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Comment Reasons for Optimism (Score 1) 46

The first is that I think a lot of Vibecode Kiddies are writing a lot of AI slop apps, and plugins, and whatnot, and trying to pass them off as serious software engineering (and themselves as serious software engineers, now empowered by the newly discovered way to avoid having to learn to code). These restrictions and price increases will hopefully price a lot of the Kiddies out of the market.

The second is that the increases in prices and decreases in allowances will provide a downward pressure on the AI hype. Previous stuff has given a false impression as to how expensive AI actually is.

Comment Motherboards are useless without RAM (Score 1) 70

If you can't afford RAM, only a motherboard, then that purchase of a motherboard isn't going to get you much, functionality wise.
If you can't afford RAM for your new PC, you basically can't afford your new PC.
If you can't afford SSDs or HDDs for your new PC, you basically can't afford your new PC.
If you can't afford your new PC, you won't buy your new PC.
And if you don't buy your new PC, you would buy the motherboard for your new PC.
So you won't buy the motherboard.
Simples.

Comment Re:None of my machines has the module loaded. (Score 1) 66

Being more thorough:

~ $ modinfo algif_aead
filename: /lib/modules/.../kernel/crypto/algif_aead.ko.zst
(so it is a loadable .ko)

~ $ grep CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD /boot/config-$(uname -r)
CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD=m
(so it is configured as a loadable module)

~ $ lsmod | grep algif_aead
(returns nothing, so it is not loaded)

Comment Tribes vs Civilisation (Score 2) 70

To add a detail to an earlier comment. I often naively assume that humans are still largely adapted biologically to living in small isolated tribes, as we did for many many millennia prior to the growth of civilisation. When civilisation kicks off, we start helping each other survive, and the actual nature of civilisation often presents too fast a moving target for evolution to accurately track. So I assume that many of our innate traits, especially when it comes to basics like food, sex, and survival in the face of threats, are still largely those we had as pre-civilisation humans.

I know this is naive, but I wonder just how far from the mark it is, why, and what the scientific evidence actually shows about this.

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