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If you had to choose between a beach house, a house with a pool, or a mountain house with a hot tub, which would you pick?
  • Mountain house with a hot tub. Climate change and rising water levels makes a beachfront house a poor idea, and nobody sane would want to live in suburbia. You won't have to deal with a HOA in the mountains, and who doesn't want a hot tub with a magnificent view?

  • Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks
  • I don't, no. I do wonder how many pounds of cocaine a person has to snort to make a statement like that without vomiting from abject self-loathing in the process though.

    This is some serious world class assholery.

  • Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks
  • Apparently, slashing their budgets to the tune of $660 million, will:

    "...strengthen the food system for schools and childcare institutions..."

    Do you guys think they realize just how full of shit they sound?

  • Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot
  • Thing is, I really don't see how that'd work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case, natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm. It certainly isn't running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn't - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.

    Even if all those trained models existed (they don't - and making one is considerably more work and expense than having a voice actor just deliver a fixed set of lines), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.

    Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I imagine players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.

  • Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot
  • Interesting point, although I don't see how you'd manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that's per voice; as an example Parler-TTS's mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.

  • Would you rather have feet for hands or hands for feet?
  • My apologies. It turns out that the source of your confusion is... My utter lack of reading comprehension. You see, I originally misread the question posed by the post as what essentially amounts to "would you rather have hands or feet... for feet", and after considering the matter, concluded that the extra manipulatory capabilities didn't outweigh the drawbacks to movement, and so answered 'feet', i.e. "I'm good, thanks". You can see how the confusion percolated from there, I'm sure.

  • Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers
  • I won't deny that something like Cloudflare's "WAF" is useful. My issue is with the number of false positives I've run into with Cloudflare over the years. And because they have a virtual monopoly, when they cock up, suddenly half the Internet is inaccessible to the people caught up in it.

    Or look at it another way: Suppose I was running a website and experiencing issues with automated access (some of which may be entirely legitimate). I choose to use Cloudflare's services to mitigate the issue, and immediately see a - say - 10% drop in traffic. I wouldn't be able to tell whether half of those where legitimate users filtered out by CF, unless those people take initiative to inform me of the issue - and even then I'd have no way of even estimating the ratio of false positives.

    At the very least, it'd the nice if site-owners took a more nuanced approach to their implementation of these kinds of services than just gatekeeping general site access. Allow all reads of data (if you don't want people to consume your data, putting it on the Internet was a bad move in the first place), but bot-protect all writes.

  • Asus launches new monitors that double as air purifiers
  • As a believer in the Unix philosophy, I'd rather keep my tools discrete. There's a reason we stopped integrating the keyboard directly into the computers. I don't see the point in having to throw out two unrepairable devices when one of them inevitably breaks.