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Comment Re:The death of homework (Score 1) 63

Homework has for decades been a substitute for learning.

Wow, you made it to be a grown arse adult and yet you still don't understand what homework is? Hint: Virtually no one is able to do homework without the class. One isn't a substitute for another. Homework is a practical application of what you learn in class to strengthen the concepts.

AP classes aren't actually "advanced" they just require more homework.

So you're saying advanced classes shouldn't require you to strengthen learned concepts or practice them? Maybe if you understood what homework is and it's purpose then you can come join me in this post and say with me with conviction: "No shit advanced classes require more homework."

Exercises and essays and workbooks can be done in school.

Agreed. Now you'll also agree with me to double the teachers wages since you just doubled their working hours right? Right? RIGHT?

If AI kills all those extra hours of busywork, that's a good thing.

Yes because outsourcing learning to a computer helps our understanding, knowledge and skills. ... Are you an AI? I can't understand how a thinking human would have constructed your post, not even an OpenAI marketing drone could put that little thought into the topic of education.

Comment Re:phrasing, subby. (Score 2) 13

Is that better or worse? I was under the impression that most people find the catching of a rocket booster like SpaceX does with those little arms to be more awesome than just landing the booster.

I also thought that outside of having to land on Mars it is the preferred approach because it is more efficient.

Finally: Caught it in a net conjures up the wrong image. If you look at the video the 'net' is much more like the mechazilla arms and not some fishing net they plop the booster into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Land of the free ... (Score 1) 120

There are thousands of each strewn across Europe, earning billions feeding Europeans with American food.

You misspelled European food. There's no American ingredients and no American staff used to make any of that food. Also try and find an American McDonalds that serves a McRaclette like they do in Switzerland.

Comment Re: Land of the free ... (Score 1) 120

To be clear it all tastes like the same rubbish, so you probably didn't miss anything. But McDonalds in Italy does serve things like cheese nuggets with Asiago Fresco cheese, and burgers with radishes and Asiago. Actually just looking it up it seems that's their big "localisation", that one Italian cheese.

Comment Re:This is an outrage! (Score 1) 119

And yet they haven't been slapped on those products, and were in the past not associated with those products in any way. Point is it is often quite hard to distinguish real from China slop (check some of the other comments pointing out that some of TFS listed names are actually legit), but when an actual recognisable brand name is used, ... it's actually easier to identify.

Would you buy a HiFire BBQ temperature gauge? Maybe, maybe not. What do you know about them? Nothing. Would you buy a Kodak one? That's easier to answer, no.

Comment Re:God damn the EU (Score 1) 6

You didn't hear anything over the woooooooshing sound made repeatedly by the many number of times I spammed the word American and the obvious signoff at the end of the post ensuring that even the silliest person would understand that my post was sarcastic.

What went wrong when you tried to read my post?

Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 45

But why do they still allowed things like cigarettes, why not ban those altogether?

Cigarettes are heavily regulated and taxed. We could only dream of a world where Facebook is as heavily regulated as cigarettes. Let's apply this shall we?
- Cigarettes are banned for minors, we should ban minors from Facebook.
- Cigarettes are subject to huge taxes in a great part to disincentivise smoking. We should make Facebook pay per use.
- Cigarettes are banned from marketing in many places. We should ban Meta from placing any adds on Facebook.
- Cigarettes are banned from having flavours which make them even more addictive or pleasant. We should ban Meta from optimising their algorithm to make it addictive.
- Cigarette manufactures are required to provide detailed ingredients lists on request. We should force Meta (and all tech companies) to open source their algorithms so we can see how they are pushing rubbish.
- Cigarettes in many European countries are not allowed to be displayed publicly for sale nor sold in supermarkets. We should force Meta to not automatically auto-play or infinite scroll (oh wait that's what we're doing now).

oh ...

Many countries ban the sale of cigarettes via the internet ... can ... we ... ban Facebook from... please?

Comment Re:Quite the opposite, I think... (Score 2) 45

I believe that Meta both assessed those risks and - based on those assessments - altered their design to maximize the risks.

Believe? My friend you don't need to believe, Meta admitted it in 2018 when they got dragged in front of various governments to explain their site and the cambridge analytical scandal.

Comment Re:People are sheep and can't help themselves (Score 2) 45

So let's all blame the scapegoat.

The "scapegoat" literally employed people from the gambling industry in an attempt to make their product as addictive to possible to the sheep, and openly admitted doing so under oath in front of congress.

Let's not blame the "scapegoat". Let's outright slaughter it and grill it, and then wear it's coat as a warning to others. That's what the "scapegoat" deserves.

Comment Re:Leave Meta alone or face embargoes on all trade (Score 0) 45

"Stop trying to extend your authority over our citizens", doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

Literally no one is extending authority over your citizens. They are exercising the authority to regulate how companies work with *their* citizens. Meta already geofence their products so they behave differently in different regions. All tech companies do.

"Discard convenient features because we have a bug up our ass", does.

The gambling addict says the dopamine hit he gets from winning a hand while being down thousands of dollars is really convenient to keep him going so that he will strike lucky, just like he feels. Only people with bugs up their ass would regulate addictive behaviour or substances. /s

Comment Re:Testing, testing... (Score 1) 61

At no point of a driving test do you break laws to make space for emergency vehicles. Robo taxi companies would have absolutely zero problem passing the standard driving test, and do so without making the errors that are permitted.

Even in Germany where driving tests are hard this isn't a component of it.

Have you even taken a driving test? There's a reason the roads are full of abject morons.

Comment Re:Priorities (Score 1) 61

While that is true in general it does rely on the idea of emergency services working with you as well in some situations. Take the mobile phone situation. It's already done. The concept of interoperability is baked into standards on a protocol level. As a critical feature it is utterly trivial to implement. On the flip side working with emergency services on the road is probably the single most complex coding task you know. The premise is literally: "Forget every law you know, carefully anticipate movements of vehicles and predict how people act, and try to make space while actively doing things that could damage your car including potentially mounting curbs, driving into intersections on red, and adapt to the situation when you made the wrong call (such as moving the shoulder when the ambulance thinks the shoulder is the fastest way to go, and get your arse back in the middle of the road).

The most complex thing an emergency service call needs to do on a phone is send a pre-defined signal that would allow it to connect even if it were registered on a network that it isn't subscribed to make calls on, literally implement the standard.

As for the emergency services working with you part, the idea that waymo doesn't know where emergency services are in the first place is a core problem. I run an app on my phone (not in America) that tells me where emergency services vehicles are relative to me while giving me directions. It often beeps to tell me there's an ambulance coming long before I can see lights or hear a siren, so by the time they are in sight I've already made space.

Problem like this need to be solved together. Otherwise from a coding and design point of view this one edge case literally does more than double the design complexity.

Comment Re:Easy part's done (Score 2) 61

Just wait until there's an actual mass casualty event - earthquake, terror, something like that, and these all things go comatose in intersections like they did in SF last year.

You just described what happens to real drivers in emergencies as well. There's literally never been any of the things you listed that haven't resulted in utter traffic chaos in and around the area where it has occurred.

That said I do agree with your premise. These companies do need to work on it, especially the concept of "breaking" laws in emergencies, like when you need to pull into an intersection on a red light to make space for an ambulance or something like that.

Comment God damn the EU (Score 1) 6

and their crazy probes into American tech! Won't Trump do something to save the American company SAP from the evil EUSSR! Hit the EU with tariffs for going after such an amazing American institution. This attack on American tech is like a war on everything American. Why can't the EU innovate and compete with great American companies! /s

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