Comment Re:US senators ae shiteaters who swallow (Score 5, Informative) 25
Supersonic flight is incredibly noisy, and you don't want it above you.
Comment Re:I'm OK with stupid (Score 1) 51
That matches my stance. Unfortunately, it often is the second kind.
Comment Re:Firestick = pirate device with no skills requir (Score 1) 21
Indeed. The question is why now?
Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 1) 174
Context matters. Read more than just the three words _and_ realize that the first three words were a relative statement to the previous comments.
Seriously, this is not kindergarten.
Comment Re:Not a bright idea (Score 1) 174
Yes. I really do not get the anti-AC sentiments here in Europe. Yes, 20 years ago, there was zero need for AC, but that has very obviously changed. The only calculation I did was how long I have to work to finance the AC electricity and AC itself for running it for a day. Came out to less than 10 minutes and that, I think, is entirely worthwhile. Also, obviously, solar brings in more power when the sun blazes, so....
Comment Re:Is the main actress "barely legal" (Score 1) 163
We talked about Transformers. [...] I never talked about "Super Girl" in this article.
"We"? fafalone discussed Supergirl (in which Milly Alcock is the lead actress) because you were first talking about Supergirl.
TFS: "... Supergirl
angel'o'sphere: "Is the main actress 'barely legal' As in Sexy, young like 16 or so? [shift to summer blockbusters like Transformers to make a point]"
fafalone: "The lead actress is Milly Alcock who's 26. You ok there?"
angel'o'sphere: "[I only remember Transformers, so I don't understand the flow of the discussion]"
Milly Alcock is not in any Transformers movies or television shows as actress or voice. That should have been clue #1 that fafalone was talking about the first thing you mentioned: the Supergirl movie which is the primary subject of TFA and mentioned multiple times in TFS.
Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 1) 174
You failed to read between the lines there.
Nope. And where did I say "not a problem"? Please provide a citation.
Comment Re:Suuuure (Score 1) 34
While it does cut down on time, there is a massive problem here: Experts need to maintain their expertise. With the use of LLMs to replace them, that does not happen anymore or happens less. As we clearly already have to few experts, any LLM use is too much.
What happens long-term is that we will not have the experts that create the data the LLM was trained on anymore and no updates happen. This then leads to complete stagnation of the discipline, which is much, much worse than slow discoveries. Typical "next quarter will be great!" thinking at work, that overlooks that short-term optimization quite often leads to long-term catastrophe.
So, not "good news" at all. Exceptionally bad news instead. Although it will take a while to become obvious.
Comment Re:Why would anybody sane do this? (Score 1) 74
For some of them, yes. But why the denial in the others?
Comment Re:WIndows is useless (Score 2) 74
Nice! That is even worse than what I thought and I try to keep current on MS incapability and non-caring. And yes, I have an idea how much effort such a recovery is.
I think we really need liability when a vendor pushes out crap like that. Of course, this would kill Microsoft fast and hence it is probably not going to happen soon. In the meantime, the enshittification will continue.
Comment Suuuure (Score 1) 34
No reason why actual antibiotics requires long and careful testing to make sure they are reasonably safe. We can do away with all that now!
Comment Re:Color me surprised... (Score 2, Informative) 174
Not a problem. Heavy equipment has a tendency to run for a long, long time. Sure, there will be problems, but they will be possible to manage. And do you really think there is a choice? The US is actively self-destroying these days. Do you really think the rest of the world can do anything about that?
Comment Re:WIndows is useless (Score 1) 74
Agreed to all of that. But there are enough fake professionals around to keep Windows alive and MS getting richer on it, even if Windows is more and more crumpling in reliability, performance and security.
Comment Re:Ain't nothing like the real thing baby. (Score 1) 74
Microsoft has a lot to lose if Linux becomes more widespread, but it is loss of control of the user experience that they fear the most.
Probably. The only explanation why they are even doing this is that the technological superiority of Linux is now so bad that Windows simply cannot compete anymore.