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Comment Names (Score 1) 7

Quit naming your shit after things that already exist. You make geologists scream every time we have to filter your programming crap out (never mind the fucking Steven Universe shit) from search results because you have not one iota of fucking originality. RubyGems, Spinel - come up with your own shit.

Comment Re:Deserve what you get (Score 1) 261

I can see why consumers might generally prefer an all-in-one solution *IF* it won't be enshitified. Alas, since it WILL be, I prefer a device that can't phone home at all in order to make enshittification impossible. It's unfortunate that the otherwise cleaner solution is screwed up by bad manufacturers.

Comment Re:Surely the Study is Flawed? (Score 1) 129

If you use nuclear generated electricity there is only one cost. If you choose wind & solar, when the wind isn't blowing or it's dark you need to provide a backup power source e.g. nuclear. Consequently wind and solar can never be cheaper. And don't get me started on storage costs.

If the wind is blowing to the sky dark then the cost of wind and solar is zero; that really keeps average costs down...

Comment Re:"Environmentalist" strategy (Score 1) 129

In many ways the industry is a fault because companies can't properly manage construction. Between design changes, not building to license, customizing each unit they basically created a losing process. The AP1000 was designed to be a standard design to keep costs down but the US proved even with that they haven't really learned how to build nukes in a cost effective manner.

Comment Re:Is this a slam on the company? (Score 1) 60

"We are exiting on a compressed timeline people where reskilling, based on our experience, is not a viable path for the skills we need," chief executive Julie Sweet told analysts on a conference call.

Silly, stupid jargon. You're not fired! You're exited!

Back in the old days, firms mad either a point to stay in touch with former employees and ease their exit; if only to ensure ethe had a favorable impression of their old firm if and when they were in a corporate position to hire consultants. They had alumni networks and events, and even offered some benefits such as corporate discounts, etc. Leaving need not be permant, I knew people who had left, done a corpoarate giog, and came back at a higher level. Sounds like those days are gone.

Comment Re: Fancy term for downsizing (Score 2) 60

No one really knows the skills accenture consultants will need to prove added value on the age of AI. Or if there is any value to add when the LLMMs commoditize the market of generated pabulum.

So they're not really wrong...

Sure they do. The skills needed is to be cheaper than the current workforce so you have a much larger margin.

Comment Re:Deserve what you get (Score 1) 261

If the TV was appropriately cheaper for not having the smarts, the $30 might not seem like much. It's not exactly complicated to plug the chromecast into an HDMI input. The chromecast remote will be what you need most of the time since the chromecast itself can turn the TV on, select the correct input, etc and the remote also has an IR transmitter to handle the volume function.

Admittedly, assembling the Pi is a step up in knowledge many wouldn't manage.

Many people do manage to use a chromecast just fine.

It would be better to somehow ban enshittification, but even defining it legally would be a hard problem, much less getting the legislation past the gauntlet of industry lobbyists.

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