pockets of people who THINK they see a lot of movies, but in reality don't. Just like Costco or any other membership-based wholesaler depend on people having the illusion of value in bulk when in reality a lot of people probably break even or come out worse, when waste is factored in.

8 年前議論

As a disconnected aside, I'm a bit sad my first exposure to Jerry Pournelle was when he was a guest on This Week in Tech podcasts. By the time I picked them up, he certainly was long in years and I felt he rambled more than made coherent points. In prime, he would have been great to hear from every few weeks on technology news.

9 年前議論

Doubtful, the other players wouldn't be in any different scenario than they were before Amazon tried this.

9 年前議論

Sewell is directly quoted as saying cellular "isn't as important as it used to be." When they thought 3.5mm TRS wasn't as important as it used to be they cut it. Seems like cellular is perhaps still more crucial to the viability of the phone than they want to admit.

9 年前議論

Commander Keen 4 and Duke Nukem 2 with a Gravis joystick of some description.

9 年前議論

Wife and I just closed on our home - good thing this didn't happen DURING the process as we got a ton of DocuSign requests.

9 年前議論

Interesting, that's nowhere near the level of insurance (it's significantly higher) than what even non-cut-rate insurers will recommend for most drivers in the states. After changing providers, we pay $1400 for two cars with $100,000/$300,000 (individual/total) injury and $100,000 in property coverage.

9 年前議論

I would not recommend going to 257 with the intention of having a good time playing arcade games. Their selection is fairly limited. As the name implies, it's good if you just want Pac-Man games, and mediocre for much else.

9 年前議論

The US has plenty of existing immigration detention centers: https://www.ice.gov/detention-facilities.

9 年前議論

It matters at a quick glance - is performance measured in images per millisecond or milliseconds per image? The answer to that question is obviously important to how you interpret the relative performance. Both metrics (units per time and time per unit) are used widely in computing.

I was initially confused by the chart and yes the text (and following table) make the units clear, but the chart should be standalone.

10 年前議論

That's not the purpose of this experiment, as the capability to target specific neuron types has been well demonstrated in the past. It's approaching a toolbox technique at this point much like regular electrophysiology and electrical stimulation.

From the IEEE article (I did not read the original research paper) the goals of this experiment are lost in the veil of journalism, as it boils down to the following items:

1. Implantable chronic optogenetics (fairly novel)

2. Wireless RF power for said implant (novel context, not necessarily novel technique)

3. Use the optogenetics to do "something". This is the worst part of the article and is the meat of the Neuroscience - which neuron types are targeted (genetically), with which opsin, and histological evidence of where the opsins are located are all important features. The article seems to take at face that making rats pause and run in circles is interesting but scientifically speaking if you can't say anything about why they run in circles it's not a particularly good or useful study, as it doesn't actually give people any information.

10 年前議論

To be fair, being a Professional at a computer covers a lot more than just C#/C++ code. Back when I was doing neuroscience research, I could eat up 32 GB of RAM in a MATLAB simulation easy. Using microscopy data people could eat up 32 GB with images (or videos) in no time flat. There's tons of algorithmic work that needs large enough in-memory data to be useful.

10 年前議論

Regardless of any other answers (or how you feel about voter identification), it wouldn't have any bearing on voting verification since the state takes care of that on their own. If a state didn't trust it's own ID to satisfy it's own voter ID laws then there are much bigger issues at play.

10 年前議論

I don't get the sense that the rest of Spinal Tap is included, but I think if Derek Smalls wants to release a solo album called Smell the Glove Compartment, he should be able to.

10 年前議論

Since it seems like most responses misunderstood your question, I will say that I've never been entirely pleased with "startup" content creation. Netflix and Amazon do fine, but Yahoo's offerings outside of picking up Community were rather weak. Hulu's original offerings are not great. Comcast produces some things under the Universal label (or NBC) so it's hard for me to tell what "Comcast" is making versus the purchased entities. I guess AT&T has a whole network on DirecTV but I don't know the quality of their shows. I suspect that Verizon's offerings are going to be completely disposable given their usage model and rate of production, probably similar to Youtube Red's exclusive offerings - good if you already care for that sort of stuff.

Reality TV aside, my general view is that most companies that view original/exclusive streaming media as an "add-on" versus a core competency are more likely to buy in cheap and rebroadcast ideas that were already popular, chasing the trends, and delivering less enduring quality than typical TV/cable stations. For streaming media it's more about cramming as much (exclusive) garbage as you can, and having enough videos that someone can always find something to pass the time on your service. Traditional TV can only offer you one piece of content at a time, so they at least make some effort to put budget and thought behind the quality, even if they often miss.

10 年前議論

They don't currently for their attached 4G services (up to 30GB for $120 a month) so there's clearly no reason to expect they would/will for 5G service.

10 年前議論

My very large company has 5 lanes. Purely technical is at the far right, purely management is at the far left. Our CTOs do not spend the majority of their career in the company in either lane and that seems to have worked out okay. I don't think people are particularly encouraged to stay in the management lane either.

10 年前議論

I read it more as the OP had their own company where they were in charge of making decisions AND executing them, and there's no real indication of managing employees. I suspect they enjoyed the execution. If they don't enjoy dealing with people's crap and putting out fires, senior management of any reasonably large group is probably not for them - and that's absolutely okay.

10 年前議論

That doesn't really make any sense, it would be more reasonable to say third-parties funding suits must disclose if they DO NOT have a conflict of interest. What, exactly, is the reportable harm in being bankrolled by a third party anyways? By definition the plaintiff already has a conflict of interest with the defendant, adding on another conflict with the defendant isn't going to change things. A case will be decided by two things: 1. The merit of the complaint, and 2. The availability of money to pursue the complaint (in no particular order). Either way, it's not up to defendant to decide whether or not the plaintiff is receiving poor legal advice due to a third party, it's up to that plaintiff. So what reasonable outcome would disclosures have, other than potentially taint a jury due to matters not of law or fact? If Satan himself had bankrolled Gawker for a case in which they were, by clear evidence of fact, innocent would that funding have any bearing?

10 年前議論

Well of course they do, the number of people for whom heavy LTE usage is an economically feasible prospect (i.e. unlimited usage) is vanishingly small. Since their network can't tell who pays per GB and who doesn't, yes they want people to consume as much data as possible.