Definitely...since so many projects have done exactly that already. AlphaFold, ESMFold, Metagenomic Atlas, RoseTTAFold, etc. I'm pretty sure the technique is at the point these days that just about any protein structure of any interest can just be handed over to "AI" and it's as good as modeled.

This isn't a chicken or egg problem.

"La Presidenta" was *elected* in response to established hostility in the world against the US (including from inside the country) who has, historically, tried to do the right thing by everyone. He didn't try to hide his intentions until he got in office and then open up a big can of whoop ass he had hidden behind his back. He waved that can around in the air to make sure everyone KNEW what they were voting for. And they voted for it. You don't do that as a population unless you've had enough. Like...REALLY had enough and want to hit that big reset button for a minute; even if it means tanking the economy and taking the world with it for a few decades.

Anyone trying to claim all this distrust and lack of good will towards the US is brand new because "orange man bad" is just continuing to hide their heads in the sand IMO.

Hear hear! Even if we ignore who funds it, let's consider who runs it, who controls it...why would anyone in the world want all that power of information concentrated in the US? Especially when everyone in the world talks so much shit about the US on every front... Fine. Let's take our g'damn ball and go home. Nobody wants to be like that, but seriously, WTF? How much BS can anyone take before they finally just don't feel like playing anymore?

"But, but, there's gonna be disruption while new alternatives are developed"...yes. Correct. Rip the f'king bandaid off cause that's the only way anyone is actually going to make a change.

Funded by whom? Oh, right, tax payers. So let me get this straight. Tax payers pay IRS to spend money on agents and efforts to try to collect taxes from other tax payers. Got it.

Additionally, they've spent multi-billions over the years just trying to figure out how to write a big database. MULTI BILLIONS.

Then some non-trivial amount of money was allocated to fund the efforts to collect what amounts to a SINGLE billion from those evil millionaires that forever find ways to avoid paying taxes (note to self, make sure to mention that the entire legislative branch is made up of these very people). And this is deemed a shiny success?

It's truly baffling logic.

No, we do NOT need to continue increasing funding of the IRS. We need to GUT the entire system and start over with something more sane that people with less than 10 years of dedicate financial education and experience can decipher. Continuing to pump more and more money into a complex system that keeps getting more and more complex is just not rational.

They turned down the offers because the only solution available to them, as far as I know, was to manually update each affected machine with some physical presence. Not sure they can accept much help in that self-inflicted case, right? Or did I miss something here?

I JuST wAnt EveRyBOdy tO Be sAFe.

F'k off with your righteous self. TIA

^ found one. OMFG. LOL!

Too short for me. I gotta take 10-minute long pee breaks, in sitting position of course, while I ponder how I'm ever going to make it on that next long, grueling 1.5 to 2-hour stretch of barren highway to the next charge, trying to avoid all those mad max crazies doing 75 in a 65, practically running me off the road. And after that I need to peruse the aisles looking at all the magical delights abound trying to pick just the right combination of sweets and salties to get me through those next 150-200 miles. Everyone should just switch to EV like me, then we could all finally get along holding hands in a world of peace and love.

VeryFluffyBunny, indeed.

No, the world isn't just the red-on-right that you posted or the blue-on-left silliness I did...it's gray brother. And your attempts to dismiss the gray by acting like it's either "this is good" or "this is bad" aren't helping. At all.

For a slightly deeper dive, see my other post here.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

I know that's what we'd all like to think. "Man, this 15 to 20 to THIRTY minute break sure is great."

But the reality is that it's only marginally acceptable for the first stop of your trip. And MAYBE the 3rd or 4th. The other times, it's tedious and annoying and extends the arrival time by an hour for every, say, 600 miles of a trip.

I own a Tesla. I love it. I own several ICE cars. I loved them too, but that love is quickly fading. The point is, I absolutely have nothing against electric vehicles.

But I routinely take my Tesla on long road trips (600-800 miles per day) to go hike mountains and shit. The same trips I took with my ICE cars in years past. The difference in those trips is VERY noticeable. I could fly along for hours in my ICE cars, stop in for a *quick* 3-4 minute gas up, walk in for a 5-minute shopping trip for sodas and snacks and be back on my way. Every time. Without fail.

With the Tesla...well, it varies. First, I need to research if I can find 250 kW charger or not. Then, assuming I can, I need to make sure the battery is preconditioned. Yes, the software tries to do that for you, but I'm telling you...having taking a few winter trips in this thing, that software fails. It's either starting the precondition too late or, perhaps, it just can't precondition its way out of 30F ambient temps. But even when it's 60F or 70F out, I've still arrived at the charger, plugged in and waited for 20 minutes while the same software that JUST did the preconditioning for me based on my arrival time scolds me and reminds me that I can get quicker charging times if I precondition the batteries before arrival. Yes...I did that. No, wait, YOU did that. I told you where I was going, you picked a station for me to charge at, you knew when I was going to get here and you managed the precondition process yourself! So WHY is my charge going to take 25 minutes now!? I'm not even charging to 80%!?

Ok, sorry, got a little caught up there...but that's the point of this post. It's NOT just a "boy, this is great to stretch my legs for a few minutes" type issue. Sometimes it's that, maybe. But MOST of the time, it's "g'dammit why am I wasting my time sitting here watching Netflix waiting for the charge to finish when I REALLY wanna go hike some mountains"!?

So, yes, if it were possible to charge in 4 minutes, I'll take it. All day long, every time. I would NEVER try to argue "but that's not long enough to go pee". That's pure silliness, IMO. Comments like that will make eyes roll from anyone even considering a switch to electric. It's got shill written all over it.

I literally LOL'ed! Thanks.

But can they use it to make customer service reps smarter? Or, at the very least, sound smarter? I'd like to be fooled for at least a couple minutes into think there's *some* hope my issue might actually be resolved. Just gimme that much...some glimmer of hope.

Exactly on point IMO. It's a tool; a powerful tool! And, like any tool, it can and will produce undesirable results if not used carefully and properly. I've had it do some seriously tedious crap for me before like aligning fields by intended function between XML documents described with an XSD to fields in a similar JSON document described with some OpenAPI spec. It was not only super helpful in that regard but it was also then able to take what it had learned from that mapping and apply it to a pre-existing PHP function I handed it that previously worked with those XML documents and handed me back a perfectly reasonable version of that function completely re-written to work on the JSON instead. Saved me a LOT of time having to go through that myself. I still had to go back and review and fix and manually map a few things, but I'm SURE I would have had to do at least that much grooming over my own "first cut" version as well.

And, then, I asked it to draw me a circle with a mark at the top and then marks every 30 degrees clockwise from there and it failed absolutely miserably. No amount of clarification or reseting entirely and starting over could convince it to produce such a seemingly simple thing.

So I learned how to use the tool for what it's good for and how to avoid it entirely for things it's not.

It's a tool. Use it appropriately.

Sure, sure. We get it. But then just *say* "Rust target added for RISC-V kernel builds". Or *something* that isn't so completely bass-ackwards.

Came here to say exactly that. I guess my data points are limited, but I'm personally aware of two large scale fortune 100 companies in my area that just went through a round of "early retirement offerings" for that very specific reason. And yes, the departures were painful, but that trade off was anticipated and, obviously, selected as the preferred option over continue to pay those higher salaries. There was no sugar coating the rationale. The options were made specifically to reduce the higher salaried positions. Well, in some of the wording it was presented as a way to give the more junior employees "room to grow", but that was not the major focus.

Yes, I'm trusting it 100%. That's totally what I said. Moron.