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Comment This is the Path to CEO AI Psychosis (Score 5, Insightful) 38

Nadella is not showing psychosis here, but the fact that he thinks his chatbot hack of a webpage is evidence of something important show him on the road to get there.

CEOs “play with AI,” develop a prototype, or generate a contract, to use Levie’s examples, and then make the leap to believing agents can do the work.

But these top-level executives aren’t the people who have to review code, discover bugs, and identify calls to hallucinated libraries before software is deployed. They aren’t responsible for training AI models on a company’s idiosyncratic contract terms, nor do they have to spend days combing through contracts to find sneaky terms, as Levie indicates.

In other words, Levie’s theory posits, CEOs don’t really understand processes well enough to know what really can and can’t be automated. But that lack of knowledge doesn’t stop them from acting on their beliefs.

Comment Re:why is this exposed to the net? (Score 1) 47

Yes, you can. If you want full physical separation, it gets pricey. Back in late 1960s, early 1970s, the Bell System did it for their switches. They were a regulated monopoly, so they earned 12% on whatever money they spent on network infrastructure. So far as I know, no private company has done the full separation thing since.

Comment Re:"proud maga" (Score 1) 229

I've seen what happens when atheists take power in a country. Anyone care to relate what the usual outcome is?

Yes, they become an economic superpower and they slowly take the place of the USA on the world stage.

A very nice country, with very nice, hard-working but still fun-loving (take that, calvinists!) people, thank to them not having religious hangups and neuroses.

Comment Re:HP INK only $39.99/GAL (Score 3, Informative) 54

I regret to inform you that you have woefully underestimated it. The actual retail rate offered to consumers is closer to $2200 US per gallon. Sources: internet-ink.com, cbc.ca. This $14 million fine is only worth like, seven thousand gallons, or less than 200 oil barrels of ink.

Comment Ha. Old hat... (Score 1) 87

More than 35 years ago, well before the Internet, BBSes ruled.

One I was a pillar of was nothing but a wall where you would post anonymously (or not).
The software was written to verify the typing rate to make sure that no text was uploaded

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

I wrote a special terminal program that would randomize the time between characters to foil that BBS's rejection of uploads...

(Oh, it worked, and the dude running the show never found out).

Comment Re:Surely (Score 1) 153

"And that's before you consider that TikTok and Slashdot are not remotely similar in their impact on people. "

Quantify this. What is this "impact" on people, and how are you measuring it?

You can do that, right? Because if you can't you're just another moron talking about how video games and rock lyrics and D&D are corrupting the minds of our youth.

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 197

"What is the point of having a job, when you can not live from the wage?"

Sometimes it's to buy textbooks, or make extra money on the side, or to earn money during the summer so you can spend it during the rest of the year.

It's myopic to assume that all jobs are supposed to be full-time careers.

Comment Re:0.5 mm resolution (Score 1) 25

Also, they claim it is safe due to lack of radiation. But ultrasonic can fuck shit up too. I mean ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones, shear and fragment DNA (for NGS prep).

Good points, but to be fair, ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones because it is safe to use it to do so.

Comment Re:AUR (Score 1) 43

I have literally never seen anyone who uses Arch make any claims whatsoever about the AUR being a safe or secure place to get packages. It's a standard disclaimer to install packages from there at your own risk. Which is fine: Arch is not at all designed to be newbie friendly to begin with, so having an extended package universe that is "install at your own risk" is fine: you should use Arch iff you're very well aware of the risks of something like the AUR.

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