Comment Send out a NASA intern to change the part (Score 1) 58
Ya cheap bastards
Comment The Fate of Windows (Score 2, Interesting) 188
MS is so disinterested in Windows that I believe they are slowly, very slowly, preparing for its UI layer to become a Linux desktop environment, which means they can abandon the underlying OS that they don't want to support, but still sell the desktop to OEMs.
Comment For the Worse (Score 5, Insightful) 86
Evey time Reddit gets a cash influx, the user experience gets forcibly worse. $50MM from Tencent: New Reddit happens. $60MM from Google for feeding the "AI": API rates skyrocket into fantasyland.
I expect the IPO (which is almost guanteed to tank) will lead to the end of old.reddit. At which point I am done, because new Reddit is the most user-hostile thing I have ever experienced that wasn't inside a Walmart.
Comment Re:quality and reliability. (Score 1) 41
Looks like they are jelly of Alexa's driving features and care more about upselling their AI in cars than selling consumer AI speakers.
I fully expect Google to sunset all their home automation eventually. It is what they do best.
Comment Re:For the full list... (Score 1) 41
Yep, never trust Google with your time or data.
Comment Re:Doesn't get basic facts right (Score 1) 47
Bard will argue with you if you tell it is wrong about some things.
Comment Re: Robotics (Score 2) 238
We still don't have a general purpose sewing robot. 90% of clothing is finished by hand.
Comment Re:Bye-Bye Bing (Score 1) 67
Oh and you can probably install "EEA version" by just setting your region to one of the nations within EEA during install
Approximately
Comment Re:That's crazy (Score 5, Informative) 135
Plants kept growing at most latitudes and almost everywhere at lower altitudes. Just not as fast for 15-20 years. Mammal species ate a lot of tubers and nuts from the trees, which spread seeds that exploded in diversity in the years after the dinosaurs.
Comment He should learn what FOSS licenses are about (Score 2) 84
Apparently he thinks FOSS licenses are about restricting rights to IP, but they're not.
FOSS licenses are about assuring authors always get the credit they deserve, then perhaps some say in how their product is used.
Jon Stewart's Apple TV Plus Show Ends, Reportedly Over Coverage of AI and China (theverge.com) 115
Shakrai writes: Multiple outlets are reporting that Apple TV Plus has cancelled Jon Stewart's popular show The Problem with Jon Stewart, reportedly over editorial disagreements with regards to planned stories on the People's Republic of China and AI. Fans and haters of Apple will both recall that Apple recently made changes to AirDrop, one of the few effective means Chinese dissidents and protesters had for exchanging information off-grid at scale, and will ask why Apple is apparently not only willing, but eager, to carry water for the PRC, overriding both human rights and practical business concerns in the process. "Apple approached Stewart directly and expressed its need for the host and his team to be 'aligned' with the company's views on topics discussed," reports The Verge, citing The Hollywood Reporter. "Rather than falling in line when Apple threatened to cancel the show, Stewart reportedly decided to walk."
Comment So why not... (Score 1) 43
Just add a merch store to the app?
Physical stores gives people a venue to complain about all the merch Netflix has cancelled.
Comment Re:clueless writer (Score 1) 206
Once some of the newer deeper wells are shut off it will take a lot of money to turn them back on.
Comment Re:There were three main reasons ... (Score 1) 46
We treat all Python code in the workbook as untrusted, so we execute it in a hypervisor-isolated container on Azure that does not have any outbound network access.
Then how does the processed data get back to the local machine?
Comment Re:That's a good thing (Score 0) 111
The Supreme Court operates without a code of ethics.
Why should anyone trust anything they say?
