Comment Re:So glad!!!! (Score 3, Funny) 99
2001... a retirement odyssey...
Comment So glad!!!! (Score 5, Insightful) 99
for (i=0; i<=2000; i++) { printf("I am SO GLAD I am retired!\n"); }
Submission + - AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations (newscientist.com) 2
Tufriast writes: Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases. The New Scientist has the full story, but in 95% of all cases leading AI from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI suggest nuclear strikes after taking 329 turns in total.
Submission + - Alcohol Profoundly Changes The Way Your Brain Communicates, Study Finds (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: A few glasses of alcohol are enough to start fragmenting the way the brain works, leading to more localized information processing and reduced brain-wide communication, a new study has discovered.
While plenty of previous research has looked at the ways booze changes the brain, little of it has considered the network-wide effects.
While plenty of previous research has looked at the ways booze changes the brain, little of it has considered the network-wide effects.
Comment Re:dot-com (Score 1) 95
dot-com left us with some useful infrastructure (eg, huge fiber networks.)
AI-bubble will leave us with obsolete hardware in decaying buildings.
Submission + - The stunning privacy cost of LinkedIn verification (thelocalstack.eu)
Arrogant-Bastard writes: Blogger "rogi" decided to verify themself on LinkedIn — and then dug into the privacy policy not just of LinkedIn, but of the company they use for this purpose...and then of the companies and governments the data is shared with. It's an extensive, alarming, and well-written trip down the rabbit hole of the user verification.
Comment Re:Zoning (Score 1) 95
Zoning rules in cities, done right, can make them much more livable. Unfortunately, most of North America has crap zoning laws that turn cities into unsustainable car-dependent hellholes.
But farmland is a more-or-less non-renewable resource and needs protection. Maybe zoning is the wrong analogy; maybe it's more akin to nature conservation regulations.
Comment Re: love all this high fiving (Score 1) 36
Even on 32-bit systems and glibc, you can get a 64-bit time_t and 64-bit off_t by compiling with:
-D_TIME_BITS=64 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
Unfortunately, it's up to application developers to do this. IMO, it really should be the default.
Comment Zoning (Score 4, Insightful) 95
We have zoning in cities. Perhaps it's time to zone farmland as farmland and forbid it from being used for anything else without regulatory review.
Comment For sure (Score 4, Funny) 34
I got divorced 12 years ago. My physical health definitely improved.
Comment Re:Root Cause. (Score 1) 86
OK, then I propose all non-Indigenous people in the USA (that is, anyone who cannot trace their ancestry in the USA back more than 1000 years) should be kicked out for committing genocide against the people who were here before them.
Do you even realize how ridiculous you sound? "Oh, Europeans colonized Greenland, so the way to remedy that is for the USA to invade it."
Comment Re:Root Cause. (Score 0) 86
LOL, the MAGA Kool-Aid drinkers are so predictable. Cult indeed. They all have TDS: Trump Dick-sucking Syndrome.
Comment Re:Root Cause. (Score 5, Informative) 86
A 2025 poll showed that a majority 84% of Greenlanders would support independence from Denmark, with 9% opposing. 61% opposed independence if it meant a lower standard of living, with 39% in favour. When asked in a binary choice between the USA and Denmark, 85% preferred to be part of Denmark with only 6% preferring the USA..
Comment Re:Inappropriate design (Score 1) 86
I agree that it's foolhardy for Canada to rely on American fighters, seeing as the USA is currently the biggest threat to Canadian sovereignty. Unfortunately, we've already paid for a bunch of the F-35s and we'll be stuck with those. But I really hope we also buy Gripens.
Comment Re:Root Cause. (Score 4, Informative) 86
What you are missing is that Greenlanders themselves have, in no uncertain terms, told the USA to fuck off.
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