Comment Dwarf planet no more (Score 1) 70
It's planet of short stature now
Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 147
Interesting... I didn't consider that angle.
Thanks!
Comment Well... (Score 4, Interesting) 147
My opinion is that AI will kill Linux eventually. Not now, not when Linus uses it, because Linus knows how to code and is careful. But eventually the crappy vibe-coded junk will seep into the kernel. And then you'll get Microsoft-style code quality issues.
Comment Damn... There goes my porn (Score 3, Interesting) 173
Russian sites like Yandex, Rutube, VKvideo... are great to find porn. But if they go down, I'll take the minor inconvenience for the sake of Ukraine.
More seriously, Yandex has been throttling queries rather aggressively lately, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with their compute going up in smoke due to Ukrainian drones.
Comment It's DEFENSE department (Score 4, Informative) 144
War department is Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth doing their fascist circle-jerk.
Comment Bezos doing atomics (Score 4, Funny) 86
What can go wrong?
I wonder if the control room technicians will be allowed bathroom breaks...
Comment Re: It's hogwash -- they survived comets and worse (Score 0) 19
You don't know how to argue, or debate, or even answer comments, do you? Mindless passion is still mindless.
Comment Re: Rear guard action? (Score 0) 19
Try rebutting what I said. Can you do that for me? I'd appreciate it.
Comment Re:Rear guard action? (Score 0) 19
Corals have been regenerating themselves for several hundred million years. They don't need human help.
Comment It's hogwash -- they survived comets and worse (Score 0) 19
Corals have been around for several hundred million years. They survived the comet which killed off the dinosaurs. They survived ice ages and glaciations, the most recent being a 400-500 foot sea level rise just 10-15,000 years ago. They routinely bleach themselves while shifting populations of the critters which give them color.
We puny humans are no threat to corals.
Comment I'm sure AI is great (Score 5, Interesting) 100
...in the hands of a competent, careful and passionate programmer like Linux Torvalds.
What I worry about is when Bob in the junior software dev team, who does his job to put food on the table, and just good enough to keep his job, uses it to vibe-code company data as his day job.
Comment Re:Well above the ocean [Re:Uh HUH] (Score 1) 84
Let me be perfectly clear about this: I am insulting you. I am calling you out as either being such a plonk that you keep old copies of People magazine around just in case
Either way, you are a plonk. Your memory is reliable and truthful, mine is full of lies.
Comment Re:Well above the ocean [Re:Uh HUH] (Score 1) 84
Yah, right, like I keep sources of everything I remember from 30 years ago. Uh huh. You of course, being perfect, do keep such sources, instead of just googling and reporting the results which confirm your own bias.
Comment Re:a wireless button dongle (Score 2) 31
Lots of inventions were unasked-for until they were invented.