dhammabum - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Ok, now how about a car fir Humans? (Score 3, Insightful) 111

by dhammabum on Sunday September 17, 2023 @12:46AM (#63854458) Attached to: Munich Students Smashed the World Record For EV Distance On a Single Charge

An ant can jump off the Empire State building

Jump? It was pushed!

Joke aside, this is the consistent level of commentary now on /. Ignorant, myopic, presumptuous judgement. Yeah, sure - developments in F1 racing, space flight, warfare have no other potential applications. I do come for the few, excellent comments by experts in the topic but it is a slog.

Comment Re:Tesla hasn't "rsilvergun" anything (Score 0) 248

by dhammabum on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:00AM (#63849982) Attached to:

don't feed the trolls

Comment Re:that was fast (Score 1) 51

by dhammabum on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:25PM (#63823990) Attached to: Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories

The thing is, generating AI content is *incredibly* cheap while human generated content is *incredibly* expensive.

Not *incredibly* expensive, just a normal cost of publishing. You aren't comparing the actual situation. I think its important to recognise people working for wages is still the norm.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 76

by dhammabum on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:18PM (#63811000) Attached to: Australia Will Not Force Adult Websites To Bring In Age Verification Due To Privacy and Security Concerns

I remember Leisure Suit Larry used to ask 'adult' questions, like who is the president. My kids would ring me up at work to find out the answers (and not ask their mum).

Comment Re:Synthesis (Score 2) 57

by dhammabum on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:34AM (#63777040) Attached to: 'New York Times' Considers Legal Action Against OpenAI As Copyright Tensions Swirl

Copyright covers specific expression, not ideas.

Comment Re:Look at the bright side (Score 1) 30

by dhammabum on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:09AM (#63755182) Attached to: Popular Open-Source Project Moq Criticized For Quietly Collecting Data

Yes, there is also the overhead of managing the donations within a FOSS project - one, there can be too few people working on a project, and two, the purpose of a project can be just to scratch an itch. Handling money can be too much of a burden, though I have seen devs ask to be paid in cups of coffee.

Comment Re:What happens when you spend 100x more money? (Score 1) 124

by dhammabum on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:42PM (#63745882) Attached to: How an Apple AirTag Tracked Lost Luggage Much Better Than United

This can be solved w/o the airtag. What's missing is the traveler having that number and being able to look up its whereabouts themselves; the airline provides an API to be accessed by a webpage/app by users authenticated with an airline's website and with a current or recent flight. The app or website could be independent of any specific airline. As the parent suggested, the tag and number must be unique and permanently fixed to the luggage (with the user getting a copy then and there as it is registered), independent of any ticket.

Comment proprietary hardware (Score 1) 29

by dhammabum on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:35PM (#63724758) Attached to: Building a Better Server? Oxide Computer Ships Its First Rack

There have been a number of integrated server systems over the years. My problem is they are the sole source of the hardware. So you buy this $x000,000 system (or is it > 1,000,000, no pricing) and they go bust? Also, they don't look hugely power efficient - 400W/server.

Comment Re:Hubris (Score 3, Funny) 29

by dhammabum on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:56PM (#63724718) Attached to: Building a Better Server? Oxide Computer Ships Its First Rack

They are being self-deprecatingly ironic. Hence naming their debugger 'humility'

Comment Re:PRC? (Score 1) 31

by dhammabum on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:53PM (#63703312) Attached to: Chinese Billionaires Throw Weight Behind Private Sector Push

Trump didn't purge the opposition, but he sure purged the public service. William Barr and Christopher Kerr immediately come to mind. The process resulting in awful leaders was pretty similar.

Comment Re:Known side-effect of fine-tuning. (Score 1) 93

by dhammabum on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:32PM (#63703280) Attached to: Is ChatGPT Getting Worse?

Sure, but this is a maths question. My non-mathematician (and dumb) human resolution to 'is 17077 a prime number' is to try dividing it by each of the numbers up to 1/2 of 17077. It sounds like the model is relying on finding a literal statement that '17077 is a prime number' or that 17077 is in a list of prime numbers that it has read. If so, chatgpt is even worse than I thought.

Comment another technique (Score 0) 50

by dhammabum on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:05AM (#63687411) Attached to: New Tinnitus Therapy Can Quiet Torturous Ringing In the Ears

I always heard that banging your head hard against a brick wall 3-5 times works too.

Comment they are just protecting the Internet Archive (Score 2) 20

by dhammabum on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:01AM (#63687407) Attached to: Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool With DMCA Takedown

IA is acting on its duty to prevent the unauthorized downloading of copyright-protected books.

I think what is going on here is they are making a 'reasonable effort' to remove a tool that facilitates breaking DRM on books hosted on Internet Archive. Using this tool would directly break their Controlled Digital Lending system (which normally limits loans of IA ebooks to one person per copy), so they are being good actors in the copyright space.

However the DeDRM tool, on which this DeGourou is based, remains online as it is not written specifically to be used with the Internet Archive.

Comment Re:What does any of this even mean? (Score 1) 129

by dhammabum on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:58PM (#63678807) Attached to: Oracle Takes On Red Hat In Linux Code Fight

The operative part is "does affect a customer or ISV". You are sod out of luck otherwise.

Comment Re:Yes, I read TFA in ars and ElReg (Score 1) 48

by dhammabum on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:50PM (#63678793) Attached to: Amazon Claims It Isn't a 'Very Large Online Platform' To Evade EU Rules

You are good at shifting the point. Yes, I agree, the idea of equating free book distribution with "distribution of speech and information" borders on the far fetched in the colloquial sense, but the legal definition of VLOP in the act applies here. Amazon do 'distribute' user reviews which clearly is speech. Their complaint that they've been unfairly singled out is amusing. We all await the EU court's decision.

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