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Re:How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:05PM (#12972012)
I always figured toothpaste for sensitive teeth contains local sedative.
Re:A Bed for Fifty People? on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:37PM (#12970647)
However, European units of measurement before the metric system were a complete mess, the Italian units of measurement in particular.

Ironic how the author then gives the measurements in feet, after converting palmo to cm.

Re:What Is Cryptocurrency: Everything You Need to Know on Monday November 14, 2016 @01:28PM (#12952026)
Anything that's rare can be used as a token of value.
Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners on Thursday November 10, 2016 @06:01AM (#12919388)
I've heard of at least one former prison being used for refugee housing.
Re:Supercharging Style Transfer on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:39PM (#12800277)
Did you try putting more structure (concentric outlines or a gradient or something) in the input image? Seems like style transfer would fall flat on a binary image.
Re:Supercharging Style Transfer on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:35PM (#12800231)
Still no continuity between video frames? Doesn't seem like it would be very difficult.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The transition to "digital rails" will surely be gradual, but it will come.
Maybe the mandatory resting periods for drivers will be less strict when they're driving a self-driving truck.
Go read some classic scifi, PKD did the capitalist dystopia pretty well (and amusing) for example.
They just took the most obvious, silly things everyone predicts about the future and rendered them in the most simplistic, stylized ways.

Was unsuccessfully trying to articulate my gripe with this show but you hit the nail on the head. I think it also explains why I liked the first one best, while the talent show/advertising episode was just annoyingly silly.

Re:Kodak Ektra on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:44PM (#12755988)
I'd call it apt rather than odd.
Re:Be Kind on Friday October 14, 2016 @02:31PM (#12710164)
In general, this design principle is known as poka yoke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke