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Comment Re:No shit, Sherlock (Score 1) 55

Maybe he thinks fast internet connections are like dolls, we should get less and pay more.

“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally. All I’m saying is that a young lady, a 10-year-old girl, nine-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl, doesn’t need 37 dolls,” he told reporters. “She could be very happy with two or three or four or five.”

Just s/dolls/megabits/ and I'm sure you have Trump's opinion on network speeds. No matter the issue, it's about what will make him and his billionaire bribers^W donors more money.

Comment Re:Requisite California Bashing (Score 5, Insightful) 163

If California wants to use state's rights to continue having their electrical grid isolated from neighboring states then that's fine by me.

California's grid is not isolated from other states, it's part of the Western Interconnection, one of the 3 major grids in the US - the others being the Eastern and the Texas interconnections. This article is about electricity wholesale markets and pricing, not how grids are interconnected. California already brings in a bunch of power from throughout the west. For example, the Pacific DC intertie is a 3.1 GW transmission line that brings hydro power from the Columbia river to southern California.

Comment Re:small business (Score 1) 78

Ditto. I could have written your post.

If a company can't manage something as basic as conveying simply pricing in a straight forward manner, I'll look for one that can.

I recently went to a lumbar yard expecting to buy $20K in lumber. No prices on anything. I went elsewhere.

Of course they didn't have wood, that is a back store.

Hal Kitzmiller: I buy all my furniture at an ergonomics store.
Elaine Benes: Oh, those places have the stupidest names, like Back in Business or Good Vertebrations.
Hal Kitzmiller: Not this one. It's called the Lumbar Yard.

Comment Re:BOYCOTT art companies that allow AI. AI=COPYPAS (Score 0) 213

Art companies that use AI, which rips of artists

FTFS:

"I was promised tech would make everything easier so I could enjoy life," author Brittany Moone said. "Now it's leaving me all the dishes and the laundry so AI can make the art."

That's funny, I saw that exact same sentence a while ago but not from Brittany Moore. It's almost like she trained on SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK! Now she's passing it off as her own, no attribution at all! That's what artists are so pissed off at AI about, right? Why aren't they all calling for Ms. Moore's head?

Comment Re:Funny yet normal (Score 1) 51

Yet we aren't all dead yet. A lot of people did hide in bunkers, when nukes came out. But, amazingly, despite this _super dangerous technology_, we aren't all dead yet.

Yet. That doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Isn't it a good idea to try to control things that might kill us all, like nukes or bioweapons or ASI? Maybe we can delay or even completely avoid all being killed.

Comment Apps (Score 1) 105

I've been using a Linux laptop for a decade, but when the new Air came out recently, I jumped back to Mac even though Dell has a comparable laptop because Preview is better for viewing photos than any of the Linux photo apps. It seems like a minor thing, but since the main thing I do on my laptop is check email, web browse, and manage photos, and thunderbird and chrome are pretty much equal across platforms, photos are the distinguishing item.

On my desktop, there are other apps that make MacOS the winner, despite the fact that each version keeps getting worse. I have my Linux vms for the non-gui services I use though.

Comment Re:Hey, Sammy! (Score 1) 75

Their vacuum does suck, it's so bad they have to talk about what it does using the name of a competing vacuum company. FTFS: "uses AI to better detect what surface its on to more effectively hoover up dirt and debris." Hoover is a vacuum company, not a verb (unless this is a Samsung-branded Hoover). That's like someone from Bing saying "Our search engine uses AI to Google things faster than ever!"

Comment lockups (Score 1) 85

I'm constantly have apps completely freeze and having to kill and restart them, and every new version of osx seems to make nfs worse and worse. Very frustrating...

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