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Comment Re:Consequence culture (Score 1) 142

When a new administration comes in and uses the same tactics against those who now cheer such actions and yell "Hooray for our side" will be screaming how unfair it is. All of a sudden, payback makes what seemed like a good idea ta the time wasn't.

Did that happen when Trump 1.0 ended? I don't recall that the Biden administration followed the same playbook that Trump did.

Not claiming Biden did it, just that once the precedent is established and power yielded to the executive or government, it becomes one more tool both sides can wield. You saw some of that when Trump made a guns comment and all of a sudden the Bill of Rights became important again.

Comment Re:Improve the recovery! (Score 1) 53

Why are we landing the capsule in water at all? Everything is in motion, and failures quickly cause the capsule to fill with water.

You'd need to find a suitable uninhabited, federally owned, landing spot with no obstructions, something not easy to do in the US. The Russians have the space to do it, we really don't, even out west.

Comment Re:Consequence culture (Score 4, Insightful) 142

A consequence of the regime getting that power in this case through the courts would be that it is much easier for them to do the same in future cases.;

When a new administration comes in and uses the same tactics against those who now cheer such actions and yell "Hooray for our side" will be screaming how unfair it is. All of a sudden, payback makes what seemed like a good idea ta the time wasn't.

Comment Seems fair (Score 2, Interesting) 46

Meta's free to decide what ads it wants to run. They're a commercial platform so it's not a free speech issue, although I suspect some will try to frame it as one. Blocking the lawyers ironically can help them since now they are getting press about the lawsuits and can trumpet "10 reasons Meta doesn't want you to know your being harmed. Number 5 will amaze you."

Comment Pricing (Score 1) 56

If the rumored pricing of $2000 is true, it will be interesting to see how many they sell. I've seen a few people with folds, mostly playing games. I don't see how it ofers any advantage over videos in terms of view size since the screen aspect ratio changes and would result in black bars to maintain the video's AR.

Comment Inevitable (Score 1) 46

AI has been running at a big loss to get the users hooked. It was inevitable that prices would start climbing. That process is nowhere near done, running AI is expensive as hell.

Once the market starts reflecting the actual costs, you can bet the cost/benefit will not be nearly as rosy as it looks now. But some customers will already have gotten themselves between a rock and a hard place and will be sucked dry, then discarded. Those "expensive" people that are getting dumped will start looking like a bargain, but they will have already been snapped up by smarter companies by the time management that can't see past their own toes figures that out.

Comment Wow, old memory (Score 1) 137

All of this makes me remember a short story reading assignment in the 5th grade. It was about kids growing up in a society where machines did all of the intellectual work. To them, writing was 'squiggles'. They managed to disable a filter on their "bard" (a story teller for children) and had it tell them a tale of machines ruling over Man.

Nobody expects prophesy from a 5th grade reading assignment.

Comment Re:If only (Score 1) 102

As a counterpoint, The Linux kernel and much of the userspace in various distros is done remote. It can work, even on highly collaborative projects. Like anything, some will enjoy that more than others.

Required physical equipment can be a limiting factor, of course. Though I have done firmware development from home because the dev board wasn't expensive nor is a debugger for that hardware.

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