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Comment Re:How far away is engineering break even? (Score 1) 124

It really depends.

Humanity generally avoids proactive intelligence and when we don't, we rarely execute said intelligence in the most foolish manor.

We are a reactive species. If we see a meteor barreling through space to destroy earth, we we'll invest all human resources toward building massive rockets to move earth almost completely out of the way. This impressive human achievement occurs moments before someone realizes the meteor was just a bug on the telescope lens.

I predict we'll become far more skilled with carbon capture quite rapidly. Anyone who has visited major cities in China recently knows that at least until we learn that it's causing drastic harm some other way, it seems to work.

I wonder if a coal plant can produce enough energy to power enough devices to leave the planet cleaner than before coal extraction began ... Who knows?

Eventually, I believe we'll be extinct from other free market related issues than global warming.

We'll run out of sand (happening much too quickly).
We'll power fusion reactors using coal because it will be our only reliable source of helium.
We'll consume all elemental metals by producing alloys and burn almost all other resources to extract pure metals through recovery methods
We'll turn all arable soil to dust by over fertilizing it
We'll cause mass lethargy by finding EV battery explosions numb the minds of people far worse than lead ever had and we just give up.

We are about to turn India into the next bastion of mass producing useless shit in the name of capitalism. Slavers like Modi will burn his own people as fuel to make money and if 50 million poor Indian people die from toxic air inhalation per year, he'll market it as a reduction of poverty. I will bet my life and the health of my children that the additional manufacturing capacity India will provide will almost entirely be dedicated to over production of items of no profit to the human species. Nearly everything will be products that simple create jobs and money. 99% or more will be landfill in 10 years. And if India ever becomes a developed nation, Africa or South America will be next.

Comment Re:Nightshade is as much garbage as their previous (Score 1) 25

I honestly don't think there are any image alterations not visible to the human eye that could possibly have an effect on convolutional neural networks. They just don't work like that. But, if they did find something that worked, as you mentioned, it's trivial to bypass

Comment Re:"The U.S. doubts" -- I doubt it. (Score 1) 54

Yeh, you caught the eye of someone who believes Biden and Trump should be jailed for gross negligence.

The curbs, tariffs, etc... have convinced the entire world that we need alternative sources for everything American. We were all happy buying American until Trump weaponized US tech against a friend. It was a short sited short term solution with massive repercussions.

The thing Trump and Biden missed is that they convinced us all to look more closely at Chinese tech since the US has publicly declared it as either competitive to US tech or good enough. These sanctions on China have proven that Chinese tech is a better long term gamble than US tech because the US has to forcefully slow China down for the US to keep their lead and we keep learning China is responding by accelerating their efforts. As such, China passing the US is inevitable, Trump and Biden and the GOP government especially are selling this. The US has simply given up trying and are resorting to protectionism to delay the inevitable.

Comment Re:No Android Auto = No Sale (Score 1) 164

More than just screen.

BMW wants me to buy a new car for AirPlay support when replacing two parts they could charge me $2000 for would add it. If I waited two weeks to buy my car, it would have been there.

That among a multitude of reasons makes me distrust car companies who existed before the connected car era.

That said, GM had to recall all cruise taxus to perform software updates. Would you trust GM with computers when they can't even remote update their cars?

Comment Re:Next stops: Mexico and Brazil (Score 1) 11

Mexico is a problem.

If you visit places like Cancun and walk into the surrounding areas, you see why business in Mexico is a problem. Rather than focusing on human development and elevating the people, Mexico protects their business owners. The only ray of beauty in the shanty towns are often churches and sports fields. The schools look like they should be boarded up.

India is far worse. The government bare recognizes Dalits as humans and probably wouldn't reset the "no injuries in 509 days" counter if a Dalit bleed out from a machinery accident.

What makes India better is that many of us like Mexicans and care when they are mistreated. India is another planet and isn't even a real place.

Comment Threads is still running? (Score 1) 11

Twitter is a platform for sharing information of no value by presenting only enough text to be useless. Like modern headlines that say some nonsense to sucker you.

I check facebook several times a week because that's what old people do. We read the obituaries, listen to other old people rant about things even if we don't care about the person or topic. We also love the family posts like "great niece took first steps"

I'm not sure if Meta has a platform for under-40, but I doubt old people are really care

Comment Re:I remember (Score 1) 177

They still do. Just not on US soil.

The US struggles with nuclear because only a limited number of companies are able to find the right back rooms to grease the right palms to build such devices. And frankly, those companies lack the technical skills to do such things. And worse, they want the government to pay for them to lobby for more money to maybe someday build outdated and unsafe reactors

Comment No value in this cert (Score 1) 4

Rust needs better learning resources. It's awkward enough for traditional programmers that it simply ends up on the "I'll learn it someday" stack. A single video series where a skilled developer simply records writing a calculator and another with maybe a tool which allows modifying Jason from a script (like jq) and it would be enough to convert MANY developers.

Then there's the cert.

Rust is not a language where testing language proficiency matters. Absolutely any task I would consider needing a rust developer for, I would assume such a developer could teach themself rust as needed.

A Rust cert would never test whether the developer knows how to program, only whether they could code in Rust.

Comment DOA (Score 3, Insightful) 25

MagicLeap failed for many reasons.

Foremost among them was that it lacked developer support.

Meta fell flat because it's VR first.

Vision Pro has succeeded far more than any predecessors because it started as a utility that focusses first on adding value to existing tasks. They also made it work with the entire apps store. And the 3D and AR stuff is just a value add.

This headset starts its journey by trying to imagine "there must be a use for this! I'm sure if you buy it and spend lots of money on development, you might find a use"

AR glasses are a mobile accessory.

If you make an affordable set of AR glasses, provide useful utility like a clock, telephone notification and telephone screen mirroring, you have a product people will actually want to use. Add the ability to use a remote computer desktop and you're making progress.

If you make AR or VR glasses and expect people to pay a lot of money for novelty without utility, you don't have a product.

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