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Comment Re:Linux on the desktop will happen when (Score 1) 81

by noshellswill (#65736320) Attached to: FSF Reminds Consumers That Truly Free OS's Exist
"WINE actually works" ... in a very obscure bakazz sort of way only a nekbeard could love. I've used in on-and-off for 20 years and still can make no sense of it. I'm trying to get an old copy of TOPSPICE into an Ubuntu-24.04 system, and nothing is natural or obvious. Naturally , obnoxious WINE is NOT meant to be applied  by the casual-computer user, but by a very "nitch" set of Linux pros who are trapped using  some M$-based software program.  Sadly, WINE like the rest of the Linux eco-system has really not improved ease-of-use since RedHat-6. Get 1/2 f*ing-A step off the beaten path and casual lusr is screwed.

Comment Re:Yes. And what is the recommendation? (Score 1) 23

Recently  "... dragged kicking ad screaming ..." euns a bit over-the-top. Do you not think that a ROMAN Centurian carefully watched the design/manufacture/assembly of his centuries ballista "machine" ? Or that  makers of  failing ballista escaped the flog ?  I also understand that maedevil GUILDS were picky about apprentice training not just to limit supply, but because a just G*d was watching them construct the cathedral. Professional certification of engineers  is pretty-much a 19-th Century  anomoly, and was NEVER opposed by practicing engineers until wonkish nekbeards snatched power over computers from the military.

Comment Re:Uh, Wouldn't– (Score 1) 18

I believe current theory says the "strength" of the measurement determines completeness of the wave-function collapse.  Electron hitting a BRICK-WALL is a "strong" measurement. One wimpy X-ray passing thru the virtual-change cloud ?? So collapse is not an all-or-nothing thing.  Always seemed weird that when a particle passes thru a sit  ( in a double slit experiment ) the temporary local fields within surrounding  material couldn't be measured without  wave-function collapse.

Comment Re:bad. (Score 1) 235

by noshellswill (#65729204) Attached to: Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China
You say '... block any imported EVs ...' as if that  tariff action were a bad thing. I'd favor the  retro/contra-tilt: block ALL "industrial" manufactured  imports except medical equipment.  OTOH allow  importied "craft" products like German/Russian sausage , Irish whisky and Italian womens shoes.  Individuals and "guilds" and sweatshops may compete world-wide. A producer/designer  society values much higher than  consumer/investor cultures. Let globalist sociopaths and mercantile pederasts immigrant to China ha...hahaha and watch them howl when Maos' doppelganger rises again. .

Comment Re:It sounds to me... (Score 1) 34

Indonesia is a Muslim country with approx the same population of USA, but sharia-law & a yearly theater  box-office less than 10% of ours. Indonesia really does-not-count as a media mover, so their use of movie.ai fades into noise. When a country ( like China ) with a proven record of world-class films begins slurping *.ai into their art  then movie-goers  can start to worry. BTW// I do not consider integrated CGI-crafted catastrophes as "ai".

Comment Re:Why not OpenDocument Format? (Score 0) 146

by noshellswill (#65724366) Attached to: Beijing Issues Documents Without Word Format Amid US Tensions
Yep. China is employing economic screws to promote state power ... as has every city/state/nation since Gobekli-Tepi.  It's all good ... and USA should return the favor by rejecting ALL/ANY Chinese manufactured products or raw materials.  Shut-down trading that has never been in USA interests, apart from a few sociopathic globalists. If required the USA can go to a temporary  war-time footing and generate everything it needs right here or from "affiliated" partners. USA workers would see huge employment gains and SA/Canada would finally get the USA attention they deserve.  Some unproductive USA economic sectors --- like software --- would suffer: no problemo. To repeat ... China screws us we screw them ...  all's fair.

Comment Re:How is this even "tech" anymore? (Score 1) 42

Not just scientists and engineers find AI technically useful. I am in a no-support / "troubled" WiFi environment with my Linux systems. I have used DDG.ai troubleshooting my  randomly(?)  on-again/off-again internet connection. Without DDG.ai I simply could not fumble-thru enough setting changes to maintain my connection. It's like having a tireless Linux-savvy  pal sitting at my side. 

Comment Re:The discipline of a recession. (Score 1) 60

by noshellswill (#65723838) Attached to: NASA Unit JPL To Lay Off About 550 Workers, Citing Restructure
It's a fair guess ( the Kennedys thought so ) that excluding medicine, basic science has played-out until the next  Archimedes/DaVinci/Newton/Einstein/  comes along.  You know, once every couple centuries. Surely "string theory" failure has taught us something. A  century or two of  plodding experimental/engineering development seems the most robust and productive course of scientific action.  Meanwhile, methods like *.ai and Quantum computing can find their own  value-producing niche venues ... and humans can return to  more face-2-face cultures.

Comment ignore (Score 1) 127

by noshellswill (#65723790) Attached to: Britain Issues First Online Safety Fine To US Website 4chan
Likely 4Chan can simply ignore neo-Stalinist  British laws/regulation; surely ignore the fine.  Does 4Chan have a "hardware/brick" presence on English property? If not Brit leverage is zero. 'Course the  Brits may install their own "Great Firewall", but that will only provoke world-wide hackers to tunnel thru it as happens with the Chinese version.

Comment Re:Bee Ess ... (Score 1) 70

Fact:  Chi.com electronics ALL/repeat/ALL include  firmware snooping devices that report activity back  to the CCP "mothership".  Importing such devices to America represents a direct  political/military  security risk. Of-course personal privacy is also suborned by these  Chi.com devices -- and  after corruption fed-back as mis-information --  but American companies have yet to be forbidden such data "kidnapping".  Best let the chi.comz eat their own production while American labor and capitol looks after internal consumption:  tools, raw materials, medical equipment and womens shoes excluded naturally.

Comment Re:Trying to make a new generation dependent (Score 1) 25

by noshellswill (#65718426) Attached to: Microsoft To Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools
I lived in Seattle 25 years ago, and still remember the local rag ( Seattle Times ) describing the Seattle workforce : "...  they are as productive as ants ..." . With a classical East-Coast education I was naturally horrified. Evidently  nothing has changed in  coastal Washington State.  Having lived in Spokane also, I know eastern Washington people mostly poach with Remingtons, not AI.

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