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georgeplusplus··on Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings
In my organization the tools are great but the people don't put the work in to use them correctly. They rely on meetings and emails to get up to date information when the information can be captured on a ticketing system. My organization is very beaurocratic and has an older age group though.
georgeplusplus··on Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data
You were too lazy to read the rules of the game
georgeplusplus··on Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data
According to their website :

Neural mapping. Taking 5 minutes to build a scene in space.

Relocalization estimating camera pose from a single image.

https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel?hl=en

It looks pretty cool. I imagine it could be a game changer in wearable devices that want to use position like AR.

Intelligence gathering is also another one. Being able to tell where someone is based on a Picture is a huge one. Not just limited to outdoors but presumably indoors as well. Crazy stuff

georgeplusplus··on Trump wins presidency for second time
>>>Do you have any support for this statement? I haven't heard many people bring up Ukraine as a major reason for voting Trump or not voting Harris.

Its a bad look when many citizens are hurting economically and you send billions and billions to a foreign government and then gaslight them the economy is indeed fine.

georgeplusplus··on Trump wins presidency for second time
No we do get it. It’s these modern democrats that are so disconnected from the reality of the American people which is why they lost huge in this election across all racial and demographic lines. Look at NY how does it get that close?

The American people cried that the economy was bad for them and the democrat message was no it’s better than ever.

The American people said why are we sending billions to Ukraine when we need the money here. They were told we were supporting dictatorships. Just look at some of the responses to my comment here.

The American voter was concerned about the huge crime waves in the cities and the biden admin told us crime was good and made up.

The Democrat response to COVId was to shut up and take the vaccine or lose your job.

I’m surprised she didn’t lose more with all the pain biden Harris caused.

georgeplusplus··on Trump wins presidency for second time
You’re missing a lot. War is not good and signing peace deals is not a bad thing.

Dems lost this election because they’ve become the party of warmongerers. You need to understand that played a big role.

georgeplusplus··on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't own your games
I don't give two ears of corn about your sassy ivory tower response. The fact I can resell my physical games and trade/share gives me all the proof i need on ownership.
georgeplusplus··on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't own your games
Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that.

I’m so pro physical media it’s ridiculous that people can’t be bothered to go in a store and get a copy. They will only care when they get locked out of their account and realize that when steam says you really don’t own your games that they weren’t bluffing.

georgeplusplus··on Fraud, so much fraud
Were the papers peer reviewed? How does something like this happen
georgeplusplus··on Fraud, so much fraud
Were their papers peer reviewed? How does something like this happen.
georgeplusplus··on OpenAI to become for-profit company
I never understood why people take non profit companies as more altruistic than for profit companies. The non profit doesnt mean no profits at all they still have to be profitable. It's just boils down to how the profits are distributed. There are plenty of sleezy institutions that are non profit like the NCAA.

Foundations and charitable organizations that pubically get their funding are a different story but I'm talking about non profit companies.

I even had one fellow say that the green bay packers were less corrupt than the other for profit nfl teams , which sounds ridiculous.

georgeplusplus··on Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse
I thought it did have an age limit, I think 45 comes to mind for some reason?
georgeplusplus··on Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair
>>>> that unregulated capitalism tries to steer humanity into.

What part of this economy seems unregulated to you? What a ridiculous notion talking about military contracts no less.

You couldn’t be more far off from finding the source of problem then just mindlessly throwing in a dig at capitalism, the way the government awards contract is anything but competitive or capitalistic

georgeplusplus··on Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics
Define easier. With whose capital would you like to build more houses with?

The people coming over the border are doing so to escape poverty and harsh conditions from their respective country. I don’t think telling them to go buy a new house is gonna work at current US prices, and if you want the government to provide these new houses, then you really need to consider what the effect would be on inflation housing 9 million people at the current housing market would be.

georgeplusplus··on Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics
The people that has crossed the border are seeking asylum and have been estimated to be in 9 million and probably has something significant to do with the 90% more hispanic population growth since it’s predominantly Latinos crossing.

You don’t think that many people coming into the country has an impact on housing and rent prices?

georgeplusplus··on Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics
Has limiting the amount of asylum seekers or people coming over the border to claim asylum crossed your mind?
georgeplusplus··on A search engine by and for the federal government
It's good too see I wish gov would make more in house solutions instead of contacting it out.

At my department that's all we do. Farm it out to 365 or beltway defense companies

georgeplusplus··on The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations
that’s the governments in the EU deflecting blame and not admitting they messed up telling people to stay home, in some countries up to a year, and then paying those people to stay home (literally money printing) that it had no direct influence on inflation or wasa primary driver of it.

I mean you’d have to be completely stupid to believe that what they did had no impact on inflation.

georgeplusplus··on A search engine by and for the federal government
The gov usually contracts out its coding. Waa this made contractors under the federal gov or actual gov employees?
georgeplusplus··on Microsoft has serious questions to answer after the biggest IT outage in history
>>>It's because we collectively let it get worse

What would you suggest we do to make sure it doesn't get worse?

A large majority of the population probably has no idea the implications of this outage and what to do about it because most are tech deaf.

georgeplusplus··on TSMC rides AI demand to raise revenue forecast, says no to US joint venture
The Trump Admin has been very strong on china, I dont know how you came to the conclusion there will not be support for Taiwan.
georgeplusplus··on Why Mexico Is Poorer Than the US
The article for how much I could read until asking to subscribe blames the countries woes entirely on the USA and geography. No mention of Cartels, blatant corruption, and huge wealth gap.

No good discussion can come of such a blinded argument.

georgeplusplus··on Canada became a car theft capital of the world
First off your idea is entrapment and generally not tolerated in a free society. Secondly your idea would make sense if you were trying to actually catch criminals.

like many other large western cities, policing has become a political issue and are no longer allowed to police. They catch criminals and then release them to the streets hours later without charge.

Policing has become political in Left leaning cities.

georgeplusplus··on Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes
I believe how they try RICO cases would be a useful precedent.
georgeplusplus··on Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes
You need to actually prove the board and directors contributed to the criminal act to go after them or created the environment that enabled the lower level employees to act. Which I think they would attest to.

Unfortunately, You can't just blanket make CEOw responsible for every action of their employees. That would be insane.

Think of it like charging the top brass in the mafia, RICOs are hard to prove because getting the guy at the top is difficult.

georgeplusplus··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
Source?
georgeplusplus··on Pay for Lawyers Is So High People Are Comparing It to the NBA
I would guess that are paying for connections. Which when you are dealing with your freedom in criminal cases or in business. That can be worth a lot to you.

I wish there was a study done on lawyers to determine if there's some truth to it being beneficial but I imagine it would be hard to conduct.

georgeplusplus··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
If you have to resort to such an extreme scenario then the ruling probably is a good one.
georgeplusplus··on Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
I believe he was saying what else could that portion of the spectrum be used for, if not for FM radio?
georgeplusplus··on Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure
>>>Just cutting calories in can make you feel less able to do things, so you automatically cut back on exercise.

As someone who has dieted by cutting and counting calories. This wasn’t true, I didn’t have the energy for high intensity workouts sure but I did have the energy to walk a mile or two and the result is the same loss of calories as 2 mile run. Walking just takes a bit longer.

The important thing was drinking a lot of water or gassy things to feel full to quiet the urge to snack.

Also Deleting junk food, sodas , and beer completely from my pantry. Having coffee without cream, Replacing them with low calories snacks like carrots, celery, bananas.

I dropped 15 lbs fairly fast.

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