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Comment Re: The Pioneer and Voyager probes (Score 1) 38

I had never heard of plated-wire memory, the whole computing system of the Voyagers is interesting. Apparently a bunch of the original staff (those who are still alive) keep NASA updated with their contact information just in case they need to be contacted with any questions.

Comment Reimplementation costs (Score 3, Insightful) 44

For companies with a complete set of supporting infrastructure, you must include the costs of standing up the whole structure, less licensing costs of the current ecosystem.

- Automated distribution and patching tools
- Standardized software
- Imaging tools for provisioning

Not to say it's still not worth it. It could be. But the larger the org, the greater the inertia, and the longer you live with both ecosystems.

Comment Re:Spectacular technology, shame about the math (Score 1) 30

From what I can tell, sodium ion is more dense than lead acid batteries but less dense than lithium ion. However the less density means sodium ion do not have uncontrolled fires. Once of the issues with lithium ion fires is most fire departments can't really do much to put some fires other than just let them burn. I would also imagine once the batteries are spent, disposal of sodium is easier on the environment than lithium or lead.

Comment Bleagh. (Score 1) 15

We don't need bigger models, at this point. What we need is multi-dimensional decomposition, problem space transforms, and the ability for AI to use external tools (such as SQLite, memcached, etc) so that it can externalise static data that it needs to not corrupt accidentally but still keep in easy access.

If we had that, most of the things "bigger models" will do will actually end up being done better, quicker, with fewer compute resources.

Comment Re:An Example of Market Failure (Score 1) 111

The market optimising for profit and income in the short term does exactly this: AI companies are willing to pay more.

The market doesn't optimize for profit in the short term or in the long term.

In economics, there are two curves: a supply curve, and a demand curve. In a free market, they meet at equilibrium.

Comment Re:Self-reliance (Score 1) 26

They know they U.S.A. Is not reliable anymore.

It's not about the USA. It is not about Trump. It is not about you. Try to not make every single situation America-centric, you self-centered twat.

A minority in Japan really really wants nuclear weapons. The majority doesn't. By "leaving the door open" she is able to appease the minority while not being rejected by the majority. Japanese politics is full of double-speak of this type. If you turned off your American-centric worldview, you might know this. Again: not everything is about you.

Comment Re:Big techs' "browser problem" (Score 1) 29

This is like the little red hen here, but KDE and Mozilla did all the initial hard work, and Apple, Brave, Google, Microsoft and Opera hijacked it all to add advertising and tracking, with security holes that are now being ultra-exposed by new AI vulnerability finders.

This is worth repeating. In addition, Google pushed people hard to install Chrome by nagging you every time you visited one of their websites.

Comment Re:Mark my words today... (Score 3, Informative) 74

That's why property taxes pay for schools, so rich neighborhoods have nice schools and poor ones have crappy schools. Schools in Benton Harbor, MI, haven't been painted in 20 years and some classrooms are unusable because of roof leaks. Three hours away the high school in Gross Pointe Shores has a heated swimming pool and they go on class trips to Europe.

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