184773520 comment Comment Re: Yeah but the pay isn't great (Score 1) 83 by avandesande on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:32PM (#66264908) Attached to: AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands How is a couple years of apprenticeship where you are paid any worse than 4 years of college plus debt?
184773474 comment Comment Re:No it was not (Score 1) 53 by avandesande on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:28PM (#66264898) Attached to: Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel Maybe a second responsible party should examine everything before something is published? This is how it works in many places.
184770328 comment Comment Re:Yeah but the pay isn't great (Score 1) 83 by avandesande on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:17AM (#66264296) Attached to: AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands I don't understand your problem with the way apprenticeship is done. It's always been like this! Even in IT.
184606396 comment Comment Re:200k tokens is $10/month at most! (Score 1) 93 by avandesande on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:41AM (#66253244) Attached to: The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens Yup, it comes from not understanding how funding and military procurement works. If you go 1$ over your allotment it causes a lot of headaches....
184559168 comment Comment Re:Exercise and diet could reduce heart risk (Score 1) 189 by avandesande on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:40AM (#66249610) Attached to: Drinking 5 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Reduce Heart Risk Who wants to do that?
184559098 comment Comment Re: Of COURSE you can't use sweetener or cream... (Score 1) 189 by avandesande on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:38AM (#66249606) Attached to: Drinking 5 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Reduce Heart Risk I roast my own coffee and simply prefer it with cream.
184458994 comment Comment Re:Weasel words (Score 1) 155 by avandesande on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @11:41AM (#66238102) Attached to: Over 200 Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' On AI's Economic Impact It will follow the technology S-curve just like anything else. Where are we at now?
184361442 comment Comment Re:Thats a signifcant percentage of White American (Score 1) 100 by avandesande on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:43PM (#66228410) Attached to: Learning Another Language Appears To Slow Brain Aging By Up To 13 Years English is a mishmash of several languages, so learning just English is enough.
184361420 comment Comment Re:Learn snither language (Score 1) 100 by avandesande on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:41PM (#66228402) Attached to: Learning Another Language Appears To Slow Brain Aging By Up To 13 Years It was J for me
184331164 comment Comment Re:Backpedaling doesn't equal truth (Score 1) 81 by avandesande on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:06AM (#66224946) Attached to: Is Big Tech Now Backpedaling on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario? It's not a matter of politically acceptable, it's something that doesn't alarm shareholders.
184191886 comment Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 183 by avandesande on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:59PM (#66216098) Attached to: Are Checks Sent Through the Mail Vulnerable to Theft? It's the same in the US. I use direct deposit all the time to pay bills or other recurring payments at no cost.
184071898 comment Comment Re:It's all the immigrants. (Score 1) 164 by avandesande on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @06:15PM (#66208728) Attached to: Europe: The World's Fastest-Warming Continent Higher standard of living in the US means a larger carbon footprint, so yes you are correct.
183753528 comment Comment Re:Would same hold true when steering vehicles? (Score 1) 156 by avandesande on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:14PM (#66186880) Attached to: Humans Prefer To Walk Anticlockwise, Scientists Find I've definitely noticed this on a motorcycle, not so much in a car.
183601576 comment Comment Re:Capitalism wins again. (Score 2) 207 by avandesande on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:55PM (#66175352) Attached to: Demand Is Booming For New No Tech, Repairable Tractor Money was invented so the government could collect taxes.
183589108 comment Comment Re:"It can run on your laptop" is not the news (Score 1) 54 by avandesande on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:24PM (#66174006) Attached to: Google Launches 'Gemma 4 12B' AI Model That Can Run On Your Laptop The recent models for comparable size are much better than they were even a year ago.