Comment Re:Campus censorship is far worse now (Score 1) 138
See, that's the thing - you think "honky" is an awful insult, when I grew up it was a punchline on national TV.
Comment Unfortunate. (Score 3, Insightful) 42
The question with these kinds of tech articles is always "can this be scaled to mass market levels" and the answer is almost always "No."
Comment Re:Has anyone asked... (Score 4, Insightful) 78
Because filtering the training data is so much harder than just having them swim through the internet swallowing everything, like whales eating krill.
Comment Re:Do you want raptors? (Score 1) 40
Whoosh.
Comment Re:I don't believe in 'lifetime support' (Score 2) 89
Yeah, but it also lead to the kind of feature bloat that turned productive apps in overly complicated whales that were no longer usable for their original purpose.
Comment Anyone else remember when... (Score 2) 99
Google promised that you would never have to delete an email ever? That they would keep all of it forever as though they were doing you some kind of favor?
Comment Isn't this about 25 years too late? (Score 2, Informative) 58
What are they hoping to achieve at this point?
Comment Re:About damn time (Score 1) 65
Bitcoin doesn't generally provide perverse incentives for people to manipulate political events or assassinate political leaders so they can win bets online.
Comment "the race car flew down the 2.8-mile runway" (Score 3, Funny) 23
So, it was the only vehicle on the course and only had to travell in a straight line?
I mean... what was actually being demonstrated here? That it knew how to shift?
Comment Musk might be evil but OpenAI is sleazy. (Score 2) 45
OpenAI appears to have been completely sucked in by greed and just shouldn’t be allowed to stop being a non-profit.
Comment If it’s going to take 4 years to replace the (Score 1) 11
If it’s going to take 4 years to replace the trees lost in a single hurricane season this isn’t going to go well.
Comment Re:I mean this was inevitable. (Score 1) 71
My understanding is that there's a contract to design an updated version but I don't think they've actually ordered any new motors.
Submission + - MOND isn't dead yet: Paper argues that gravity changes at very low accelerations 6
porkchop_d_clown writes: MOND — MOdified Newtonian Dynamics is a hypothesis that Newton's law of gravity is incorrect under some conditions. Now a paper published at https://iopscience.iop.org/art... (and summarized at https://phys.org/news/2024-01-...) claims that a study does indeed show that pairs of widely separated binary stars do show a deviation from Newton's Second Law, arguing that, at very low levels, gravity is stronger than the law predicts.
Comment I mean this was inevitable. (Score 1) 71
The SLS is designed to use leftover Shuttle motors and there aren't enough of them, and several parts of the project are far behind schedule.
And now Peregrine failed. That happens, but it's certainly embarrassing considering how many countries have planted probes on the moon in recent years.
Submission + - United and Alaska find loose parts on Boeing 737 Max 9 door plugs (theguardian.com)
UnknowingFool writes: Following the incident on Alaska Airlines 1282 on Friday where a door plug blew off mid-flight, the FAA ordered all Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes to be grounded and the door plugs to be inspected. Both United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have reported finding loose parts on their planes with United specifically listing "bolts” where Alaska only referring to "hardware". Both airlines have repaired the situation and put the planes back into service. It remains to be answered why the parts were loose and what further issues could arise.
