Comment Raises hand (Score 0) 32
omits the original message from email replies
How about forwarding the message back to the sender(s), does the original still get included?
Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 46
How much do the printer cartridges cost?
Don't worry, you'll also be able to 3-D print the cartridges - along with the printer.
[Like with the turtles, it'll be 3-D printing all the way down.]
Comment Ya, but ... not sure two is better than one. (Score 4, Interesting) 56
Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations
Makes me think of that saying, "A man with one watch knows the time, a man with two is never sure."
Comment Re:Industrial scale (Score 2) 73
With the right hype, and a high enough price tag on the machine, the coffee snobs will be all over this.
Unless they have dogs -- "... ultrasound. These are sound waves above the range of human hearing."
Comment In future news (Score 1) 21
Hyundai Takes Full Control of Boston Dynamics
Hyundai announces licensing deal with Hasbro and Takara Tomy
Comment Hmm ... (Score 5, Insightful) 106
Meta Lobbies Congress For Protection From Child-Harm Lawsuits
Sounds like they're getting ready to (continue to) harm children.
Comment 5% on $1 Billion? Oh nooooo ... (Score 1) 290
California
Then they'd only be worth $950,000,000 -- oh noooo
Somehow, I think they'll be fine.
Submission + - Paint is already peeling in renovated Washington Reflecting Pool after 2 weeks. (cnn.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: CNN, Reuters and other sources are reporting that the paint on Washington's newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday was peeling away from the bottom and into the algae-tinted water, less than two weeks after announcement of the job's completion. The historic pool was drained and refinished in a $14.7 million no-bid contract.
Tim Auerhahn, a pool infrastructure expert and the chairman of the Aquatic Council, said it’s difficult to tell from the videos what was causing the “apparent delamination.”
“A coating system can fail for several reasons, including substrate preparation, surface contamination, application conditions, adhesion issues, product selection, mechanical damage, environmental exposure, or a combination of factors,” Auerhahn said.
The larger question, he added, is whether this represents a localized issue in that part of the pool or a larger, more systemic issue with the coating. “If the coating is losing adhesion in multiple locations, that could indicate a more significant concern,” he said.
Tim Auerhahn, a pool infrastructure expert and the chairman of the Aquatic Council, said it’s difficult to tell from the videos what was causing the “apparent delamination.”
“A coating system can fail for several reasons, including substrate preparation, surface contamination, application conditions, adhesion issues, product selection, mechanical damage, environmental exposure, or a combination of factors,” Auerhahn said.
The larger question, he added, is whether this represents a localized issue in that part of the pool or a larger, more systemic issue with the coating. “If the coating is losing adhesion in multiple locations, that could indicate a more significant concern,” he said.
Comment independent commission - right (Score 1) 194
overseen by an independent commission
Until a President replaces them with lackeys who'll do his bidding and SCOTUS (again) says it's okay. So far, pretty much the only independent entity (agency, commission, etc...) the Court hasn't waffled on, especially under this administration, is The Federal Reserve.
Supreme Court Prepares to Dismantle Independent Agencies in Favor of Partisan Chaos (Oct 2025)
Comment Sgt Schultz: "I see nothing! I hear nothing!" (Score 4) 77
potentially ending requirements for federal agencies to report on data-center efficiency, resilience, energy and water use, and contractor sustainability.
Sounds like another case of if it's not measured, it doesn't happen, like when Trump said during COVID, "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any." (Ignoring the obvious fact that they'd still exist, we just wouldn't know about them, noting that would have been better PR for him in the moment, but not so much in reality for the rest of us.)
Comment Other browsers can ... (Score 2) 161
A Googler on the commit explains: "MV2 extensions are no longer allowed in any supported version of Chrome,
Of course, other browsers can continue supporting these if they so desire."
How magnanimous of him.
Comment Seriously, though (Score 4, Insightful) 153
Is literally anyone surprised at this point - at anything associated with Trump and/or his family?
Comment Re:/. has all the data you need (Score 1) 264
Anyone on
Well, maybe they're all hoping to become President someday.
Comment Falling on tone-deaf ears? (Score 2) 37
Hyping AI during a commencement speech has been a surefire way to get boos
Some, if not all, of those speeches are a little tone deaf. US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’
And there are several, so far,
- Florida students boo graduation speaker who called AI ‘next Industrial Revolution’
- Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement
- Google: commencement AI boo.
The only way these commencement speakers could get booed more is if they fell asleep at game #3 of the NBA Finals.
Comment Re:Who wants to be booed? (Score 2) 37
Even if LLMs create prosperity- and this is still speculation- that is cold comfort to college grads who are being told they spent $100,000 on nothing.
Especially considering any prosperity will probably go more to those guests making the commencement speeches than the graduates hearing them.
