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Comment So How Does It All Work? (Score 3, Informative) 72

the university, which admits fewer than 30 percent of undergraduate applicants

Sounds exclusive! So, how does such an exclusive school admission process wind up admitting 900 applicants that can't do middle school math? Additionally, if their math skills are so poor, how do their reading and comprehension skills measure up?

Comment Re:Depends... (Score 3, Insightful) 29

There's even more to maintaining than that. The maintainer has to read and understand the existing code, not just to expand on it, but to fix bugs. These bugs might be coding errors or logic errors.

It's one thing to maintain a code base where the code follows a particular style, methodology, and way of thinking. But, when AI injects various blocks of code with different styles, and various random ways of thinking, it becomes dramatically harder to understand the code and find the issues. It's like well written/formatted code by a single person or group versus a pile of spaghetti from random sources. And, Linus is well used to chucks of spaghetti being through at him.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 57

the cost per unit of data is pretty low. They could collect data

The cost per unit is relatively low, in bulk. But it is a recurring cost and multiplied across the millions of vehicles makes it a large monthly recurring cost. They are not doing it and will not do it.

They could collect the data. And, you could prevent it from being collected.

Comment Re: You're preaching to the choir (Score 1) 54

Since he's living rent-free in your head

This statement was cute, even funny, the first few times that it was used. That was because it was such an absurd way of making that point.

But, after this statement has been repeated so many times, it's just fucking stupid now. You should consider abandoning it before people start thinking that you are stupid.

Comment Re:A useful skill to have. (Score 1) 241

Cursive itself is pointless. Print is just as fast in modern times and is FAR more legible.

Print is faster than cursive? Nope.

Modern print is faster than "old" print? How so? Unless you're implying gothic print, I don;t see how there could be any performance increase in hand written print in the last few hundred years.

Cursive is literally less movement, and less removal and application of the instrument tip. It has to be faster, if you know how to write it.

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