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Comment Most likely bullshit (Score 2) 6

You can get any logic-gate system to "play Doom". One of the ways I'm familiar with to do this with neurons is use an effect called "spike-timing-dependent plasticity". It's basically like creating a circuit with flip-flops and logic gates at that point and claiming "yo, I got transistors to play doom bro". I don't know if that's what they did here .. if it is (someone find out?).. that's pretty damn lame. STDP produces a deterministic behavior. Either way, the cells have no idea they're playing Doom the same as a clock has no idea what time it is.

Comment Re:Interesting ... (Score 1) 25

IRS? I guess there's a building and a letterhead, but they can't be doing much now that their staff and funding is gone.

Much to the pleasure of rich people and large corporations who, more often than others, have complex tax returns that need experienced people at the IRS to review for fraud. Can't imagine why this administration, and Republicans in general, want to downsize the IRS. /s

Comment Re:Constitution? (Score 5, Insightful) 81

We know you haven't read the thing, but seriously?

"The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Quote me the part in the US Constitution that Anthropic is violating. Anyone?

This is the guy who wanted to prosecute (and, if I recall, execute) six democrat members of Congress, who are (I think) all former service members, for seditious conspiracy because they reminded service members about their obligation to *not* follow unlawful orders -- ignoring the facts that (a) it's literally the law and stated in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), (b) it's taught to all military personnel, (c) their speech is protected by the 1st Amendment and (d) they're *also* protected by the Speech and Debate clause of The Constitution. [all assertions are to the best of my knowledge]

Comment Interesting ... (Score 4, Informative) 25

The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a "seemingly threatening" drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection

The U.S. Military is threatened by unidentified DHS/CBP equipment and the Administration wonders why people are afraid of masked DHS/ICE agents. Seems like identification (and accountability) would be good all around. /rant

Makes one wonder why ICE/CBP Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry - quadruple/double over 2024 (respectively):

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection have formally approved contracts for at least a whopping $144 million in weapons, ammunition, and other accessories during Trump’s first year. The analysis—based on government contracting data—documents at least a fourfold increase for ICE and a doubling for CBP, relative to 2024, concluding that this will “build a heavily-armed domestic police force.”

Would make for a nice, loyal, private army going into the 2026 and 2028 elections ... /tin-foil-hat

Google: ICE weapon funding

Comment Cynical translation (Score 3, Funny) 69

Nasa would introduce at least one new moon flight before attempting to put humans back on the lunar surface

They haven't finished designing and testing the gold plaque with Trump's name on it. Getting it down to a manageable / transportable size and weight seems to be the main sticking point. Apparently, "someone" wants it to be visible from Earth and doesn't understand the impractically of that. /s

Comment Re:WTF do you mean the customer gets a say?! (Score 2) 21

Most don't give a shit, most are OK with the quality hit. CEOs know that. The cost saving from AI is too compelling. Decades ago, my friend worked at a textile plant in North Carolina. They shut down that plant in the 90s. They were selling good quality fabric at $20 an hour. The Chinese offered slightly inferior fabric at $4. Clothes makers/ chose the $4 fabric, because ultimately the consumer was OK with replacing their clothes more often. Don't blame the clothes makers, definitely don't blame China. Blame the consumer. Don't shift the blame, ultimately it was the choice and attitude of the consumer. They knew the whole time too.

Comment Re:YouTube tech reviewers are losing their sh*t (Score 5, Insightful) 54

Steve Burke has more integrity than all the upper management and the owners of these corporations. He's right to be angry, we should all be angry at how we are all being cheated, lied to and manipulated. Gamers Nexus is one of the few channels producing honsety professional journalism. He has to make up for a corrupt and classist fifth estate which has been taken over by the rich and powerful. If it wasn't for a few people who bravely speak out, most people wouldn't even bother to try to understand how bad our situttion really is.

People, we are losing our freedoms and our rights. Once gone, they will be almost impossible to reclaim. Now is the time to get involved and do anything which might help.

Comment Re:Bad for gamers too (Score 3, Funny) 54

gamers can manage, i don't need more memory or a better GPU because like most gamers, i've turn off the eye candy anyways so I can get better FPS.

not to even mention how the classist transnational corporations have turned our games into thier engines of exploitation designed to rip off even children :(

Comment so what, classism is killing people (Score 0, Troll) 54

typical first worlders, worried about our toy prices while our upper class commits genocide, kills our climate and pollutes our planet

rich people are evil and completely irresponsible, welcome to the collapse of civilization once again brought about by our greed, selfsihness and stupidity

Comment Re:doublespeak, we're not stupid sean (Score 2) 83

Whatever you think of their honesty, the phrase has a single meaning, which is "we're not going to do it" with the additional pretty obvious inference "because it is unethical".

Your post isn't merely pedantry, it's just willful denial of what ultimately is a very clear and unambiguous statement.

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