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Comment What a load of horseshit (Score 1) 365

Lost in all the fulminating about automation and big-tech tyranny is the fact that self-driving cars are an attempt to solve a very serious problem.

This jackass wants us to believe that corporations in 2024 do anything that isn't about making more money for their investors. I wonder how he feels about censoring the internet in the name of "protecting the children". Or does he only care about the things that pay him money?

Comment Re:Welp that's it (Score 1) 97

You don't say?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/0....

When Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft
  CEO in February 2014, the software company was mired in mediocrity. Its market cap was just over $300 billion.

A decade later, Microsoft’s valuation has swelled tenfold, to $3.06 trillion, making it the world’s most valuable public company, ahead of Apple

Comment Re:Nope, can't see any problems with this (Score 2) 27

getting an AI to actually write the function you have in your head is really hard and takes almost as many words in the prompt as characters in the resulting function.

This is not 100% true and really relies on the context of the code you're trying to write. If you're looking to write a straightforward function where the context is contained within the file you're writing the function in, then most AI assistants should have no issue with that. But the second you want to write a function that requires context from multiple sources in a project outside the current file, then you're going to start running into problems.

Comment Re:Apple doesn't get serious about a product (Score 1) 16

Yup, I recently interviewed at Apple for a job with their "synthetic data" group. They're looking for people to manage the thousands of CG assets they're using for machine learning purposes. They were pushing really hard to expedite the interview process too. I ultimately passed on the job because of having to commute down to SJ 3 times a week from SF.

Comment Re:He's right (Score 1) 176

The US doesn't subjugate anyone into any system. That's just absurdly untrue. For that matter neither does Russia (at least economically) nor China. Countries us the US dollar for international trade for a reason and it's not because the US forces anyone to. It's because it's a stable currency backed by the largest economy in the world with the largest military in the world.

Comment Re:He's right (Score 2) 176

Yeah, there is no currency that could possibly replace it. Yet people still want to act like the dollar is in danger somehow. Of course if another country arose as a dominant and stable power in the world it would challenge the dollar, that just makes sense. But that world isn't even on the horizon considering how China is way to insular and self-serving to ever play the role the US plays in the global market.

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