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Comment Re: An endless supply of nuclear waste. (Score 1) 101

How do you know that's the change they made to the crop? It's all self reported. Have you done the generic analysis yourself? How do you know the studies showing the pesticide is safe were not tampered with?

If you are going to worry that “they” are going to lie about the actual changes they make, or what studies show you are thinking small.

If “they” are going to lie about those, why would they tell the truth about using GMO v non-GMO crops? If you can’t trust them to tell the truth about the food supply you can’t trust them to tell the truth about, well, the food supply can you?

Comment Re:Say hello to Wirth's law (Score 1) 78

OTOH the nice thing about software is that it's easy to update, so anyone is free to replace their slow/inefficient software with a faster/efficient version as soon as they obtain it, at which point their fast hardware should run the efficient software very quickly. Nothing (except possibly bad management decisions?) is preventing anyone from creating efficient software, either.

Comment Re:Why is it to huge? (Score 1) 37

I mean back when I was still using Windows, I once tried to get it as small as possible by boot-formating a disk and putting in more and more files until it came up. I think I ended up comfortably getting it onto a normal HD 3,5 inch "floppy". It's not that hard. Though I have never actually looked into Windows 7, but I can't imagine it's so much bigger than Windows 3.1.

I did this as well with Windows 3.11, but it required using Stacker/DriveSpace (can't remember which) and also using XDF to increase the capacity of the disk from 1.44 MB to ~1.8 MB. The end result was bootable and it could load Program Manager.

Comment Fuck this guy (Score 3, Interesting) 39

This guy specifically invited this result with his "All copyright is void because Covid and we say so" bullshit, and his surprised Pikachu face and heartfelt appeals are infuriating. He hasn't just damaged the Archive, his moronic actions killed the idea of format shifting being legally acceptable.

Comment Re:If all of AI went away today (Score 1) 147

The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) has been part of human culture for thousands of years, appearing in ancient myths and legends.

Perhaps it was referring to golems? That idea dates back to 400-500 BC, although really they behave more like traditional computer programs than anything we'd currently consider intelligent.

Comment Re:Yo Dawg (Score 3, Insightful) 9

I don't need an AI to write my code, since I can write code myself. That said, it could be nice to have an AI inspect my code and point out anything it suspects might be a bug... there are already lots of static analysis tools that do this sort of thing and they are great, but I think AI might be able to find different classes of bug that are beyond the capabilities of static analysis.

Going a bit further, what would be even more useful is an AI that can run my program and exercise its GUI (or fuzz its inputs) and monitor the resulting behavior the way a human would, to look for faults during execution. Human-driven SQA is always a lot of tedious work, and a production bottleneck.

Comment Re:But how did they taste? (Score 1) 9

Yeah, dinos ruled the earth for hundreds of millions of years... then basically evolved into chicken nuggets.

Maybe homo sapiens will have a similar fate - due to online life and lack of physical activity we'll evolve into a nice limbless brain snack for some future species to factory farm?

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