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Comment Re:For the love of all that is holy... (Score 1) 79

There is a statistically significant increase in deaths when the time change occurs. This proves that it is not simple for at least some people.

If you want to appeal to technology then go all the way! Propose using hours from sunrise at your location for daily activities, plus a universal time constant which applies even on other planets. You can calculate what the time is anywhere from your smartphone, right?

Comment Where are the level headed realists? (Score 4, Insightful) 28

Come on guys, this is your moment! Come tell us how everything isn't a conspiracy, and the corporations aren't all out to get us!

This is how businesspeople behave all the time. Virtually all of them see us as a lesser species to be manipulated and milked for profit. Advertising is manipulation of your emotional state to cause you to make decisions you'll regret. The whole business world runs on gaslighting you, the only difference between this and that is degree. It's a war for your wallet, and your security and sanity are the casualties.

Comment Re:Slop? (Score 1) 119

If you don't buy a racing car Porsche is middling at best without any luxury features other than a vroom vroom noise.

I see you have no idea what the top end of their catalogue looks like, but still want to flap your yap as if you had anything relevant to say.

I'm sad for you that you've not experienced luxury to the point where you can't even identify what it is.

I'm sad for you that you're suck a clown-assed cuck for the wealthy. You constantly bend over and spread for anyone in a position of authority because you're easily impressed by power. You're never going to understand the kind of harm you do by being an enabler for the worst people.

Comment Re:Sega used is for the Shogun remaster (Score 1) 36

It looks good, it works well, and Claude produced an SBOM and a security audit.

Since Claude is not a human, Claude cannot sign off on a security audit.

If a human signed off on Claude's security audit without verifying it themselves, they deserve exactly what they're going to get.

Comment Re:Multiple problems (Score 1) 119

Who can forget the Mid-2012 13-inch unibody MacBook Pros (and similar 2011–2012 models) where a design flaw caused the internal hard drive SATA flex cable to rub against the rough, aluminum chassis. Over time, normal laptop vibration wore through the cable's insulation, severing data traces and mimicking a dead or "loose" hard drive by causing random freezing, data corruption, or the infamous flashing question mark folder. While the physical drive remained securely bracketed, the inexpensive ribbon cable itself required replacement, often requiring a strip of electrical tape underneath to prevent recurring failure.

PowerBook Pismo: Display cable sliced by Airport antenna connector. PowerBook Wallstreet: Hard drive connector board attached by a single screw that didn't hold it in place, causing constant disconnects. The iBook G3 graphics chip disaster. So many mechanical design mistakes, so few column inches to write about them.

Comment Re:Happy cooling and triple redundancy. (Score 1) 104

The only theoretical advantage I can think of for a satellite ...

Come on, I can't believe you are that stupid. You can't think of any technical advantage of operating a power-hungry machine outside of Earth's shadow? Try harder.

You mean 24x7 solar power? Now calculate how many centuries an on-earth data center could go, even with having to use batteries at night, even with replacing the backup batteries every couple of years, before the cost would equal the cost of a single launch. In other words, that's not an actual advantage, at least in practice.

Besides, you can't repair or upgrade the hardware when it is in space, which is such a colossal disadvantage that the advantages would have to be almost unimaginably great to balance that out.

Comment Re:Someone should really start killing these AI CE (Score 1) 45

This is the cycle of capitalism.

I think we've all seen that script about hard times creating strong men creating good times creating weak men. What the nitwits who think it's the ultimate aphorism don't understand is a) what either of those words mean or b) that this applies just as much to nepo babies like the CEOs they worship.

Comment Re:Happy cooling and triple redundancy. (Score 1) 104

In space you have to deal with cooling in vacuum without thermal convection but being exposed to sunlight for energy harvesting, triple redundancy to counter radiation (charged particles) induced malfunction, and slow data links compared to ground based communications, just to name a few of the challenges. And that is supposed to be advantageous somehow, while low earth orbits get fuller and fuller, and malicious countries demonstrate satellite hunting satellites?

The only theoretical advantage I can think of for a satellite would be that if someone launched one from international waters, if some random government wanted it to stop existing or stop doing something, they'd have to launch something to destroy the satellite, because from a legal perspective, it wouldn't be within their jurisdiction.

But in practice, as far as I know, nobody is launching anything into orbit from international waters, so this is entirely theoretical, at least right now.

Comment Re:Why does such a level of notability really matt (Score 1) 59

It seems like any band that ever got out of somebody's garage gets or any professional athlete, however minor, gets a detailed article, while people arguably of greater significance in areas that don't attract as much popular interest do not.

Porn stars. At least back when I quit WP, one of the things that sent me over the top was that every minor porn star (especially female) apparently deserved their own page, while scientists didn't even if they had numerous published articles and citation and done important work - but their field was nothing famous.

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