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Comment Re: I gotta deal yas can't refuze (Score 1) 25

Thats the kinda money you offer when you don't plan on paying. Condolences in advance to the families of the developers who take that offer due to their unfortunate suicide in a month or two

If $100m in Meta stock options doesn't end up in the money these starving AI developers can probably get by on their $9k+ biweekly after tax regular compensation you daft anus weasel.

Comment Re: This is why (Score 3, Insightful) 54

The overwhelming crush of two bug reports a week for a critical piece of software used on nearly every server anywhere? I understand it's a volunteer project, but keep it in perspective.

This isn't even a tech problem, it's a damned contest and not enough volunteers problem. Charge an entry fee, FFS, a deposit. How about farm it out to the community, validate a winning entry and you get part of the winnings. We do this on Slashdot for free, now split part of the bounty with the moderators.

That's all before technical solutions like duh, use a strong model to vet entries. Pay for it out of entry fees. Require submissions pass an automated regression test first. Which they should already have... and pay for use of it with entry fees, wait, pay for it out of the winner's pool, what are we giving that money away for if you can't run the program successfully without it?? Vetting submissions is part of the overhead.

A way bigger pet peeve of mine than beating on AI straw men is treating social problems like technical challenges. It's a contest with cash prizes and the volunteers are tired.. I mean figure it out folks.

Comment Re: How stupid are the Saudis? (Score 1) 52

And the Quran can be reinterpreted however the hell you want because of how weird the Arab writing is. I don't know the details but because of the way punctuation and tense works in the language you can basically read whatever the hell you want into it. The Christian Bible has the same thing going on because there isn't a single voice in the bible.

It has the same thing going because it was also written in a 2000+ year old language(s) right?

I don't know anything about ancient Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek, but I know how difficult it is to translate exact meaning between two modern languages. There is just no way that ancient Hebrew to modern English is a straighter line than ancient Arabic? to modern Arabic? I'll bet a hamburger on that at least.

Comment Re: Go away from slashdot ur too dum. (Score 1) 117

Even that source seems weird though, it has Kansas having more than Washington.

You must mean Kansas City, it's a big destination for conventions because it's in the middle of the country.

I'm sure it makes sense to count that in some ways because it feeds the hospitality industry just the same, but it's not the same as normal tourist traffic that might spend each day in a different place. Like you go to KC for a week and you might have one free day to see a Royals game, go to Virginia and you can hit the Mall, Smithsonian, Busch Gardens, Monuments, landmarks, historic towns in one trip.

Comment Re: The economy is struggling (Score 3, Informative) 241

now youâ(TM)re telling me that cutting the federal workforce by a small amount was enough tank that robust economy?

Nobody anywhere said that. Your federal job cuts put a lot of people out of work, didn't save the money you promised and your recent spending bill ... increased spending. Then you cry about the debt.

Speaking of eggs, what did you do to help farmers facing a bird flu epidemic, nothing, OFC. It's embarrassing.

Comment Re: Enjoy it while it lasts (Score 2) 33

Texas feels like that too, all the crazy MAGA talk about windmill cancer and solar bird ovens or whatever isn't reflected in the amount of renewables anyone can see on ercot.com the gov and Lt gov don't seem to talk about it.

There is still a large chunk of conservatives doing the say crazy shit but do something more practical approach to politics. Problem is it's getting harder for them, they're all under a lot of pressure to do more stupid shit or they will get tea partied... or maga'd by someone shittier. All the boneheaded border stuff in TX that costs a lot of money and hasn't accomplished anything, for example.

Comment Re: There's always divine intervention (Score 1) 99

The Democrat party is not at all hostile to Christianity, it isn't affiliated with any religion and doesn't pick a favorite.

The Republican Party has decided it's so close to religion that when their politics get in the way they'll change the religion to fit. To the point of failing every single WWJD check and calling empathy a sickness. Personally, I don't think any ideology with Christ in the name has a lot of room to fail many WWJD checks, but here we are.

Comment Re: Did Apple offer amicus brief during US v Micro (Score 1) 61

I don't think so, but they were called by the government to testify to Microsoft forcing them to make Internet Explorer the default browser or they'd pull Office for Mac. IDK what the analog of that would be, is Apple making Google do anything with Android, or influencing the hardware manufacturers?

If Apple had done what you suggested I'm sure we'd have heard of it with 20-something years of bundling Safari on Macs because that would be more on point.

Comment Re:Elites took 90 jets (or yachts) to Bezos' Weddi (Score 1) 215

Your job exists because people in that group want things done a certain way, and they tell underlings what needs to be done, who tell underlings all the way down to you. You either work for them, following their rules, or you work in an independent company that serves their companies, doing what they want done.

That makes no fucking sense. Companies at the top got there because lots of other companies are their customers.

Amazon may be influential in the realm of cloud services for example, but we are their customer and I don't owe my job to them, I owe it to OUR customers, because that's where the money comes from.

Your idea, that my customer can't tell Amazon what to do inverts the whole fucking power structure, that's batshit. Also the premise that Amazon would cease to function without Bezos and his personal wealth being what it is, that is doubled-down on batshit insanity. There are lots of valid reasons personal wealth distribution shouldn't be so fucking disparate that don't have fuck-all to do with the environment, and all of your personal choices affect the economy and environment. Tax Bezos, regulate Amazon, educate yourself.

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