Comment Can they...? (Score 1) 74
Can they factor a number larger than 21 with QC yet?
Comment Re:But I doubt it. (Score 1) 70
Perhaps they could take a clue from software from 40+ years ago and make top-posting a configurable option.
But Microsoft has pretty much completely given up on making their software configurable for user preferences.
Comment Re:"Administrators with fleets of Macs" (Score 1) 70
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Comment Re:Quantum Leap is invalid? (Score 1) 75
"Dr. Sam Becket never returned home."
You forgot to misspell his name.
Comment Re:How long can Meta survive...? (Score 1) 32
Not if they keep spending 10 figures a year trying to make VR happen.
Comment How long can Meta survive...? (Score 3, Funny) 32
How long can Meta survive without shipping a product people actually want?
Comment Dear Congress... (Score 1) 106
"Please protect us from child-harm lawsuits since child harm is pretty much our business model."
Comment Arch will be fine (Score 2) 50
AUR is not an official repository for Arch distributions. It requires extra tooling; you can't install from the AUR in pacman, and AUR has historically been a risk for breakages with the official updates. It's always been a known risk, and in the age of AI malware, it will have to be adapted or removed.
There's nothing wrong with the actively maintained Arch distributions. These are the same pains every distribution has to deal with presently.
Comment Re:What was the 20 page article? (Score 1) 264
This is very important. There's a light-year of difference among a typical scholarly article, a physics paper, a math paper, or some kind of incomprehensible humanities bafflegab that no sane person could comprehend. The former, if it's not too technical, should be readable to the average undergrad. The second and third might not be because there are so many specialized concepts and so much specialized language. The latter (and I'm not indicting everything coming out of the humanities, but a lot of it) is incomprehensible because it literally doesn't make sense.
Comment Did they take into account...? (Score 1) 156
Did they take into account that most countries drive on the right? If you're walking the perimeter of a room counterclockwise, it might be because you are staying on the right.
Comment Re: but farmers like to be lazy (Score 4, Informative) 207
Um, if there's one group that's not lazy, it's farmers.
Comment Re: How Do They Make Money? (Score 2) 207
What were more likely to see is Congress passing a law to somehow ban this.
Comment Re:Slashdot UI (Score 1) 33
I wouldn't mind if it were a static image, but it's that Gemini ad that's constantly writing and erasing text. It's definitely cut down how long I stay on the site.
Comment Re:All the haters (Score 1) 87
No, those are the words of someone who has seen nothing but slop for more than a decade (OK, there were a couple of exceptions), and has reached the point where there is no expectation things will ever get better. I have also given up hope that Star Wars will ever be good again.