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Comment Re:That's because all local school funding (Score 1) 108

A better question would be, does the district also contain charter schools? Households can get vouchers to offset the cost of charters, which sounds all wonderful until you realize it is taking funds away from the public school system. Charters are privatized schooling despite how they're advertised. They don't follow state standards, they take away from the public school system's resources, and aren't under any obligation to accept (or keep) your kid into their school. Maybe in some places it works, but in general it is simply taking away from the public education system.

Comment Re:By your logic, we don't need seat belts in cars (Score 1) 83

He is a liar, because he has the ability and skill necessary to check his assertions, and yet he didn't. He presented himself as knowing something that he didn't.

You, on the other hand, are an idiot, because you have no cure for your ignorance. You have no ability to recognize what kind of training Microsoft and Apple have for their programmers regarding security issues. That is something you never learned how to do.

Comment AI is a huge opportunity (Score 2) 55

If I were in charge of a Computer Science curriculum at a university, I would address the LLM problem like this:

I would offer a class (third or fourth year class) that starts from the basics of Neural Networks, and by the end of the class the students have built their own LLM. By building their own LLM, they will deepen their understanding, have a solid foundation, and avoid a lot of the nonsense that gets propagated about LLMs. The amount of code involved is not huge, it's actually quite doable.

Comment Re:Dependencies... (Score 1) 19

As an exercise, just try to develop your own code to support https fully and correctly - including common add-ons as Digest and OAuth security - you must depend upon a library to do that.

OAuth isn't an HTTP extension, it's an OSI application level protocol. Also, of all the protocols you could have picked, OAuth is a really simple one. You could code a custom implementation in an afternoon. HTTP isn't even so bad, even with the HTTP/2 modifications, you could definitely do it yourself, depending on your reading comprehension ability (reading code standards is not a skill every programmer has).

The built-in functions for Javascript (and their typical runtime environment - the browser) are minimal leading to a lot of dependence upon 3rd-party libraries.

Ever since most of JQuery functionality got added to the Javascript standard library, you mostly don't need third party libraries. Something like React can be useful if you are working on a web app with a large team because it gives you encapsulation, but even then, the number of third party library dependencies is small enough that a security team can review them all, which some companies do.

Comment Re:Trade mark vs. copyright (Score 2) 91

Trademark means that they can't use Mickey Mouse in a way that would confuse people into thinking they are Disney.

You are legally allowed to use someone's trademark. For example, the word "Boston" is trademarked, but we can use it. We can use the word Pentium, and even say "Pentium sux", but you can't fill a box with AMD chips and use the Pentium logo to convince people it's from Intel.

Comment Re:That quite an accomplishment! (Score 1) 59

It makes sense. Rockets are heavy, that's why they are expensive. Having helium 3 will make the rockets lighter (since helium is lighter than air) allowing the rockets to float to the moon at a much cheaper price point than with solid fuel.

If NASA had thought of this, they could have gone to the moon much more cheaply. Typical government waste.

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