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Comment Re:I get it. (Score 1) 85

If I had a remote position to fill, I'd just call a world class place like Tata, Accenture, Deloitte, etc., and just have them do the work out of Hyderabad.

There's a difference between filling a remote job, with someone who has brains, and filling a remote job with someone who can simply type. If I had a job to fill that could be done out of Hyderabad I'd call a world class place like Meta (yes this is a joke) and get their AI to do it instead (this part is not a joke).

Comment Re:trillions of dollars to AI, but AI not hiring (Score 2) 85

They could care less about human employees.

The other day I saw a speech by Donald Trump about oil prices where he said (direct quote) "I couldn't care less". Let the fact that Donald J Trump, infamously bad at speaking and incoherent at the best of times, knows how to use that phrase better than you do sink in for a second.

Comment Re:Yeah.... no (Score 1) 85

Hiring has simply been frozen

Unemployment figures disagree. As do job opening figures, which while they are down over the past 2 years they are still higher than at any point in the decade prior to the COVID pandemic.

The existing employees donot dare rebel, and simply do as they are told

People are changing jobs constantly. If you see some significant trend of people who don't rebel then it's a feature of your specific employer, not one in the wider industry.

Comment Re:Even pirating sucks (Score 1) 42

With the absolute crap that has been coming out (both TV and cinema)

How much of it have you looked at? With over 9500 feature films and over 1100 new TV serials being produced each year, I'm guessing your problem is that you only look at crap rather than having performed an assessment of available entertainment.

There's lots of truly awesome stuff out there both TV and cinema. Just branch out beyond what you seen plastered on a billboard by Warner Bros.

Comment Re:This is legally actionable negligence IMO (Score 1) 32

It's even more illegal in Germany. No really, not just a meme. If AI is a tool as Meta says, then the AI chatbot that bypasses access protections is a tool, which makes it a hacking tool under Section 202c of the German Criminal Code. It is a criminal offense to produce, sell, or distribute software intended to circumvent data protection.

Comment Re:what was the point of turning around (Score 1) 157

Aborting is standard practice for such things for multiple reasons:
1. Regulatory / legal: Dealing with potential problem people in a source country is preferable to just telling the destination country: "Yo bruh we're bringing a terrorist over, can you pick him up so that we can go through a lengthy extradition process to get him back?"
2. Opsec: The "bomb" hadn't exploded yet. You don't know why it hadn't exploded. Maybe it was timer based. Maybe it was GPS coordinate based. Maybe the target was the airport at Palma de Mallorca. Maybe it's not designed to go off but to be smuggled into the destination country. All we know was the target wasn't New Jersey.
3. Liability: A united plane dealing with an American airport in America with passengers in American jurisdiction makes for less legal headaches than unloading passengers in a foreign country straight into the hands of police.

Portables (Apple)

Dell Rivals Apple's MacBook Neo With $699 Touchscreen XPS 13 Laptop (bloomberg.com) 84

Dell has introduced a redesigned $699 XPS 13 aimed squarely at Apple's budget MacBook Neo, offering a premium aluminum design, touch display, backlit keyboard, Wi-Fi 7, 512GB of base storage, and various other configuration options. Dell's machine costs more than Apple's entry model but tries to justify the difference with lighter weight, better display specs, and upgrade paths Apple doesn't offer. "The XPS 13 begins at $699 -- students can purchase it for $599 -- while the MacBook Neo costs $599 and drops to $499 for education buyers," notes Bloomberg. From the report: Dell's product allows for more configuration, with up to 32GB of memory compared with the Neo's nonupgradeable 8GB of unified memory. Its display can also produce a wider spectrum of colors and supports refresh rates up to 120 hertz, while Apple reserves its best screens for the pricier MacBook Pro line.

The inclusion of a backlit keyboard should allow for easier typing in dark conditions. Dell has also tossed in other nice-to-have upgrades over the Neo like more robust Wi-Fi 7 wireless networking. As for battery life, Dell is touting "up to 17 hours of streaming" versus a comparable 16 hours on the Neo.

Still, the XPS comes with compromises of its own: Unlike the Neo, there's no built-in headphone jack, which means owners will need to rely on its quad-speaker audio system, use Bluetooth earbuds or plug a headphone adapter into one of the two USB-C ports.
You can learn more via Dell.com.

Comment Re:Why not risc-v? (Score 1) 79

To what end (for the consumer)? NVIDIA is targeting a PC so they are targeting the most commonly used OS (Windows) which has a perfectly functioning ARM build + x86 emulation layer already.

There's a LOT more work in doing something with RiscV than ARM right now as the latter has proven itself in software support already.

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