Comment Re:Where is the like button? (Score 1) 39
There should be a way to like an article.
There is... Slashdot's Firehose:
https://m.slashdot.org/firehos...
Comment Re:No shit (Score 1) 90
Watson.
Speaking of Watson, Slate recently ran a retrospective article on IBM's Watson playing Jeopardy!. Coincidentally, it also mentioned when Watson made up the response that Toronto was a U.S. city:
https://slate.com/culture/2025...
Comment Related video (Score 1) 93
Ross Douthat recently had an interview with Breakneck author Dan Wang about China's accelerating pace of technological innovation:
https://youtu.be/ZNK3vNg13XA
Comment Re:Not news in Canada (Score 1) 173
"diesel engines are known for being especially difficult to start in cold."
When I was in the Army in Korea in 1985/86 one of the duties on the duty roster was to start every vehicle in the motor pool every 4 hours and run it for half an hour to keep it warm. Nothing like getting up at 0200 on a Sunday morning to spend an hour in the motor pool.
Comment Re: *shakes head* (Score 1) 16
It's definitely a trend:
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Submission + - Another One Bites The Dust
wiredog writes: One of the few remaining blogs from Ye Olden Days of blogging, Dave "I am not making this up" Barry's Blog, is shutting down with the end of Typepad.
Comment Re:"crypto government" (Score 1) 91
Is that anything like "cryptozoology?"
It's more like cryptobiotic soil... old and crusty.
Comment Welp, there went Adobe (Score 2) 23
Sounds like this could be a powerful alternative to Photoshop... at this rate, I wonder how much longer Adobe will be around. I was never a fan of their subscription model anyway...
Comment I remember buying my first Linux (Score 5, Interesting) 66
Yes, buying. I lived in Cedar City Utah and first encountered Linux in a RedHat 2.0 beige box at a gaming store in Red Cliffs Mall in St George. Probably in 1994 or 5. Came with a couple of manuals, a boot floppy, and a CD. Had the 0.95 kernel. Getting dial-up configured was interesting since the ISP only knew about Trumpet Winsock... Then leaving it running for a few hours in the evening to update everything.
Within a week I was at the local BN buying O'Reilly books.
Comment My solution... (Score 5, Funny) 119
I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.
#SaveWaterWithGoatse
#SaveWaterWithGoatse
Comment Night terrors (Score 1) 59
Also, night terrors during early childhood are linked to higher rates of psychosis:
https://www.livescience.com/43...
Comment Let's see what Gemini can really do (Score 2) 14
Google has just 14 days to enact major changes to its Google Play app store
Sounds like a good dogfooding opportunity for Google to use Gemini to devise and implement these sweeping changes.
Comment Re:How did Tinder (Score 1) 42
At one time I had a FOUR digit UID, but that login was tied to a university email I no longer have.
If it's any consolation, my 3-digit UID and five bucks might buy me a cup of coffee. I didn't even get a lousy T-shirt.
Comment Re: pro users will get some new "AI-driven insight (Score 1) 15
Agreed. I'd be happier if they instead updated Google Earth Pro for Desktop to natively support ARM64 CPUs like the Apple M series.
Comment Re:Whoosh (Score 1) 110
>> We already know that statistically, modern AI cars get into far fewer accidents than humans do.
That's pure investor B.S. propaganda.
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