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Comment Re: Good Grief (Score 1) 91

You realise that thereâ(TM)s a natural human developmental stage where literally everything the kid gets its hands on gets stuffed in their mouth?

Thereâ(TM)s no teaching them not to do it at that age, itâ(TM)s just something that they do. And no, you canâ(TM)t watch them literally every second of the day, itâ(TM)s simply not possible.

Comment Re: Legislation... (Score 3, Informative) 91

Did you know, that itâ(TM)s literally not possible for a human to watch another one for literally every waking moment. There are other things that need to happen, like going to the toilet, or cooking food for both you and the child youâ(TM)re caring for, or â¦.

Blaming parents for not looking at their children every literal second is insanity.

Comment Re:Rancho Cucamonga is another stop on the MetroLi (Score 1) 242

One of the high technology parts of the French TGV trains is that they are capable of running on old track at non-TGV speeds. BrightLine really should do the same, the train slows down a lot, but does continue on to Union Station after stopping at Rancho Cucamunga. There should not be a need to change trains.

Comment H19 (Score 1) 80

The machine I had was a HeathKit H19. This had it's own OS called HDOS. Not sure what the quality of that was or how it compared to CP/M. However the hardware also had ROM mapped to the first 2K or so (to run the program controlling the front panel display) which made it incompatible with CP/M. I somewhat remember it was already clear that all the good software was only for CP/M and I had the wrong machine and HeathKit screwed up. Anybody else remember these, have any comments on them? It does sound like creating HDOS was not a trivial amout of work, was anything interesting lost with it?

Comment Re: Year of the Wayland desktop... (Score 1) 66

No, ignoring the XY position of windows is a specific design decision by Wayland. They did it on purpose because they think it is a security problem. The idea that the desktop could just look at the requested positions and only ignore bad ones apparently is foreign to them. Instead they made it impossible for an application to store window positions.
They also purposely designed it so it is impossible to work with overlapping windows, by requiring that clicking in a window always raises it,a design that was removed from X10 to make x11. Their arrogance shows no bounds.

Comment Re: Out of date, all right. (Score 4, Informative) 77

No - thatâ(TM)s the universe expanding at a constant rate. If you stretch a sheet evenly all over, and then observe from a particular point on that sheet, youâ(TM)ll see the relative expansion being faster the further things are from you. Whatâ(TM)s being proposed here is that the cosmological constant can vary both in terms of time and space.

Comment Re: Obligatory (Score 1) 80

Iâ(TM)m pretty sure at this point being extremely old tech is the point. If they stuck sure modern microprocessor in there that could do actual real computation in a meaningful way itâ(TM)d be hard to get exam boards to accept students having them during exams.

That said, the price is ludicrous and clearly only based on schools requiring exactly that model.

Comment Seems like this can be solved (Score 1) 46

Have another AI that examines everything that the main AI attempts to write. All it has to do is identify that an output is objectionable. If true then it is never printed. The main AI can generate a new piece of text, repeating until it generates something non-objectionable. Or it can print "congatulations you got me to say something objectionable".

This is all irrelevant to whether censoring is good/bad, just that technologically it seems possible to fix any and all such bugs.

Comment Re: Send the lab... (Score 1) 65

The idea that you need 1000x the mass of propellant to get home is false. The 1000x multiplier is true on earth, but not on Mars with minimal atmosphere and much less gravity. You need about 3 times less delta v to reach orbit from Mars than you do from Earth. That means you need 20 times less propellant, and thatâ(TM)s before taking account of atmospheric drag.

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