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Comment Re:In that it is equally bullshit? Or even moreso? (Score 3, Interesting) 43

This. I am a shitty coder. I have vibe coded applications that are far more complex than I could create. But after a few rounds of added features and bugfixes, the LLM runs out of capacity to fix issues and get stuck in a loop. Then I'm largely helpless to troubleshoot or add features myself since as I didn't write the code in the first place and it's too complex for me to troubleshoot on my own. What then? If I'd learned to code properly in the first place, I could have helped the LLM get over the inevitable bumps in the road...

Comment My son has a chromebook for school (Score 4, Interesting) 46

...which he absolutely hates. It's made with bottom of the barrel parts. Small screen with bad contrast, underpowered CPU, low RAM, bad keyboard. it's slow to browse the web, slow wracked by latency to do even basic things. Local apps are very limited.

I'm not saying it isn't possible to make these a lot better, but it seems schools buy them because Google created a cheap eocsystem with somewhat standardized parts like screens and chargers, centralized security controls which allows the school to sandbox devices easily and sufficient webified versions of basic desktop apps as to be workable in a school setting. Nothing about them is "good for students". It's all about being good for school boards pockets.

Comment Re: I wonder who we can blame... (Score 1) 56

In case it isn't obvious, it's because you can't (and no one would want to) buy a mobile plan that only covers NJ.

Italy is also tiny compared to the US, plus you don't know how deep they've taken LTE/5G there in rural areas. For all you know, there's shit service in rural areas of Italy.

Comment Re:Too many new vehicles are dangerous (Score 1) 247

While we're offering anecdotes on Tesla reliability... My 8 year old Model S has had all four door handle motors replaced and the main screen computer flash chip replaced, but aside from that, no other warranty work in over 8 years. Clearly, YMMV, but I think after about 2014, the Model S became a lot more reliable than early examples.

Comment Re:The complaint isn't the prices (Score 2) 67

Right, so we're going to coordinate a 300 million person boycott of practically all live entertainment for weeks or months until LiveNation lowers their prices? If they controlled say 10% of venues I could see this working, but they have exclusive contracts of practically all major venues in the country.

Comment Re:Never a Sign That Things Will Get Better (Score 1) 35

> All of that was about causing enough confusion to blunt resistance to awful features, preventing the public from even giving a name (like "Vista" or "8") to the problem.

Well maybe that's the intention, but if there's no name or number associated with any the version of the product, then the product itself takes on the ire of the user base.

Comment Re:WTF are they on about? (Score 3, Interesting) 136

This was exactly my conclusion after thinking about it for all of 15 seconds. I've never heard of this film, I have no love or hate for the machine learning algorithms and have absolutely no skin in this game in any way. The fact that the originals are in no way harmed by the edits (and may actually act to preserve the originals, since the edits are *much* less interesting on their own without reference to the originals) seems to make the case that this is much ado about nothing. Case closed.

Comment Re:Extinct (Score 1) 35

There we go. You never let me down Slashdot. Just when you'd think the topic is as positive and uncontroversial as it gets, someone has to rain fear and doubt on the parade based on armchair speculation without a shred of evidence or that they have a clue what they're talking about. Congrats on being 'that' guy!

Comment Re:Volunteers sometimes die (Score 3, Insightful) 71

Yeah, I don't see why this is so ethically difficult... You are a healthy 20 or 30-something, they pay you some money in exchange for infecting you with a disease that has something like a 1 in 10,000 chance of killing you. You sign the disclosure as an informed adult and contribute to a program that will most likely end up saving 10s of thousands of lives. People make much more reckless decisions with their lives every day with absolutely zero societal benefit.

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