I still think /. has the best moderation system, the balance between anon posters (sometimes useful), pseudonymous posters, moderating and (still broken) moderation is good because it's done by the users themselves (not by pros or bots) and the exclusions between them force you to make choices. In other word you can't have a bot downvoting everyone. I don't know why it's not more commonplace, with regular compelled meta-moderation.

One of my 1st job was to upgrade a scientific data acquisition system from 1970 Unix to DOS. Then to Win3. Then to Win95. Then to Win2K. Then to Win10. Each time upgrading some of the hardware too. It still runs and there's still some of the original code in it (not very much, but in the core processing, and it's so compact you tear your hair out trying to understand why it manipulates bits to speed up multiplications or something).

I remember from long ago papers about ocean macro and micro-plastics that they are favorable to growing alga and micro-alga on their surface. So that would explain an increase in green quite simply without invoking the color of the plastic itself.

I always wonder what is the purpose of this long delay between elections and taking power in the US. To give enough time to the incumbent to burn papers, hide their bad deeds and prepare another Jan 6th ? In most other countries you have an election on a sunday and taking power on the next weekend. That leaves just enough time for possible recounts and that's it.

So, AI is making up what your camera is pointing at ? So great...

I don't understand how that could work. In order to know which weight to change, don't you need to understand the complete model first... like a meta-model ? Obviously more complex and bigger than the one you want to affect ?

I think it is a proposed solution to bit-rot, not to failing device blocks. As such, why not, but it's gonna degrade the writing space by 20% or something, no ?

Also UBI programs get you just enough to survive. Not to have an interesting life with projects, hobbies, etc... In other words, shut the fuck up or we are gonna starve you.

Well, if the US was a functioning country (or its predecessor), they would have hanged the crew of the White Lion in 1619 and freed its cargo of prisoners meant to be sold as slaves. It boggles the mind that this wasn't obvious, even at the time.

Oh shit, this reminds me I have written a lot of 32-bit software that will rollover in 2038. Fortunately I retire the year before that...

You sure it's a Windows problem and not a mouse+bluetooth problem ? I had one that I hated because it forgot to click or move sometimes (particularly tiny motions). USB mouse or bust for me.

Yes. I never left X11 because my tries with Wayland showed that remote desktop via ssh+vnc didn't work and I need that daily. Maybe it works now or there is some suitable replacement but I never bothered as I don't see what problem Wayland is trying to solve and I don't need a faster screen.

To this day I still haven't managed to improve my coding with AI.
When trying to do something I know nothing about, it just gives me standard boilerplate examples, but I could find them by myself just reading the doc.
When learning very obscure or uncommon protocols, it is no better than me.
When dealing with a large codebase (big makefile or cmake), you can't upload the whole thing to chatgpt, so how do you tell it to refactor something ? Maybe I'm showing my age but I don't get it. Maybe it works with the kernel because the entire code is publicly available, but for a private codebase ?

Yeah, well, about that... I just bought an oldish electric car, so my first thought was to go update the firmware(s). On the manufacturer's website it just says 'no longer supported' and doesn't even tell me what the last version numbers were. Damn lazy fucks.

Eh, now that's no way to talk. It's much better to keep them busy in a Math Dept than to institutionalize them !