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Comment "Critical Infrastructure" (Score 1) 175

Well nothing we think of as "critical infrastructure" is using consumer routers - and if it were that could and should be remedied quickly without a ban on consumer routers.

So ... this leaves us with an open question for this to make legal sense.

The best fit is probably an Internet Drivers License and mandatory packet signing for a surveillance control grid and CBDC coming down the pike rapidly.

When in the course of Human Events....

Comment Re:Rust could be awesome. (Score 2) 31

Yeah, not sure if you remember the Vegan Crossfit Pythonistas.

Instead of saying, "we could write a program to..." they would dogmatically intone, "we could write a Python script to..." in almost every situation.

Not sure who taught them the NLP but their dedication was a fervor.

A whole lot of rewriting of fast, debugged, working code got rewritten by them just because Perl, Ruby, and Bash felt like heresy.. For a while python stacktraces were the error message of common use on Fedora.

Comment "Stop making people hate you." (Score 1) 48

Now that we know that Meta lobbied for all of these simultaneous "age verification" laws he's losing what little support he still had.

Have you seen that interview where he just has a bottle of barbecue sauce on his bookshelf?

To make him "relatable" they say?

There's a decades old cartoon that asks, "how would you like your tyranny wrapped, in 'stopping terrorism' or 'protecting the children'?

2025 edit: 'stopping antisemitism' as that's all DoJCRD seems to know about.

Comment Re:So much for state's rights. (Score 1) 75

States have no rights in the American system. They have powers, insofar as they exercise them.

Humans have rights, granted by God, as the default religious basis for the Natural Rights Republic.

You'll notice that Regulating AI appears nowhere in Article I , and Federalist 10 explains why these powers were strictly limited.

Yet the Political/Parasite class is happy to abrogate their power for power and money and ensure a government school child never hears about The Federalist Papers in thirteen years of compulsory schooling.

So we're left with too few Americans who even know they should be livid.

Perhaps letting Robert Maxwell and Howard Zinn be in charge of the textbooks was a massive and fatal mistake.

Submission + - Thorny issue plaguing lithium-ion batteries laid bare in new study (phys.org)

alternative_right writes: Lithium dendrites, i.e. tiny crystalline thorns that grow off of lithium-ion battery anodes during charging, have been a persistent challenge for the world's most widely used form of energy storage. "Dendrites can penetrate the battery's separator, causing catastrophic short circuits and safety hazards," said Qing Ai, a former research scientist at Rice University who is a first author on a new study published in Science that reports for the first time exactly how these tricky structures behave inside batteries. "Despite decades of study, the fundamental nanomechanical properties of lithium dendrites remained a mystery—until now."

Comment Re:Such BS overselling (Score 1) 120

Ideally you'll charge batteries with them and then use a low-frequency inverter to power the fridge.

But this is another $2k on the low end for something decent.

Does anybody know how they synchronize the AC waveform on these plug-in things?

I have been operating on the understanding that you can smash DC sources together but not AC. It sounds like I could parallel inverters with this tech. That would be cool.

Comment Re:Why i'd never vibe-code: editing isn't any fun. (Score 3, Insightful) 93

some have suggested that's just because it has more or less illegally webscraped the entirety of stackoverflow and reddit, so you're really just doing a resource-intensive google search to find the right stack overflow question/answer page, without either of those sites getting any credit for it.

Comment Why i'd never vibe-code: editing isn't any fun. (Score 3, Insightful) 93

That's what it comes down to. When you start vibe-coding, you're no longer really coding, and you're not even really creating anymore.

You're just editing. All you're doing is code reviews and quick bug fixes...and those tend to be my least favorite parts of my job.

At least code-reviewing a junior developer, you're teaching, mentoring, instilling some new disciplines or expanding their horizons.

There's no satisfaction in doing that to a bot. Especially because the next time it codes something for you, it is going to come up with something completely different as if the 'experience' you tried to give it doesn't matter anymore.

Yeah, maybe it gets the job done...but I'm not in this to 'get the job done'. If this is what the job was or is going to become, then I'll quit, do my own coding on the side for open-source or other projects, and just make money as a substitute teacher... ...that is, if I didn't have to pay for health insurance, but America sucks in that regard and always will.

Comment 0/2 (Score 0) 162

I saw none last year but I'd like to see Project Hail Mary and Disclosure Day this year.

Maybe at the Drive-In, we'll see.

They just need to make movies people want to see without Luciferian propaganda being the primary goal.

LLM's can't be worse than the median Hollywood writer. Nor can they hold a candle to the best.

Comment Re:Buy cheap shit... (Score 1) 65

There's a German company that uses a totally different type of cell that's low-cycle but should last a hundred years.

The cheap one is just big enough for key or two and has a serial interface and the expensive one is bigger and does the whole USB stack.

I think the serial interface stands more of a chance of being readable when I'm 90. USB seems so ubiquitous now but those parallel ZIP drives seemed perfect at the time too.

I'm going to get a few once the tariff situation gets kicked to the curb. And, no, nobody in America makes them or I would have them already.

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