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Comment This isn't new with genAI (Score 1) 61

This isn't really a new result, nor tied to genAI. Machine-learning models have a long track record of being able to identify medical problems better than humans based on records. Not really a surprise, the problem is essentially one of pattern matching and machine learning is _really_ good at extracting patterns from large volumes of data and then matching new data against those patterns. I wouldn't apply genAI to the problem, though, the established ML systems do a better job using fewer resources.

Comment IOW, Debian stable is like Ubuntu LTS (Score 1) 131

Debian releases every two years, and they have a sane release cycle which freezes software versions some months before release.

So basically the same thing that Ubuntu's two-year "LTS" track does. Ubuntu 24.04 "noble" is feeling fairly old at the moment. Ubuntu 26.04 "resolute" was released a week ago to users on the semiannual "interim" track, and it'll be offered to LTS users come the first point release about three months from now. Drinkypoo has a point, however, that Debian has no direct counterpart to Ubuntu's interim track.

Comment VPS RAM use and signup email deliverability (Score 1) 77

There's absolutely nothing here you can't replace in less than 60 minutes with some cheap ass 5 Euro/Month virtual host, setup and config included.

When you self-hosted Git and an issue tracker, how did you take care of these?

1. Last I checked on DigitalOcean's website, a VPS in that price range would have 1 GB of RAM. And last I checked, MariaDB took 300 MB of that by itself. How do you fit Linux + front end web server + MariaDB + Forgejo into 1 GB of RAM?
2. People need to sign up again to report bugs or contribute patches. Signing up is itself a friction, not to mention that your VPS is probably not already trusted by the major email providers. This means one-time codes for signup confirmation and password reset are likely to end up in the user's spam folder at best, if not just dropped without notification.

Comment Self-hosting isn't for everyone (Score 1) 77

A lot of people can't self-host because they're behind an ISP that blocks incoming TCP connections. It's fine if you already own a domain name, already lease a VPS with big enough RAM to run Linux, a front-end web server, MariaDB, and Forgejo (that is, more than a dinky little 1 GB droplet on DigitalOcean), and already pay for smarthosting of your outbound email to make transactional messages deliverable to would-be contributors who use the big three webmail providers (Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo). Otherwise, that's a chunk of change every year.

Comment they were very popular (Score 1) 180

i had one too, and it was a great medium, and the external drive with both scsi and parallel port made it easy to use on many computers. one of the main uses was sharing files between my pc and amiga, i also took it to work where we had internet (didn't have it at home yet) and loaded it up with all the latest redhat rpm package updates and other new open source software.

Comment Re:Same as it ever was (Score 2) 296

BYD didn't so much chose to not build a factory here as they are blocked from doing so.

Last I heard, the trade policy was set to deter importing cars made in China into the United States. BYD having been blocked from setting up a factory on United States soil and hiring United States residents to produce cars for the United States market is news to me. The interview that Wikipedia cites states only that BYD isn't planning to build in the US or Mexico for the US market, not why that's the case. Searching DuckDuckGo for "is byd blocked from setting up factory in usa" didn't turn up relevant results either.

Comment Re:Same as it ever was (Score 1) 296

Get someone to install a decent charger at home: View it as part of the purchase price of the car, if one even needs it.

So to buy a car, you have to first buy a house, or at least buy out the rest of your lease in favor of somewhere to live whose parking could support a charger.

Find out the office doesn't have a single charger: One would think one would know this before they bought the car.

Consider the case of buying a car and then changing jobs. How practical is it to choose where to work based on whether the office has a charger?

Not to mention that a lot of ICE car drivers aren't rich enough to afford a new car, only a used car. And a lot of ICE car drivers live in the United States, where BYD has chosen not to build a factory, and have an ethical disagreement with the leadership of Tesla.

Comment The article is about removable media (Score 1) 85

You are correct with respect to their internal storage.

However, say you want to interchange files among several computers using removable media, such as an SD card, USB flash drive, or USB hard drive. One is a Windows PC that prefers NTFS, another a Mac that prefers Apple's FS, and another a Linux PC that prefers ext4. What file system would you use on the drive?

Comment Fictional address (Score 1) 73

The octets of invalid information mark the address as fictional, as opposed to being the live address of a real machine. Telephone subscribers in several area codes started receiving prank phone calls after the 1982 release of "867-5309/Jenny", a song by the band Tommy Tutone containing a live numeric address on the US phone network. This led US TV show producers to start using the 555 (or KLondike 5) exchange, which was largely set aside for fictional use.

Comment Re:An unintended side effect.. (Score 1) 73

The difference is that if the customer is on IPv6, the customer is more likely to have a globally unique address. This means the customer is at least technically capable of forwarding an inbound port across a stateful firewall, provided the ISP doesn't deliberately interfere with port forwarding the way T-Mobile US (a wireless ISP using 5G NR) does with its home Internet service. The TV commercials don't mention that T-Mobile home Internet is an outbound-only service.

Comment RIP Slashdot subscriptions (Score 1) 152

Why the fuck am I seeing huge ads on Slashdot now for "bolt.new" and other shite when I paid many years ago to "Disable Advertising"?

I seem to remember that Slashdot subscriptions lasted a specific number of page views before expiring. Slashdot stopped offering them a couple acquisitions ago. Yours probably expired.

Comment Re:Futures trading is gambling (Score 1) 35

Not really. All the examples you give are cases where, if everyone follows the rules, you know what you're going to get before you pay for it. In gambling, if everyone follows the rules you do not know what the outcome will be. Which is the case with futures trading, you don't know what the price/value of the commodity will be when the contract comes due.

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