noshellswill - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Who cares? (Score 1) 50

by noshellswill on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:04AM (#65784050) Attached to: Did ChatGPT Conversations Leak... Into Google Search Console Results?

Not so fast, mercantilist ! I can go out to the forest or beach anytime I desire and gather a free lunch. Guess you are not much of an out-door person. Also, bread , beans and milk are SURPLUS products almost everywhere on earth --- production is higher than consumption --- so why does their cost inflate with available dollars ? Items in scarcity ... like caviar , 15 Y/O scotch, GPUs or silk shirts ... of-course price differently.

Comment Re:who needs this (Score 1) 59

by noshellswill on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:33AM (#65783996) Attached to: New Firefox Mascot 'Kit' Unveiled On New Web Page

FIREFOX is no longer the best option. Librewolf installs & works smooth as butter; a slash-dot poster gave me the clue, and I switched a couple weeks ago. Been with MOZ since Netscape, but they have changed; I never looked back.

Comment Re:icebergs sink ships (Score 1) 54

by noshellswill on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:10PM (#65782838) Attached to: Japanese Volunteer Translators Quit After Mozilla Begins Using Translation Bot

Funny coincidence --- I just came across the sci-history fact the original Aharanov/Bohm ( 1961 ) paper ( vector potential Quantum effect ) was written in German for a German sci-mag. Wonder what *.ai translator would/will make of Einsteins "photon" ?

Comment low frontier (Score 2) 33

by noshellswill on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:58PM (#65782826) Attached to: The First New Subsea Habitat In 40 Years Is About To Launch

I have never understood the "high frontier" concept. Why spend trillions going to Mar ( which hates us and makes astroboiz eat toothpaste ) ... instead of spending millions at off-shore Hawaii where every lunch is lobster or maimai . And snorkling 1st class. We don't even talk of sufacing into sunny afternoons spent surfing, instead of hiding in a gawdforsaken ( -80 F ) cave while dust-storms rage just feet away. And does kevlar/teflon astro-sheik compare to palm-frond hula-babe dancing ? What's the perv against our low frontier with all the untapped minerals 1000 generations of humans would crave ? I just don't understand current priorities.

Comment Re:Dark energy discovered 27 years ago?? (Score 1) 89

by noshellswill on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:06PM (#65777748) Attached to: Universe Expansion May Be Slowing, Not Accelerating, Study Suggests

Space itself ... if a self exists ... but if it doesn't exist how can you bend it? . The "aether" assumption was well motivated. Maxwell believed it, Lorentz believed it. I suspect the Aharanov/Bohm effect implies it. How to get-around the Michaelson/Morley result I have no idea.

Comment self interest (Score -1, Redundant) 75

by noshellswill on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:36AM (#65777314) Attached to: Nvidia's Jensen Huang Says China 'Will Win' AI Race With US

Not much financial self-interest on Huangs part ... eh? Say nothing of cultural fear; " loss of face" when the *.ai bubble bursts ( without constant gub'mnt prop-ups ) must give Huang nightmares.

Comment Re:Blessed life Indeed (Score 0) 128

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @01:19PM (#65773002) Attached to: Dick Cheney, Powerful Former VP, Dies at 84

There you go ... you make a clever, snarky leftist point very-much on-topic ... and funny ... and KARMA-warriors give you the screw. You do assume the reader --- left or right -- has studied Chomsky as a premier 20-th Century scholar. Prolly too much to assume .

Comment Re:Looks like any other coca-cola commercial (Score 1) 60

by noshellswill on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @09:02AM (#65772220) Attached to: Coca-Cola's New AI Holiday Ad Is a Sloppy Eyesore

Same here, though the "uncanny" presence of the graphics is kind of a tip-off *.ai was used. BTW/// What is the gut-level phenomena behind the "uncanny" feel ?

Comment Re:Actual critical thinking? (Score 1) 224

by noshellswill on Monday November 03, 2025 @04:18PM (#65770850) Attached to: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads.

Your points are spot on. True history and valid analysis. The lefty snowflakes fucked with your KARMA.

Comment Re:Not the dumbest of ideas. (Score 1) 224

by noshellswill on Monday November 03, 2025 @01:02PM (#65770218) Attached to: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads.

"... Tech is moving so fast,...". Yes, the gap between ignorance and maliciousness is closing at a rate faster than the speed-of-light. Goto Palantirs' website 1st-page and they will show you their warp-drive ... it's labeled ... 'AI will make all decisions ' . You will pay them for the hallucination, and no Scotty appears to "beam me up".

Comment Re:cradle to grave (Score 1) 224

by noshellswill on Monday November 03, 2025 @12:45PM (#65770162) Attached to: Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads.

Poetry is fun to write ... cogent topics nest in memory. The ignorant kill your KARMA; they only know algorithms. So out you go, cradle to grave just one more name ...

Comment Re:Innovative Products, Not Financial Instruments (Score 1) 46

by noshellswill on Monday November 03, 2025 @10:04AM (#65769660) Attached to: Microsoft CEO Nadella Says Gaming Needs Good Margins To Innovate, Compares Strategy To Office

"People who are scared for their jobs will not innovate "I believe the current industrial employee model is that of Stalins WW2 gulags. He sent lots of engineers and scientists to Siberia, with the threat ... if their projects failed they would freeze in the tundra. It was a fear-driven model of innovation -- Stalin loved instilling fear -- and by all reports quite successful in developing new aircraft and light weapons. Modern western capitalists get woodies fantasizing they have Stalins power and drive. A well-maintained modern (re)public of-course crushes out such scabs and ( sans bank-accounts ) migrates them to China.

Comment Re:UNIONS (Score 1) 41

by noshellswill on Monday November 03, 2025 @09:36AM (#65769610) Attached to: 'Grand Theft Auto' Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firing Dozens

"Unions push the cost up for everyone!" As it should be. Increased worker wages more than make up for the extra expense "entitled" buyers are willing to pay. Those priced out of that specific market ... just don't consume that product --- I mean, you have no RIGHT to consume anything , but subsistence. OTOH increased worker wages means those workers will consume more of their own production ... if the product is worthwhile --- unlike computer games/most services/EVs. More business for the company means more business for everyone ... I am excluding addictives like sugar/cocaine/"spice" ...

Comment Re:Mine's always been dumb and RELIABLE. (Score 1) 155

by noshellswill on Sunday November 02, 2025 @04:30PM (#65768334) Attached to: New Design Trend: People Downgrading 'Smart' Homes to Analog 'Dumb' Homes, Some with Landlines and Offline Appliances

You will pay for that battery back-up with acid stains on the floor of the bedroom your daughter grew up in and left empty for college, but expects to be perfect whenever she returns. But, next time she might bring her purple-haired boyfriend with her, so ... best to buy three acid-lead batteries that fume like Mt Vesuvius.

Comment Re:I'm working on my analog home (Score 2) 155

by noshellswill on Sunday November 02, 2025 @04:17PM (#65768304) Attached to: New Design Trend: People Downgrading 'Smart' Homes to Analog 'Dumb' Homes, Some with Landlines and Offline Appliances

Gawdalmighty ... get a bloody chalk and slate. Even that is excessive. It's rumored that Fourier did his best work on birch-bark sheets smuggled in by French Canadian trappers for demonstration canoes.

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