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Comment Re:Wait. (Score 1) 18

The plan is to use human doctors to validate 250 prescriptions, and then declare the AI good for autonomous doctoring? A pharmacist fills somewhere around 500 scripts a day (according to the internetz). So, the company is gonna pay a pharmacist for a half-day’s worth of work double-checking their AI, and then they think they can just hit “run” followed by “profit forever”?

250 prescriptions in each medication class.

Comment Re:Detectors are unreliable (Score 1) 30

They were talking about text, I don't believe there's watermarking for that. There's just statistical guesses, and I don't think most LLMs are likely to be any good at it.

Then this is all a distraction. Maybe he filtered the text through/images a LLM to make it less recognizable, maybe it's just coincidence. It doesn't matter. The only important matter is whether it's actually true or not.

Comment Sounds like too much guessing (Score 3, Informative) 18

...the only way to know for sure is to go there, poke into it, and sniff around. Europa is subject to tidal heating which provides energy, and there may be under-water volcanoes or geysers that can provide nutrients from lower layers. Its neighboring moon, Io, is chalk full of volcanic activity.

Comment Re:I Simply Don't Understand It (Score 1) 38

The problem is that the DOM is too imprecise to consistently align stuff. For example, a textual phrase in one browser may cross 100 pixels but 96 in another (or be inconsistent with proportion across OS DPI settings). The standard is too fuzzy. We need a new state-ful GUI-over-HTTPS standard to compete with HTML/DOM where it sucks the most. Some say "use Canvas or SVG instead", but they lack needed features that regular HTML has. Some "standards boy" in ivory towers factored poorly. (Or "standards gal".)

A nice "invention" since the original VB is "stretch zones" that allows select parts of panels and forms to stretch or shrink per monitor size. It's an easy to adjust to monitor size without having to give up WYSIWYG.

Comment No shit (Score 1, Troll) 51

The US is a rogue nation wearing a superpower skinsuit.

One that has already telegraphed a strong desire to push Europe into fascism but also abandon it.

Trump/Vance and the surrounding machine is gleefully shitting on the international order, and while it will be disastrous for the US long-term, it is a very real short-term threat now.

Comment Interesting idea (Score 2) 74

Interesting idea. Though probably a PC-in-a-dock would have been a better idea.

Keyboards (and mice) were always the most disposable parts of a PC - for a reason.

I mean, with this device, you now can spill coffee on your PC too.

Plus all the hygienic hazards. (I would never want to use keyboard/mouse of some of my colleagues.)

Comment Reducing poverty increases use of birth control (Score 3, Insightful) 49

Any UBI future will have to have birth control restrictions otherwise having babies becomes a profit motive in itself.

Inaccurate. Considerable demographic research shows that reducing poverty will reduce family size. (Demographic studies also show that simply improving access to birth control reduces family size.) To the extend that Universal Basic Income would reduce poverty, it will reduce, and not increase, the number of people having babies.

We see this in Canada where african immigrants, in particular, have babies to collect social assistance.

So, logically this means you need to implement UBI that means assistance is NOT contingent on having babies.

Any predictions of a workless wealth re-distribution future collide directly with nearly all religions on the birth control issue.

Now, religion is a completely different matter. But the issue is unrelated to UBI

Comment Logic flaw [Re:Seriously?] (Score 3, Insightful) 49

No, what he said was that this makes the question of who owns the robots "somewhat moot,"

That does not follow from the premise. If AI (robots) can truly allow everyone to have everything they need, it does not follow that the owners of the AI will allow everyone to have everything they will need. "Can" and "will" are very very different things.

Logic flaw. EVERYTHING depends on who owns the robots.

Comment Microsoft Shitpile (Score 2) 95

I'm just going to call it the Shitpile.

In a decade, when they've decided that Microsoft ActivePilot 365 Live Pro Gold fails to accurately convey the functionality of their state of the art robot that only needs 12kW seconds to accurately add two numbers, Shitpile will still be the most accurate description.

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