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Comment Re:Maybe the Marshal Islands should go nuclear (Score 1) 12

This great conflation of fission power generation with nuclear weapons is the reason the only realistic solution to climate change is sitting on a dusty shelf.

Historically, any given nation's level of interest in the former has been strongly correlated with their desire to develop the latter. It's been means to an end.

Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 38

Why are we so predisposed to falling for this hype cycle?

The people without hope gave up and died.

The people with too much hope are suckers.

The people with just enough hope to succeed but not enough to be suckers took control of the system and manipulated it in ways that make people into suckers, and make suckers into bigger suckers.

Comment Re:just sayin (Score 1) 42

Powell and Rice are not "said to have done so," they are perfectly well known to have done so. There was no legal problem with it then. Hillary operated her own mail server at their suggestion. And there was no legal problem with her doing so at the time she started to either.

I read an article on this a little while ago, I believe it quoted Powell as saying that he didn't advise her to do this until she had already done it. Who knows whether that's bullshit or not, or for that matter, if I'm even remembering correctly. I'm not currently on the machine with the relevant browser history, or I'd try to find it.

BUT, there absolutely was a legal problem with it then, especially for Powell, because he explicitly advised Clinton to run her own server for the purpose of avoiding discovery by being able to delete communications. And that is illegal when you are required to retain all official communications, which was the case.

I think most of us who have been here more than a hot second also remember discussing here that one of Clinton's staffers was reported to be seeking advice on email deletion.

Comment Re:Why doesn't this exist? (Score 1) 40

The first two did not exist but the last two do exist but had nothing to do with the topic cited. It would still take a human to determine that these cases where bogus citations.

If you gave an LLM access to a legal database, not training it on it but allowing it to pull things from it, then you should be able to use it to check citations. It should be able to handle both looking things up and reporting null results, and also summarizing those cases it does find and doing a better-than-nothing job of reporting whether they were cited correctly.

If I were a lawyer I wouldn't trust such a thing to check my citations, but I would absolutely use it to look for low-hanging fruit in my opponent's work.

Comment Intel is cooked. (Score 1) 10

I said before that if 18A didn't pan out, Intel is sunk. I had no predictions whether it would or not, as I had no special information everyone else didn't have.

Well, Intel had to back off of doing foundry services with 18A and won't tell us why, but there can only be one real answer: Whatever problem they are having with it takes so much specialized work to achieve that nobody else's designs can practically be fabbed in it.

Intel has had a long line of expensive, high-profile failures. Perhaps most notably given current trends in computing, they failed at ARM. They bought the fastest ARM implementation around from DEC, but they couldn't get the design to scale down enough to match the power consumption of other implementations, so they sold the result of their messing with it (XScale) off again — to Marvell, who they had licensed some bits for XScale from. And let us not forget iTanic, which never achieved performance parity with amd64 because Intel's magic compiler never materialized.

At this point Intel probably cannot be saved with a new process, as their customers are rapidly becoming AMD customers.

Comment I fucking hate JSON (Score 1) 20

JSON is just so goddamned hard to look at, and/because the formatting is so bitchy. Every time I have to work with a JSON file, it's irritating. Are there any general purpose JSON editors which run on Linux? I see there's one for Windows but the author says it is sketchy on Wine. I know that JSON files can have different stuff in 'em, but an editor is still very possible, you just have to be able to edit both the name of the setting and the contents... there are multiple web-based examples, but I sure don't want to use any of those.

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