Comment It's healthy for Americans (Score 3, Funny) 124
Comment All your data belong to Slop (Score 1) 77
Comment Broken analogy. (Score 1) 65
Bulldozer flatten the physical world. AI generates content and code in the virtual world. Huge difference.
So being smart isn't a rarity anymore? Boo hoo.
When a smartphone can do a diagnosis just as good as a doctor (or better), when it can cough up a legal document that is 80% finished after 30 seconds, that's overall a good thing. Some desk jockeys like us will lose their prestigious jobs. Really no big loss for society as a hole.
The problem is, of course, that running a fascist surveillance state has just gotten 5 orders of magnitude cheaper. That sure is a problem we need to be aware of.
Comment This isn't news. Read the TOS. (Score 3, Informative) 70
The TOS of these commercial services say they basically own your content, unless it's illegal, then all the burden is on you. This has been the case ever since those services became a thing, more than 25 years ago.
That's why any computer and internet expert worth their reputation does not use these services without a throw-away alias account or for anything mission-critical.
Comment I always wait a generation. Still happy with my... (Score 3, Interesting) 45
... Xbox One X. Awesome machine. Console affordable, games dirt cheap, all the bugs ironed out. I'll be getting the Xbox Series X when that drops in price
I always wait until the end of a generation before I buy. I've still got 80+ games, most of them unplayed. Even my Xbox 360 library is half unused. Someday I want to finish the Orange Box on that one.
Comment Every Decennium needs such an episode (Score 1) 47
Comment This felony screams for hard punishment (Score 4, Funny) 153
Comment Totally this _and_ for Web ... (Score 1) 19
... development it's basically one language for front and backend, which is a game-change. Especially with you use the newest stuff in the Jamstack, such as Deno which runs TS natively. In that regard, TS is basically the new version of JS.
Comment A bad day for the stable genius (Score 1) 63
Comment It annoys me so much (Score 1) 21
Submission + - DHL introduces a trimaran sailboat line for freight.
Comment More clarity on Fermis Paradox. (Score 3, Insightful) 31
It's taking shape: Basic life may actually be quite common. Naked apes typing on keyboards on a digital network they built themselves not so much.
The rare earth and rare advanced intelligent life theories just got some extra weight.
Comment Right now the real temperature here ... (Score 4, Interesting) 164
... in Europe is roughly 5 degrees centigrade above worst case scenarios projected for the year 2050 back in 2016. Germany will likely crack the 40 degree mark in multiple locations at the end of this week. Once again a new heat record. I personally expect this to only get more intense in the next years until perhaps the gulf stream completely shuts down.
These are cascading effects kicking in and ramping up. It wouldn't stop if the planet went net-zero carbon tomorrow. So we're pretty f*cked, as predicted ever since 1970. I'm curious how hard though. Guess we'll find out soon.
Comment Wikipedia is incomplete ... (Score 2, Interesting) 214
... in some parts, contains bucketloads of over-the-top excess trivia in others and has sections that are flat-out provably false. If the sections chiefs don't think an article is important, they delete it. That's why poets important to the development of a language and culture sometimes don't even have an entry, let alone more that 3 lines while some third-grade rapper that made some noise 10 years back has an essay with 10 000 words covering every detail of their private life.
I've seen flat-out bullshit on wikipedia more than once, I've corrected some things, roughly 30% get rolled back. If an area of expertise has asshole/dimwitt chief editors (or whatever they are called in wikipedia-speak) I often just give up and don't bother.
Wikipedia is a reflection of our times and what's important to us. And it should be viewed as such. With a pound of salt.