Comment Re:Features/Payments transferred to Microsoft Team (Score 1) 38
3 years later ? dont be silly.
i have a skype credit going back 11 years. these are prepaid and charged on a credit card and then added to skype.
you cant charge those back.
Comment Re: They are killing human employment intentionall (Score 1) 112
meh. tractors dont drive off and plow neighbours fields and pedestrian traffic on the sidewalks randomly around 30% of the time.
private company will go bankrupt when everyone just laughs and spins up a LLM on their home computer. i already have my own deepseek instance with 670b parameters running on my headless EPYC server with 512GB RAM. yeah its slower than a GPU based system but i can afford to dedicate 400GB of disk and 300GB of RAM to run it. much cheaper (basically free) hardware from 3 years ago. if tractors were free no one would pay for them.
Comment Re:So right now all the effort (Score 1) 74
thats literaly the duumbest take on anything ive ever read. are you sure youre not an AI ? AI's are pretty worthless except for garbage tasks. they hallucinate 30% of the time. you need to feed answers back to them hundreds of times to get anything accurate. and then the models sometimes blow up. yeah they are useful for drafting time sheets and mundane bs but they arent going to replace good coders anytime soon.
Comment Re:Open the door? (Score 4, Insightful) 137
doors auto lock while the car is in motion.
Comment Re:"Trapped" (Score 5, Insightful) 137
" the car will find a safe spot to stop." not "its an emergency stop button". the car obviously couldnt find a safe spot to stop which is why it kept circling....
Comment Re:Clear As Mud! (Score 2) 42
quantum clocks means that inertial navigation goes from several miles drift over time and functionally useless to actually practical with GPS precision. Quantum clocks allow you to build atomic inertial sensors can measure gravity variations of a part in a billion. This occurs because of the propagation of wave packets between two beam splitters and the beam splitters themselves. The ïrst stage is achieved through the ABCDξ theorem which gives the evolution of a general wave packet in the case of a time-dependent external Hamiltonian at most quadratic in position and momentum operators. The second problem is addressed by the ttt theorem which speciïes the effect of a beam splitter, when its dispersive nature is neglected.
Comment Re:Acceleration (Score 1) 48
nonsense. even the best Artificially Incompetent LLM cant even equal what a baby does at birth. much less anywhere near the bullshit that Google and Open AI execs spew. its all marketing until it goes pop then no one will care about the post pandemic AI hype train.
Comment Kessler syndrome when ? (Score 1) 37
nice new threat for 2025 - Kessler syndrome starting in LEO. because we didnt learn anything from pandemics.
Comment Re:Britannica does that old timey fact checkin thi (Score 1) 59
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thats what i got....
Submission + - LEAP71 hot fires advanced Aerospike rocket engine designed by computational AI (leap71.com)
schwit1 writes: The Dubai-based startup LEAP71, focused on using AI software to quickly develop rocket engine designs it can then 3D print, has successfully test fired a prototype aerospike engine on December 18, 2024 during a static fire test campaign conducted in the United Kingdom.
Aerospikes are more compact and significantly more efficient across various atmospheric pressures, including the vacuum of space. They forego the conventional bell-shaped nozzle by placing a spike in the center of a toroidal combustion chamber [as shown in the photo to the right]. Since it is surrounded by 3,500C hot exhaust gas, cooling the spike is an enormous challenge.
Josefine Lissner, CEO and Co-Founder of LEAP71, stated: “We were able to extend Noyron’s physics to deal with the unique complexity of this engine type. The spike is cooled by intricate cooling channels flooded by cryogenic oxygen, whereas the outside of the chamber is cooled by the kerosene fuel. I am very encouraged by the results of this test, as virtually everything on the engine was novel and untested. It’s a great validation of our physics-driven approach to computational AI.”
Comment Re: Maybe we will (Score 0) 30
yes. dumb ideas are dumb ideas.
Comment Re:Precision (Score 1) 133
and from a lawyers POV your example is a problem.
An all-in-one desktops would not fall under the computer definition even though it has a 27 inch screen and is not portable.
because your computer definition unnecessarily included "a separately powered monitor to view information".
which is what separates a non lawyer from a lawyer. non lawyers dont use precise language.
there are other issues with your example but i will leave those as an exercise to the reader.
Submission + - Companies Issuing RTO Mandates 'Lose Their Best Talent': Study (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Return-to-office (RTO) mandates have caused companies to lose some of their best workers, a study tracking over 3 million workers at 54 "high-tech and financial" firms at the S&P 500 index has found. These companies also have greater challenges finding new talent, the report concluded. The paper, Return-to-Office Mandates and Brain Drain [PDF], comes from researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as Baylor University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. The study, which was published in November, spotted this month by human resources (HR) publication HR Dive, and cites Ars Technica reporting, was conducted by collecting information on RTO announcements and sourcing data from LinkedIn.
The researchers said they only examined companies with data available for at least two quarters before and after they issued RTO mandates. The researchers explained: "To collect employee turnover data, we follow prior literature ... and obtain the employment history information of over 3 million employees of the 54 RTO firms from Revelio Labs, a leading data provider that extracts information from employee LinkedIn profiles. We manually identify employees who left a firm during each period, then calculate the firm’s turnover rate by dividing the number of departing employees by the total employee headcount at the beginning of the period. We also obtain information about employees’ gender, seniority, and the number of skills listed on their individual LinkedIn profiles, which serves as a proxy for employees’ skill level."
There are limits to the study, however. The researchers noted that the study "cannot draw causal inferences based on our setting." Further, smaller firms and firms outside of the high-tech and financial industries may show different results. Although not mentioned in the report, relying on data from a social media platform could also yield inaccuracies, and the number of skills listed on a LinkedIn profile may not accurately depict a worker's skill level. [...] The researchers concluded that the average turnover rates for firms increased by 14 percent after issuing return-to-office policies. "We expect the effect of RTO mandates on employee turnover to be even higher for other firms" the paper says.
The researchers said they only examined companies with data available for at least two quarters before and after they issued RTO mandates. The researchers explained: "To collect employee turnover data, we follow prior literature
There are limits to the study, however. The researchers noted that the study "cannot draw causal inferences based on our setting." Further, smaller firms and firms outside of the high-tech and financial industries may show different results. Although not mentioned in the report, relying on data from a social media platform could also yield inaccuracies, and the number of skills listed on a LinkedIn profile may not accurately depict a worker's skill level. [...] The researchers concluded that the average turnover rates for firms increased by 14 percent after issuing return-to-office policies. "We expect the effect of RTO mandates on employee turnover to be even higher for other firms" the paper says.
Comment now at least i know using bottled water is good (Score 1) 136
always used bottled water - the kind that you get using office coolers - at home. now i know it was an excellent idea. i dont mind paying more for the bottled water. at least its classified as a food product.
Comment thats why trump was elected. (Score 3, Informative) 23
what a bunch of woke SJWs on the C++ committee.
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