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Comment Re:Sort of true, but quality also matters (Score 1) 310

But he's using this as an argument as to why Quantumania didn't make money at the box office. That I would argue, is false - simply put it was a bad movie.

Based on the previews, I was leery to see that movie in theaters. So I waited until it was streaming. That was a good call for me. However, I did see the last GotG in theaters and loved it, and was glad I didn't wait until it streams.

In a similar vein I waited for the latest Avatar to stream, and could only get through 1/2 of it before I gave up on it and walked away (and I was also streaming it in 1/2 segments because I couldn't stomach it).

then just need to be done with quality - like Andor.

You may have liked Andor, but I thought it was drier than 3 day old toast. I barely made it through the complete series, and am not even going to bother with season 2.

Comment Re:Ghost Guns (Score 1) 462

Clearly, public safety and crime reduction needs to come from a different angle than how we address it now.

The real problem is a society that accepts uncontrolled violence as a way to "solve" problems. This isn't limited to just guns. There are innumerable videos on the interwebs that show road rage incidents escalating from a simple raised middle finger to deliberately running someone off the road. But there also have been a slew of recent road rage incidents whereby someone shoots at someone else just because they looked at them wrong.

Comment Re:Redundant options (Score 3, Insightful) 37

“No” and “I don’t do any programming” amount to the same thing in this context: not using AI for programming.

IMHO not really. You seem to be conflating programmers and non-programmers.

a) Yes - I program and I use AI tools
b) No - I program and I don't use AI tools
c) I don't do any programming - I don't program, and by definition I don't use AI tools for programming.

What would have been more interesting, would have been to provide a fourth option so that the questions become:
a) I program and use AI tools
b) I program and don't use AI tools
c) I don't program and use AI tools
d) I don't program and don't use AI tools.
e) Cowboy Neal is my AI tool

But this is /., so bitching about polls is a tradition.

Comment Re:What is the draw for online gambling and casino (Score 1) 51

You are basically throwing your money at random number generators and vending machines that don't sell anything. If it is a game of skill I can kind of understand, but it rarely is.

How is this any different from the estimated 80% of people in the US who play the lottery? It's exactly the same concept of thowing money at a random number generator.

Comment Re:Guessing they don't get much neutral tv (Score 5, Interesting) 177

Something like 20 years ago I watched a TV documentary about the state of Russian/Soviet nuclear things (probably on European cultural channel Arte). One old guy interviewed concluded the documentary with something like: "they (Russian military) are so uneducated (or incompetent), if a nuclear reactor parts appeared in front of their home door, they'd just shrug their shoulders and walk over it." It could have been just badmouthing but experience showed he was right.

Back in '93(?) I was working in a steel mill in Magnitogorsk, in Siberia. There was a digital display in the in center of town that showed the time, the temperature, and .. the radiation count. While I was there, there was a nuclear accident somewhere near Chelyabinsk (about 100 miles NE of us). We only found out from people back in the West telling us. It wasn't mentioned on any of the local news.

Given the state of their steel mills at the time I wouldn't be surprised about the quality of their nuke programs.

Comment Deliberately ignoring the underlying problem (Score 2) 22

Many U.S. lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to ban the popular Chinese-owned social media app, alleging the app could be used for data collection, content censorship and harm to children's mental health.

Well, if you had robust data protection laws, then that would be a good first step. But of course the U.S. lawmakers apparently don't seem to understand that aspect.

Comment Re: Physical work (Score 1) 65

I doubt that ChatGP is going to be able to look at a set or requirements and say, "you don't want to do that", or even point out that there are missing requirements, or that the requirements are just plain wrong. Sure, given enough input it could do that for projects that are similar, but every job I work on is custom.

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