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Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 1605

"You do realize he won the popular vote too, right?"

Did he? Probably, but not quite convinced that that is certain yet.

There's still a very large number of votes yet to be counted to ascertain that, roughly five million in the state of California alone. (ref https://electionresults.sos.ca...)

And as the later counted votes, typically mail-in, typically Dem leaning, have continued to be counting Trump's popular vote count margin has dropped from about 12 million to what's now a bit over 3 million.

Comment Ignore what the customer asks for, we know better! (Score 1) 158

Amazon literally ignores your search terms - search "DDR5 32GB" and sort by price, and get two pages of DDR4 memory before anything actually relevant to the search. Set the sort order and have it constantly reset to "Featured" on every new search. I'm falling back to searching using DDG on "site:amazon.com" as that at least respects my searches. Newegg is only slightly better, alas.

It's the same enshitification that pervades other lines of businses like commercial air travel in the US. Customers are just another thing for them to squeeze and exploit as much as possible.

Comment Generalized coordinates (Score 1) 95

Can't be sure without access to the paper, but it sounds like their program has succeeded in finding some canonical coordinates for the underlying system. This is neither new physics nor a particularly new idea, having been introduced in the 1800s. Not to say that their program might not find some interesting / useful sets of coordinates, of course.

Comment Re:Overlap communication and computation (Score 1) 63

This is so different in different problem domains that I don't think the generalization is either useful nor valid.

But if you *can* overlap well, you absolutely should.

(In others, you just have way more data that needs operating on than RAM or core, and if the CPU can keep up, there's not much you can do to make the problem better.)

Comment Re:39 comments so far... (Score 1) 134

In terms of US law and strictly commercial speech, you'd be right (the Commerce Clause), but /. culture tends to focus on a broader philosophical sense of the term, rather than a particular national legal view.

As an aside, the study kicking off the parent article likely includes non-commercial unsolicited text messages--generally political begs, which would be more strongly protected by US law. Not my real point, though.

In the end, I am not in the broad ethical sense a "free speech fundamentalist", and I'm in fact skeptical of any sort of fundamentalism. The point of my previous comment is a backhanded shot at those who claim to be so, but who are not when it is slightly inconvenient to them. I believe strongly that free speech is an important value, but not one which does not have it's limits -- legitimate death threats, libel/slander, and other historical exceptions made in, say, US law mostly (not entirely, I feel) exist for good cause.

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