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Comment Re:This is almost certainly DOA (Score -1) 131

Got lucky a few times.

First launched into the vague area because Compaq had dot-com FOMO and gave Musk a ton of money for Zip2, and did nothing with it. Musk got millions for not much because Compaq had no idea how to evaluate things but was in a frenzied hurry.

Then he made a failing online payment service and effectively conned his way to be in charge of PayPal after a merger, and totally boffed it. Despite being ousted as CEO, he still ended up getting hundreds of millions for just generally screwing up.

Then bullied his way into being a 'founder' of Tesla, nevermind that Tesla already existed before he came along..

Tesla before Musk came along was three guys with a logo and grandiose ideas about how cool it'd be to make an electric car.

Comment Re:So? (Score -1) 169

"This many bugs"? And how many is that, exactly? A lot? A few? Does it maybe have a relation to what the bugs were and what their impact was?

And that is why I call this infantile. It does impress weak minds (as you just nicely demonstrated), but as soon as you know a bit more it is just ridiculous and means nothing.

Directly quoting the Mozilla blog post: "For a hardened target, just one such bug would have been red-alert in 2025". Yus, totally "infantile". But yes, I guess Bobby Holley who wrote this, whose credentials are, oh, only "CTO of Firefox", obviously has no clue WTF he's talking about, knows way less about severity of those bugs than you do without even knowing what they are, and is one of those "weak minds". Instead we should defer to the wisdom of armchair specialist like you. Or, oh, I know, I know, everyone who says something that contradicts you, like him, is knowingly and deliberately lying, because of course any preexisting bias of such a "strong mind" as yours can't possibly be false, right?

Do you even realise how fucking pathetic you are in your stupid attempts at dismissing this?

Comment Re:We need humility, not arrogance (Score -1) 169

Isn't claiming that a magical computer program can find all bugs in another program effectively a variation on the halting problem?

No. As long as "another program" is "common consumer software like a browser" rather than "hardcore theoretical comp sci construct demonstrating something". You can't automatically prove halting on ALL recursive problems, but if you allow a solution of "I can't auto-prove correctness of this loop, so I'm going to rip it out and replace it with simpler code" then a magical computer program fixing all bugs does not break halting problem. When was the last time a "I can't prove this loop terminates on all inputs and that's okay" was an acceptable piece of code in common computer software?

Comment Re: He's Not Wrong. (Score -1) 240

Or the lowest bidder. I would rather have one of those bitchen Chinese EVs than his shitty Mustang E for the money anyway. Protectionism is wrong. 1 Million auto-workers should not be prioritized over 330 million American consumers who are having their options limited. If there is a regulatory requirement like smog or safety systems missing, fine. But regulations MUST apply to all equally.

I wonder if you feel the same about people immigrating here on H1Bs, or techie jobs being offshored to India. Somehow I feel we're about to hear a "oh oh but that's lieks TOOOOTALLY DIFFERENT, and those H1Bs should be deported but but but it's for their own good, to stop them from being exploited or something!" kind of rant.

Comment Re:"Erm... sinners to repentance?" (Score -1) 188

Two sieg heils from the owner on national TV? No big.

Engagement down 97%? We have our principles, sir!

LOL, desperate, are we? The absolute last thing Elon is widely known for is "not immediately vocalising any thought that comes to his mind". If he really was a Nazi you'd have TONS of quotes to support that, and wouldn't have to resort to deliberately (yes) misinterpreting him waving his hands.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score -1) 47

And the really annoying thing about this is that when the AI bubble inevitably crashes, it's going to be difficult to repurpose all of these specialized AI processors into something useful..

This won't be like the 2018-2023 crypto bubble, where we end up with a ton of cheap used GPU's and power supplies available for resale. This stuff with mostly end up in the landfill and scavenged for their raw materials.

"Inevitably crashes"? And how exactly do you think is THAT going to happen? All those people using claude are all of a sudden going to abandon it? At worst some stock market bubbles will burst, but your fantasy of everyone of their users going "oh geee, I've been using claude for 6 months but I just read this random guy on slashdot saying it can't count 'r' in 'strawberry', and now I see the light and I'm dropping it THIS INSTANT" is not going to happen.

And even speaking of the stock market, I doubt you're actually putting your money where your mouth is and are shorting Anthropic, are you? No of course not, bet you have some excuse about "market staying irrational longer than you can stay solvent" or something.

Comment Re:You're oversimplifying very complex phenomena (Score -1) 129

Weight and fat stores is calories in a calories out. What literally else can it be? I know without a doubt now anyone who “can’t” lose weight knows what the energy imbalance part of their equation is, they just don’t want to give it up. Hers was pizza dips, what is yours???

Metabolism isn't deterministic. Your body has stores of fat, muscle, and tissue it can break down at will. 4 years ago, I started intermittent fasting. I carefully controlled my calories, worked from home, and ate the same food every day...just for time sake. I lost about .5 lb a week on average. I was working out nightly. I went from 240 to 195. Then it stopped...same calories in....same level of fitness and working out....now the weight started creeping up. Because I'm not a moron, I tried working out harder...cutting calories...that slowed the gain. Any mistakes led to a large gain. It's not deterministic. If your theory was correct, it should be simple to reduce calories in and increase calories out and still see fat loss. But...it wasn't. Many have experiences similar to mine.

