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Comment Re:Wonder how it feels... (Score 1) 78

That would be long-term profitable not short-term profitable. In the short term, it's always better to let the finance folks make decisions. And therein lies the problem: hit one bad financial quarter, need to let the bankers steer the ship, and then discover they don't easily let go of the reins.

Comment Re: Addictive? (Score 1) 127

I can interrupt someone reading a book ⦠and they often get annoyed. It is harder to interrupt someone engrossed in a film, and their annoyance level in my experience is greater. I may not be able to interrupt someone whose full senses are engaged, and the level of addiction may make them enraged if I succeed.

Books are level 1 engagement with fantasy. This is ratcheting that dial higher. Might be good, but might be very bad.

Comment Re: One question (Score 1) 127

He is a videographer who has worked in 3D more than pretty much anyone, with an effectively unlimited budget to pick up any device he wants â" not to mention accessing various prototypes. He might not be the *most* qualified reviewer, but he definitely is a qualified reviewer. He has zero incentive to sugar coat his answers, given all the 3D tech he has panned in the past.

Comment Re:ChatGPT is a programming language, or adjacent (Score 1) 64

If your prompt starts pulling in certain parts of the language tree, the GenAI can reject the prompt. If you simply draw a circle around entire topics and say it cannot comment about them, then it works. The problem is when they want it to be able to comment on a topic but only with certain responses, e.g., factually true statements or non-porn statements. Image generator is trickier, but I bet it can be done for famous people by checking the output image to see if the output looks like anyone recognizable by using facial recognition feedback.

Comment Re: I'm shocked (Score 1) 63

The AC is generally correct (amazing, I know). There are many right wing attempted book bans in USA, but most get overturned fairly quickly. They make news for happening and thatâ(TM)s how we know to go âoeremindâ (aka lawsuit) the local school boards that such bans are generally illegal.

Comment Re: I'm shocked (Score 2) 63

In the USA, slander is presumed legal and burden of proof for libel is on the prosecutor. In most of Europe, the burden is on the defendant. USA protects heavily political speech that calls for revolution. In most of Europe, that will get you quickly censored. Most famously, you can promote Nazi ideals in USA â" you maybe will be hated on by others, but you can speak. In all of Europe, you go to prison.

Comment Re: So for the 1% of Linux users... (Score 1) 40

There are scheduling algorithms that do a better job picking next task but spend so much time analyzing the available choices that they burn down the advantages of the better choice. So performance of the scheduler itself is something to at least check for when claiming an improvement in the performance of the tasks.

Comment Re: Cosmological Principle (Score 1) 60

Noshellswill isnâ(TM)t nonsense, though poor grammar. If matter can form stable structures at any scale, it poses math problems for entropy always net increasing. Local increases in entropy can happen, but universally, the entropy accumulates somewhere. But that implies some scale at which structure is impossible. If no such limit exists, math says the laws of thermodynamics are wrong somewhere.

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