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Comment Re:Publicity (Score 1) 130

Garbage.

70-90 year old "science" is valid?!?!

70 years ago smoking was promoted as being healthy, plastics were a wonder product with no hazards, seat belts weren't required in cars, electronic circuits wouldn't get much smaller, there were only a handful of computers, satellites didn't exist.

" anthropogenic climate change" is a theory, not a fact. It's also very, very, very shaky because it's based on cherry-piking data. It's quite easy to "disprove" a theory which is based on accurate data from an incredibly small fraction of time. Every claim of temperature that's more than about 100 years old is an extrapolated guess. For that matter, the records of "accurate" measuring devices are very inconsistent because they don't account for plenty of changes around the measuring devices.

Comment So...refuse to hold "employers" responsible? (Score 2) 211

Seems like this is blaming the symptom, not the cause.

Perspective from a Gen X entrepreneur:

Most "employers" are staffed with people who do not understand the primary principle of long-term success, let alone productive culture.

Gen Zers don't want to entangle themselves with people who cosplay business with lousy personal lives and crushing debt.

Comment Re:LLM for Longevity (Score 1) 33

Sam, I would have saved you 180 million USD if you'd asked how to meet the stated goal.

Tell you what, how about you cut me a check for 1 million USD because this will save even more waste and reach the stated goal:
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U.S. average lifespan is about 10 years less than that of people who live in countries with stricter food purity laws.

Outlaw the food additives (6 months to phase out, not a year or two, which looks like the FDA trying to prevent change while giving lobbyists time to bribe cancellation of the changes) and move to local small-scale farming and baking, including smart hydroponics; not the electricity gobbling motorized tower buildings (which might have been a way to discredit hydroponics.)

Bonus: Create local jobs and reduce energy and pollution from long-distance transportation.

Comment Re:Every boomer programmer just shrugged (Score 1) 135

Wash, rinse, repeat.

I remember I inherited some code with all kinds of these hand-tuned SSE things, luckily guarded by ifdefs. Turned them off, and boom, my code was nearly 2X faster. Because SSE had gone the way of the dino, and the compiler was able to take the straight code and do better with newer/wider SIMD registers.

Hopefully AVX-512 will be around long enough to actually matter for them; however I have my doubts because I saw in other comments Intel is dropping support for it in some CPU families.

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