Bullshit. You know how many trillions Big Pharma spent on trying to find the cure for "broken metabolism"? All those "broken metabolism" studies always went like this: they recruited all those "broken metabolism" ladies who claimed to be able to gain weight on a 1000 kcal diet. Then they put them in a metabolic ward on an *actual* 1000 kcal diet, as calculated by actual scientists. And gee, who would have guessed, invariably those "broken metabolism" ladies miraculously regain their ability to loose weight, at exactly the same rate as the control group.

Oh wait, turns out there's no such thing as a "broken metabolism", 1 molecule of glucose makes exact same amount of ATP for everyone, there's just ladies that suck at estimating their calorie intake. And basal metabolic rate is still most reliably computed from lean body mass. Oh, you're 30% body fat? And you think you're going to have high basal metabolic rate? LOL.

Maybe, if you're looking for someone other than yourself to blame for your problems (as that seems to be your thing) you should look to the people who told you that cardio is the way to get lean. No, the way to fix that is to build metabolically active tissue, i.e. muscle. I.e. lift weights. Do you even lift bro?

And who would have guessed, the antiobesity agents that actually work, the GLP-1s do do jack shit to your metabolism, they're just really powerful appetite suppressants, i.e. they shut your piehole for you. Gee, it's almost as if all those people saying "if you want to get thin, just shut your piehole and that's all" were right all along.

But yes, I guess YOU are the first human in history of science whoose body can break the law of conservation of energy and still gain fat while eating less than you burn. Either that, or you're full of shit. Geeee, I wonder which of these two options might be true...

Comment Re:Here it comes (Score -1) 71

Starlink is pretty low in orbit, so that may be a mitigating factor. Now, something higher up would be a problem, especially geosync sats.

Good to know it's not really a problem. I wonder why those stupid researchers think it might be a pretty big problem?

No, that's a stupid *you* who thinks it's a "pretty big problem". Neither in the article nor elsewhere are there quotes from any actual scientists who consider this to be anything beyond mild annoyance.

Comment Re:Terrible Situation (Score -1) 51

but the technology will improve

You say this with no evidence that LLMs can be any better than they are today.

LOL, what? The models are getting visibly better every iteration, at a speed which is frankly a bit terrifying even to observe, and you're claiming "no evidence"? I guess you still think they can't count "r" in "strawberry"? No, it's on YOU to provide evidence that the current trend is about to stop.

Comment Re:This is concerning (Score -1) 147

Please, explain to us how cooling in space is more efficient (without a medium like air or water surrounding you to put your heat into and get it away from your server).

Conservation of energy? Duh? The *only* source of energy you have is solar irradiation (no, chips do not magically make their own energy), and you dissipate it passively as radiation as well. The only "problem" is distributing your heat away from hotspots like chips so they don't fry, like running a coolant loop through the entire thing, but otherwise your space station has exactly the energy balance of a rock floating in space 1 AU away from the Sun. What's the average temp of the Moon? Oh, it's minus fifty C.

Comment Re:Cheaper Batteries == Game over (Score -1) 135

Solar/Wind + Cheaper Batteries + a bit of Nuclear = Game Over for coal and oil Even Trump can't stop this.

Ah yes, those "cheap and getting cheaper every minute!!!!11" batteries that leftist propaganda is chock full of, but which are conspicuously absent at any dealership selling home energy stores.

Comment Re:Let's be honest (Score -1) 79

Let me correct that slightly: All humans without severe mental dysfunctionalities have General Intelligence. It may not be a lot in most cases, but it is there.

Define "General Intelligence". As in an operational definition, i.e, a something like Turing test, that allows you to differentiate between AI and human. Oh, by the way, "human" also includes 5 year olds, ans your test must classify them as having "General Intelligence". Well?

The really bizarre thing is that most humans (around 80%) chose to not use that General Intelligence, because the results can be scary and result in uncertainties. Instead they typically chose to go along with what others tell them with no fact-checking. This effect is worse (!) on important topics and less bad on unimportant ones. But even on unimportant topics, only about 30% of all people can be convinced by rational arguments.

And that is why stupidity is actually a choice for most people and IMO they bear full responsibility for that choice as soon as they are adults.

Ah, nevermind, I see that your vision of "General Intelligence" is "follows the same politics as I do". Forget I asked anything.

Comment Re:Digital dimwitts trying to do digital law. (Score -1) 168

Been there, done that. EU citizen here. Duh.

It's always hilarious and/or super-annoying when people who don't have the faintest idea on how computers or digital networks work attempt to make laws to regulate these. We have this problem in the EU and in Germany quite a bit. Accidental throught-crime laws, laws that factually prohibit reading or consuming media you own, that collide with fundamental constitutional rights etc. without the lawmakers even noticing.

Accidental, lol. Believe me, there's nothing "accidental" about this, they only act that way when called out.

Comment Re:If... (Score -1) 21

In the end, anything medical, no matter how life-saving it is, is entirely dependent on how much money it makes its manufacturer (look at Lorenzo's oil).

I suppose you do whatever it is you do, purely for betterment of humanity and expect no wages paid in return? No? So why should the pharma industry be any different? And before you spew some variant of "but but but those profits are unreasonably high!", no they are not, just look at performance of pharma companies on the stock market. Pretty average returns, in line with other industries.

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