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Comment Worse that it already is? (Score 5, Interesting) 91

Really? Now that would be an achievement.
Between the AI crud that's remarkably inaccurate and the litany of sponsored links, it's hard to get Google to return results of value anymore.
Perplexity (mentioned in systemd-anonymousd' comment) is one good alternative. Here's another (IMHO):
https://www.startpage.com/
Useful Google results without the crud.

Comment Workplace Chat Server (Score 1) 83

Back in '98 we used the standalone server as a workplace chat app for a tech support department. It worked great, especially since we were always on the phone you could still chat with a coworker. The server wasn't well supported and had a memory leak which lead to the NT Server crashing and killing the entire tech support departments MS Access database. Boss wasn't happy, but had to take the hit since he gave into our request to install. It was fun while it lasted.

Comment Commercial Realestate Project Mananger here ..... (Score 1) 165

I am a construction project manager who does a significant amount of commercial realestate projects. It has been interesting seeing how different company cultures react to this ideoological shift. Firms with younger manangment treat it as an apportunity to addapt firms with older manangement basically freeze and wait for the news everyone is going back to work. You watch demand to return after demand to return and the offices are still empty.

Developers are pivoting to biomedical and multifamily .... they are desperate. We here strories of downtown los angeles mega building owners giving up buildings. My position is these are company cultures who froze hoping for things to return to the status quo. This will certainly play out. Gone are the days of setting up a cubicle home and having personal spaces.

Comment Re:Housing conversion best option (Score 2) 69

This is not correct. Adaptive Reuse of buildings is done all the time. Downtown LA used to be all commercial up through the mid 2000s. Adaptive reuse of old garment industry buildings revitilized downtown, keeping in mind the california seizmic requirements. There just has to be a motivating factor (see profit). I know in California the main issue has just been strict beurocracy that just makes things close to impossible.

Comment Re:My first (Score 1) 523

Same progression here, though I was a bit older.

Started with Trash-80s in High School. Networked off of a cassette tape player. Finally got my own IIe when I was a Senior and the school switched to them. The IIe carried me through college, until I was able to get a blistering fast 286 once I had a real job & income. How far we've come.

Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter

CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!

Comment Re:Ancient news for nerds? (Score 1) 142

Actually, I have.

I made a group of friends there years ago, some of whom I'm still in touch with, albeit via other means now. Those forums, and some of the friends we had there came up in conversation just the other day.

Hmmm. Perhaps I'll go see if I can dig up an old copy of OzWin and see if it still works. I might even have some of the old forum message threads around...

Comment Dammit (Score 1) 141

Now I have to go find another distro to move to. I have multiple computers with multiple users, all running Mint/KDE. I thought I'd finally found a easy to use, Debian based distro with KDE. I tried Kubuntu a couple of times, and it was very clearly a second class citizen, even to the point where it almost imploded in Oct 2015. Unless it has improved very dramatically in both quality, focus, and stability it's not a viable alternative.

Sigh. Fine. Back to the drawing board.
Dammit.

Comment Hype is Hype until it becomes reality (Score 1) 156

I would like to pose a different perspective. Yes you are correct in this being an algorithm approach which is being called A.I. I think though this is a matter of speaking what doesn't exist into existance by placing focus, and as a result, resources, and as a result problem solving, and most importantly determination. Now there are people like you who glory in pointing out the discrepancy, kudos.

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