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Comment The problems I've heard are a few (Score 1) 49

First being in AI programmer is like having a limitless supply of Junior programmers doing their very very first gig and you are their manager.

Second what ends up happening is if the AI doesn't work you're doubling up your work because your boss tells you the AI must be working so you must be more productive. And if the AI does work it's just doing the grunt work and now instead of having a little bit of grunt work throughout the day to rest your mind in between the hard stuff you're expected to be full on 24/7 banging out the most difficult aspects of code one after another.

Basically it either doesn't work and now you have double the workload without any new tools to manage that workload or it does work and now your boss expects you to crank out super code 24/7. Either way your job just got a whole lot harder and a whole lot more miserable.

Comment Re:Glad I don't smoke (Score 1) 80

Hate me? Motherfucker if I caught my children smoking they'd be out on the street, disowned, and I'd be in the bedroom making a replacement for their sorry asses. Parenting isn't about letting young idiots (which they universally are) who are incapable of making good choices do whatever they want. That's "bad parenting". It's the reason we don't treat kids as adults in the first place (and one of the reasons selling this stuff to them is already illegal).

Comment Re:Glad I don't smoke (Score 1) 80

That's funny. I remember when Americans travelled to Europe, we were strongly advised to bring cash because plastic was not nearly as widely accepted.

That's a misnomer, you still should bring cash. It's not that plastic isn't widely accepted. For a long time it's actually been more widely used in Western Europe than it has been in the USA. It is *CREDIT CARDS* that are not widely accepted (and still not in much of Europe). Most of Europe runs on debit transactions. Yes it can be confusing to see two overlapping circles and confuse the Mastercard logo (red and yellow) with the Maestro symbol (red and blue) or the Cirrus symbol (light blue and blue).

Come here with your fancy Mastercard / Visas and you may not even be able to buy something at a major supermarket even in a very digital country. And god help you if you have an Amex card.

That said things are changing Mastercard has announced it will discontinue Maestro and that is forcing countries to massively rollout card readers capable of reading Debit MasterCards and VisaDebit cards, and since they have the same underlying technology as credit transactions, that will mean credit cards will very soon become far more widely accepted.

Reminiscing aside, I don't see a need for a mandate. If enough people complain, I'm sure charging makers would include credit card readers.

This is a case of a captive audience. If in general machines don't accept credit cards then the complaints will fall on deaf ears. What are you doing to do, drive to a different supercharger and hope for the best? Call roadside assistance when your battery runs out? It's one of the situations where you get to force your customers to do what you want.

TBH, what'd I'd prefer over either a phone app or a credit card is that plugging your car in looks up an account and payment method and just handles it (which, I believe, is how my Tesla-owning friends tell me it works).

That is coming. Quite a few cars on the market support auto-negotiation of the charging. It does work for Tesla... at Tesla chargers. Great if you have a monoculture, not so much if you live in Europe where there are literally close to 100 different companies offering charging infrastructure.

That said most of them offer "network" style subscriptions, which is to say you apply for something like a Shell Charge card and you can tap and go literally anywhere. Yeah it would be nicer for the car to do that automatically, but really you need to stand next to the charger to plug the cable in anyway so it's not like tapping your charge card at an RFID reader is a hassle. So far I've yet to find a single charger that didn't work in my "network" of allowed chargers.

Comment Re:Sony makes memory cards? (Score 1) 40

You'd be very wrong. Sony hasn't made camera sensors in a decade. They spun off Sony Semiconductor Solutions as an independent company back in 2016. Also Sony makes a loss on Playstation, but you are close to correct there, 60% of their profit is gaming. A lot of the rest is music and film, followed by professional gear.

Comment Re:Sony makes memory cards? (Score 1) 40

Who knew?

Literally everyone other than you from the looks of things. Certainly everyone who has a Sony video camera professional or amateur, or a Sony mirrorless professional or amateur all of which I wonder if you know about...

I can't name a single product this company makes besides the PlayStation

I guess that answers that question. This sounds like a *you* problem.

They're a dead company walking

Yeah the company that made $81billion selling products you don't know nothing about about is "dead". Gotchya buddy.

Comment Re:you jackasses are smart enough to do self hosti (Score 2) 49

Wow arsehole much? You're so desperate to victim blame you fail to realise it's not the people hosting the project having ads injected, it's the people contributing. What do you suggest contributors do? Call up the lead author and get them to send your the original so you can host it on your own server to do the PR request?

Yeah there is a jackass here, a victim blaming one.

Comment Re:Not me (Score 1) 44

According to Jonathan Rotenberg, "People want to hate Apple, because it is big and powerful. But Apple has an underlying moral purpose that is immensely deep and expansive..."

Not me. I hate Apple for entirely personal reasons. I've supported Apple products professionally for 28 years. Apple sucks. Their corporate sales policies suck. Their support sucks compared to other major PC vendors. Their device security sucks. (Realistically, their device security is pretty decent, but it makes it dramatically harder for me to keep them in good working condition.)

Wanna know how badly Apple sucked? I had a Magic Mouse go dead. I got on the phone with Cupertino. After convincing them it was a legitimate defect,at 5 p.M, they had one at my doorstep at 9 the next morning - California to PA. Their only request was to send the old one back prepaid so they could do a postmortem.

I had a bluetooth problem with my headphones. I'm rather deaf. After posting on their support section, I got an unexpected phone call in 15 minutes. I dunno if text sent an alert, but one of their support people hopped on that, and we fixed it pronto.

They prepaid my trade in of an Intel iMac for a new M4 Mac, and I got several hundred dollars trade in.

I always like to contrast Apples worst in class support with me having a in warranty problem with my kid's laptop a few years ago. (forget the brand) The "service desk" handed me a Xerox copy for me to walk the whole way through it.

Sucks to own a Mac.

Comment I said it back when the case was brought (Score 1) 3

These lawyers should be sued for professional negligence. How they argued the case without addressing the most obvious concern and instead went on a tangent that had no hope in hell of succeeding is beyond me.

These guys are almost as stupid as Trump's lawyers. ... Maybe this was resume padding?

Comment Re:Wozniak - the real reason for Apple (Score 1) 44

Doesn't excuse Jobs being an asshole, though.

There is a bit of a different mindset/skillset involved in CEO or visionary work. And a lot of people seem to think anyone could do it. Like the one guy who said a marketing person could do what Jobs did.

No, they can't. A person with the proper mindset and vision can market if they have the ability. But the bog-standard marketeer can't.

And a person with vision can be a bit testy to be around. I've been CEO of two corporations. You work your ass off, despite the memes. You have to deal with people who challenge everything - which is okay, except when the challenges aren't all that clever. And you are called an asshole. By people who believe that worth is inversely proportional to position. You deal with it.

Comment Re:Wozniak - the real reason for Apple (Score 2) 44

"He wasn't a product guy, and you need a product not just raw tech to sell. Selling stuff being somewhat important for a company."

Check out Clive Sinclair - he was an engineer and did pretty damn well selling his computers in the UK. Maybe Woz couldn't have done that, but it doesn't mean Jobs was the one required to help him, any competenant marketing type could have done the same. Vew few people could have designed the hardware and software that Woz did at the time.

I hate to disagree, but there is a huge difference between conceptualization and marketing. But you realize you are saying that Apple would be where it is at today with a marketing person as CEO.

Marketing people might be able to sell refrigerators to inuits, but someone needs to come up with concept and direction. I've been involved with marketeers for a long time. They pitch products, not conceptualize, design or built them.

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