Comment Fantastic! (Score 1) 20
I look forward to all the "pro-life" idiots choosing to death over these treatments... but we both know they won't because they have ideological consistency of a crayon.
Comment We can do it! (Score 3, Funny) 35
This implies that given the proper care, we should be able to put 2024 YR4 back on track to impact the Moon! Humanity has really been half-assing this destroying the ecosystem and I feel like we can do better by annihilating with a well placed asteroid.
Submission + - Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs (cornell.edu)
know-nothing cunt writes: From the no kidding department:
"Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ a higher level of corporate BS in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency."
"Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ a higher level of corporate BS in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency."
Comment Halfway there. (Score 2) 47
Now they just need to bad social media for people that are at least 16 and they will have fixed the problems with social media.
Comment No. (Score 3, Informative) 33
I looked at what is being offered and just like many other "Quantum Computing Operating Systems," it is merely an OS that runs on a classical processor but supports the use of a quantum processing as a peripheral device using software, not even as kernel component.
At best, this is a OS tailored for interfacing with a quantum processor.
Comment Re:Where's the temperature increase? (Score 1) 74
Using carefully sited stations, the USCRN shows very little change over the past 20 years.
But when combine all the data instead of a few stations, it shows there has been a significant temperature increase. You should look at the study to find your answer: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary....
The companies that argued in favor of allowing the continued use of tetraethyllead in gasoline used a similar tactic in congressional testimony, omitting vital details.
Comment We have the technology. (Score 2) 10
While we keep discovering that near-Earth asteroids like these will not impact the moon, we have the technology to rectify such issues. NASA's DART project showed that we have the capability to deflect objects away from Earth. This implies that given the proper care, we should be able to redirect objects to an intercept path. While this opportunity has slipped through our hands this time, I believe with a significant investment, that we expand upon NASA's DART to bring forth a successful redirection of large objects like these to ensure the connection to either the Moon or Earth itself.
I'm not saying it's a good idea, I just feel that if we're going to fuck up the planet that we should stop half-assing it.
Submission + - How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Execs
theodp writes: In How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives, the NY Times begins, "For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to [CEO] succession discussions and other business. [...] The files from the Justice Department show that he spent more than a decade developing a network of Microsoft executives, including Mr. Gates; Nathan Myhrvold, a former technology chief; Steven Sinofsky, who ran Microsoft’s Windows division; Linda Stone, a former technology research executive; Reid Hoffman, a Microsoft board member; and employees of Mr. Gates’s personal investment and charity funds. [...] Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s communications chief, said the company was disappointed to read emails between Mr. Epstein and “former Microsoft employees acting in their personal capacities.” Without mentioning a name, Mr. Shaw acknowledged the emails showed that a former executive — who was Mr. [Steven] Sinofsky — had shared confidential company business with Mr. Epstein."
Email released by the DOJ related to Microsoft included: 1. Epstein being tipped off to the announcement of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's planned resignation announcement in Aug. 2013 by a forwarded email from the President of bgC3 [aka Gates Ventures], a personal service company for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, on a day that saw Microsoft stock soar 7%., 2. Epstein being given a heads up by a redacted sender about a rumored 2011 Bill Gates return to Microsoft that never panned out, 3. Epstein being told in a 2013 Steven Sinofsky email about Ballmer's desire to buy a phone company that included some other juicy insider tidbits (when Microsoft's Nokia purchase was announced the following year, Microsoft stock sank 6%). In other correspondence, Sinofsky — who headed Microsoft's Windows Division — thanked Epstein for his advice in negotiating a $14 million exit package from Microsoft and later forwarded Epstein old internal email from top execs discussing the poor sales of the Microsoft Surface tablet.
In one Microsoft-related Epstein email, former Harvard President Larry Summers — who recently announced he's giving up his Harvard teaching appointments — sent Epstein a terse two-word email dissing Melinda Gates' Women in Tech initiative. "I'm gagging," Summers wrote, attaching an article about Gates' efforts (a search didn't find any reply from Epstein). Summers came under fire in 2005 when he said that women lack natural ability in math in science. Summers earlier resigned his OpenAI Board seat amid fallout over his Epstein ties that came to light following the DOJ's release of documents last November, which included the revelation that Summers and his wife were invited to dine with Bill and Melinda Gates at Epstein's NYC mansion in 2013 , Melinda's one and only Epstein encounter. Interestingly, Microsoft President Brad Smith — who coincidentally helped negotiate Microsoft's $14M exit package for Epstein-advised Sinofsky — cautioned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about naming Summers to the OpenAI Board in November 2023. “Your future would be decided by Larry [Summers],” Smith texted. “He’s smart but so mercurial [...] too risky.” The advice went unheeded, with Altman saying the choice of Summers was non-negotiable.
