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Comment think less of a babysitter and more as... (Score 1) 146

... A tutor for the superior school and university interns.

The programmers will assume the role of the tutor who assings tasks to the interns, the interns being the AI. Sometimes the AI will give back results conmensurate with what a TSU (Tecnico Superior Universitario - University Level Tecnician) student would produce. other times the result will be more aligned with what an engineering student would produce (slightly better)

In both cases, the tutor is the one who doles out tasks, specifying how to do them. And it whould be very irresponsible from the tutor to let loose the interns' code without grading and correcting it first

I think the term "babysit" was chosen to induce rage, as in ragebait

Submission + - Cell phone for limited use? Avoid carrier lock? Avoid ads?

Futurepower(R) writes: How to buy a cell phone for a low price and avoid carrier lock and advertisements?

Some people use a cell phone only when they are not at home and want to call or do a search. Which low-cost not-locked phones would be best for that?

People who use a cell phone extensively, for watching movies, for example, are often happy to pay more.

The cell phone industry is possibly the most complicated for buyers in the history of the world.

For example, the Samsung Galaxy model A36 cell phone has 7 versions. Other than the A36, there are many other Samsung versions.

Other complications: Cell phones often come with no case, no charger, and no screen shield. Also, the prices given in a search are often low because of being locked to a particular carrier.

The cell phone service providers would be T-Mobile and AT&T.

Comment Re:Outlived its usefulness (Score 1) 70

Now it's just a place to park my resume

Have you ever received a legitimate job offer, or even a nibble, from an employer that you might actually consider working for, that came through LinkedIn?

Me neither.

You'd be much better served by posting your resume or having it on file with a few employers you would consider and who are legitimate.

I get no cold offers, or recruiters. But I do get those automated linkedin job offer mails. Applied a couple of times. Entered the proces? Yes. Canonical. Twice. For a couple of Cloud Positions.

Sadly, did not get hired, god knows why

So, yes, LinkedIn still has a little value.

Comment Re: Win the battle, lose the war (Score 1) 81

Anarcho-capitalism isn't really a thing. Or at least, it isn't anarchism. It's essentially end-stage libertarianism. If you want to see what it looks like, Somalia is currently in such a situation. It ends up being less freedom and more feudalism with petty warlords all fighting for dominance. It's not unlike the Crips, Bloods, the Mafia, etc., just with everything instead of just with illegal vices.

This is all to say that this kind of anarchy would not be pleasant. Only teenagers, idiots, and assholes actually want it. Actual anarchism, by the way, is the end-stage of Communism. Totes different things.

Comment Never have seen OG Source Code is a pre-requisite (Score 4, Insightful) 125

for clean room implementations.

If the AI model was trained using the OG software project that is being replicated, they are screwed.

That should be very easy to see, in the discovery phase just ask for a list of all the software that was used to train the AI model. IS a yes/no answer, if the AI saw the OG software, then there was no clean room, the room was dirty, very, very dirty

Submission + - Fusion Energy: Definition, Links to articles, and Quotes

Futurepower(R) writes: Amazing! Fusion Energy would change our lives in many very positive ways.

Food would be much cheaper. All cars and trucks would eventually be electric, no pollution.

> Definition
Fusion energy is the process of combining light atomic nuclei (typically deuterium and tritium) to form heavier ones, releasing massive amounts of energy, mimicking the sun's power.

> World Economic Forum
5 ways fusion energy can change the world for the better
Feb 16, 2023, more than 3 years ago.
https://www.weforum.org/storie...

"Fusion energy is arguably the most exciting human discovery since fire. From the way we heat our homes to more water in times of drought, here’s just a glimpse of how fusion power could help change the world."

"Under the fusion-powered grow lights, hydroponically grown strawberries or lettuce or other crops can be grown to maturity without the use of pesticides and other harsh chemicals."

> U.S. Department of Energy
DOE Explains...Fusion Energy Science
https://www.energy.gov/science...

"A pickup truck filled with fusion fuel has the equivalent energy of 2 million metric tons of coal, or 10 million barrels of oil."

> ITER ("The Way" in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today.
https://www.iter.org/fusion-en...

"Some of the advantages of fusion:"

"Abundant energy: Fusing atoms together in a controlled way releases nearly four million times more energy than a chemical reaction such as the burning of coal, oil or gas..."

"No CO. No long-lived radioactive waste. No risk of meltdown."

