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Comment Re:Trump denies results in 3,2,1... (Score 2) 571

There's no way so many of Trump's voters would turn on him just because he did exactly what they didn't want by involving the US in another unnecessary middle-eastern quagmire and jacking fuel prices higher than any environmental policy could dare to dream!

And Trump has even kept even more promises than he made! From his speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Nov 2, 2026:

We've achieved more in less than two years than any administration in American history, and I've kept every single promise I made, except far more. I've actually kept far more promises than I made. We've done much more than I promised.

I can't tell if he actually believes that. And then there there was this:

Now we're giving serious thought to changing the name to the Trump Reflecting Pool. We'll announce that sometime tomorrow. I'm sure that Secretary Doug Burgum will have a lot of fun in announcing that. No, I'm only kidding.

Ya, only kidding ... /s

Comment Re:We listened to Trump this once (Score 4, Funny) 571

... [Trump] is fine with being compared to Saddam Hussein ...

Yup. When Obama joked, "[Trump's] got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory," Trump and Republicans took (fake) offense at the Cheesecake Factory part, not the Hussein part.

Comment Re:Hold on to that job (Score 2) 71

Your stance will soon be unemployable.

Probably true, but disappointing. Using AI, relying on it, and being required to use it are different things and I fear we're moving toward the latter two. Having to get an religious exemption to be allowed to avoid being forced to use AI at work seems like a bad thing.

It's worth remembering that AIs are largely trained using data/information generated by people; it we become, to put it simply, idiots ... well, GIGO.

Comment Re:This is affecting everyone (Score 1) 28

If you're thinking of running an LLM on someone's code base and sending them "fixes" for all the "bugs" it finds, please don't. You really aren't helping them.

Or, at the very least, do some work yourself to see what is valid and worthwhile, don't just blindly push things off onto someone else.

Comment Re:I agree with the change... (Score 1) 127

It has nothing to do with Trump though. The term AI carries a lot of baggage from sci-fi novels which created horror stories for drama.

I'm not sure using "super" will be more soothing in that regard. And this is a Trump thing. (a) He really likes (re)branding things - and coercing others to follow along - especially on a whim, and (b) it probably seems super given his mental decline. I'm betting everyone will be back to just using artificial in, at most, 2 years...

Comment Re:"SI" is an even dumber term than "AI" (Score 2) 127

Language matters. "AI" is a marketing term, not a technical term. To quote, "'AI' is admittedly not a great term, because LLMs are not artificial, and they're not intelligent. Unfortunately, we're stuck with it, unless we want to adopt something even dumber, like 'SI', or Super Intelligence. UGH!"

I think it's more the "artificial" vs "super" part that's worth discussion. In this context, artificial is a better fit overall. Trump is only pushing super because (a) he really likes branding thing himself and (b) at this point it seems super to Mr. "I keep Being Asked to Take Cognitive Tests and Think They're IQ Tests" -- boasting, "Person, Woman, Man, Camera", and “They have a picture and it says 'what's that?' and it's an elephant.”

I'm betting this will go away in, at most, 2 years and we/they will all be back to calling it "Artificial".

Comment Re:vi is the best editor (Score 1) 101

I don't mean to spoil emacs big day and all, and I'll let you guys talk about it .. but vi is the best editor. emacs couldn't anticipate the coming of AI .. pretty much a settled debate now that vi is much more suited for prompt writing and editing your .md files.
ctrl-x y
dammit
z w
y
wx
:

Hah. That bit made me think of this description of the TECO editor:

It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.

P.S. I'm a long, long-time EMACS user (like since the mid 80s).

Fun note: Googling "emacs", gets you, "Did you mean: vim?" and Googling "vim" gets you, "Did you mean" emacs?"

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