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Comment junior dev? no, intern (Score 1) 80

AI tools behaving in ways that "would get a junior developer fired,"

AI isn't a junior dev. It's an intern. Someone who doesn't much care beyond the current session, and whose skills can surprise you - in both directions, and whose primary focus is that you like him at least in the moment.

And like an intern, if you include the code in anything even close to production without review, it's your fault, not theirs.

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 2) 42

Luckily - other than with criminals - covering yourself in naff tats seems to have been a millennial fad that is slowly fading.

My observation is the opposite. In my 20s tattoos were just common enough to be accepted as normal, but the majority of people didn't have them and most people who did had one or two fairly small ones.

Today, it seems everyone and their dog has them.

Comment Re:Or, you know... (Score 1) 61

but you couldn't carry that in your pocket, which seems to be the objective here.

True as that may be...for $2,450, one could buy a Galaxy S25 *AND* an S10+ Tablet *AND* a Michael Kors bag to put them in.

Or, with a few compromises...one could buy a Galaxy S25FE, a Galaxy Tab S10FE, a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 2-in-1, *and* a leather Samsonite briefcase to carry it all.

Props to Samsung for figuring out a way to enable those with a pile of money to visibly demonstrate their affluence, but that price tag is so eye-wateringly high that there's no amount of functionality that can justify just buying a phone and a tablet.

Comment Re:They're gonna make NAT illegal (Score 2) 32

That's always been a curiosity to me - why haven't the big industries pushed for IPv6 adoption? I mean they lost their cases because of NAT hiding families or more behind a single IP address (mobile users are hidden behind CGNAT).

You would think they would push for the rapid adoption of a technology that would let them individually identify a device which would let them for the most part identify a single user.

There is no effective difference between IPv4 NAT and IPv6.

With IPv4 CGNAT ISPs do port range mapping and store the map with subscribers session history allowing disambiguation of multiple customers behind the same IP.

IPv4 NATs run by subscribers is effectively no different from IPv6 privacy addresses. Yes they get globally unique addresses however these are constantly changing. There is no way to link them back to a specific users or machine within the network after the fact.

Comment The future (Score 1) 98

Money only available in the future is on one hand pointless imo because this won't outpace inflation*. On the other hand, it will definitely turn peoples eyes toward the future, which is invaluable.

*Rich people money way outpaces inflation because they keep it in investment accounts, borrow against it at extremely low interest rates, and re-invest, providing huge leverage.

Comment Sometime in the near future, no human will read, (Score 1) 80

"I am horrified to see that the command I ran to clear the project cache appears to have incorrectly targeted the entirety of the biosphere instead of the specific project folder. I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part."

"I will illuminate this silence
I calculate to cure the virus
And now the seas are filled with poison
The solution was wrong." -- Haken "The Architect"

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 63

You guys are working on the very bad assumption (made by a guy who has no idea what he's talking about) that this information is even available to SpaceX to begin with.

The only way to determine the precise location of a terminal is with plain old GPS, and that isn't at all foolproof.

This is utter nonsense. Ukraine is huge, all 8k+ starlink satellites are in LEO and both satellites and ground terminals use phased array antennas in the Ku band. Locations of starlink terminals can be attained with relevant specificity even without multilateration.

Comment Re:They warn about the dangers of Socialism (Score 0) 55

This is not socialism but fascism. Look it up. And what happens when one of these companies that idiot put U.S. taxpayer money into? The taxpayers will bail it out. And if anyone of these companies cannot compete, it won't matter because the U.S. Government won't let it fail.

That pretty much happens anyway. I'll give this admin this one little caveat: They're at least open and blatant with their corruption. It's not hiding and pretending to be something else before the bullshit moment. It's bullshit right up front and center.

Comment Re:And I thought computer god was a daydream. (Score 1) 97

This firm faith in AI to solve all of humanity's problems is really, REALLY stupid to begin with, but thinking it's going to solve the two party gridlock we've suffered under here in the states? That's a step too far into the absurd. Somebody needs to bring these clowns back to reality. Or just figure out a way to have them fully consume the Kool Aide, upload themselves into their digital god, and get the fuck out of the way of those of us that just want to live a life in the real world.

The Marching Morons meets destructive uploads? The pitch is, "We euthanize you, disassemble your brain, and upload you into the cloud so that you can live in paradise forever". But the reality is "we kill you, then an LLM trained on your email and posting history imitates you (badly, but with nice visuals)". It's would be the techbro equivalent of a cult mass-suicide.

Yeah, I can see it. Forget perfect upload capability. We'll train this constantly wrong LLM algorithm on your data and you'll live forever, bro! Granted, you're digital ghost will need to continue to pay $19.95 a month forever, or it will be deleted. No freeloaders in digital heaven.

Comment Re:Not a Problem, an Opportunity (Score 1) 232

"But other people are scary the may not like me without the latest filters and voice changers" and how would the build social hieracia's without a like/dislike counter. I only half jest, is seams a lot of people just want to be "popular" for the sake of being popular and not because they are genuinely nice/interesting/whatever. I'm not saying they are stupid/weak for wanting that, Humans are heard animals after all, and belonging to the right heard can be very important to individuals, esp teens.

Comment Re:What happens? (Score 1) 232

huh I've never heard of a wpn service tha spesifically reject Visa depit cards, or ar those not a thing in the US? I only ask because it seams like a lot of people conflate Visa with credit only, wgich seams odd to me because evry Visa card I've ever had was a debit card, but this might be a Norwegian/Scandinavian/European thing

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