185322156 comment Comment I think I could have done it in fewer lines. (Score 1) 124 by NMBob on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:36AM (#66315726) Attached to: Amazon's HR Lead Uses AI Tool to Write 100,000 Lines of Code - 25 Years After She Last Coded As long as the output, "Hello World", was spelled correctly.
185195068 comment Comment Nice. (Score 4, Funny) 76 by NMBob on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:32PM (#66308174) Attached to: Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction That should mean a check for a pretty large sum coming to an affected kid near you. Thank you lawyers!
184462358 comment Comment Is it much different? (Score 3, Insightful) 81 by NMBob on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:58PM (#66238698) Attached to: Lawsuit Claims Meta's Layoff Decisions Were Made By AI, Not Humans People have been laid off by spreadsheets for decades.
184116246 comment Comment What's it made of? (Score 1) 61 by NMBob on Friday June 26, 2026 @11:57AM (#66211984) Attached to: Airbus Is Ordered To Inspect 16 Jets After Cracks Are Found In Wings I'm guessing metal, but are the spars, or the parts that are connected to them that are cracking, made of metal or OceanGate Titan plastic?
181728682 comment Comment Sameo sameo? (Score 1) 51 by NMBob on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:08PM (#66096828) Attached to: Researchers Induce Smells With Ultrasound, No Chemical Cartridges Required Do the same settings result in different people smelling the same thing? That would be interesting in either case (yes or no).
181499894 comment Comment The Alliance Needs To See That (Score 1) 71 by NMBob on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:36PM (#66085770) Attached to: Hacker Steals 10 Petabytes of Data From China's Tianjin Supercomputer Center Look for the folder called, "Stardust".
180316517 comment Comment Personal check (Score 3, Informative) 144 by NMBob on Saturday December 06, 2025 @08:51PM (#65840309) Attached to: Could America's Paper Checks Be On the Way Out, Like the Penny? A personal check is physical proof you paid for something, so yup, they have to go. I still pay local bills with checks. A cancelled check has saved my bacon several times.
180155109 comment Comment Surveillance (Score 1) 211 by NMBob on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:41AM (#65807019) Attached to: Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI? Now and in the future. Typing crap into Google and just surfing is risky enough. I probably shouldn't have said that.
179898750 comment Comment Re:It's gonna be funny (Score 1) 52 by NMBob on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:37PM (#65756358) Attached to: OpenAI Wants To Get To $1 Trillion a Year in Infrastructure Spend, Sam Altman Says Yup! Me too.
179898578 comment Comment It's gonna be funny (Score 2) 52 by NMBob on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:10PM (#65756282) Attached to: OpenAI Wants To Get To $1 Trillion a Year in Infrastructure Spend, Sam Altman Says When someone figures out how to run all of this AI junk on two Z-80 processors.
177834905 comment Comment Them were the days! (Score 5, Informative) 65 by NMBob on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:27PM (#65411243) Attached to: The Hobby Computer Culture Byte magazine, The Byte Shop, and warm IMSAI 8080s.
177816109 comment Comment Confusing (Score 1, Insightful) 89 by NMBob on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @03:29PM (#65408411) Attached to: Texas Adopts Online Child-Safety Bill Opposed by Apple's CEO Why would you put appropriate age ranges on products you sell then be opposed to verifying that the people getting them are the appropriate age?
177693349 comment Comment Cool. (Score 4, Funny) 245 by NMBob on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:03PM (#65396343) Attached to: US Treasury Unveils Plan To Kill the Penny So the price of everything that is like $4.99 is going to be rolled back to $4.95? Nice. Ha!
177552039 comment Comment Well that's too bad. (Score 1) 42 by NMBob on Friday May 16, 2025 @04:53AM (#65380279) Attached to: YouTube Crackdowns on AI-Generated Fake Movie Trailers Some of those trailers were way better than most new movies.
176214691 comment Comment Makes sense (Score 1) 68 by NMBob on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @06:37PM (#65162355) Attached to: AI Summaries Turn Real News Into Nonsense, BBC Finds Nonsense in, nonsense out.