Comment Re:Communists (Score 1) 29
Don't worry, greytree. I understood that this is heavily ironic. Sorry you're getting the clueless responses.
Comment Re: Watch the P/E (Score 3, Insightful) 136
Comment Re:Did new features always take this long? (Score 1) 48
When the web was born JPEG was already there. It was adopted from (ok, almost) day 1, along with GIF.
Comment Re:wtf is JPEG-XL (Score 2) 48
That algorithm should come with a GLP-1 licensure.
Comment Re:Uah no (Score 2) 148
I suggest you give coding agents a try. They really help. You need to keep them on a tight leash, but they help you move faster and often better if you know how to use them. Nothing related to corporate bean-counters.
Comment Re: Putin has the Epstein files (Score 1) 20
Comment If you say so... (Score 1) 24
Decompile source code? Is that like ROT26 encryption?
Comment Re: good (Score 1) 115
The forms have instructions, and if you read carefully (together with all reference documents) it isn't too difficult. But I'm a contract guy, most people likely will have difficulty. It would be nice for them to have an official place to ask questions and have all the relevant forms and instructions considered together.
For a more "routine" example, the forms to apply for or renew a passport for a minor are a huge pain. Not all the required documents needed to be brought to an appointment (minor passports must be applied for in person) are listed in one list as of late last year. You have to go deeper into the state department website than you probably should have to. They should just fix all forms which are confusing or have incomplete instructions, but having generative AI assist the user is probably a lot faster to implement.
Comment Re:4C (Score 1) 101
Sigh. I'll bite.
The question seemed to assume it was a good question, and its premises were correct. They aren't. In fact, the CO2 DOES absorb incoming IR, and with the same cross-section, as it does outgoing IR. It doesn't "know which way the radiation is going."
Now, any honest thinker would realize that the question was silly, because it doesn't admit other mechanisms other than "blocking" [sic] of IR.
Comment If only... (Score 2) 161
Comment Re:4C (Score 1) 101
what is changing is how much we trap.
Why does this magic CO2 block outgoing IR, thus heating the Earth but not incoming IR, cooling the Earth? How does it know which way the radiation is going?
Think just a half-thought further, and question one of your assumptions. THEN you might have a point.
Comment Not good enough. (Score 4, Funny) 30
They're never going to catch up with Trump, no matter how hard they try.
Comment Re:Not public utilities (Score 1) 82
See, that's the thing. Cities often have easement and right-of-way authority, if not ownership.A city can build-out whatever they want, and rent it to whomever.
But that interferes with the cable and telco's revenue streams. Loma Linda California tried it and was fought hard.
The vendors also objected. If you make zillions of dollars selling fiber to telcos, and telcos don't want pesky municipalities getting in their way, the fiber companies will ally with the telcos. Telcos don't want to fight with two thousand municipalities, they want to do one big bribe/campaign contribution to just a handful of people that they can write the legislation for. Makes it easier.
Monopoly isn't the right word; the right word is: Cabal.
Comment Re:why should I read it (Score 4, Insightful) 58
and probably copyrighted it. Composed it. Maybe edited it. Laid it out on page. Perhaps illustrated it. Did the work.
Needs to get paid.
It's like Harlan Ellison said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
NOT sucked up into an engine.
NOT guided by an "editor" with dubious values.
NOT enhanced by some well-intentioned silicon spew.
Real people. Real work. Getting paid.