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Comment Re:2 years of Spanish, can't speak a word. (Score 3, Interesting) 109

I took four years of German, didn't cheat, had a B+ average, and three years after I graduated high school I could pretty much just count, say the alphabet, and knew maybe a dozen phrases. If you're not actively using the language, even a little, it's not going to stick whether you cheated or not.

Comment Re:Not a 486 thing, but... (Score 1) 132

A modern Ethernet PHY already has to support multiple different encoding schemes, MLT-3 for 100BASE-TX and PAM-5 for 1000BASE-T (and PAM-64, etc for higher speeds like 2.5 or 10 gig.) Eliminating the Manchester encoding for 10BASE-T is a logical way to save on cost and complexity, especially since most companies probably don't have a lot of legacy 10 mbit only gear to test with.

Comment But it's a self-defeating loop (Score 5, Insightful) 31

A beginner using AI to "vibe code" isn't going to understand when it's making things up out of whole cloth (like how it has a tendency to hallucinate Powershell cmdlets) and is going to spend more time whack-a-moling the result to get a kinda-working program than they would if they just started with a basic foundation and got better as they go.

You learn to build a skyscraper by first learning to build a house, not by ChatGPTing a skyscraper and then figuring out what you need to shore up to prevent it from falling down.

Comment Re:T-Mobile screwed in this? (Score 1) 21

But if T-Mobile had been able to get that spectrum back, they might not have been able to buy US Cellular, which got them spectrum _and_ customers. They're now solidly in the middle of the pack when it comes to customers (as opposed to before, where AT&T was nipping at their heels) and have _more market share_ than Verizon even though the latter has ~13M more subs (because T-Mobile's mixture of customers is pulling in more money per customer than the other two carriers.)

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