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Comment http:// *.* (Score 1) 123

by noshellswill (#66395902) Attached to: Firefox Tries to Bring Back the Internet's 'Good Old Days'
The "old" internet .... what am I missing ?  Running Debian-13 & Librewolf & MATE on a quick AMD 5600X  ...  with < UBlock* & open-snitch & UFW >  Local WiFi cruises along at ADSL-speeds; free website building opportunities are everywhere.  I do not need the "old" internet brought back . I never left the old internet; most "personal" sites that grew during the 2000-2010 period are still there !  If a website bitches about my security  ... or "forces thru" ads I drop it dead-duck; very few websites risk that rejection.

Comment Re:How to use Homework (Score 1) 150

Not popular to admit this, but in math-heavy studies, the purpose of extensive homework is to "rewire" the  Uni students brain. This rewiring also happens to master carpenters, plumbers & musicians, and is the result of intense long-term effort. Of-course not everyone can clean-and-jerk 400 lbs and not all can solve problems in spherical harmonics. But, W/O  effort/homework no productive output will be generated.

Comment Re:Test them manually (Score 1) 150

Yep. During my years at Uni I made sure every intro-EE student had a personal copy of SPICE. I advised them SPICE every homework problem .. AFTER they had done a pencil & paper & HP-22 solution. Double gain for  students and SPICE allowed them to build and analyze some really fun circuits.  Of-course during Mid-terms & Final no use of SPICE was allowed.

Comment Re:Excellent news (Score 1) 89

The trips the thing ... not the destination. The pure pleasure and human joy derived from driving a  tightly-sprung manual transmission auto along a country road has no equal.  Like being an raptor ... while  shite-everywhere  city pigeons don't count. I don't know when the tool-called-computer stopped being a net gain for humans ... but say 2010 is not a bad guess.

Comment Re:After 80 years of labor saving office automatio (Score 1) 89

Do you believe a secretary   electronically recording a bosses comments and transcribing them into an email using a word processor is more-or-less work than initially transcribing the boss using short-hand and then using a manual typewriter to generate a letter.  I believe the latter secretary  ( who has internalized Struck & White and Websters ) performs exponentially more work than the modern  AI.vibre. Very much like a traditional machinist who can manually hold his lathe-cut to < 1/10,000" > does more work than a CNC operator. You meant to say " ... does less work ..." and demonstrates less skill while being a less "robust" producer. That's the point of mechanization ... right ?

Comment Re: Do like China (Score 1) 19

Build in Mexico ... where security is zero.  That's an insane proposition ... like having the Chi.coms manufacture American military rifles. The cartels rule Mexico , over-power the judiciary , infiltrate military units  and collect "taxes" on every damned thing that crosses their territory. Butcher Mex yeomanry who oppose them.  Good luck with that saving on labor costs.

Comment Re:Techically an impossible challange (Score 1) 46

by noshellswill (#66392122) Attached to: What if the Anti-AI Writing Police Make a Mistake?
" Since the AI can literally copy humans at any time if it 'chooses' to, it can therefore sound exactly ".  Whatever made/makes you think  a machine agent performs  anything exactly like a human agent ? There's more to human vocalization than a Fourier transform ... including the < qualia > experienced by the human agent. .You Do know about qualia ... right ...? 

Comment since when (Score 1) 21

by noshellswill (#66391062) Attached to: Singapore Boffins Weave a GUI Into Fabric
Around crowds of others, I believe clothing has been the human GUI since at least  Gobekle-Tepe. Yes yes visual expression varied   from Minoan dash to Mycenea paranoia, but sensory response carried TRUTH  long before language. Of-course  in this enlightened age some laxers do not dress for the occasion ...

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 42

by noshellswill (#66388700) Attached to: Moderna Shares Plunge After Leak of Cancer Vaccine Data
With fusion power, crypt-coyn, Quantum computing, vegi-meat  and *.AI all producing negative returns ... and promising those losses  continuing into the indefinite future ... pure-play investors need to believe in SOME sure outrageously profitable money-stream.  The wife may tolerate silver, but the mistress demands gold ! If not hallucinogens then ... what ...? Panic ... panic ...

Comment Re:AirBNB decides to commit retnal market suicide (Score 2) 132

by noshellswill (#66387760) Attached to: Airbnb Bans Making Guests Do Dishes, Take Out the Trash
Why make life easy for AirBNB community smashers. Owners of such properties ARE running mini-hotels and denying land-use/housing  to real residents. Instead of shelter for full-time residents AirBNB creates  drug-addled adult  vacation-toys for the upper-mid class. Is that act basically  wrong?  Yes ... in that nearby rental properties decrease land/aesthetic  values for nearby permanent residents --- see < Isle of Palms SC  > for a prime example, where proliferation of AirBNB-type housing culturally  raped the local community.  Of-course ... no moreso than a resort in the Poconos or Sierra Nevada. But, the distinction should be perfectly clear, between residential  and recreational properties ; things like tax-rates, professional services and maintenance ought to reflect that difference. AirBNB owners want it both ways ... hotel+ income while shoving maintenance on visitors. I'd stop that right now ... as well as allowing ANY AirBNB properties within residential neighborhoods.

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