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Comment Re:No wonder (Score 1) 100

China is a generation ahead in terms of EV and self driving technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

The entire problem of self-driving technology is edge cases. Every self-driving car can make a great demo video, and that's been true since the 90s.

To compare and see which one is actually better, you need to look at data, and that's something we've had trouble getting from American manufacturers AND Chinese manufacturers. So don't even start saying which one is better.

Comment Re:BlueHammer ot a zero day (Score 1) 67

if it's not patched at the time of release, it's a zero day.

You didn't read your own link. When Microsoft (or the users in general) finds out about the vulnerability, that is day 1. Before that is day zero.

If Microsoft found out about the exploit on the third of April, then that was day one.
Then day two was April 4th.
Day three was April 5th.

Etc. you should be able to do this kind of math.

Comment BitLocker isn't the only one, of course (Score 2) 67

VeraCrypt is a particularly strong full-disk encryption, although you don't hear much of companies using it. However, BitLocker security issues keep getting mentioned and it looks like VeraCrypt fixed a number of theirs. However, code quality seems to be listed as unclear on some sites. Not sure how true that actually is though.

BestCrypt is another, but I'm not happy they permit fragile encryption schemes, as those could potentially be used by the software as standard for something important. Being commercial software, that wouldn't be easy to check.

BitLocker seems to be a typical Microsoft failure in terms of what it does, used only because it's Microsoft and that gives CTOs and CFOs someone to blame.

Comment Re:A small step in the right direction (Score 2) 176

There were only two students who could possibly earn an A in the class no matter how well everyone did. It had a perverse effect of pitting all of us against each other.

It's almost certain that the "perverse effect" was intentional, and some at Harvard want to pit students against each other as a reflection of real world corporate politics (and government politics).

Comment Folks, this is how we fall behind China (Score 1) 193

AI in its present state has a lot to offer the humanities. Textual analysis alone, a major area of literary and historical research in these very institutions, will now go into overdrive. Those who choose to stay away from generative AI will still benefit from its ability to help search, sort and summarize.

Comment My suspicion (Score 2) 78

At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.

Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.

(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)

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