Comment Re: Cartel (Score 1) 70
I mean, the US govt can propose all the laws it wants, but ASML isnt an American companyâ¦
Comment Re: Computers uses newer chips, film at 11 (Score 1) 47
They renamed it because the new P cores sit in the middle. There are now âoesuperâ cores which are what the old performance cores were, efficiency cores, which stayed the same, and new âoeperformanceâ cores that are in between. Naming scheme is wonky but itâ(TM)s not that difficult to understand
Comment Re: Cut lives saving USAID and spread job killing (Score 2) 49
It benefits us more than it costs
Also now the money is being spent on Russel Voughts personal security detail/concierge service. Do you truly think thats a better us than helping people eat?
Also now the money is being spent on Russel Voughts personal security detail/concierge service. Do you truly think thats a better us than helping people eat?
Comment Re: I just don't see the pendant.. (Score 1) 34
Airpods Max are you obvious asshole trigger?
Oh no, big headphones, no one else makes those! /s
And people using speakerphone all over is douchey, but itâ(TM)s certainly not an iPhone issueâ¦
Comment Re: Somebody isn't aware of ThinkGeek (Score 1) 41
And owned by the same parent as /. for a while to boot
Comment Re: Really? (Score 1) 57
On Fords you can pull the fuse for the module and the car will work just fine
Comment The only reason... (Score 1) 65
...that use is even as high as it is is that google shoved their, often wrong, AI summary into the top slot on searches by default. I wouldnt necessarily call the current AI landscape a fad, there's plenty of good uses for LLMs, but the current trend of "shove AI into everything" feels a lot like the whole "shove blockchain into everything" trend from a few years back but a lot bigger, and I think people are kinda getting sick of it
Comment Ugh (Score 2) 20
Am I the only one who doesnt want my browser to have that level of access to the GPU?
Comment Re:Tax Increases Inbound (Score 4, Informative) 57
Erm..
1) the public pension basically the same as the average social security check in the US but there's also universal healthcare, which is the overwhelming cost problem for most American seniors, and better renter protections which is the other major problem for American seniors
2) it's in *addition* to mandatory employer paid pensions for most folks
so, in reality, a lot more bang for their buck than here for that 45%
1) the public pension basically the same as the average social security check in the US but there's also universal healthcare, which is the overwhelming cost problem for most American seniors, and better renter protections which is the other major problem for American seniors
2) it's in *addition* to mandatory employer paid pensions for most folks
so, in reality, a lot more bang for their buck than here for that 45%
Comment Re:The question is... (Score 2, Insightful) 361
What does *he* envision a hypothetical scenario where AI has taken over an extremely large amount of the labor?
I'll grant that it is an *unlikely* scenario, but should it come to pass that we manage huge reductions in the need for human labor, and large chunks of the population pretty much have to 'stop working' whether they like it or not, what does he imagine the outcome?
Make an argument that AI isn't going to be *that* game changing, sure. But I really dislike the argument that humans don't deserve to get by unless they are somehow needed for work. Everyone do their part, but if there aren't as many parts to be done...
Particularly rich from a spoiled guy who hasn't had to *really* work a day of his life...
Probably for everyone not rich or in a job to service the rich that AI cant do to "die and decrease the surface population"
Comment Re:Great idea, terrible implementation (Score 1) 98
One quibble: the mac studio has usba ports and isnt absurdly expensive, so it's not just the mac pro, and the mini only lost usba ports a few months ago, the M1-M3 AS models all have USBA, the redesigned M4 doesnt
Comment Re: If you're not familiar... (Score 4, Informative) 337
First of all itâ(TM)s closer to 10 months of direct active work, teachers usually have faculty weeks before and after the school year, second of all itâ(TM)s really 12 months because most teachers spend most of the summer doing professional development/continuing ed and class prep work, third of all that number is very skewed by a few places where teacher pay happens to be very good, at least after they hot a decent level of seniority, like NYC, the majority of teachers arent making 84k or more. My wife is a HA science teacher btw, Iâ(TM)m a software engineer, she works 3 times as hard as me for 1/3 the pay
Comment Webkit... (Score 2) 180
Calling out Apple of all companies here is interesting considering that Chrome was originally a fork of Webkit, Apple's framework, the form of KHTML that eventually replaced KHTML in its open source uses and is actively developed by Apple and the community today. I'd argue Apple's been far more benevolent overall to the public web with WebKit than Google has with Chrome at least
Comment Re: Forget College (Score 1) 213
Not to mention much of modern manufacturing requires extremely well educated engineers of several types, data analytics, etc to be built up, managed, and maintained. If we dont have the educated workforce for that bringing more of our outsourced manufacturing to the US is a DOA proposal
Comment Re: Sooo elegant (Score 1) 43
You have dongles on your phone?
