Comment Re:MAGA self own (Score 1) 90
So you missed the part that the book/paper/presentation was authored by a woman, then?
Comment Re:what's the most corrupt president ever up to? (Score 0) 18
Trump appreciates you donating him permanent space in your thoughts.
Comment It'll never stop (Score 3, Informative) 18
...until the punishment is terrifying.
Simple as that.
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Long held to be a bastion of 'old tech' linux advocates and crusty DOS command-line devotees, they were widely representative of the cutting edge of the golden age of desktops and still regarded highly for their knowledge of kernel lore and deep protocols fundamental to modern computing. Fading in relevance since its heyday of the 1990s and 2000s, conventional wisdom would still have suggested this should have been the last bastion to fall to the idea of letting LLMs "do the coding for you", but Slashdot admins, alert for commercial opportunities (on a site that remains relatively ad free), clearly have a different opinion. "Our users need to understand what an opportunity this was for us" they are imagined to have said, "there's a TON of cash sloshing around the gigantic shamconomy of OpenAI, NVidia, and ChatGPT — why can't some of it splash our way? As they say: 'carpe pecuniam'!."
Long held to be a bastion of 'old tech' linux advocates and crusty DOS command-line devotees, they were widely representative of the cutting edge of the golden age of desktops and still regarded highly for their knowledge of kernel lore and deep protocols fundamental to modern computing. Fading in relevance since its heyday of the 1990s and 2000s, conventional wisdom would still have suggested this should have been the last bastion to fall to the idea of letting LLMs "do the coding for you", but Slashdot admins, alert for commercial opportunities (on a site that remains relatively ad free), clearly have a different opinion. "Our users need to understand what an opportunity this was for us" they are imagined to have said, "there's a TON of cash sloshing around the gigantic shamconomy of OpenAI, NVidia, and ChatGPT — why can't some of it splash our way? As they say: 'carpe pecuniam'!."
Comment Feminization is the issue (Score 1, Informative) 90
Most HR personnel are women, and some might assert this is the problem, they are the vanguard of the overwhelming feminization of workplaces.
https://www.compactmag.com/art...
"...Everything you think of as âoewokenessâ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently.
She presented it a little more compactly (not a great public speaker, ngl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Influeners? (Score 2) 26
Back in my day we called 'em shills.
Comment Re: All I can say is duh! (Score 0) 83
My, we are an aggressively stupid dipshit today.
The only thing that meaningfully matters to a cargo ship is size.
Vessels are already slow sailing to artificially constrain bandwidth and prop up rates, and have been since COVID.
Nobody on earth is trying to build FASTER cargo ships, and haven't for 50 years. Jesus Christ. If only slashdot had a "doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about" filter.
Comment Re: All I can say is duh! (Score 1) 83
Well, no, there's no law against shipping single containers at a time either. It just means a banana costs $100,000.
We have an entire thread here where you have ecological doomsayers are telling the world's most efficient transport industry how they can do things better. Sure.
Comment Re: All I can say is duh! (Score 3, Informative) 83
Half the size? By what math?
It can carry 5300t. That's 215x 20t containers.
The largest container ships today are in the 23000 teu range which even if we assume they can't all max out at 20t... Let's assume 10t.... Is still 230,000t or 43x larger.
Comment Of course (Score 4, Insightful) 92
Something which makes it easier and more convenient for people to file taxes cannot be tolerated.
Whatever it takes, you will pay. That is their goal.
Comment Re:Corporations have no social responsibility. (Score 1) 92
I genuinely don't understand why slashdots downvote mafia attacked my former post as troll. Unless I miss my guess I have a fair couple of stalkers that just downvote every post I make, and then pepper my comments with bottish AC replies about Trump and No Kings.
Anyway, to your point, if you haven't seen it, I offer for your amusement something relative to your comment from the great Trevor Moore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re:full-size electric pickup (Score 1) 180
"More people need to spend more time trying to enjoy their own lives instead of obsessing over what other people are doing."
Well jesus christ man, if we can't spend our idle hours scolding other people for what they wear/do/drive/eat/believe, what's the fucking point of social media even FOR then?
Comment Re:That is because (Score 1) 120
Well yes, if we radically change the rules about how we measure things, we can successfully re-apportion blame to the US, the inventor of slavery, war, and all things bad.
Congrats!
Comment Re:Shouldn't have cut the cybersecurity office (Score 1) 26
Naw. Somehow, this will be Obama or Hillary's fault.
Comment Re:Corporations have no social responsibility. (Score 2, Interesting) 92
Honestly, the problem was Co. v. Riggs (203 U.S. 243 (1906)) that established corporations be treated legally like people.
The moment this happened it was the beginning of the exoneration of c-suites from the consequences of their actions. I suspect that if these individuals' freedom and wealth were liable for the consequences of their choices, the subsequent century would have played out rather differently.
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