I read that as the AI's were gaming now. I can just see MOLT book filled with ravings by AI's who "P)WN3D" meatsacks around the world in games. I might almost feel better that it was an AI vs knowing an 11 year old korean girl just smoked me for the 10th time today...

The thing with most countries that aren't america is you cant just unilaterally change a contract even with "30 days notice", you need to get the customer to actively consent, click a button that says "I acknowledge this nonsense" or whatever. Netflix was fined for breaking Italian law, in Italy.

Netflix are absolutely NOT in the right, and that should not be controversial to anyone

Well 450 million years was a good run. As soon as there is some perceived value to humans pythons will be hunted to extinction. Humanity killed off inumerable species for a good looking jacket. I can only imagine what will happen if pythons can make you thin....

It's one of those issues that often are easily ignored until suddenly it's game-breaking.

For many games that stream assets and build shaders on the fly, if there's a bit of blurriness and stuttering when you first enter an area there are many players who can forgive that. Having that same experience walking into a boss's lair and suddenly the game is choking and stuttering as resources are processed, that's a fatal flaw that can make it difficult to play, or even outright kill the player while loading.

The difficulty is that usually it's an all-or-nothing experience, a tradeoff, games can choose one or the other. There are plenty of games that do build them at runtime, and others that have the long slow progress bar at startup. Different choices give different experiences. As annoying as waiting a couple minutes at program startup is, having a cutscene or a boss fight stuttering for shader compiles is far worse.

Why is the compter the problem ? It seem pretty obvious that the issue lies in the curriculum and how the tools are used. Educators figured that just having a computer would promote learning...they were wrong. Now the same educators are convinced that just having books will promote learning...again they are wrong. Modern education has become indoctrination and lacks critical thinking tools because that would enable the students to realize what a shit sandwich they were being fed.

No, they're arguing there's ways to use their software to commit an illegal act, which is true of literally anything.

I can't imagine anyone making the argument that using AI tools to rewrite code in another language removes the copyright.

Not exactly, because the amount of stearates that came off the gloves would be fairly random, so there's no way to apply a general correction. You might not even know what kind of gloves they used in the experiment!

That doesn't mean you throw out the results, but you maybe mark those results and say there was potential factor unaccounted for and the results needs to be replicated.

Some researchers do think we are actually pretty close to a kessler event from musks increasingly rampant space polution.

With that said, if it happens, it wont be long term. The LEO orbit they take means the sky will mostly clear up in well under a decade with most of the debris having deorbited in around 5 years.

I wont even speculate on the sort of havok Elon musks fantastical and unlikely space datacenters would create.

Next up : Who needs Oracle if you can have PostgreSQL

Fixed that for you

some end in .com but oh god yes I HATE the term app.

I used the hell out of MS Works. It did what I needed quickly and without the HUGE bloat of M$Office and Word. Though I came from a GML background so it was easy...

LMAO...I wish I had mod points...you deserve it.

In fairness, this is the Kernel we are talking about, and those dudes actually do know what they are doing.

Kernel code is fucking hard. The last kernel coding I ever did was on Minix in the early 1990s for Operating Systems class at University. That was a total brain bender. But heres the thing, Minix was an intentionally simpler kernel designed for teaching and included an extremely comprehensive textbook, that just doesn't exist (I think) for Linux.

The Linux Kernel may well be the most complicated code by some of the most skilled coders on the planet. To claim they "can't code" is frankly, hubris.

Not that I think AI can code either. But it DOES seem to be quite good at finding bugs and code smells. You wouldn't want to rely on it as your everything, but don't be surprised if it finds whoopsies by even Torvalds himself.

Oh I dont know. Some of the scenes at the gas giant in Tau Ceti where pretty spectacular. Was it *Dune* spectacular? No. But I think the immersion of the theatre certainly helps.

Plus it sends a nice signal to the studios saying "more of this please!". Support hard sci-fi, its a frigging rough environment for films in general, and double rough for genre films like this.

Yeah I saw it , and it was actually really good. Gossling is kind of comical at times, but he actually does really well in this, and the comedy is more in service of the premise that he's a competent scientist and not-so-competent unwilling astronaut, and that he's got a weird friendship with the alien.

From a hard sci-fi point of view its really good, good enough that the few places where it does seem to veer off from known science (The solid xenon that the aliens use as a construction material) seems a little jarring.

And as a drama, yeah... it works. You'll definately find yourself rooting for the two main characters (goslings character and "Rocky" (as he dubs the alien)) and I wont spoil where it goes, but it'll get you.

Go watch it. It was easily one of the best films of the year.