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Comment Re:Not good at math (Score 5, Insightful) 48

Millions of people go to Vegas every year... so I think there are a lot of folks in that "not very good at math" grouping.

Most of the people that go to Vegas know they're not going to win anything. My grandparents used to go every year, and that vacation was their annual highlight. They set aside a budget, enjoyed themselves blowing it on the tables, then enjoyed the hotels and the shows. This was the early 60's, mind you, the height of the Rat Pack era when Sinatra and Dean Martin were still playing there, and there was a mobbed-up mystique about the place to the WWII generation. My grands knew they weren't going to win anything. They just enjoyed the thrill of it all. It was the "adult" Disneyland, a bit of naughty fun for people that survived the skies and fields of Europe and Asia, and as far as they were concerned, "fuck you, I'll blow my spare money as I see fit".

Comment Re:So basically phones, then (Score 1, Insightful) 99

Specifically women? Citation needed.

Most men still have a PC simply for gaming, if nothing else. Women don't give a shit about gaming. And the phone is the natural instrument for their Instagraming.

My wife has a nice laptop that she barely touches. She'll pull it out every once in a blue moon, but she and all the women she knows use two things primarily: their phones, and their tablets for reading. The smartphone was the perfect product for females. It fits the way they communicate. A lot of men would be fine with plain texting, email, and maybe some IRC. Women crave that constat, content-filled social connection.

Comment So basically phones, then (Score 2, Informative) 99

The shrinking userbase doesnâ(TM)t have jack shit to do with 11â(TM)s requirements, and everything to do with women using their phones for everything now. It was silly to even attempt that argument.The writer went on a Windows rant when this shift has been predicted for 25+ years. There are kids with $500+ smartphones that have never touched a computer.

Comment Re:Good to know (Score 1) 38

I think it was Carl Sagan that proposed that we send hardy microbes to Mars in order to start a terraforming process.

What's the point, since Mars doesn't have a significant enough magnetic field to hold anything resembling an atmosphere? Isn't that the whole reason Mars is the planet it is today? It's dynamo stopped a long time ago.

Comment I see more and more products marketed as AI-free (Score 4, Interesting) 48

It's becoming a selling point.

Hell, I even watched a video leaked from some OnlyFans account that had the preamble "This content creator prides herself in making her own content herself entirely: no AI bullshit involved!" If the porn industry rejects it, you know it's bad for business.

Comment Re:US mental healthcare (Score -1) 173

It has been brewing for a long time, if someone declared to be Napoleon, he would have been assessed for schizophrenia. Today when a man declares he is a woman, he is be offered a way to transition (mutilate himself) and his experience is glamorized and presented to children as a heroic act of self discovery that should be admired and followed. It is not only that we don't treat mental disease, we celebrate it. What else can one expect from society that promotes body positivity as a way to justify unhealthy behavior? If someone is obese, a doctor should suggest that it is not healthy and propose a treatment plan, society should help, not goad the person into showing it off in a weird and sick exhibitionist parade.

Comment Re:Absolutely not (Score 1) 239

LLMs don't need to be based on stealing people's work.

But they are. That miserable little shit that runs OpenAI has said so on multiple occasions.

If it is determined they are actually "stealing" people's work then they will learn that lesson painfully very soon.

There is no painful lesson for AI companies in the U.S. The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that AI companies are allowed to steal other people's work in most cases. The circumstances in which such theft is not allowed are narrow. So copyright for things like Free and Open Source Software no longer apply to AI companies. They are free to strip our copyrights from our code and pass it off as their own, among other things.

Comment Re:Quick History lesson (Score 0) 175

So a gay man in this 30s living under the same roof as a minor underage runaway boy is ok? Hussein Obama the Kenyan had no problem with it either, he named a Navy ship after this sick perverted MONSTER. The boy aged out of his boyhood andMilk Lost interest, as usually happens with gay male pedophile rapists and Milk kicked his adult gross hairy ass out into the streets. His heartbroken rape victim committed suicide not long after.

Comment Re:Quite a bit of culture in Japan is ossified (Score 0) 84

Far from perfect? The USA was founded in 1619 on slavery. Rah rah USA. It's always a pleasure to take a hot steaming diarrhea squirt in the mouths of you racists every year when you celebrate your insurrectionist behavior that failed on J6. Remind you of the Trail of Tears, smallpox blankets, sending ibm computers to the Nazis and letting Putin rule you through his puppet in the White House.

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