Comment Isn't it just a phone app? (Score 1) 106
The customer already has a high-end, power-managed speakerphone in their pocket.
Nobody needs this object.
They should be making The Orb of All Truth, Facts, and Wisdom,
instead of making Microsoft Intimate Intern - Home Office Edition.
At least OpenAI has that Jonny Ive glass and aluminum money.
No Teenage Engineering plastic trash for them.
Comment on the other hand (Score 1) 83
These things are giant agriculture robots that can shred or squish or dis-arm you in a blink.
The guidance system is complex and (of course) requires accurate and precise calibration,
interacting with whatever is attached to the bus and mechanicals.
You can see Deere's potential legal liabilities here.
There's an assumption that salt-of-the-earth farmers will know what they're doing,
will follow all documented procedures and not take shortcuts.
Doubtful. They have other work to do.
Comment Re:But why? (Score 4, Informative) 20
Because TypeScript is just JavaScript once the types are stripped out... and JavaScript has the superpower of running on the largest platform in the world: the web browser.
WebAssembly cannot directly access the browser DOM, cannot directly handle network requests, and requires JavaScript to act as a bridge for almost all web interactions
Comment Well, Bessent is an idiot, so (Score 1, Interesting) 40
If Bessent is involved, and taken at all seriously,
then here's no truth or insight to be found with any of them.
Just more banditry.
Comment Did they get this excited in 1978 (Score 1) 17
when Stephen C. Johnson wrote lint for Unix V7?
Comment Today's world... (Score 1) 57
...of sunk costs.
Comment Re:I'm sure ... (Score 1) 47
way too early for Zip.
8" and maybe 5" floppies.
Comment OCR? (Score 1) 47
They couldn't type it in and build it as they go thru the code? It can't be that big.
Using OCR seems half ass and lazy,
as if the motivation for those in charge was only to generate some executive PR hype.
Comment Re:Cross-discipline issues (Score 1) 82
Good luck.
Hope you find your beaver.
Comment Re:fast (Score 1) 82
Does it hurt when you write like that?
All non-perportional and everything?
Seems like it would hurt.
Comment Being realistic (Score 1) 38
I assume the interested parties are doing what they wish and scooping up everything in some form.
regardless of law or warrant, inadmissible or not.
Whatever they haven't been able to index and archive is considered a fault to be remedied.
The law is just an impediment if a case reaches the courts.
Comment If it costs a sixth the price (Score 1) 57
Won't they just run six of them?
You would.
Comment Maybe they'll find them.. (Score 1) 91
..at the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
It's where management seems to be focusing its efforts.
Comment Ugh. The Movies. (Score 1) 52
Will they be showing that kind of stuff they churn out?
Will there be other people there?
Yes?
We'll pass.