The real problem is not the lack of native 64-bit hardware, but that most of our infrastructure is built with languages that won't let you use 64-values on 32-bit hardware unless you do all the bit-twiddling manually.

I mean, I thought to whole point of a compiler was to do the grunt work for you. A lot of this could have been fixed decades ago.

I'm in a similar position with the Playstation 4. I've barely used it since I bought it, and it's been collecting dust for years. But, I do own one.

The catch is... I don't own a Playstation 5.

They're just trying to keep up with printer drivers.

I think I got confused by what you meant by "networking". Networking, as in social networking in the workplace, not computer networking as in working from home.

I apologize for that.

I still find it hard to understand why people are dumping all over Ol Olsoc. He's not wrong. Whether we like it or not, people are social beings, and if you lack those skills, you're going to have a really hard time getting by in life. Companies will always favor people with good social skills even if they're not good at doing the job. That's just the way people are, so work environments reflect that. You either accept that and get by, or fight against it and remain unemployable.

Or they're like me, and have Schizoid Personality Disorder. We work well on our own and can't "schmooze" like normal people. Or at least, we don't tolerate all that dramatic office bullshit.

But yeah... weird people who do well in remote settings are "manipulative". Form my perspective, it's the exact opposite. It's a normal part of the human condition to manipulate the feelings of others... for better or for worse. Some of us don't care about your feelings and just want to get the job done.

Yeah, go ahead and call us assholes. So sue us. We need to eat, too.

Yeah, not just for manufacturing, but also for licenses and patents. When there's this few companies in this market worldwide, it's too legally complicated and risky to try to disrupt the existing consortium.

Dark matter is not common matter that is simply sparse. There's lots of ways to see clouds of gas or other sparse particles, such as by spectral absorption.

The trouble with dark matter is that it only seems to interact with gravity, and thus it does not qualify as a traditional form of matter. Calling it a "material" is speculation. It could be a form of energy we simply haven't discovered yet.

Until we have a better explanation, it's pretty close to magic, and it certainly does violate physics... at least, the physics we have currently defined.

What's most typical for slashdot is acting like a jerk in the face of reality.

Yes, we really are running into problems where vendors will put vehicles into limp mode if there are connectivity issues, and not because there is a genuine problems. It happens with vendors like Fisker more than the mainstream brands, but this most certainly is reality.

Reminds me of the time when Teslas were dying because the SSDs they used to collect telemetry data were dying. Why should the whole car not function if it can't spy on you and report back to the manufacturer? What does that have to do with getting a car from point A to point B? Yeah, that's a failure of company policy, not an engineering/update/safety issue.

To be fair, if you wanted a solid, finished, reliable product from a manufacturer with a good reputation... you didn't buy a Fisker.

Don't worry about that. We all know the tech isn't designed to keep drunks off the road.

The whole premise behind AI is that it can generate a huge quantity of stuff quickly. There is simply not enough demand to consume the supply.

The sad reality is that AI is not a means of doing better, it's a cultural race to the bottom.

Ask places like DeviantArt how well that's going. All of the art-related web sites that have allowed/embraced AI are turning into ghost towns. It's awful.

I think it's helpful to point out that bikes often use wet clutches, which work and feel different to the dry clutches used in cars. I'm not sure the average person would understand how important a good clutch is to the usability of a vehicle, and wet clutches on bikes are much nicer to use than those in cars.

In 25 years people will still be collecting and riding their old ICE bikes -- the old electric versions will probably be inoperable due to software lockouts that prevent repair and various other proprietary tomfoolery. Even as a tech enthusiast, I'm loathe to accept that new stuff is superior in usability, let alone utility.

I've driven manual car transmissions my whole life, and I can't stand automatics. I hate the "hill-holder" behavior and the fact the car just lunges forward on its own when I don't push the accelerator. Automatics behave this way because of how torque converters work. Now that electric cars are becoming common, by default they mimic the behavior of torque converters because that's what most people expect. We can program electric cars to behave like a manual, but from what I gather, many manufacturers don't give you that option because "innovation" or something. If I can't configure an electric car to work like a ICE manual, which actually makes sense, then I don't want to drive it.

Yes, choice it what we need. If you don't like a feature, then just don't use it.

Compute costs are not improving by leaps and bounds like they were in the 90's. Today, most companies struggle to get 5% improvement per year. AI is still in the early days, but it's still very much hardware bound and it's unlikely to mature at an exponential rate.

Besides, the AI market has gone bonkers, and hundreds of billions are being poured into infrastructure. Investors want to make all that money back.

I don't suspect subscription costs to be going down any time soon.

I didn't get that impression at all. Personally, I think you jumped all over this guy for no reason.