Comment Re:We know how, just don't want to. (Score 1) 149
Comment Bezos paper explains data centers fine actually (Score 1) 91
WAPO offers "a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation."
Translation: stop worrying about the power bill you can no longer afford and go buy a car you can no longer afford so that we can improve AI enough to make literally everything "something you can't afford". Now *that's* innovation.
Anybody remember where we put those damned pitchforks? Democracy Dies in Darkness; who knew it was a mission statement?
Comment Re:Question ? (Score 2) 80
Also
- Battery drain (maybe you can turn it off?),
- Expense (it's a Mac; it doesn't need to be *more* expensive),
- Screen replacement gets somehow even more costly,
And finally,
- Remember Windows 8? Metro UI? Remember when a major OS maker tried to converge on touch last time?
Comment Brought to you by the letter K (Score 1) 116
Comment Shocking (Score 4, Insightful) 78
You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Water is wet, and goes down-hill. Trump founded a business riddled with incompetence.
Life's riddled with invariants like these.
Comment Dawkins has a rather consistent point of view (Score 1) 403
Man, I remember when Selfish Gene made its way into my hands, in the late 70's. A real "Chapman's Homer" moment for me. Led me later into a thesis on genetic algorithms. But along with that comes
While I'm not on board with Claude being in a class with humans, or cats for that matter, I think critics here might be missing a point, not about how Dawkins views LLMs so much as how he views humans. P-zombies is likely an overstatement, but don't expect him to require a 'ghost in the machine' to call Claude "conscious".
IMO, he isn't just inflating LLMs' abilities. He's coming in from a POV that humans aren't all that.
Comment Re:Just means none of the experts cared enough (Score 1) 94
My Erdos number was something I felt put me in a very exclusive club (my field is CS, btw)! Only a select few
Like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, the net is huge!
Comment Re:I have _never_ had colleagues ... (Score 1) 59
It's like there's 10 of me, well rested and in distraction free speed typing mode, and I'm a seasoned and experienced senior webdev who still loves his job.
I've had a similar experience! It's like there's a dozen SWEs working shoulder to shoulder.
- Nine are just brilliant.
- One's badly hung over and has just rejiggered the tests specifically to 'solve' an error in the code.
- One has apparently just had his first hit of X, and wants to tell me how great he thinks I am and that all my stupid ideas are genius.
- The last one occasionally just fucks off somewhere and all the work stops until he's 'up' for it again.
Genuinely, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I have on a rather massive personal project I'm working on without AI, but I've also spent a stunning time backing out some
Comment Back in my day ... (Score 1) 23
Comment Re:Security of AI agents (Score 1) 75
Comment Re:Flow movie (Score 1) 23
Comment Re: OK that seals the deal! (Score 2) 70
Given the place of the magnificent seven in the US economy, as well as the massive sucking up of the tech bros to the current administration, a bailout is all but assured.
Those poor fellows *need* my money; who am I to say no?
Comment Re:This is not about "your printer" snitching (Score 1) 99
Comment Re:Not even the worst part ... (Score 1) 95
That's not what I am seeing.
Funny, I'm seeing that a lot in the comments; I'm on 26.1; perhaps a fix awaits in 26.2
I find the behavior inconsistent on 26.1. With the window *definitely* in focus, I still can move the cursor from outside the window slowly through the corner into the window with no change. The misbehavior seems more consistent outside->in rather than vv.
I mostly did user interface work prior to retirement