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Comment Re: all written from scratch? (Score 2, Interesting) 88

The phrase "from scratch" was originally a sports analogy meaning from the starting line, like a footrace, or a facing line like in boxing. A line in chalk was scratched into the ground. So in this case it means from the beginning, which even using AI, it is. The boxers come to the ring to fight from scratch, but they've had years of training and watched countless boxing matches to learn. Both the CentOS creator and the AI agent have learned immense amounts of information from a lot of other people's open source work, but they started making a new OS from the beginning or the scratch line.

Comment Re: Not exactly (Score 1) 71

Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure in heart? Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like On my knees day and night, scorin' points for the afterlife So don't be vain and don't be whiny Or else, my brother, I might have to get medieval on your Heinie!

Comment Re:We built DST changes into the hardware (Score 1) 153

"To a programmer, not a user. And the firmware in such devices is rarely user upgradable."

Perhaps you look up to anyone who can press a pushbutton or flip a switch to be a "programmer", but I don't.

I recall our software used in industrial equipment having to be configured for such a situation.

So, it wouldn't have to be replaced, as you claimed.

Comment Re:We built DST changes into the hardware (Score 1) 153

>Since the 1980s, and possibly earlier, our electronic clocks have been building DST changes into the hardware. Generations of electronics needs to be replaced first.

If that were true (and it isn't), anything made before 2007 would already be obsolete. That's when the most recent change to DST start/end dates was made. I have a couple of clocks which accommodate DST, but it's just a simple on/off switch.

Do you think they sell electronic clocks made specifically for Arizona, or other areas which don't use DST?

Comment Re: Streisand Effect (Score 1) 36

Indeed, but if you want to be a VP at Meta you need to be absolutely ruthless, cut-throat and act without any sense of empathy to further the company's interest. All the while creating a social media persona of this successful thought leader who is an amazing person to work for. (Cough Sheryl Sandberg and her "lean in" nonsense they doesn't work for non-super-rich people). The type of person that would make Machiavelli blush. By the time the Streisand effect hits you're set for life and don't care anymore (cough, Sandberg).

Comment Re: 60 bucks per terrabyte?! (Score 1) 192

I am not aware that anyone subsidizes my Internet usage in Silicon Valley on a full-price (non low income) circuit. It's still running over old DOCSIS coax connectivity people paying for cable subscriptions in the 80s already provided plenty of profit to the corporations for installing the cables. The average US household uses about 737gb a month, so 1TB isn't a huge difference either. Europeans use less but it's projected to average 900gb by 2030. That's fifty bucks a month with this new French tax.

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