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Comment Re: Cue up (Score 1) 347

You realize there are a bunch of homes available for sale in all sorts of places for next to nothing. The problem isn't "housing", it is "housing where people want to live". Declining population in places like Italy have created housing collapse where nice houses aren't sold, and sit empty, and they'll pay you to move into one.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 192

It isn't colonial, it is industrial. The current format of school is that of preparing for a factory workforce. We are post industrial, knowledge/AI/Whatever it will be called workforce.

Educators need to come to grip with getting EVERY child their MAX educational value we can. This means breaking the rows and columns of desks in a classroom, and getting kids their most valuable education they can get. This means some will do much better than others. Talent has gradations. Not everyone can be a Astro Physics expert.

Comment Re:Cue up (Score -1, Troll) 347

"fair" is subjective. What you think is "fair" isn't really fair. It is objectively unfair to use qualitative terms in discussion of policy.

What would be fair, is that Government live within the means we ALREADY tax out of the public. Cut Spending first. Then, when all cuts that can be made, are made, then MAYBE we can have a discussion on tax increases.

Its Not Your Money.

Envy isn't a virtue.

Comment Never isn't the right word (Score 1) 133

As anyone who's bought an early Tesla Model 3 with "Full Self Driving" knows, it's that Elon isn't afraid of making big promises and never making good on them.

From the Yahoo article:

May 2022: In a pitch deck for Twitter investors, Musk claims the company will bring in $15 million in revenue from a payments business in 2023.

        October 2023: In a call with workers, Musk says he expects X to launch a payments feature by the end of 2024.

        January 2025: An X post from then X CEO Laura Yaccarino says the product will debut in 2025.

        February 2026: In an xAI all-hands meeting, Musk says a limited version is in beta testing. He also publicly extends an invitation to actor William Shatner, who later posts screenshots from his X Money account.

        March 2026: Musk says in an X post that "early public access" will launch in April.

...and of course it's in beta to a limited number of users right now.

Comment AI generator actors (Score 1) 90

Trying to think of a single movie or tv show which I love so much I would be happy if they did this to make more... Nope. Can't think of any.

One thing for sure: this will result in a lot more incredibly lame plotlines like "somehow, Palpatine returned".
Sigh. Well, at least I'll save a lot of time and money not going to see movies.

Someone did an AI live action recreation of Johnny Quest, and it looks totally cool.

That's sorta' the reverse of the current article - instead of taking a no longer available actor and recreating him, they're making an actor (who never existed) from scratch to play the part of a cartoon character.

Comment Hard pass (Score 1) 90

Just saw the trailer and...

I have no idea what the movie is about, whether it looks good, or whether I want to see it.

It reads "some stories were too hidden to be found" (and wtf does that mean? And the story was too hidden to be found but you're making a movie of it?), and it's based on a real story.

And a bunch of seemingly disconnected action shots.

Hard pass. I'll stream it if the reviews are any good.

Submission + - Slowbooks, AI coded cleanroom re-imagined Quickbooks (github.com)

Archangel Michael writes: The Story
VonHoltenCodes ran QuickBooks 2003 Pro for 14 years for side business invoicing and bookkeeping. Then the hard drive died. Intuit's activation servers have been dead since ~2017, so the software can't be reinstalled. The license paid for is worthless.

So he built his own replacement, transferred all his data from the old .QBW file using IIF export/import.

The codebase is annotated with "decompilation" comments referencing QBW32.EXE offsets, Btrieve table layouts, and MFC class names — a tribute to the software that served him well for 14 years before its maker decided it should stop working.

This is a clean-room reimplementation. No Intuit source code was available or used.

(Side Note from story submitter. This is the beginning of the end of Windows only applications)

Comment Re:Copy and paste is exhausting (Score 3, Informative) 188

It's worse than that, because with proper skill, it isn't even a copy/pasta. It is one app that posts to everything all at once. Even the social media places that didn't make the list.

  Buffer, Hootsuite, Metricool, Robopost or Later ... just off the top of my head.

One could probably tweak posts for each platform with AI effectively.

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