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Comment Re:Hugs my 2000s car... (Score 1) 140

Honda is showing the beginning of the end by selling cars not designed by them, so maybe you won't have to wait too long for their come-uppance. Their only full sized EV is a GM product and they didn't even bother making any interior changes so it doesn't even look or feel like a Honda inside. It sounds like this can only be an improvement at this point.

It's so weird given that Honda was the undisputed champ of making a good simple reliable car in the 1990s. How did they get here? Did they hire execs from Sony?

Comment Re:vast demand for AI (Score 1) 80

Oh yeah, Gemini is great!

I finally just had to block the AI search results on Google because they are so much worse than worthless every single time. The "citations" linked never say what Google claims they say. Every time I search for information on something I know about already I can see that Gemini doesn't know shit.

Comment Re:Can we please cut Russia off the entire Interne (Score 1) 45

Russia loves cutting cables, we should give them more of what they love... at home.

I'm sure they'd find a way to export their porn via other means, so nothing of value would be lost.

Actually, I'd miss ÐYоÐÐÐон-98 but I could live with it.

Yes, I know that isn't readable. I just don't care any more. Besides, there's no way to make it readable here.

Comment Re:3D printing wasn't the problem (Score 1) 70

CF-ABS is NOT like fiberglass at all. The CF is chopped into fine bits.

A part made with fiberglass which was somehow made with a resin that was as heat affected as ABS would have the exact same problem as the part that failed. The problem isn't the nature of the CF, the problem is that it can't do its job if the plastic melts.

Comment Re: Here we go (Score 1) 30

who started the October 7th war

History did not start October 7th. You are ignoring at least decades of history, if not millennia.

Hamas' charter actually CALLS for genocide and the destruction of Israel.

You mean of the nation murdering Palestinians and stealing their land since the 1940s? Yeah, self-defense is so horrible. Why don't you look at the comparative death toll sometime if you don't want to be a Zionist tool. Make sure you look at what it was on October 6th, you genocide-supporting clown.

Comment Re:There are a million reasons to not (Score 1) 30

I'm just wondering how far the parallels with IBM during the Nazi years go, IBM supplied the tools the Nazis needed to identify Jews for deportation and extermination.

The cooperation was not general knowledge because there was a veil of secrecy not penetrated until this millennium.

The trains running to Auschwitz were tracked by a special guarded IBM customer site facility at 22 Pawia in Krakow. The millions of punch cards the Nazis in Poland required were obtained exclusively from IBM, including one company print shop at 6 Rymarska Street across the street from the Warsaw Ghetto. The entire Polish subsidiary was overseen by an IBM administrative facility at 24 Kreuz in Warsaw.

The exact address and equipment arrays of the key IBM offices and customer sites in Nazi-occupied Poland have been discovered. But no one has ever been able to locate an IBM facility at, or even near, Auschwitz. Until now. Auschwitz chief archivist Piotr Setkiewicz finally pinpointed the first such IBM customer site.

The newly unearthed IBM customer site was a huge Hollerith Büro. It was situated in the I.G. Farben factory complex, housed in Barracks 18, next to German Civil Worker Camp 7, about two kilometers from Auschwitz III, also known as Monowitz Concentration Camp.

IBM's cooperation greatly enhanced the Nazis' ability to exterminate Jews and failing to hold them responsible for their exceptionally willing cooperation is a strong indictment against western society's worship of capitalism.

Comment Re:STOP, WAIT, PAUSE, or what? (Score 1) 55

I got ticketed for this same thing in Austin. Passing a school bus, no lights. As I was passing, they put on the yellow flashing lights. The red lights were not flashing and the stop sign was not extended, which I could tell because the stop sign is at the front of the bus. Then I was written a ticket for passing a bus with red lights flashing. This was before dashcams, but I also got the fuck out of that shithole state before I had to go to court about it, and I'm never going back. (I also did a warrant search in Travis county and there isn't one, even for FTA.)

I don't trust Waymo, but I trust cops even less, and I trust cops in Texas even less than that.

Comment this (Score 1) 40

That worked so well for Loki (do you remember them?). What Valve is doing is bringing Windows APIs to Linux

This is entirely the thing. Loki games can or at least could be coaxed to work on Linux with Loki_Compat libraries, but last time I tried to run Alpha Centauri for Linux even that wouldn't work — and I'm even still using X. But add to that, the Linux versions of games are frequently inferior. The Loki games are included in that, for example in AlphaC for Linux you cannot ctrl-shift-a automate formers only near their supporting base. Fast forward to a more modern game like Civ VI, and there's a huge slew of features and even leaders you can't get access to with the Linux version. Meanwhile, the Windows version runs better on Linux than it does on Windows.

I haven't heard the OS/2 thing, what's that about? I figure it failed because Microsoft was already doing "good enough" with Windows, plus NT had relatively meaningful security and OS/2 didn't.

Comment Re: Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbai (Score 1) 124

I'm in the UK, and I clearly remember a school textbook with drawn pictures of Trafalgar Square fully iced up. This would be early 80s.

I'm in the US, and I remember news articles about this idea. They passed quickly. If you wound up with a textbook with such ideas in it presented as anything other than a possibility which had been or could be researched, that is unfortunate, but it is not indicative of anything widespread.

Let's not deny that bad information has been given in the past.

Nobody is denying that at all. Nobody is even denying that there was a global cooling article fad. What was different about the global cooling scare from AGW's broad scientific consensus is that it didn't have broad scientific consensus.

Comment Re:Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbait (Score 1) 124

As far as I can tell, the "current serious effects" are always handwavy

Your lack of perception is irrelevant.

'look at all the people that die from heat!' (invariably after a hot week in summer; again routinely and repeatedly debunked by statistics that show 6-10x more people die from cold than heat

And now we see what it stems from, a total lack of logic. Run along now.

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