Email released by the DOJ related to Microsoft included: 1. Epstein being tipped off to the announcement of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's planned resignation announcement in Aug. 2013 by a forwarded email from the President of bgC3 [aka Gates Ventures], a personal service company for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, on a day that saw Microsoft stock soar 7%., 2. Epstein being given a heads up by a redacted sender about a rumored 2011 Bill Gates return to Microsoft that never panned out, 3. Epstein being told in a 2013 Steven Sinofsky email about Ballmer's desire to buy a phone company that included some other juicy insider tidbits (when Microsoft's Nokia purchase was announced the following year, Microsoft stock sank 6%). In other correspondence, Sinofsky — who headed Microsoft's Windows Division — thanked Epstein for his advice in negotiating a $14 million exit package from Microsoft and later forwarded Epstein old internal email from top execs discussing the poor sales of the Microsoft Surface tablet.
In one Microsoft-related Epstein email, former Harvard President Larry Summers — who recently announced he's giving up his Harvard teaching appointments — sent Epstein a terse two-word email dissing Melinda Gates' Women in Tech initiative. "I'm gagging," Summers wrote, attaching an article about Gates' efforts (a search didn't find any reply from Epstein). Summers came under fire in 2005 when he said that women lack natural ability in math in science. Summers earlier resigned his OpenAI Board seat amid fallout over his Epstein ties that came to light following the DOJ's release of documents last November, which included the revelation that Summers and his wife were invited to dine with Bill and Melinda Gates at Epstein's NYC mansion in 2013 , Melinda's one and only Epstein encounter. Interestingly, Microsoft President Brad Smith — who coincidentally helped negotiate Microsoft's $14M exit package for Epstein-advised Sinofsky — cautioned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about naming Summers to the OpenAI Board in November 2023. “Your future would be decided by Larry [Summers],” Smith texted. “He’s smart but so mercurial [...] too risky.” The advice went unheeded, with Altman saying the choice of Summers was non-negotiable.
Comment Re:Just ask ChatGPT what it should be called (Score 1) 61
I still don't see your implication.
"If [ChatGPT came up with that answer], then I'm seriously worried about that (human) comic writer's career I never had."
Here you are worried about a hypothetical career choice.
"Worry not, your hypothetical career choice is safe."
My response is that your hypothetical career is safe which implies ChatGPT did not come up with the answer, since it was the potential danger.
Comment Re:Solid code name (Score 1) 65
But the question is - what terrible name will they give it for release?
Since they seem to like Microslop so much, I'm thinking they'll go with Xslop, Xslop 360, and then Xslop One.
Comment Re:Just ask ChatGPT what it should be called (Score 1) 61
I still don't believe you that "Sloppy Seconds" was ChatGPT's idea.
As was implied by my previous comment, it was not.
Submission + - IBM and university researchers create a never-before-seen molecule with quantum (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: IBM and a team of international researchers have created a never-before-seen molecule with electrons traveling in a corkscrew-like pattern, demonstrating its unique properties using a quantum computer.
Comment Talk is cheap. (Score 5, Insightful) 62
They also made a bunch of climate change related "pledges" and the second they became to inconvenient, they silently removed those pledges from their websites. If you think they will abide these pledges then you are as dumb as they think you are.
Comment What is VMware Aria? (Score 1) 4
source: https://www.techtarget.com/sea...
VMware Aria Suite, formerly called vRealize Suite, is a software platform designed to help IT administrators build and manage heterogeneous, hybrid cloud environments. The suite was originally called the vCenter Operations Management Suite, but in August 2014, VMware rebranded the suite and its related products to vRealize. In April 2023, VMware changed the name to Aria.
Is anyone surprised that moving to "the cloud" is/was a bad idea that introduces unnecessary risk? Also, rebranding a product is something that should require regulatory approval because way too much of it which causes consumer confusion.
Comment It's informative. (Score 1) 51
What's the "so what" of this article?
Sometimes it's important to simply be aware that problems exist as there are not obvious answers. By informing readers, you can effectively provide them with a problem that they may have insight and motive to solve.
How are you going to encourage countries that don't seem to care about the problem to not poison themselves?
If developed nations shift production away lead-acid batteries and toward sodium ion batteries then it will shift the economics (globally) toward the production of manufacturing sodium ion batteries, leaving lead-acid batteries a relic of the past. It's a win-win because lead is still hazardous even though it can be dealt with properly.
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