Cyber Yuki
General nerd, programmer and sci-fi reader and writer. Neurodivergent, ADHD.
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In this case I think the bullshit wasn’t his, but his parents’.
Rich people never stop telling their kids that the poor are poor out of their own fault.
This guy did a great sacrifice trying to show the world proof of his beliefs, and learned valuable lessons in the process while unlearning the bullshit he was taught.
If I ever had to choose a rich person to become a politician, I’d pick this guy. After all, he now knows what being poor really means.
If UBI isn’t implemented first then we’re fucked. Companies will just use AI to cut costs and discard labor.
No; without unions putting a stop to corporations that idealistic future will never arrive. And that’s pretty simple to prove. Why do corporations do the shitty stuff that they do? Because they can.
Adam explains it. Enjoy.
While silicon is abundant on Earth, monocrystalline silicon is incredibly hard to produce. You need to use either chemical purification methods that use silicon compound gases, or to use a slow process that starts with a crystal seed to slowly grow giant rods of pure silicon under a chamber filled with argon gas, and many things can go wrong.
Semiconductor-grade silicon needs to be 99.999999% pure to guarantee good yields of microchips.
More on this process here:
OTOH, there are more (and cheaper) ways of grafene production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene_production_techniques
(On a related note, you might be interested in the history of the transistor to know the arduous path that humanity took just to get where we are )
EDIT: Apart from the manufacturing methods, graphene might offer a way to lower the voltage required to operate. Not only that, but electron mobility in graphene is 10 times higher than in silicon.
Good graphene chips might one day require much less power than silicon, and this will be a boon for computationally intensive applications such as 3D rendering or AI.
There’s still a long way to go, tho.
Seems the novelty VW engineers had to be reminded of the first item in the Unix philosophy:
Make each program do one thing, and do it well.
Buttons already had this. Each single button did one and only one thing: Turn a feature on or off, or in the case of the radio, switch stations.
We didn’t need complicated menus to navigate. Press the appropriate button, and voilá. It was simple. It worked.
Who the fuck came up with the idea of having to use touch menus? I have no idea, but I really hope they got fired.
As usual, redditors lemmings commenting on an article they haven’t read. This isn’t just about your brand appearing on a standard porn site. It’s also about your brand appearing on disinformation sites like Breitbart. Also, if your ads appear on those sites, it means that very probably your money is ALSO going to those sites.
That doesn’t drive the problem of autopilot not taking the right choices. What is the driver wasn’t drunk, but they had a heart attack? What if someone put a roofie on their drink? What if the driver was diabetic or hypoglycemic and suffered a blood glucose fall? What if they had a stroke?
Furthermore, what if the driver got drunk BECAUSE the car’s AI was advertised as being able to drive for you? Think of false publicity.
If your AI can’t handle one simple case of a driver being unresponsive, that’s negligence on the company’s part.
Credit and debit cards are not as secure as banks pretend them to be. Chips can be cloned with a cheap device sold in the black market (this is known as “skimming”). PINs can be easily stolen simply by eavesdropping.
My personal opinion: A business you frequent has been constantly skimming credit and debit cards. If you give your card to any salesperson and lose sight of it, the probability of it getting skimmed is pretty high.
NEVER give out your card. Ask for the salespeople to give you the terminal and scan it yourself.
Other than that, change your passwords, and NEVER reuse them.
EDIT: As others have said, NEVER EVER use your debit cards on the internet. Ask if your credit card company provides virtual credit cards (which require you to use a phone app to authorize every transaction). If not, choose another company.
When techbros said “you can type a question and the AI will answer”, they seem to have forgotten that we expect the answers to be true and accurate.
And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.