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Comment Re: OTA PAY TO carry channels should not allowed t (Score 0) 44

Yes. In fact they are - well planning to. ATSC 3.0 allows encryption of so called "free" over the air TV and they are only doing that so they can actually override the FCC and stop people recording shows.

This feels like one of those stupid "free market" republican ideas that later comes back to bite everyone in the butt. Probably on the same level as the promise Congress people used to make that we could one day buy our own TV cable boxes.

Comment Re:Not AI (Score 1, Interesting) 162

AI has problems for sure. Not a month goes by without news of yet another idiot lawyer getting sanctioned because of the hallucinations were presented as fact. However......have you tried coding with AI? I have. I'm 5x more productive than before, and I can solve problems now that I wouldn't have touched before. I still test my code. I still review it. But man, this thing is a game changer. I can see why people are paying big money for it. It absolutely is delivering.

To give you a recent example - I know nothing about terraform, but I had to implement a proof of concept in AWS and was mandated to use terraform. Previously, I would have spent some time understanding terraform concepts and then worked out some basic examples before attempting the task at hand. None of that was needed. I was coding from day 1. Yes, the AI can go wrong, but I find its never a syntactical error. When errors do occur, its usually a misunderstanding of the requirement I gave it, and because I know what I had in mind, I can always rephrase to get the right results. I have not so far encountered a situation in the coding realm where hallucinations caused me problems.

The other day, I asking the AI to do some task it noticed that I was using java 17 and offered me the upgrade to 21. I thought it was a trivial upgrade, but the implementation, when I said "yes", was breathtaking. It asked for me to sign into git, then created a branch, generated test cases for my code, after applying its changes, it ran the test cases, committed its changes, asked me for approval to merge to main and then did it.

Magnificient!

Yes, lesser number of programmers will be needed. What makes me most happy though is that this levels the playing field. No longer do I have to deal with those difficult prima donnas who are only tolerated because they are good developers, even though they mess with the team and make everyone elses life miserable. I can't wait for those people to get fired because there is no more excuse for them to be kept on.

Comment Re: They are probably not needed anymore (Score 1) 27

Their aggressive military actions against Tawain and their (Well Xiâ(TM)s) statements about a probable hostile takeover over Tawaiin by 2027 kind of makes them bad. Or did we decide that autocratic Putin was not âoebadâ for invading Ukraine so he could bring back the Soviet era??
And Xiâ(TM)s promise to Trump that he will not invade Taiwan during Trumpâ(TM)s term in office seems more about playing Trump as the fool he probably perceives Trump to be.

Ergo, fomenting war is a bad thing, and in that light China should, in fact, be seen as âoebad.â

Comment Re:The PHEV is the future (Score 1) 137

I bought a Prius PHEV even though I'm firmly convinced that the PHEV is the worst of both worlds. You don't get the freedom from maintenance hassle that the BEVs give you, and the battery is small enough that it cannot fill all use cases _and do what you paid the premium $$ for_. If you want compromises, the hybrid will be a cheaper car.

Why did I buy this car? Because for reasons that I couldn't fathom, the BEVs that were in my price range were simply not available on the dealer lots at the time I needed a new car.

That being said, the car is working out great so far. Its been three weeks since we drove it off the dealer lot and thanks to our normal driving patterns (to the office / grocery store and back), we have not consumed more than half a gallon. There is a real danger that the gas in the almost full tank we have will degrade to the point its unusable before we end up using it.

Comment Re: \o/ (Score 1) 171

Not the smartphones per se. But the fact that they tend to keep you indoors away from the Vitamin D our bodies critically need. Find 'Medcram' on YouTube for a medical perspective about this vitamin. No, pills will not work as good.

And while we're talking about things no one is allowed to talk about, let's bring up a certain under-tested mandated medicine at one time for everyone also? If you care, Dr. Campbell on YouTube is a good resource for that.

Comment Re:\o/ (Score 4, Insightful) 171

Person 1: "The earth is flat"
Person 2: "That's kind of a stupid take."
Person 1: "Whenever I see anyone responding with a personal attack (even an indirect one), I see a tacit acknowledgement that the point cannot be questioned on its merits."
Some assertions are so dumb, they require no refutations, because only dumb people believe them. Honestly, the reason the internet has gone to shit is because the cost to post a stupid thing is vastly lower than the post to thoroughly demonstrate why it's a stupid thing.

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