> Fusion developers go public as AI boom widens funding sources
March 23, 2026 Investment in Fusion stocks
https://www.reuters.com/busine...

> Fusion Industry Association
https://www.fusionindustryasso...

> Fusion news from MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://news.mit.edu/topic/fus...

> Dallas Teen Builds Groundbreaking Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Mar. 29, 2026
https://nationaltoday.com/us/t...

"12-year-old Aidan McMillan achieves fusion, becoming the youngest person to replicate the sun's energy source".

> Best Fusion Energy Stocks of 2026 and How to Invest in Them
Jan 30, 2026
https://www.fool.com/investing...

Submission + - AMD says it will buy Intel (techspot.com)

ZipNada writes: In a move that feels less like a corporate transaction and more like the final punchline to a 40-year industry rivalry, AMD announced Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Intel, the company it has spent decades chasing, imitating, undercutting, suing, licensing from, and lately outperforming.

The all-stock transaction, which AMD described as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to unify x86 innovation," would combine the two companies under a single umbrella just a few years after such an outcome would have sounded ridiculous.

For most of modern computing history, Intel was the empire and AMD the scrappy survivor, the perpetual second source that somehow kept finding ways to stay alive. Now, after a bruising run of manufacturing delays, product stumbles, strategic resets, and a historic reversal in investor confidence, Intel is poised to be absorbed by the smaller company it long treated as a footnote.

Comment Terawatt in space? My ASS! (Score 1) 126

There's no way on (or off) Jupiter's Green Earth that you could ever put a terawatt of anything in space. Every one of those watts would have to be radiated into space somehow. Can you imagine how large the heat sinks would have to be? Keep in mind that radiating heat in a vacuum is about the most inefficient way to get rid of heat that one can think of. On Earth, you can use air and water to move heat around and then dump the air or heat into the environment. In space, you only have radiation, which is basically proportional to exterior surface area and temperature. And, that exterior qualifier is important in space. Using some kind of finned radiator like we use in air or water won't work very well, since most of the heat radiated off will just be re-absorbed by other parts of the radiator. This means that in space, the most efficient (in terms of mass and heat loss) is gigantic, quite thin, highly conductive disc of metal. To distribute the heat across the entire disc, you'd probably embed a grid of heat pipes.

And, then, holy space solar panels, Batman. A terawatt is a LOT of solar panels. You could probably make the solar panels double as radiators, but that would only work if you kept them relatively cool. You're still going to also need a bunch of radiator disc. The only way I think that you get possibly get this to work is to make like a sort of triangular prism type of design. Make one side solar panels and face the sun. Make the other two sides radiators. Keep the computers in the middle, connected to the radiators through heat pipes. And then you'd need a satellite dish sticking out one end, or, preferably, both, along with a smattering of thrusters.

Considering the difficulties in dealing with the and the delay added to communications by being in space (even LEO would be bad; roughly half the time the satellites would be on the other side of the planet.), it would be much, much simpler, and cheaper, to put all of that computing power on the ground, preferably nearer to the Poles than the Equator, and preferably near a large body of water, like a lake or ocean. The Great Lakes region in the US and Canada would be great. Solar power isn't super great around The Great Lakes, but wind power is quite feasible, and the cooling potential is off the hook. I mean, there's cold water everywhere. I would think that, in Europe, the fjords of Norway and Sweden would be pretty ideal. Iceland would be pretty good too, so long as you bring in enough cross-oceanic cables from Europe and Canada. The mere fact that you wouldn't have to launch satellites into orbit along would make Iceland seem like a steal compared to space, even with the cables. Hell, even Antarctica would be cheaper and easier than space, and would have similar ping times.

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 Provide it as a baseline, as long as is't mandated (Score 3, Interesting) 108

A Canadian AI (or a national/multicountry AI) would work as a nice baseline for everyone in the country.

Instead of having hamstrung gratis AI that can be withdrawn at a moments notice, you get fully fledged Gratis AI that depends solely on your country. If then you (or your company) wan to pay for some other AI, so be it.

From a soveringty point of view is cool, as you are not beholden to for profit companies, be them national or foreign.

And please remmeber that AI ius much more than LLMs and other Gen AI. Slef-Driving Cars, Platoon Driving trucks, (semi)Autonomus androids/robots, and context aware industrial machine tools/robots need AI too.

I hope canada is contemplating these cases as well, and not fixated on LLMs

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