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It's AI but a specific use case of AI: an android at home to take care of the housework. Cleaning my dishes, doing the laundry, vaccuming and putting stuff away where it belongs are obvious use cases. But also:

• Go through your fridge and throw away everything that has expired or gone bad.
• Take care of your cat while you're away on vacation.
• It's your personal fire fighter.
• It paints your house or does any kind of house maintenance.
• Let's say you're in the middle of playing a board game on your dinner table but need to put it away for the night. Ask the android to memorize everything and put it away. The next time your friends come around to play, it can place everything in exactly the same spot.

Possibilities are endless.

This is the key to so much. Worried about Nestlé monopolizing freshwater? With nuclear fusion we can just take any old seawater and remove the salt. Worried about the war with Russia? With nuclear fusion we can become independent of all gas from Russia and cut off one of their biggest income sources. Lots of special materials are expensive because electricity is expensive - with nuclear fusion electricity is practically free. Over time we can get rid of any coal plants etc. that produce CO2.

Or get better taste buds

I'm 100% convinced their internal testing is flawed and possibly suffers from confirmation bias. The strategy might work for a couple of years but in the long term they are killing their brand. Once people start migrating to other search engines Google will be beyond rescue.

Guess it's time to start thinking about Android and Chromecast alternatives because when Google becomes desperate they will turn everything they touch into shit.

It needs to be at least as easy as Windows to install and have good support.

Extra bonus points if they preinstall/bundle it on gaming PCs.

I'm thinking of file compression formats like Zip, LHA and ARJ, which would work particularly well if the image was not dithered and used run-length encoding (e.g. the PIC format of the Atari ST). The PNG format still uses the deflate algorithm which is essentially identical to the compression used by PKZip in 1991.

At the time when dithering was commonly used to achieve the illusion of more available colors, i.e. the 80s and the first half of the 90s.

For some reason I find glitching physics in games to be hilarious. This clip from AC4 had me wheezing.

It's really only helpful for formats that will be directly read by hardware (the video chip) and where the "compression" ratio (I would prefer the term quantization) needs to be fixed. For file compression, which was quite mature but CPU- and memory-intensive at the time, the dithering only makes it more difficult to compress further.

Compressed textures on modern GPUs actually use similar compression: a color palette followed by indexes into the palette. But that's done per 4x4 pixel block.

This.exe file including music and visuals is 4KB

Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It's baffling. This post is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.

How bad can it be, it's not like we're sharing state secrets