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earlygray··on Feeling Sad about AI
Don't know what sport AlpacaJones is talking about but I can think of Gaelic Football and Hurling. Two sports that are very popular in Ireland (whose population is smaller than many major cities) but barely known anywhere else in the world. The total number of fans is way too small to justify a typical video game budget, but if you made a really good game based on either sport, it would probably sell well in Ireland.
earlygray··on Daihatsu Toyota safety scandal: any details?
According to this article: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/8a8ee1190b305bc4a52...

The main issues are thought to be Tampering with airbag timer ignition Falsely recording test results Falsification of test speeds Falsely recording tire pressure Replacing the acceleration data of the upper portion of passenger seat

The article goes into more depth re each item, DeepL is your friend if you don't read Japanese

earlygray··on D Programming Language
I looked into it a few years ago and used it for a couple of hobby projects. I really liked it but I was never going to be able to persuade my company to use it unless it became more popular.

Rust is trying to solve the same problem of being both safe and as performant as C/C++. Although it came along later than D it seems to have been much more successful in gaining traction, most likely because it had the backing of Mozilla.

earlygray··on Infants understand language via rhythm and tone rather than individual sounds
My parents were deaf, so there wasn't much singing to me when I was a baby. But I managed to pick up spoken language anyhow so I doubt that singing is vital as the headline suggests. Generally as long as babies aren't deprived or abused when they are young, they'll grow up fine.
earlygray··on A Japanese company cut 80% of the time needed to manually count pearls
> It is not a very straightfoward task.

I'd well believe it. I used to write computer vision applications for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and there we were able to strictly control the distance from camera to object, lighting etc. and even still getting necessary reliability was not simple. When a failure could lead to damaging a whole wafer, i.e. hundreds of thousands of dollars, 99% accurate is not good enough.