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Comment Re:Article on the broader issue (Score 1) 86

by noshellswill on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:09PM (#65973310) Attached to: The Bizarre Enhancement Claims Rocking Ski Jumping

You are so wrong: "All sport should be professional" . Ted Williams had a line about sports-fishing-tournaments. 'I don't care some much what they do to fish, but what they (payouts) do to fishermen.' As a long-time catch and release fly fisherman I agree. I might add that achieving "fairness" among the incompetent requires both financial bankrupting and tyrannous government. Putting lipstick on a pig does not improve the pigs appearance and likely gives injury to the applier.

Comment Re: Tariffs and rebates? (Score 0) 241

by noshellswill on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:50PM (#65973276) Attached to: Canada Unveils Auto Industry Plan in Latest Pivot Away From US

Why drive a "household" across Canada, when you can cut a deal with the railroad to haul you+car+trailer in lux ? Bet the train-ride scenery is really beautiful AND enjoyable. I've taken all three train-routes across the USA and they were amazing -- lost now of-course because of no-smoking and early-closing barcar.

Comment neo-mining (Score 4, Informative) 15

by noshellswill on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:33PM (#65973236) Attached to: Big Tech's $1.1 Trillion Cloud Computing Backlog

Cloud /*.ai over-reach in media/data/IP/energy really strikes home to me. The more cloud* tends to consumes ALL resources the more "successful" it becomes . I grew up in Scranton Pa, where coal-mining dominated local culture and consumed/destroyed most other forms of employment. Not just during 1860-->1960, but long after, when underground coal-fires polluted ground-surface and air. Scranton became ... and remains an economic/cultural shell ( it does manufacture 155 mm shells for Ukraine ). I see the grasp of cloud/*.ai following the same meme, but on a nationwide scale. Coal mining raped a gorgeous Lackawanna Valley and tried swallowing the Susquehanna River, leaving nothing behind , but a few wealthy families and toxic waste. Now is the time to ensure cloud / .ai doesn't do the same nationally.

Comment Re:Translation Time (Score 1) 64

by noshellswill on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:38AM (#65970494) Attached to: Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production

What fool would goto Amazon for art? I mean, it's like trying to watch sports on a squints-ville smart-phone: nobody would do that ... oh wait ...

Comment Re:Eh (Score 0) 84

by noshellswill on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:38PM (#65969682) Attached to: Russian Spy Satellites Have Intercepted EU Communications Satellites

"Heck, they could easily overrun and conquer all of Russia from the Urals to the Bering Sea ". Well maintained and disciplined French and German armies have tried that. Something about pure distance creates problems. China believes in prudence ... I think.

Comment Re:Do their employees still need food stamps to li (Score 1) 55

by noshellswill on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:01AM (#65968552) Attached to: Walmart Joins $1 Trillion Club

LL&L economist here ... but, the GOLD standard is flawed beyond complexity. In America financial "panics" were endemic to the 19-th Century -- even tho the GOLD standard stood tall. Then the "BIG ONE" in 1929. Only WW2 with its' high taxes and rigid government control of consumption stopped them.

Comment Re:This is Treason (Score 1) 88

by noshellswill on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:45PM (#65967960) Attached to: Google Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas

If that USA publicly traded company transfers classified materials to an "enemy" state that/those company C-suites will goto a Colorado prison with no courtyards & 23 hr/day of solitary ... or get shot dead in some alley after a coke-binge. I prefer the latter solution . USA after all is at war.

Comment Re:Where does innovation come from? (Score 1) 102

by noshellswill on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:29PM (#65967338) Attached to: 'Vibe Coding Kills Open Source'

"LLMs cannot solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time, but they can help generate heuristic solutions or approximations that provide "good enough" answers for practical applications. " So says my *.ai ..... I wonder what you had in mind . Is this a "back of the envelop" calculation for helium atomic energy levels ?

