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Comment Re:AI code = Public Domain (Score 1) 45

by phantomfive on Monday November 17, 2025 @08:57AM (#65800099) Attached to: How Should the Linux Kernel Handle AI-Generated Contributions?

That is how it's been, Those AI tools were trained on open source/public domain content, so any contribution by AI tools must be considered released under public domain. It does not get simpler than that, and current US copyright law has already indicated that any AI created works are not eligible for copyright

That's not the question.

The question is whether the AI-produced code is a derivative of existing code, and the answer is still not resolved.

In some cases, the answer is a clear YES, because the code is a direct copy of something written by someone else. If something like that ends up in the kernel, it will have to be removed when someone notices.

Comment Re:Can we get (Score 1) 36

by phantomfive on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:30AM (#65799925) Attached to: Apple Speeds Planning for Replacing CEO Tim Cook Next Year

That is a good approach, but Walmart success shows that it's not the only approach. It is also possible to make a load of money by selling everything. (See also: Procter and Gamble).

Steve Jobs chose the right solution for Apple. It's not the right solution for every company, or all the time.

Comment Re: ... generate 100,000 gigawatts a year. (Score 1) 88

by phantomfive on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:05AM (#65799789) Attached to: More Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space

How does Elon make money on the swings?

Comment Re:\o/ (Score 1) 28

by phantomfive on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:34AM (#65798715) Attached to: Fear Drives the AI 'Cold War' Between America and China

The "cold war" phrase has been hitting the think tank and media circuits. here is another example

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 28

by phantomfive on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:22AM (#65798703) Attached to: Fear Drives the AI 'Cold War' Between America and China

especially with how tepid the results are for the money poured in, it seems much more the case that we are seeing a lot of nakedly cynical playing of the 'give us what we want, lest the chinese win' by people who are otherwise on deeply shaky ground

I'm ok with it as long as I don't have to bail it out if it fails.

Comment Re:Flying Car? (Score 1) 38

by phantomfive on Sunday November 16, 2025 @02:08AM (#65798401) Attached to: World's First Flying Car Factory Begins Production In China

It's like the hover tank in Sargent Bilko. Not about being practical, just about if you can get the contract. Human nature is the same everywhere.

Comment Re:Higher Costs (Score 5, Insightful) 97

by phantomfive on Saturday November 15, 2025 @06:56AM (#65797207) Attached to: GM Wants Parts Makers To Pull Supply Chains From China

Tariffs are a bad thing from a pure economic perspective. They introduce inefficiencies, and make things more expensive. This is a basic concept of macroeconomics.

However, some things are more important than making the most money. Among them, national defense. In America, both parties have decided they don't want to work with China anymore, for varying reasons of ideology, ethics, and self defense. And they have decided that is more important to them than economic efficiencies.

Comment Re:Flying Car? (Score 1) 38

by phantomfive on Saturday November 15, 2025 @12:10AM (#65796944) Attached to: World's First Flying Car Factory Begins Production In China

It's likely intended for military purposes (or more precisely, an attempt to get funding to build them for military purposes).

Comment Re:Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score 1) 45

by phantomfive on Thursday November 13, 2025 @06:28AM (#65792752) Attached to: Visual Studio 2026 Released

C is another static language, so the IDE can give you a good autocomplete without relying on AI. Why haven't you switched to Rust? I hear it's better at everything.

Comment Re:Real reason (Score 1) 179

by phantomfive on Thursday November 13, 2025 @06:25AM (#65792746) Attached to: China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds

. But the population is not currently declining. In fact China's population is projected to increase, not decline.

Why do you think that?

Comment Re:Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score 1) 45

by phantomfive on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @06:19AM (#65789858) Attached to: Visual Studio 2026 Released

Visual Studio and Eclipse are typically used for statically typed languages (C# and Java), so you get IDE magic like automatic refactors, renaming, jump to definition, etc. It's nice, and helps you program faster.

However, in the real world most people use dynamic languages like Python, which loses all that IDE magic (AI can kind of help here). btw IntelliJ has been more popular than Eclipse among Java programmers for more than a decade now.

The conclusion is that most programmers don't care about programming more quickly/efficiently.

Comment Re:Real reason (Score 1) 179

by phantomfive on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @05:52AM (#65789842) Attached to: China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds

I'm now not even sure what your point is. The population decline was reported in multiple places, if you don't like Al Jazeera, then feel free to find a different source.

Comment Re:Every Bubble Pops (Score 1) 69

by phantomfive on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:01AM (#65789732) Attached to: AI's $5 Trillion Cost Needs Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says

I assume strong AI is possible at any time, as soon as the algorithm is figured out.

Comment Re:The headline is wrong (Score 1) 70

by phantomfive on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:20AM (#65789682) Attached to: China's New Scientist Visa is a 'Serious Bid' For the World's Top Talent

You can't call something a "serious bid for top talent" when you don't even know what the terms are. Applications haven't opened, and the details about eligibility haven't been released. It's premature to make conclusions about what they are trying to do (let along what they will do) without those details.

Comment Re: Let them have them (Score 1) 70

by phantomfive on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:16AM (#65789678) Attached to: China's New Scientist Visa is a 'Serious Bid' For the World's Top Talent

The Soviet Union never even pretended to be communist. They claimed they were socialist, and working towards communism. But they were quite aware they hadn't achieved it yet.

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