Comment Tesla Owner Rule #317 (Score 1) 85
Only install software updates when at home and you can be without the car.
Comment I'm a Sapporo man myself.... (Score 1) 23
...but this could be a national emergency. I mean, I can wait to buy a new Land Rover Jaguar, but I gotta have my beer......
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Comment Does this mean....Boost is the winner? (Score 1) 23
It reads to me that Boost Mobile will have the best coverage of all, combining T-Mobile, AT&T and some of their own towers? And they are a "budget" carrier so should be less expensive then any of the others alone?
And here (MN) Verizon coverage seems no better the any others, esp in slightly fringe areas, imho.
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Submission + - Elon Musk to take on Microsoft with "Macrohard" (msn.com) 1
invisik writes: from the article:
Elon Musk is creating a direct rival to Microsoft through a new company called “Macrohard.”
“It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very real!” Musk tweeted on Friday.
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla plans to take on Microsoft by harnessing AI. Musk describes Macrohard as a “purely AI software company” that’ll be tied to his other startup, xAI.
Elon Musk is creating a direct rival to Microsoft through a new company called “Macrohard.”
“It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very real!” Musk tweeted on Friday.
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla plans to take on Microsoft by harnessing AI. Musk describes Macrohard as a “purely AI software company” that’ll be tied to his other startup, xAI.
Comment Isn't it still "aaS" ? (Score 1) 123
Isn't the AI system still provided "as a Service" ? Or are they saying we're going to host the AI system in-house? SaaS isn't going away, just changing from the forms-based model to the AI agent model.. whatever that really means.
How are you going to get rids of forms in a business? I mean, data needs to be collected, organized and stored/retrieved. I guess I don't get how the magical AI Agent is going to work.
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Comment didn't read the article (Score 1) 56
but sound like it could have come out of a porta-potty
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Comment Some might say (Score 3, Funny) 29
It was a flash in the panhandle.
Thanks, I'll be here til Thursday. Oh wait, it's Friday. Don't eat the veal, it's gone bad.
Submission + - City of St. Paul, MN shut down from from cyber attack (kstp.com)
Comment Re:Existing instruments give us a data firehose (Score 2) 60
It's not as if the CMB is going to evaporate or something.
It is going to evaporate, slowly....
Comment Re:Is this an ad? (Score 1) 24
Seriously. This sounds like an ad. "The new version of our software is out, and ITS BETTER!"
You know Blender is free open source software, right? Slashdot even helped it to become free and open source many years ago.
Submission + - Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (pcworld.com)
ttyler writes: PC World's Michael Crider reports that Office is now so slow to load that "Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup." The "Startup Boost" function, soon to be available, frontloads the suite's apps so they are ready to use.
Comment What could go wrong??! (Score 1) 49
If unauthorized purchases will continue to happen on my account, at least it will be something I kinda want.... erg
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Submission + - Stroke Patients Have High Levels of Microplastics Clogging Their Arteries (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "There is some microplastics in normal, healthy arteries," Dr. Ross Clark, a University of New Mexico medical researcher who led the study, told Business Insider before he presented his findings at the meeting of the American Heart Association in Baltimore on Tuesday. "But the amount that's there when they become diseased — and become diseased with symptoms — is really, really different," Clark said. Clark and his team measured microplastics and nanoplastics in the dangerous, fatty plaque that can build up in arteries, block blood flow, and cause strokes or heart attacks. Compared to the walls of healthy plaque-free arteries, plaque buildup had 16 times more plastic — just in the people who didn't have symptoms. In people who had experienced stroke, mini-stroke, or vision loss, the plaque had 51 times more plastic. [...]
To investigate why, Clark studied samples from 48 people's carotid arteries — the pair of superhighways in your neck that channel blood to your brain. The difference in plastic quantities surprised him, but his team found another concerning trend, too. Cells in the plaque with lots of plastic showed different gene activity than those with low plastic. In the high-plastic environment, one group of immune cells had switched off a gene that's associated with turning off inflammation. Clark's team also found genetic differences in a group of stem cells thought to help prevent heart attacks and strokes by reducing inflammation and stabilizing plaque. "Could it be that microplastics are somehow altering their gene expression?" Clark said. He added that there's "lots more research needed to fully establish that, but at least it gives us a hint as to where to look."
Ross, who specializes in the genetic mechanisms behind disease, agreed that more research is needed, but added that she thinks "these plastics are doing something with these plaques." Tracking microplastics in the human body is a new scientific endeavor as of the last couple years. It's not perfect. Clark's team heated the plaque samples to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit to vaporize plastic polymers and break them down into smaller organic molecules, which can be identified and measured by their mass and other properties. Unfortunately, the lipids in plaque can break down into chemicals that look very similar to polyethylene, the most common plastic found in everything from plastic bags to car parts. "Because we know about this problem, we've taken a lot of steps to remove those lipids and confirm their removal, so that we're sure we're measuring polyethylene," Clark said. Still, he added, "it's a big limitation, and it should be acknowledged that these types of methodologies are continuously improving."
To investigate why, Clark studied samples from 48 people's carotid arteries — the pair of superhighways in your neck that channel blood to your brain. The difference in plastic quantities surprised him, but his team found another concerning trend, too. Cells in the plaque with lots of plastic showed different gene activity than those with low plastic. In the high-plastic environment, one group of immune cells had switched off a gene that's associated with turning off inflammation. Clark's team also found genetic differences in a group of stem cells thought to help prevent heart attacks and strokes by reducing inflammation and stabilizing plaque. "Could it be that microplastics are somehow altering their gene expression?" Clark said. He added that there's "lots more research needed to fully establish that, but at least it gives us a hint as to where to look."
Ross, who specializes in the genetic mechanisms behind disease, agreed that more research is needed, but added that she thinks "these plastics are doing something with these plaques." Tracking microplastics in the human body is a new scientific endeavor as of the last couple years. It's not perfect. Clark's team heated the plaque samples to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit to vaporize plastic polymers and break them down into smaller organic molecules, which can be identified and measured by their mass and other properties. Unfortunately, the lipids in plaque can break down into chemicals that look very similar to polyethylene, the most common plastic found in everything from plastic bags to car parts. "Because we know about this problem, we've taken a lot of steps to remove those lipids and confirm their removal, so that we're sure we're measuring polyethylene," Clark said. Still, he added, "it's a big limitation, and it should be acknowledged that these types of methodologies are continuously improving."
Comment Re: What's better than... (Score 3, Funny) 213
What are you talking about? Hunter Biden started that conflict by invading Russia. He's also personally responsible for global climate change. Trump himself told me.
The fact that this was modded up as "Interesting" instead of funny is pretty fucking scary. Of course, now watch my comment will be modded up as funny because that's par for the course these days.
Comment Cooling! (Score 0) 59
Exponentially higher amounts of cooling are needed for spinning drives vs SSD. Major cabon/electricity use there.
A typically narrow view of just manufacturing costs....by a manufacturer.
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