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Comment Re:NPM needs to be burned to the ground (Score 2) 32

That's the problem.

First of all, NPN itself is a piece of junk, the "cool guys" (teenagers who think they know how to program because they managed to glue together a few bits of JavaScript) have the terrible habit of pasting everything and the kitchen sink as dependencies, even when you could (or should) write the code snippet you need yourself and thus avoid adding another 1MB of JavaScript “libs”. It's how they arrived at this absurdity of any simple application literally needing thousands of dependencies and good luck checking each one for possible vulnerabilities.

The other big mistake the “cool guys” make is ignoring backward compatibility. They are always redoing everything without any concern for what might depend on the libraries they create, and if you “old dinosaur” question this, they arrogantly respond that you're the one who has to find a way to keep up (never mind that the reason for so much compatibility breakdown is because the "cool guys" don't actually know what they're doing, so they have to redo everything over and over again until they maybe get it right by accident). That's why applications that make the mistake of using these libraries end up having to “freeze” versions, because otherwise they quickly stop working.

And the biggest mistake, in my humble opinion, is linking these applications to libraries on external servers, even directly to repositories such as GitHub. This basically opens the floodgates to attacks such as those described in the TFA.

Comment Re: You can't ban WiFi! (Score 1) 153

Actually, perhaps liberals need to realize that defending barbarians, and inviting barbarians into your living room, is not a path to success.

Speaking as a European, the influx of people from Islamic countries has amply demonstrated that these cultures are incompatible with Western values. These cultures do not deserve tolerance.

Comment Every year, the same stories... (Score 0) 191

TIme shifts are bad, stop it. Same refrain every year. Why don't the politicians just do it?

As for the continual discussion of standard time vs. DST: Why is it so hard to just let things happen? If people want more light after work, then they can go to work earlier. For shift workers tied to a clock, they can talk to their company about when shifts start and end. How many businesses today are really 8-12/13-17? Even for schools: The schools can change their schedules, if the parents want them to.

Comment Re: AI is designed to allow wealth to access skill (Score 1) 78

There are three possible paths forward, when you automate jobs 1. More productivity allows reduction of the work week. People used to work 72 hour weeks. 2. Workers migrate to new types of jobs. We did not always have manicurists. 3. People lose their jobs and sink into poverty. --It will be...interesting to see which way the elite choose...

Comment Not even AI slop (Score 1) 111

People produce plenty of slop without AI. Example: on X every post that asks a provocative question, e.g., "All blondes are dumb, do you agree?" No useful information, pure karma farming.

I don't understand why the site don't filter such crap out. Surely their users would be at least as engaged by real content?

Comment Absolutely (Score -1, Troll) 49

All these climate engineering ideas are insane. The truth is that the current models don't work very well. Climate is hugely complex, and there are a lot of natural phenomena that are poorly understood. Trying to *deliberately* make global changes (as opposed to trying not to, for example, by not burning coal) is just bonkers.

Much like the greenwashing projects - there's good money to be had, if you can scam someone out of it. Consequences be damned...

Comment As for the "why"? (Score 4, Insightful) 92

A lot of comments are just unrelentingly hostile to the idea of humanoid robots. Sure, industrial robots don't need to be humanoid. Welding together the frame of a car? Packing boxes onto pallets? Special purpose robots rule.

However, there are other use cases. First, any robot that needs to interact in flexible ways in the human world. Open doors? Move around in a room full of furniture? Grasp objects designed for human hands? Look at displays placed at human head-height? Obviously, a humanoid form will be most practical.

Second, robots that are designed to interact with humans in sympathetic ways. To take one of the most obvious use-cases: caring for the elderly. That is a hugely difficult and draining task: it is difficult to find enough people to do it, and do it well. Perhaps robots can take on some of the load, but: in order to be accepted by the patients, they will need to come across as friendly and helpful. That means humanoid.

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