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Comment Re: 7-8 years of updates for a chromebook .... (Score 1) 13

That's hardly practical. I recently had to crack open a Lenovo Thinkpad to replace the CMOS battery, and I ended up accidentally breaking off one of the plastic bits at the back.

But I guess that's better than something that's glued shut. Still, room for improvement?

Comment Old news (Score 1) 2

My late wife did undergraduate research in photosystem II where there was quantum effects back in 2002. She did her PhD thesis on proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) in soybean lipoxogenase, then had a long career developing models for Fortran code that did quantum simulation of proteins (she was behind Tagdock in Amber MD). This is nothing new; several biological systems have quantum effects that are central to their mechanism.

Comment Re: As expected (Score 1) 70

Statistics dictate that some of it will be decent, and someone will curate it.

I imagine that people with a good film school education will start producing gems that would never have been possible without AI - think George Lucas making THX 1138 directly.

The next problem is getting the word out without the use of a movie company like Paramount. Young people I know seem to be experimenting with their own purpose built social networks, this one for instance: https://rendeznous.be/.

Comment Re:It's not about the programming language (Score 1) 65

I don't understand why people still believe that C++ is usable as a systems programming language. It is simply not fit for purpose. I know, cause I tried for a uni project. And this was not at the beginning of the language. I'm talking mid-2000s, and C++ was incapable of making more than a few million network connections before crashing outright. And that's just the more obvious part of the networking code. The fact that developers never thought to test their networking libraries still baffles me to this day.

Systems programming needs robustness and safety above anything else. C++ is so riddled with holes it boggles the mind.

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