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Comment Re:Offset? (Score 1) 91

If you REALLY want to compare costs between ICE and EV solutions, fine. Remove ALL government subsidies, tax breaks, kickbacks, and deductions both solutions are getting right now, and just tell me what it costs a consumer.

The fossil fuel industry is the most subsidized thing in history. Let's do this! Though if we did it all at once, civilization would probably collapse.

That will tends to say a lot about the overall cost of the new compared to the old.

EVs are the old. At first there were far more EVs than ICEVs because of the lack of availability of fuel. Anyone could assemble a state of the art battery back then, and it was much easier to generate electricity than to refine gasoline. That part is still true!

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 73

"Cite YOUR fucking sources for your claims that you should cite sources for your own knowledge when used in every day scenarios."

Every fucking customer I deal with demands to know how I know this or that to come to how I repaired or designed their PCB.

Any customer that isn't asking you to prove your shit is an idiot and is a major cause of why we get tons of hacks that claim they know shit but don't.

Comment Re:They already have that info (Score 1) 140

"Kids are just not ready for some adult stuff until older. And that's the real fight here, some people think it should be OK to expose truly under-age kids to any degree of sexually related material."

Since the 60s a huge chunk of us, as children, got our experience to porno via magazines, usually under parents beds or in their drawers.

How many of us turned out fucked up? I'll wait while you make the count.

Comment Re: So that is why their crap still sucks so bad. (Score 1) 46

So it's slightly less terrible now, whoopee.

Just watched a coworker try to find an outlook window, not only was it not appearing but couldn't right click the entry in the taskbar menu and move it into visibility. Every few days word documents stop loading correctly, not even all the widgets in the window will draw, have to quit (closing all open windows) and restart word to get it to work again.

Microsoft is still shit, and will always be shit.

Comment Re: So that is why their crap still sucks so bad.. (Score 1) 46

"Microsoft software now is light years ahead of where it used to be."

Are we talking about the same software?

Stable and works? OneNote crashed when I renamed a note. Teams still isn't able to detect which messages you have read and update the flag on the icon correctly. Microsoft software is just as shit as it has ever been.

Submission + - Bill Gates Is Still Pulling the Strings at Microsoft

theodp writes: According to Business Insider, reports of the death of Bill Gates' influence at Microsoft have been greatly exaggerated: "Publicly, [Bill] Gates has been almost entirely out of the picture at Microsoft since 2021, following allegations that he had behaved inappropriately toward female employees. In fact, Business Insider has learned, Gates has been quietly orchestrating much of Microsoft's AI revolution from behind the scenes. Current and former executives say Gates remains intimately involved in the company's operations — advising on strategy, reviewing products, recruiting high-level executives, and nurturing Microsoft's crucial relationship with Sam Altman, the cofounder and CEO of OpenAI. In early 2023, when Microsoft debuted a version of its search engine Bing turbocharged by the same technology as ChatGPT, throwing down the gauntlet against competitors like Google, Gates, executives said, was pivotal in setting the plan in motion. While Nadella might be the public face of the company's AI success — the Oz who built the yellow-brick road to a $3 trillion juggernaut — Gates has been the man behind the curtain."

"Today, Gates remains close with Altman, who visits his home a few times a year, and OpenAI seeks his counsel on developments. There's a 'tight coupling' between Gates and OpenAI, a person familiar with the relationship said. 'Sam and Bill are good friends. OpenAI takes his opinion and consult overall seriously.' OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed OpenAI continues to meet with Gates."

Among the three new members named to OpenAI's Board of Directors in March 2024 following Altman's return to the company was Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And in January, Microsoft exec Dee Templeton joined OpenAI’s board as Microsoft's non-voting observer as part of the OpenAI boardroom revamp. Templeton is an advisor to Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who has been credited with brokering the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership. Talking to Bill Gates in a March 2023 podcast, Scott shared a secret: "By the time this podcast airs, OpenAI will have made their announcement to the world about GPT-4 (prompting Gates to declare The Age of AI Has Begun), but I want to sort of set the stage. The unveiling of the first instance of GPT-4 outside of OpenAI was actually to you last August at a dinner that you hosted with Reid [Hoffman] and Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and Satya [Nadella] and a whole bunch of other folks [including Scott]. Earlier that same month, a Microsoft spokesperson downplayed a report by The Information on Gates' role in the Microsoft-OpenAI pact.

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