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Comment especially bad translations of pronouns (Score 1) 100

For many years, my friends and I have noticed that Google Translate (and YouTube) have a better chance of getting a European language pronoun wrong than correct.

We've noticed this: French, Italian, German, Spanish ... and most of the Scandinavian languages all suffer from this.

It must somehow be related to how those LLMs are trained.

Submission + - A completely unfair, subjective take on the latest laptops 1

davide marney writes: I am in the market for a replacement laptop. I need a snappy machine with a high-resolution screen because I do a lot of detailed work. Off I go to the nearest box store. After testing a baker's dozen Windows, Chromebook, and Apple laptops, here is my purely subjective take on how they compare:

All the Windows laptops have invested in adding AI features at the expense of hardware. I found only two machines that I would call snappy and with a high-resolution screen. The price floor for this level of hardware was $3,200. Every single laptop below that level was sluggish. We all know how Windows performance sags with age. If they're this slow brand new ... ?

All the Chromebooks were pitifully underpowered. While I admire ChromeOS for its efficiency, simplicity and no-maintenance ethos, an embarrassingly underpowered CPU is a guaranteed poor experience. What are these vendors thinking? The entire lineup is aimed straight at the bottom of the price pile. But so what if they cost just $350? Bad is still bad at any price.

Apple, thankfully, is generations ahead of everyone else in hardware. Even the most base of base models is snappy and has an excellent, finely-detailed display. My pick was the M5 Air 15-inch, a delightful machine to use. The price is $1,300, less than HALF the equivalent Windows laptop experience-wise. The world has turned upside down.

Submission + - Pluribus insanum et ridiculum

Mirnotoriety writes: Pluribus: S01E01: 12:53: Jenn the scientist removes her gloves and starts poking a rat infected with an unknown virus sent from an alien race six hundred light years away and the rat bites her. Jenn isn't even sent into quarantine (that's for amateurs like in actual science ) instead she's allowed to wander the lab and infects Mel at the vending machine. They both go on to infect the rest of the lab.

I was expecting better from Vince Gilligan. Reminds me when those exobiologists in “Alien: Prometheus” got stranded in that crashed alien ship and took off their helmets and had a sniff to determine if the air was breathable.

Comment my 40TB home solution (Score 1) 4

I have 2 MacBooks, and I network attach 6 Seagate 5TB portable external drives to those Macs (three to each of the 2 Macs). That's about 30TB available directly over my home router.

Seems to work fine, and the Seagates are far less costly than most NAS drives. Though, they do die occasionally. Oops.

Basically, I found a way to make my older Mac useful by simply leaving it on all the time, with the external drives attached.

Comment even smart people can make stupid remarks (Score 1) 291

Musk is smart and capable and extremely successful.

But that's no guarantee that this prediction will pan out.

In a year's time, or two or three, someone should remind him of this erroneous thought.

Also, please remember this Tweet he posted 3 months ago:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1740913974135459902?lang=en

"I stand by my prediction that, if Tesla executes extremely well over the next 5 years, that the long term value could exceed Apple and Aramco combined"

Right, Sure.

And fully autonomous cars, and the rise of twitter (X) as the sole source of Truth.

Comment fire executives who don't enforce good security? (Score 2) 62

how about fire all executives who don't enforce good security?

I mean, what's wrong with requiring basic security measures? with severe penalties for lax operations and enforcement.

ya know, expect decent levels of management. ... i know .. it's too much to ask for :(

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