Comment Re: Whistling past the graveyard (Score 1) 65

by noshellswill on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:55PM (#65967144) Attached to: Is AI Really Taking Jobs? Or Are Employers Just 'AI-Washing' Normal Layoffs?

Are you saying no novel computer code needs to be written, or are you implying much more. That humans have reached the end of knowable abstractions. Some science writers in the 1960s proposed "the end of science" based on the success of QM and relativity. Only history exists for them ... and Feynman supported them by saying 'history is what you read in a book'. Excepting biology/medicine perhaps they were correct. The 'end of coding' smells like "let LLM do it". I use *.ai like talking encyclopedias and they do OKey. Maybe they were correct, but I'm not a little confused.

Comment Re:and you all doubted Trump's infrastructure bill (Score 1) 94

by noshellswill on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:26PM (#65967052) Attached to: High-Speed Internet Boom Hits Low-Tech Snag: a Labor Shortage

Except for LLMs The Donald got it right; a solid nationalist citizen-first project. Don't like it? Move to China or Mexico or India or Turkey ... or even mongrelized Britian. See how that grabs ya. Learn to keep yo mouth shut.

Comment Re:No shit (Score -1, Troll) 88

by noshellswill on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:18PM (#65967040) Attached to: Google Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas

GOOG = Quisling bitch. Just drop all use of GOOGLE products and services. Uncertain whether or no you can change their mercantile agenda ; doing evil is bone-deep. But, absolutely certain you can screw their bottom line ... make their management and investors howl ... like Sherman thru Georgia !

Comment Re:8K will of course be a thing, just not yet. (Score 2) 137

by noshellswill on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:45AM (#65966578) Attached to: Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?

Funny you mention hologram display. I saw such a "holographic movie" ( refrigerator size device about 40"x20"xD" display ) back in the 1970s at Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Quite amazing. I thought it would just come along and replace 2-D screens, but that never happened. I guess 2-D screens were/are just "good enough" and very profitable.

Comment capitol chases labor (Score 1) 94

by noshellswill on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:26AM (#65966536) Attached to: High-Speed Internet Boom Hits Low-Tech Snag: a Labor Shortage

Hard to get workers? It's very desirable for capitol to chase labor. Worker wages, benefits , training and working conditions improve; this leads to social stability and lawful behavior. Overt-worked land is restored; more brook trout streams and grouse- moors are established; Family farms prosper. Toxic big-city ghettos are gentrified by well-paid yeomanry. Granted, globalists and the sociopath-few don't get peon employees, immediate bling satisfaction or toxic profits. Good ! True entrepreneurs flourish meeting customer NEEDS! Good for the economy, good for the culture , good for the citizen. I know -- global-business and SJWs want any excuse to open migrant floodgates. Prudent (re)publican nationalist would see such 5-th column movements neekapped to the benefit of damned-near everyone.

Comment Re:And if that had been a human driving... (Score 1) 167

by noshellswill on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:51PM (#65957162) Attached to: Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Child Near an Elementary School in Santa Monica

Nope. Every true-Scottsman driver would have intuited the child preparing to leap from behind a parked car just as his car passed by. Humans are hardwired to do that .. both ... computers not so much. It's like giving your gal-pal flowers on the Thursday , when 6-years ago she lost her freckles.

Comment Re:Don't say the quiet part out loud (Score 1) 54

by noshellswill on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:46AM (#65956838) Attached to: Google Says AI Agent Can Now Browse on Users' Behalf

Yes, normal people enjoy new experiences, problem solving and interacting personally with external agents. Of-course I'm personally involved with maintaining plumbing and wiring in my home, as I am with lawn mowing and tending the gooseberry plants. Not overwhelmed, not multi-tasked , not isolated and not pandered --- we desire mid-range interactions and human contact as Aristotle observed. It's to the financial advantage of BIG-DATA companies that they replace all other personal interactions with human-->computer addiction.

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