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Comment The surprising agents of the revolution. (Score 4, Funny) 36

I doubt Karl Marx ever envisioned that come the revolution, the agents of revolutionary terror that upend the old order and drag the billionares to the wall would be Gamers infuriated that the tech bros AI fantasies deprived them of their new gaming consoles.

"Gamers of the world, you have nothing to lose except your potato pc and possibly your virginity".

Comment Re:Depends on the topic (Score 3, Interesting) 72

Yeah thats my observation.

Give it a react web interface, or maybe a wordpress template, and it'll do fantastically. Its eaten every website on the planet, it knows what that looks like.

Ask it to optimize a lockless high throughput low latency kafka pipeline that needs to maintain an optimal memory pressure across all core counts, without race conditions or i/o contention, and its going to shit the bed and not know where to start. Actually, so will the first year uni graduate. But at least he can *learn*.

Comment Re:How odd (Score 2) 112

Just so we're clear, no matter how many times you guys try and twist the graphs, or come up with half baked theories about why physics wont work in the sky so theres nothing to worry about, physics will still refuse to comply with libertarian ideology.

We've known about global warming for 150 years now, the evidence continues to stack up. chanting political talismans at it wont change that.

Comment Re: I'm still trying to figure out. (Score 1) 23

The thing with Word press plugins, is that if Posix taught us anything its that APIs can be copied;. It'd take a team of 2-3 guys to implement most of that API in drupal or whatever.

But lets do one better. I'd like to see this as an opportunity to finally rid the world of computers of fucking PHP.

Do some statistical analysis and figure out what are the plugins everyone uses, write a new *better* CMS in python or javascript, add those popular funcrtions in for free and let wordpress finally die.

Comment Re:Anti-Vax attitudes will get people killed (Score 1) 247

so did blindly forcing people into taking untested drugs.

When?

The Covid vaccines where some of the most extensively tested drugs in medical history (30-40K stage 3 trials is almost unprecedented), hence why they turned out so safe.

Or are we refering to something else here?

Comment Re:Subscription, or lease? (Score 1) 54

Yeah I am super wary about this sort of thing. I still feel burnt after a decade ago going on a phone plan that offered free phone upgrades after a year. Instead they cancelled the plan a month before the year, and sent me a $500 bill to cover the rest of the phone. Not what I agreed to, and I took the telco to the small claims court and got a full refund of the plan instead. (The competition regulator (here in australia) ended up fining the telco over it, apparently they where doing this to everyone)

Comment Re:Life Imitates Art (Score 3, Insightful) 67

The safer approach would simply be to say, "You want that coin back? We gonna fight about it in court. Unless you figure out how to make this go away". Because theres a good chance a judge would say "This guy didnt do a fraud, you gave him those coins all by yourself". He might also say you have to give it back. Lawyers hate that sort of uncertainty, so its highly likely a settlement would be on the table.

Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 339

Yeah as an australian, none of my friends over there where on any sort of dodgy visa, all have legit visas, and all of them have been planning to return because they dont feel safe anymore.

These are whitebread high income postgrad dudes from about the most america-friendly country on the planet. God knows whats going on for folks that look like the kind of people ICE have been targetting.

This is going to bite hard for the US eventually. You dont just chase off a large section of your tax base and not expect some sort of problems down the track.

Comment Re:Already blocked updates (Score 1) 36

Because were sick of all the resources being thrown at stupid frigging chatbots that should be being thrown at making better and cheaper technology.

I cant afford to upgrade the ram on my PC right now because Sam "fucking" Altman put an order for literally half the worlds Ram supplies for 2026 for ChatGPT servers. And my boss keeps talking about replacing us with AI. You bet I want nothing to do with this.

Comment Re:Said it before, will say it again: TOXIC EMPATH (Score 2) 40

Toxic empathy at work, yet again.

Bad results, yet again.

The very definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over, and still get the same, shitty results.

"Toxic empathy" isn't a thing that exists my dude. Its pseudoscientific clickbait nonsense. Its just "empathy" and its a vital part of how societies stay healthy. Empathy is *always* good, and that isn't controversial to anyone except crazy political assholes who get angry that people arent being racist enough.

And none of any of this has to do with bee conservation.

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