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Comment Re:In the name of human rights (Score 1) 166

You make good points about how certain species of bird get hit by windmills, but they'd still be affected by coal/gas power. It's just that the sight of birds bludgeoned to death under a windmill is more striking than some unhatched eggs or birds that died early due to respiratory problems.

Uhh, but your signature "We solved global warming, now stop scaring everyone's kids to death over it." really makes me wonder what your POV is as we're literally posting about a story that this is the world's hottest year (after a series of many previous years being the hottest on record at the time too).

Comment Re:In the name of human rights (Score 2) 166

Fossil fuel plants kill birds an at extreme higher rate than windmills per KW/h.

Generally 90% of the people arguing about how many birds windmills kill are arguing in bad faith and don't care about birds at all (or have done zero research).
https://www.usnews.com/news/bl...

Also bird deaths from any of these absolutely pale in comparison to cats. Build windmills and neuter your pets.

Comment Re:ChatGPT 4 is actually quite good at that (Score 1) 72

Indeed ChatGPT isn't a general intelligence AI, and can do a great illusion of passing the Turing test, but often fails when it comes to memory, unusual concepts etc.

Yet that isn't the point, the point is the utterly amazing interface. It's so much faster and more natural for humans to interface with than most other systems.

Comment Re:Well, that's barbaric (Score 4, Insightful) 265

Hey man, I'm a big lefty that believes in helping others whenever we can.
That said, you going into full blast mode aint helping convince anyone's heart or mind.

Like sure, many drug addicts are victims like all people who have been caught in a cycle of abusing a vice due to various reasons, but if grasshoppa's main crime was just to say he doesn't have a "whole lot of love for" them but doesn't agree with how the government is treating them, you need to calm down.

Comment Stadia failed for different reasons (Score 1) 12

Stadia didn't necessarily fail because it was a streaming game service, it failed because it:
* Required the game makers to make Stadia only version of popular games
* Made you buy the games out right and pay for a subscription service
* Many of the games weren't streaming suitable (high detailed or games where you needed super low latency)
Stadia wasn't the only game streaming service in town, and many of the other ones are still running.

If Netflix provide an extra bonus of streaming games ontop of their mobile games and their regular viewing content (with their regular viewing content being 99% of the reason people are there) I don't see anything wrong with it. I mean if they spun it out as a separate paid service where you pay for just their streaming games, then yeah, that would be doomed to failure but they don't seem that foolish right now.

You can't complain about Netflix providing streaming games and Netflix making you download separate game apps on your device. Those are their only 2 options to provide end users games.

Comment Re:3.7? (Score 1) 24

Python is a bit of a mess, and you end bundling a specific version of it with you libraries you need per application.

That said the quote "3.7 to 3.8 represents as much tragedy in the support world as 2.7 to 3.12" is pretty hyperbolic.

Python 2 to 3 includes numerous backwards incompatible syntax changes. The different between minor versions is normally a fix for security buffer overflows that might cause an issue in extreme scenarios.

The most brittle language that I currently know about is Swift and I tate the unpopular opinion of loving its brittlness as it means code isn't full of legacy ideas.
The difference between Swift and Python though is Swift extremly strongly typed and structured, so the ability to automatically upgrade the code to meet the latest syntax works really well.

Comment Re:Political Hot Air is the primary cause (Score 1) 200

> They were not doing science.

Yup, the Catholic church's investigations into the nature of the universe in the 1600s had a lot of flaws, and when it came to them vs Galileo, they definately weren't doing science.

I'm going to put a bit more stock in NASA, WMO, European Climate Foundation, Japan Meteorological Agency etc than I would in 1600s Catholic church when it comes to good science - or at least trust them over peterofoz's claim that NA is trending back to cooler and wetter climates.

Honestly, you're as exhausting to reply to as one would expect somebody with a name of "iAmWaySmarterThanYou" would be.

Comment Re:This will be great fodder (Score 5, Funny) 61

Person A: You just shot that person with a gun and they died!!

Person B: While yes I did just shoot this gun, but can you deny that people's health fluctuates all the time, many people died well before I pulled the trigger. What we're witnessing is just a human's natural capacity to die.

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