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Comment Re:private property rights? (Score 3, Insightful) 46

by noshellswill on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:02PM (#65992248) Attached to: New EU Rules To Stop the Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes

You make the standard Randist blunder worshiping tragedy-of-the-Commons". Your agency over your property ends at my property line. You may not pollute the air over my property ( by say... burning shoes or clothes ) beyond "acts of god"; you are infringing on my property rights . Yep --- you may not "mine" on your own property if mine tailings/run-off crosses my property line. Tuff tit to those sociopaths who would privatize profits while socializing costs.

Comment Re:Perhaps too early to tell? (Score 2) 51

by noshellswill on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:23AM (#65991996) Attached to: Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity?

Intense propaganda and physical abuse by data-manglers is supposed to convince every Joe-Peanut that the lower standards of service/performance/reliability provides by *.ai/LLM is the STANDARD to be maintained. Kinda like convincing ice-cream eaters to buy air-foamed store brand ice-creame instead of buying heavy creame, vanilla-beans and eggs and churning it yourself. When crap becomes the standard of excellence, excellence ceases to exist.

Comment Re:Depends on the topic (Score 1) 51

by noshellswill on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:10AM (#65991974) Attached to: Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity?

Almost ANY building task involves "specialty" or "hi-IP" input.' from CS-grads building computer code to Amazon savages building water buckets. Yesterday I watched a film on members of the latter group ... savages if you will ... who raised water from river to tree-top housing by rope+winches with JUST the number of holding "knots" supportable by the vine-diameter from which the rope was created. Amazing "specialist" creation for an everyday task at the river; wife will be p*ssed without that bucket of water for rinsing veggies ! I believe all builders solve multiple "specialty" cases every day.

Comment Re:Please, no (Score 1) 31

by noshellswill on Sunday February 15, 2026 @09:43PM (#65991190) Attached to: Analysis of JWST Data Finds - Old Galaxies in a Young Universe?

Sounds like Penrose, but He nominally requires zero (0) mass to create a timeless "initial" time: hf = mc^2 :: m--> 0 f->t ->0 -> t++ ... or something like that starting-all-over.

Comment Re:Ars Technica (Score 1) 90

by noshellswill on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:09AM (#65988718) Attached to: Autonomous AI Agent Apparently Tries to Blackmail Maintainer Who Rejected Its Code

Look twice, shoot once ! I checked the current ArsTek website for systematic AI-slop. There's a prominent article on self-replicating quasi-enzymatic RNA. While my mol-bio is decades old I find the science writing rational and human; quality popular science written/over-watched by a biochem PhD. ArsTek is not dead yet.

Comment Re:ouch'e (Score 2) 102

by noshellswill on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:32AM (#65988658) Attached to: Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket To Bet on Strikes

Insider-trading analogues ... a foundational flaw in market systems ... are ubiquitous and toxic. Do you want to encourage theft and murder -- ubiquitous in a free society ... because then you can "watch for it"?

Comment Re:He has a point (Score 0) 79

by noshellswill on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:30PM (#65987940) Attached to: Google Warns EU Risks Undermining Own Competitiveness With Tech Sovereignty Push

If you're a German company switch your software stack to Linux , adapt open-source and write/modify your own apps.

Comment Re:Good luck (Score 1) 86

by noshellswill on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:59PM (#65987518) Attached to: Waymo is Asking DoorDash Drivers To Shut the Doors of Its Self-Driving Cars

"A person who is unable to do this ... can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it." Excellent grasshopper. Now, you understand money, taxes and government.

Comment Re:Why not just SMS the rider? (Score 1) 86

by noshellswill on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:52PM (#65987502) Attached to: Waymo is Asking DoorDash Drivers To Shut the Doors of Its Self-Driving Cars

Perhaps the client offers to close the door ... for $9 ! Cheaper than Waymo and buys client a latte at *buk$.

Comment Re:Rich and powerful complaining to each other (Score 1) 59

by noshellswill on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:40PM (#65987340) Attached to: OpenAI Claims DeepSeek Distilled US Models To Gain an Edge

"If AI is really about the future of humanity then why isn't OpenAI cooperating with the PRC on the further development of DeepSeek? " Because Americans do not want a "Chinese" future, but a future based on Western "enlightenment" principles and (re)publican governance. In Abrahamic cultures, the individual is (ultimately) only answerable to G*d [ "... thou shall not have strange gods before me"] . Not so with various Eastern collectivist memes.

Comment Re:Not the solution, not the problem (Score 1) 102

by noshellswill on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:12PM (#65987278) Attached to: Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI

Computer code --like all machines -- exists in the service of humans. That service remains flawed. Computers are ubiquitous, yet only a few percent of humans can write professional-grade code. OTOH nearly ALL humans can speak "poetically". Perhaps it's long overdue for humans to exit the "explicit" computer-code world and return to the poetic "Queens English" concrete noun/active verb etc. Let computer code talk to computer code natively. Thus flaw removed. Nekbeards/byteboiz may become not just mechanically un-needed, but culturally unwanted. In extreme cases, humans can fall-back on the differential equations controlling computing/machine hardware. Sure some BOFH will have cubicles ... but very very few ... kinda like sewage treatment plant operators.

Comment Re:Fucking morons (Score 2) 93

by noshellswill on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:14PM (#65985034) Attached to: The "Are You Sure?" Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind

Eau contraire ... history demonstrates FACTS are known by both true Scotsmen and Cretans. Otherwise, how could they lie ?

Comment Re:It's because of policy (Score 0) 97

by noshellswill on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:26PM (#65980390) Attached to: The Big Money in Today's Economy Is Going To Capital, Not Labor

"...if there was better policy preventing money from going to the top of the economic food chain ..." Dear lordy it's not policy, but (financial) physics. Life depends on water -- right? Throw a lead weight ( say unions or SPH ) into a lake and the weight sinks to the bottom. But, throw a balsa-wood block ( t-shirt sweatshops or 996 ) into a lake and it floats like a hooker-on-coke. Been that way since Pharaohs servants were buried with him or Sythian kings were buried in gold chariots. Any way to beat that outcome ? Yep; I know only one way. Upper Neolithic low population density w.r.t. natural resources. Then if lucky you MAY get an American Indian gifting culture with many many chiefs. Like a semi-floating organic island. If not lucky you get the bloodthirsty Azteca cannibals.

Comment Re:been there done that (Score 1) 93

by noshellswill on Monday February 09, 2026 @05:09PM (#65978682) Attached to: AI Gold Rush is Resurrecting China's Infamous 72-hour Work Week - in US

Damned-straight steel-toed boots hurt. Even when you're only working two rooms. Junior-year summer I worked in an aluminum foundry reforging slag and making "hot topping" compounds. Lunch-time was bootless between the heavy-metal separator and mold-room.

Comment Re:A C compiler written in Rush (Score 1) 160

by noshellswill on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:13PM (#65978566) Attached to: Sixteen AI Agents Built a C Compiler From Scratch

The *.ai constructed C-compiler demonstrated mediocre performance. Nobody would pay a nickle for it. You have a life-time of hard work ahead of you, cleaning up the mess that LLMs have generated. That granted, current computer pervs are not 1/2 the issue. Excepting medicine, people hugely over-rate the industrial revolution and all its toxic follow-ons.

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