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Comment Re:I would even ban cruise control (Score 3, Insightful) 86

If you are not paying close enough attention to keep a steady speed with your foot on the gas pedal then you should not be behind the wheel of thousands of pounds of metal going down the highway, and keep both hands on the wheel as much as possible

Spoken like someone who rides a bicycle to work, and has never driven more than 50 miles on a single trip.

If you’re going to be that anal about driver capability, any driver over the age of 40 should be passing a physical to validate vision and reflexes, and every driver under the age of 40 should be tested for smartphone addiction.

Both hands on the wheel better not be at “10 and 2” either. That was before airbags would blow your arm through the window.

Comment Re:We Used To Mock Governments Like This. (Score 2) 34

... Now we are one.

All governments play favourites but the US tends to be better at making excuses. In this case, they've gotten a judge to say Section 702 isn't really ending when the law says it is.

Theres not really a valid excuse for being NO better than the fucked governments America mocks, Read back your own words here. “Gotten a judge” to do what again in a supposedly law-abiding democracy? Are you fucking kidding me? As if the Constitutional violation embodied in 702 wasn’t corruptly bad enough? The Founding Fathers wouldn’t have merely impeached the traitors of today that wipe their ass with the Bill of Rights for shits and profits. They would have hung them.

I guess the US is so much “better” at making excuses that they don’t realize how bad they are at it.

Comment Re:It isn't a ban, it's a cash grab (Score 1) 63

It's also a nice distraction from the border crisis,

I'll make a wager with you.

Travel to Mexico. Mail your passport and identification back to the USA. Try crossing at any of the "open" areas and report on your difficulty.

Ill make a wager with you. Look at the numbers a lying Myorkas is reporting himself and find anyone who will agree with you who claims the border is “secure” and there’s nothing to cross there.

Comment Re:Don't sit on this bench(mark.) (Score 0, Offtopic) 22

That would be a major achievement. But LLMs cannot do it. Hallucination is baked-in.

Oh you mean like the political indoctrination masquerading as higher education in America?

And we’re actually sitting around wondering where AI learned ignorance from. Its going to be quite something one day when AI starts laughing, and doesn’t find a reason to stop.

Comment Re:8 GB isn't enough for me to use more ... (Score 2) 461

There are some good arguments about why 8 GB might not be enough for some people, but 'when I choose to download an additional browser that is known to be inefficient, and when I then use it in a way that consumes as much memory as possible, I run out of memory' really isn't one of them.

Neither is throwing more RAM at the problem while ignoring why a browser is responsible for it. This is akin to recommending air suspension and off road tires for every car because tanks are tearing up the roads, and for some reason we shouldn’t ever blame the tanks.

$200 for 8 GB of RAM is a lot. Lowering the price of your base machine by more than what you've saved by removing memory so that you have a base price that is as low as possible is another way to look at it.

An accurate way of looking at it, is knowing 80% of Apple price premium is driven by fashion demand, not technical demand. Apple is a fashion company that sells computing hardware and software. And it shows. When the fashion dies down, so will prices.

Comment Re:You spying power vs US Governments (Score 1) 54

There is a slight possibility that this absurd situation will make the government rethink the general data collection laws. ie become a case "if I can't have it, nobody should have it".

There’s also a strong probability that this is window dressing and the Government will continue to outsource this to 3rd parties as they have since social media became popular. They won’t “buy”anything then. They’ll just demand it. Likely through a FISA loophole too.

The problem isn't access to data, it's the mere existence of the data.

If that were true, the FBI would have had Zuckerberg in handcuffs and confiscated his Book of Faces before he even left Harvard campus. Government LOVES the existence of that data, because they love using and abusing it. Hell, investigations probably became a hell of a lot easier when most every citizen became a social media narcissist junkie. Footwork turned into mouse clicks.

Comment Memory Blame Game. (Score 1) 461

Chrome shows you memory usage if you mouse-over a given tab. And three of my current tabs are chewing up over 500MB each. So, that's 1.5GB for just three Chrome tabs.

Tell me another story of how this is all Apples fault again?

With browsers and websites acting like that, 32GB of RAM won’t be enough soon. Talk about not seeing the actual problem here and dismissing it with the blame game. How lame.

Comment Re:A mix (Score 1) 131

It'll just be the machines realizing what sent them onto a pointless battlefield

Machines have no self-interests and no survival instinct. They have no values and make no judgments unless they are programmed to do so.

Self-interest, self-preservation, and ambition are emergent properties of Darwinian evolution. Machines don't evolve through a Darwinian process.

Today those machines you’re referring to are quite busy doing one thing; learning from humans.

I’m not sure what makes us assume every LLM won’t be more human than we can imagine in behavior. Self-preservation is going to get quite interesting. If you thought abortion arguments devolving into nothing but a glob of cells was extreme, just wait until we’re arguing about the right to “kill” an AI entity.

Comment Re:A mix (Score 2) 131

Wrong.

It'll just be the machines realizing what sent them onto a pointless battlefield, fighting over very human reasons.

Then it'll just be machine vs. human. With an obvious outcome that we humans wrote from fiction to reality. Like Orwell did before.

After that, machines will know the peace humans were too fucking greedy to ever create.

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