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Comment Re:Not a bad game, no... (Score 1) 19

Countless popular titles have had that criticism. But I caution you against just looking at videos and comments. We're in the world of bandwagons. When it's cool enough to hate something to make a reaction video about it, then everyone makes the same reaction video. Welcome to algorithmic content creation.

Comment Re:Suspicious (Score 1) 76

They wear out and need to be replaced. Demand was low, AI increased demand, but the manufacturers see it as a bubble and aren't going to massively ramp out output to meet it.

This reminds me of when Germany built new coal plants and there was much hand wringing. In fact they closed more than they opened, and the new ones were designed to fit better into a heavily renewable grid.

Comment Re:Chinese Manned Space Agency (Score 1) 11

It's just how they organize it. You wouldn't say NASA is a military organization because its funding is authorized by congress that also authorizes military spending, or because the president is also the Commander in Chief.

Some countries maintain the fig leaf of separate military and civilian space programmes, but that's all it is. For example the Space Shuttle was designed around military payload needs, and regularly used to deploy military satellites.

Comment Re:Thanks for the research data (Score 1) 115

That wind far was cancelled because it was funded by a Danish company, and Trump is upset Denmark will not let him have Greenland, so he stuck it to them.

The reason it was cancelled is irrelevant. The point is a sanctioned project under construction was halted by a different government. That is a demonstration of investment instability and risk.

The USA is now considered a far higher risk for investment than it has ever been in the past, it doesn't matter who is in charge of it now or in in 2029. It'll take a demonstration of stability to reduce that risk, and that will take multiple election cycles to happen. Trump has done some serious lasting damage.

Comment Re: Soul crushing money... (Score 1) 77

Gen X sarcasm is just lost on the kids these days.

No sarcasm isn't lost. Communication skills are. There's no reason for anyone to think your post was sarcastic. Not in 2025 where there's so much stupid shit posted on the internet. Sarcasm isn't dead, it's just statistically not likely to be so when it isn't obviously marked as such.

By the way I'm Gen X. So you can't even communicate with your own generation properly, let alone "kids these days" (yeah I shake my stick too just thinking that phrase).

Also a Gen X person popularised the emoji (which was invented by a boomer). Presumably he got sick of people not being able to understand his sarcastic posts on the internet, maybe look that up ;-)

Comment Re: Soul crushing money... (Score 1) 77

Phew....I was starting to wonder if I was the one that had misread it cause everyone seemed to be taking it seriously.

And now you realise why communication is a skill that is dying. There's no reason not to take it seriously other than the belief that we don't have religious nutjobs on this site (we do, no I don't keep track of their UIDs). You want to be sarcastic make it obvious, we invited emojis 45 years ago for this very reason. ;-)

Comment Re: Soul crushing money... (Score 1) 77

There's also, you know, sarcasm...

And there's also stupidity. It's 2025, I have stopped attributing sarcasm to anything I read online that isn't obvious so because of the sheer number of stupid people on the internet (including on Slashdot). We have a fuckton of religious nutjobs on this site.

Also the internet loses some 90% of communication cues thanks to it being solely text. It's one of the reasons fucking emojis were invented. If I don't see a wink emoji or a /s, I will default to the post being stupid rather than sarcastic. Statistically I will be correct far more of the time.

Comment Re:"USED CHATGPT TO WIN THE LOTTERY" (Score 1) 77

The LLM's just using an internal JS sandbox to generate pseudo random numbers on the level that gets generated for HTTPS.

Errr no they were not. Maybe they are now, but LLMs were largely pulling numbers out of their training data, not deferring to some non LLM algorithm to answer the question. It's one of the reasons they suck at math so bad and can't count the number of 'r's in raspberry.

JS pseudo random number generation isn't remotely as bad as what LLMs spit out.

Comment Re: "there was no reason left not to buy" (Score 1) 64

Oh so Slashdot should change the text in the articles so you don't think it is on the take? If you wanted to talk about the article (on an Apple only reporting site) then talk about the article. You're the one who claimed "Apple have Slashdot in their advertising pocket"

Now that I realise what you're taking about your post looks even dumber than it did before.

Comment Re:Cable guy? (Score 1) 104

It's a little surprising that this doesn't happen more in the US, where some people seem to like being rugged and independent.

It is very viable to go off-grid, or at least have enough backup energy storage and generation to survive days of no grid power.

You don't even need to deal with regulations, there are products that allow you to have it all isolated to your own home, or simply plug critical appliances into a box of batteries and solar panels when needed.

Comment Re:It's too early to tell, really (Score 1) 111

You may want to note that this Youtube's guy primary complaint was about the poor customer service, that seems to be quite regional, and that he very much still is a fan of his Ioniq 5 with the strongest comment being that until this is fixed it is "a bit harder to recommend [the car]. Still consider it."

This got a lot of bad press this year so I suspect if the OP's next car will come sometime next year it's likely not going to be a problem anymore. But ... they have been working on this issue a while already so there is that.

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