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Comment Re: Obvious motivation (Score 1) 145

There are two kinds of people. Those who don't understand the difference between dispatchable and non-dispatchable energy and those who are unable to accept the implications.

Oh no, you're sadly mistaken. The difference is obvious. The answer is that IDGAF. The people who need their power to be that reliable should be investing in storage, including The People investing in enough for domestic needs. But nobody should be getting their image of a furry with five boobs on their own schedule in a way that impinges on existence for the rest of us. Make hay while the sun shines.

Comment pricing fail (Score 1) 11

Pei said in his video that his choice of chip might have been wrong for the âoe0.1 percent of the population who need the bleeding edge of processorsâ but that his brand was âoenever meant for the spec warriors.â

The phone is $200 more than their prior phone, and priced like faster phones. How was that supposed to work?

Comment Re:In a fair market yeah they do (Score 1, Informative) 73

The US economy has grown by 29.8% since 2020.
That's roughly $7 trillion dollars.

Why are real wages falling while the economy is growing?
Followup, why should workers care about GDP under these conditions?

(yes, yes, i know, Trump is going to turn the US into a third-world country somehow)

People in some third world countries have affordable health care. The quality of life in the USA is already worse than in those.

Comment Re:I never liked this head fake (Score 1) 145

It is telling to see text from the 60s reinterpreted to include climate change in the 2000's. Personally I think the text was obviously intended to address pollution (poisonous shit) that directly endangers public health...

CO2 is poisonous and directly endangers public health. Increased CO2 levels do direct harm. The levels at which they do obvious measurable harm to anyone are significantly higher than where they are in the atmosphere on average now, but levels which affect health commonly occur in poorly ventilated spaces with lots of people in them.

However, your premise also is based on a falsehood. The definition of pollution is not and never was "poisonous shit".

Comment Re:So we are way past climate change here (Score 1) 145

Not sure why you got downvoted as a "Troll" for pointing out the obvious fact that our current government is eliminating many of the safeguards that protect "the commons" (and thus, the citizens)

Because he's wrong about one thing: The Republicans will read the thread. And they say "that's woke bullshit" so they don't have to think, and then they attack so nobody else has to think either. If they can save some of their brothers in stupidity from having to think, that's a win for them.

Comment Re: Obvious motivation (Score 1) 145

Nuclear fission will cost more. I'm not opposed to nuclear fission, but I'm opposed to any concern about costs. Reducing CO2 emissions is all that matters.

Costs always matter under capitalism, which dominates the planet. Unless you're advocating for public ownership of everything, they will continue to matter.

All this bullshit about "they said wind is cheaper!" misses the point. Who gives a shit if "they" are right or wrong about that point? All that matters is that we support politicians who will take steps to reduce CO2 emissions and oppose those who will not.

Promoting nuclear power is opposing taking the most effective steps to reduce CO2 emissions because 1) we use money to control production and therefore it matters and 2) for the same amount of money we can achieve greater CO2 reduction with wind and solar than with nuclear.

Pretending that capitalism doesn't matter is ignoring the dominant paradigm of the entire planet. Willful ignorance never improved anything.

Comment Re:They don't really care about censorship (Score 1) 227

The people who whine about cancelling are actually the ones doing the cancelling now.

They always were. The Nazis were reich wing. The "witch" burners were right wing. American cuckservatives love to ban everything. That's real cancel culture. The reich loves to cry about people not buying their products or consuming their hate media as if it were equivalent to oppression.

Comment Re:Just like humans: How we train them. (Score 4, Insightful) 37

If you train the coder to write secure software, it will. If you don't, it won't. Same rule applies to people as AI.

No, it does not.

The AI doesn't know what makes secure code or not. It just makes code that looks like it's secure. Humans can do the same thing of course, but the difference is that they have a chance to know. The AI doesn't know anything at all. It only contains analyses of tokens which causes them to be stuck together in statistically familiar ways.

You could train your AI only on the best code in the world, and it would still hallucinate insecure code for you.

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