Comment Re: AI will save the German fax machine (Score 1) 49
By "recipe" do you mean "receipt"?
Comment Re:Headline is stupid (Score 2) 48
I think they mean that the P=NP problem seems unsolvable (so far) and the AI made an algorithm for a specific one of those problems that gives a "good-enough" answer. It definitely didn't solve bin-packing, but maybe we have a better/faster decent answer now.
Comment Re:Everything everywhere all at once (Score 1) 184
Adventure in the multiverse with Kung-fu. What not to like
I hated everything about that giant messy piece of shit. It was not original or entertaining. I see what they were going for but they missed, widely.
Comment Re:Is it an LLM, or... (Score 1) 57
When it comes to data management now or anytime in the future, forcing humans to find the delete button would be the most efficient algorithm of all. Like no-machine-can-come-close better. Reminds me of the days when I would migrate users over to a new file server and force them to move their own data by a deadline. I'd consistently find anywhere from 50 - 80% of the data being abandoned and lost. Naturally I backed it up to cover several years of "Oh shit" events, because humans do that too.
I don't know, I still have lots of files from old computers going back to the 90's including my first mp3. Do I look at them ever? No. But I have them. And I've got 140TB of disk space so I don't care.
Comment Should have put Descent on the Wii (Score 1) 50
They fucked up when they didn't release a port of the Descent (1, 2, or 3) on the Wii. The motion controller was basically built for those games.
Comment Re:What? (Score 2) 86
Yes, I don't understand that part at all, there isn't a privacy issue when actively breaking the law in public and hindering a municipal service.
This seems like the exact right time to give someone a ticket because they are currently, right at that exact moment, blocking the bus in defiance of the rules. It's not like "yeah, they're in the bus lane but it's not hurting anyone." The bus is there, get the fuck out of the way.
This seems like the exact right time to give someone a ticket because they are currently, right at that exact moment, blocking the bus in defiance of the rules. It's not like "yeah, they're in the bus lane but it's not hurting anyone." The bus is there, get the fuck out of the way.
Comment Re: let me think about this (Score 3, Insightful) 211
But it doesn't take any effort. And mistakes like the lack of capitalization, misspellings (like "thia article"), and misusage of words ("carry the posterity" is vaguely understandable in context but does not actually mean what is intended) all count against whatever argument you are attempting to make in the reader's mind. You basically declared you don't care about the rest of us, rendering your comment instantly discardable regardless of its intrinsic merit.
Comment Re:Rust entered the top 20 again (Score 1) 84
A developer that uses python might also use php and javascript and C# and C++ and SQL and Java as well.
The percentages don't represent distinct developer groups, so your numbers are wrong and low.
The percentages don't represent distinct developer groups, so your numbers are wrong and low.
Comment The problem is obvious (Score 1) 96
"the installation's 19 metres by 11 metres (62ft by 36ft) chamber"
They're only building their chamber in two dimensions! You have to add that third one to really get going.
They're only building their chamber in two dimensions! You have to add that third one to really get going.
Comment Re:Amazon had to do something... (Score 1) 48
I think Alexa losing money is mostly an accounting thing.
I order stuff from Amazon through my echos, and more importantly I've had an Amazon Music family subscription for years only so the echos I bought for me, my mother, and my brother could play whatever. I don't use it on my computer or phone, just the echos.
Amazon Music shows the profit, but it's because of Alexa.
I order stuff from Amazon through my echos, and more importantly I've had an Amazon Music family subscription for years only so the echos I bought for me, my mother, and my brother could play whatever. I don't use it on my computer or phone, just the echos.
Amazon Music shows the profit, but it's because of Alexa.
Comment Re:Fuck it (Score 1) 49
Ha! I wish I had modpoints to mark this as funny.
I shake my head every time one of the "I'm using Windows 7 forever and then moving to Linux although I haven't switched to Linux yet" guys post in these types of stories.
Nice.
I shake my head every time one of the "I'm using Windows 7 forever and then moving to Linux although I haven't switched to Linux yet" guys post in these types of stories.
Nice.
Comment Has slashdot forgotten what a summary is? (Score 3, Insightful) 26
What is with all these giant blocks of texts used as summaries on slashdot recently? I used to be able to see multiple stories at once on the page but this one took almost all of it. This has happened a lot lately.
Comment Re:"Force Installing" (Score 1) 84
The last time Microsoft pushed a compatibility appraiser, people woke up in the morning with Windows 10 installed. People remember, and reputation matters.
Don't worry, the primary purpose of PC Health Check seems to be to tell you that you can't install Windows 11.
Comment Re:bait and switch (Score 1) 168
That is a fair point about the trailers, etc., but I've never read E! or Screen Rant (or heard of SR), I was just interested in the movie because I loved the book. I can see how if all you knew about the Dune movie was that it was coming out you wouldn't know but they weren't hiding it and the OP's "bait and switch" idea is nonsense.
Comment Re:bait and switch (Score 2) 168
I'm not sure how you missed that it was going to be in two parts since that was widely broadcast and discussed since it was first announced that they were actually going to make it.
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