Comment Re:Why is this here? (Score 2) 54
I'm guessing the tech angle is that they are closing all their brick and mortar stores, and becoming an online-only retailer.
I'm guessing the tech angle is that they are closing all their brick and mortar stores, and becoming an online-only retailer.
Why pay for a FT human dev when AI can do it in mere seconds....
AI will sink a company faster than anything ever devised by humanity.
I meant to say "always".
...as to do so would make it a Bill of Attainder....
Congress has the Constitutional right to regulate interstate and international commerce. You are misunderstanding what a Bill of Attainder is. Congress saying that TikTok is violating U.S. commercial laws is not the same as saying that TikTok has committed a criminal offense that will be punished without judicial review.
That's right, nonexistent workers, unite!
AI hype will die down, as is already happening. People are starting to realize that the salesmen are hawking snake oil again.
...before their population tanks.
Don't believe the Media hype. China's population is not shrinking.
AI is like the jump from the Abacus to the Computer in the specific things it can be made to do. When used appropriately, it can be a powerful tool for specific tasks. However, those specific tasks need to be very well defined, much like the first computers that needed to be hardwired do perform specific calculations.
Unlike the computers of old, there is very little room for AI to be turned into a general purpose tool. It will aways require a human to define the parameters and review the results.
Why didn't this happen before now?
I'm guessing that it's because every so often, the guys who write the pump code retire. The new guys don't like the old guys' code, and rewrite it from scratch. All the lessons learned by the old guys are lost on the new guys, so the new code has to be patched year after year for decades in order to squeeze out all the bugs. Then the cycle repeats as the new guys become the old retired guys.
...but enough to pay for a dinner or some gas.
So you carry a couple hundred thousand on you at all times?
Doesn't sound like you've used Wayland in a few years.
Reread my posting. This was a few MONTHS ago, and was with a fresh install of Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. It's entirely possible that the problem was fixed, so I'll have no choice but to revisit it at some point, but it was an absolutely wretched introduction to Wayland.
Wayland is well into hammering out the last few tricky edge cases.
The last time I tried using Wayland some months ago, it was an unmitigated hot mess of a clusterfuck that made other clusterfucks jealous. It drew buttons on screen, but put the clickable rectangles in random, unmarked places. With multiple monitors, the random places could be on any random monitor at any random location. And that was just the start. I'm not going to rehash the problems here, but I was impressed at just how bad it was compared to X11.
It makes me wonder what other fundamental misadventures await.
Yay! You just have to love living in a predatory capitalist society.
Fast food places like Wendy's have what is called highly elastic demand. That means that demand for what Wendy's offers can easily go down if Wendy's behavior is unacceptable. Given that there are many alternative to Wendy's, people can vote with their credit cards.
Maybe this will motivate a few people to stop buying the poison that is fast food.
"Woman" is a word that refers to biological and trans females.
No, it absolutely does NOT. A woman is an adult human with XX chromosomes. A man is an adult human with XY chromosomes.
Not so fucking hard, was it?
You are apparently still grappling with it.
There is no such thing as a trans female or male. There are simply people surgically altered to appear (to varying degrees of success) as the opposite sex.
Public / Private keys absolutely ARE a solution to this problem.
I can see the Reason TV segment now:
"...and in order to deter car thieves, manufacturers started protecting access to their vehicles with cryptographic keys. When the vehicle's FOB sent the right key, access to that vehicle and all it's features was unlocked. That seemed like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
It turns out that car manufacturers, in order to simplify their tracking and maintenance, installed the same keys on all their vehicles. All it took was one determined computer hacker to find the private key in one vehicle's computer system, and car thefts skyrocketed beyond anything ever seen in the history of the automobile."
Everyone who wants to continue working remotely needs to come together and form small companies. Yes, this is a wand-waving proclamation, but acknowledging the need (and being able to say it out loud) is a necessary step. No employer is going to treat you right unless that employer is you.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.