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Comment Re:Pics or it didn't happen (Score 1) 15

No, they cannot be fabricated today and probably not ever be fabricated with typical processes either. This is a what if we were able to make any arrangement physically possible kind of study. Similar types of meta materials have been actually made and studied physically and are fairly well understood so it probably stands to reason if it’s built it would function similarly to the simulation. It’s really cool from a miniature sensor perspective, but camera performance is based on many things including aperture size and miniature lenses will never be better overall, just better for some compact and light weight applications.

Comment Re:"Vibe coding 'web developer' reduced to tears" (Score 1) 86

Neither of those. Extend the metaphor: "Using a coding co-pilot is kind of like giving a coffee pot to a smart six-year-old Can they do it? Possibly. Could they fail? Definitely. Therefore, they require supervision. Constant. Supervision. And *constructive* feedback. Why do you think parenting, teaching, and training is so hard?

The real question is how good is your insurance when your child suffers third degree burns over 70% of their body and is the final cost worth it?

Comment Re:Donâ(TM)t Forget Us! (Score 1) 176

No, you've mixed it up. The inconvenient truth is that we can't meaningfully reduce fossil fuels without incentivizing the change economically. And that is such a hard thing to do that politicians don't even discuss how to get started.

This is why tariffs on solar panels brought by both parties over the last two decades make no sense. If you actually want to preserve the environment, because it’s in national security interests as well as fucking common sense, then solar panels should be so cheap homeless people use perfectly good ones to sleep under because cardboard is too valuable. Domestic production was less than 1% at the time and now it’s about 1.8% with no possibility of actually competing because the vastly higher costs of domestic production make adoption financially unviable, meanwhile China is on goal to actually be renewable with almost twice the solar installed in may as the entire US last year because it’s cheap power. Instead of adding taxes to stop adoption, a trade war with no price floor would have been amazing and exactly what the world needed flooding the world with nearly free panels. China provided this and the money to keep domestic production afloat would have been trivial compared to the value of all that free power generation capacity, but the American people were taxed into not being able to take advantage so it’s the reverse of what you claim. The financial path was there but the American people were screwed out of cheaper energy by established interests looking to profit at the expense of everyone else.

Comment Re:Is it AI? (Score 1) 129

And that may be one of the things that young people may know intuitively: Do not use LLM for calculations and do not use them as fact databases. Both the information about the density and the calculation and comparison are not strength of language models.

Given an error rate of 50%, and an inability to reason even the most basic things like simple addition or comparing two numbers and returning which is larger or smaller, they can’t be used for any informative purposes whatsoever. The only thing llm are fit for is taking an existing document template example, and filling it in with ever so slightly different information. Even then it requires a human to proof read. Things like coding are straight out the window, completely useless unless you already know how to do and fix everything, it that case it might speed you up slightly if it’s massive blunders don’t waste more time than it saves.

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