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Comment What they didn't say (Score 1, Interesting) 33

Notice they said absolutely nothing about using it to target keyword ads at you, build profiles about you to target you with ads, and whatever else they're doing with the data to push more bullshit ads on you. The only smart feature is to disable the account and use something else that respects your privacy.

Comment Re:just squeeze more juice from your customers (Score 2, Insightful) 51

Comment Re:just squeeze more juice from your customers (Score 2) 51

Sooner or later, we'll end up at the point where trying to maintain the ways of the past is a fruitless fight. Teachers' jobs are no longer going to be "to teach" - that that's inevitably getting taken over by AI (for economic reasons, but also because it's a one-on-one interaction with the student, with them having no fear of asking questions, and that at least at a pre-university level, it probably knows the material a lot better than the average teacher, who these days is often an ignorant gym coach or whatnot). Their jobs will be *to evaluate frequently* (how well does the student know things when they don't have access to AI tools?). The future of teachers - nostalgia aside - is as daily exam administrators, to make sure that students are actually doing their studies. Even if said exams were written by and will be graded by AI.

Comment Re:Stop blaming processing...it's the ingredients! (Score 1) 84

Things get murky when you process food (like bread) and add a preservative or something

The preservatives are in the flour. I've made bread with unbleached, organic, non preservative flour. The finished loaves kept for about a week before the mold set in. The unused flour, not much longer.

Never again. When my doctor told me I needed more greens in my diet, I didn't think he meant mold.

Comment Re:The law of betteidge says no (Score 1) 38

I'd rather just buy a healthy company ...

while the short seller takes a loss, having to either cover or exercise the options

Probably a good idea. Short selling and buying options are two different things. If you don't know how they work, best to stay away from them.

If you buy an option (put or call) you can just walk away from it, taking only the option purchase as a loss. (Selling options is a riskier undertaking.)

Comment Re:Can't Help But Think (Score 4, Informative) 23

JPEGXL really does everything webp does and so much more, and it's well thought out.

WebP isn't terrible; they are smaller than I would have guessed given that they have the container overhead, but there's no stunning argument for it. "Better than PNG for what we used PNG for." OK, true, but.

Google should just let AV1 be AV1 and focus on pushing HEVC out of the market with it. The real opponents of progress have left the image space and are mucking around with video and VR now. Google has the capability to do something about this and foster innovation.

Comment Re:It doesn't work at scale (Score 1) 34

Geothermal is already workable. Ask the people in Iceland where it accounts for over of the country's power generation. The reason it's not everywhere is that unless you live next to a volcano or other geological features that put out enough heat, there's no way to tap into it other than transmitting the power from those places. Making it even more efficient or increasing the output are certainly things we should do as well, but geothermal is already working now. I like it better than solar or wind because the power generated doesn't fluctuate like those others do and hence there's less reliance on batteries if the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.

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