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Comment Re:CHeck the source (Score 0) 153

The Economist.
'nuff said

I understand the knee-jerk reaction to the title, but this reeks of someone who never even read the publication. The very first mainstream publication to advocate for gay marriage. One of the only skeptics of the Gulf War at the time.

The world needs more thinkers, and fewer knee-jerk reactions.

Comment Re:Huge problem (Score 2) 153

Nvidia is therefore a bubble. This article is complaining that Europe is an obstacle to further bubble inflation.
No amount of Nvidia etching IP onto wafers is worthy of a 4.6 TRILLION market cap - bigger than the 4.2 Trillion market cap of the ENTIRE name-brand pharmaceutical industry.

Comment Re:Useful for targeted tasks (Score 1) 248

I've used AI for two tasks where I found it very useful, and some very minor ones as well.

1) I had to write some code to invert a matrix in C. I knew the code was out there, but Google's search is so polluted today I could not find it. ChatGPT immediately returned working code. I noticed it did not calculate the determinant, so I asked it for that, and it modified the code to do so. As I say, I know that code is out there somewhere in a book, probably a dozen books, but I can no longer find older topics because the search engines are so polluted today. So yeah, this was extremely useful.

Just a note, from someone who has done a lot of computational numerical analysis...if you are inverting a matrix, you are usually doing something inefficient and numerically unstable. In small dimension counts, that could be fine, but keep it in mind.

Comment Re:Sorry I just woke up⦠(Score 3, Interesting) 10

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

Comment Re:Great. (Score 1) 46

No, that's a bad idea. A menu bar at the top of the screen is a much bigger target to hit, and easy to find by muscle memory. The file menu is always in the same place, regardless of what app you're using, and the buttons extend infinitely up above the screen. By contrast, a menu bar tied to the window moves around whenever the window moves, so you always have to visually find it again, and target size is just the size of the button and ends at the top of the window.

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