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Comment Re:Isn't Robert X. Cringely a pseudonym? (Score 1) 32

The original guy got to keep using it. There was someone else hired for a brief time.

I remember the author's name but he really doesn't want to use it, so that's OK to respect. He's given me a lot to think about over the years. I remember when he wrote on his PBS site about unicast becoming cheaper than radio broadcast for TV, predicting that it would overtake by 2012 (IIRC). Youtube became huge around then. We were smart folks around the water cooler in the late 90's who could follow the math but had nagging skepticism. He wss right.

I think I have one of his science writing books under his real name about atomic energy somewhere. You can find it if necessary.

Nice to see Bob back on the Dot.

Comment Re: The cost of force (Score 1) 89

That is not what "learning" means.

You have a local session, and over time you have configured it to understand and do what you want to do in that context.

Close the session and try again, and it is back where it was before.

However you likely remember its misunderstandings and formulate your new requests different and avoid its pitfalls, and hence you have the impression it learned.

What LLM are you using?

Comment Re:Commissioners encroach on legislative functions (Score 1) 103

Nope. The Secretaries are part of the Executive branch of government. They do not originate legislation.

The commissioners then have a double role, as they are primarily also executive branch.

They hold the exclusive "Right of Initiative" in the EU.
It is a bit more complicated than that, but in general you are right, I was not thinking about that point.

Comment Re:Cool Cool (Score 4, Insightful) 62

> The lender can't repossess a college degree to make themselves whole.

No but if the borrower can't get a good job there should be cause of action for Warranty Act claims against the college.

Extremely few people go to college with the expectation of borrowing to be unemployable.

Comment Re: Make it stop (Score 1) 80

About 230 children got treated in Germany against toroid cancer. That was a google result, I think it is wrong and is close to 20k - but not sure, it is to long ago. Another search talks about ~1000 kids that where treated in Germany.

20k where treated in Cuba:
Alternative International Programs:
Other countries took on massive, centralized state-sponsored roles for oncology care. For instance, Cuba ran a highly organized state program that treated over 20,000 children affected by the disasterâ"many for cancer and leukemiaâ"at the Tararà medical complex.

Here is an AI overview about Germany:

The Broader "Health Vacation" Numbers If you are looking for a total "guess" regarding all children brought from the Chernobyl zone to Germany for any form of healthcare, the number scales into the hundreds of thousands. Following the 1986 disaster, over 100 different German regional charities, churches, and civic initiatives organized Tschernobyl-Kinder (Chernobyl Children) relief waves. For over 25 years, they brought thousands of children to Germany annually for 3-to-4-week "respite holidays" to eat uncontaminated food, breathe clean air, and boost their radiation-compromised immune systems. The German government funded these emergency medical programs in the 1990s.

The extract above is about ALL kids that came to Germany on "treatment vacation" and not the amount of cancer cases.

No idea why so many morons on /. want to downplay the disaster ... the death toll is horrendous: https://www.bbc.com/future/art...

Comment Re:Fan of owning your own device (Score 1) 37

Sure, but border guards and spooks probably already had this exploit so the difference is minor. Their PoC page also says there's no access to Secure Enclave so perhaps the damage is minimal?

Curiously I saw some commits for an iPhone platform in LineageOS a month or two ago. Perhaps an option for EoL Apple hardware with working exploits.

Comment Re:Make it stop (Score 1) 80

Even when talking about about destruction of environment and infrastructure the tsunami itself was way worse than Fukushima.
In terms of death, yes.
In terms of money, nope.

Cleaning up the mess, costs trillions of dollars Dollars, not Yen. The current estimate is 500 trillion Dollars, yes 500 trillion, not 500 billion, Dollars, not Yen.

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