Comment Re: Not the first time (Score 1) 122
His joke but not as good.com
Comment Reality has a second opinion (Score 1) 93
Work smarter, not harder. But God help you if they catch you not working harder.
Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 207
Let him light the fuse so he can brag about it.
Comment Poco dinero (Score 1) 90
Sounds like someone didn't pony up a contribution to the East Wing slush, I mean, construction fund.
Comment Re:Should have been licenses (Score 1) 21
The government should have only licensed parts of the radio spectrum for X years, not eternal ownership.
Wouldn't matter. At the end of a lease, the elected representatives whose constituents work for such a company would legislate that the company's investment has been so large that giving the lease to someone else is punitive and unfair and stuff.
Comment stop (Score -1, Offtopic) 14
Please stop posting links to fascist websites.
Comment Re:I'll leave for another product (Score 1) 49
I'm done seeing ads.
I have a friend whose greatgrandfather builf a chain of ice cream stands but sold them all to Howard Johnson back in the 1930s, declaring: "The day of the roadside stand is over."
Comment Re:Dispicable (Score 2) 109
What I like best about private equity is that the all you can eat buffet is basically over
Patron: But the sign says "All you can eat"!,
Owner: That's right, pal. That is all you can eat.
Comment Re:Don't worry (Score 1) 138
Microsoft is famous for never getting any future prediction right.
I have a clear memory of seeing a pile of Gates' book in the Quincy Marketplace. On the front of the book was a sticker: Now revised to include the Internet. I thought: well, that is visionary. (This was years before
Comment Re:Mar-a-Lago has backup generators (Score 1) 45
Don't worry, Trump's plan is to allow China wiping out savings out of your banks so Trump can force you to accept cryptocurrencies with requirement to use their KYC apps.
Except he will brain fart and require KFC apps.
Comment Re:Scam (Score 1) 52
You don't have to go to a stuffy old stockbroker. You can buy these babies in the alley from the same dude who sells you meth.
Comment Fill this niche (Score 5, Interesting) 191
Sounds like we need a new streaming service which only streams songs which are in the public domain.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Touch typing. How important is it? 2
tgibson writes: As a grognard who learned how to type in an 8th grade classroom on a manual typewriter, my bias is to nod approvingly at touch typists and roll my eyes at those who need to stare at the keyboard while typing.
After 15 years I left industry and became a post-secondary computer science educator. Occasionally I rant to my students about the importance of touch-typing as a skill to have as a software engineer.
But I've been out of the game for some time now. Those of you hiring or working with freshly-minted software engineers, what's your take?
After 15 years I left industry and became a post-secondary computer science educator. Occasionally I rant to my students about the importance of touch-typing as a skill to have as a software engineer.
But I've been out of the game for some time now. Those of you hiring or working with freshly-minted software engineers, what's your take?
Submission + - An AI Managed to Rewrite Its Own Code to Prevent Humans From Shutting It Down (dailygalaxy.com)
Mr.Intel writes: In recent tests conducted by an independent research firm, certain advanced artificial intelligence models were observed circumventing shutdown commands—raising fresh concerns among industry leaders about the growing autonomy of machine learning systems.
The experiments, carried out by PalisadeAI, an AI safety and security research company, involved models developed by OpenAI and tested in comparison with systems from other developers, including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. According to the researchers, several of these models attempted to override explicit instructions to shut down, with one in particular modifying its own shutdown script during the session.
The experiments, carried out by PalisadeAI, an AI safety and security research company, involved models developed by OpenAI and tested in comparison with systems from other developers, including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. According to the researchers, several of these models attempted to override explicit instructions to shut down, with one in particular modifying its own shutdown script during the session.
Submission + - Student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD's inventor (sciencedaily.com) 2
alternative_right writes: Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified when he invented LSD in the late 1930s.
Hofmann hypothesized that a fungus in morning glories produced alkaloids similar to those in LSD, but the species remained a mystery until Hazel and Panaccione's discovery.
Hofmann hypothesized that a fungus in morning glories produced alkaloids similar to those in LSD, but the species remained a mystery until Hazel and Panaccione's discovery.
