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Comment Re:It is not just China we are behind (Score 1) 91

10 Canada -- Exporting to Scotland

You're a little bit ahead of things here, considering that is not slated for completion until 2040.

https://www.nationalobserver.c...

The audacious plan to build a giant green powerline under the Atlantic
Vast volumes of green electricity could be flowing through a 4,000-kilometre underwater powerline between Canada and Europe by 2040, if three UK-based investment bankers’ vision for a major new transatlantic energy artery becomes reality.

Their $30 billion-plus project, the North Atlantic Transmission One Link (NATO-L), was sparked in 2022, when the sabotage of the giant Nordstream gas pipeline crossing under the Baltic Sea exposed the EU’s dangerous overdependence on Russian energy resources.

Comment Re:There's nothing audacious about it (Score 1) 91

This will be the nail in the coffin for coal plants, and probably a fair number of natural gas plants as well. Once this AI bubble bursts, coupled with the ability to process AI demands much more efficiently (on silicone designed specifically for this purpose, instead of using much less efficient GPUs and the like), there will be a huge surplus of power. The shiny new, and extremely expensive to build, nuclear power plants certainly won't be the things shutting down when there is too much energy.

The environment will be much better off for this.

Comment Ya, no. (Score 1) 23

Gemini will proactively create summary cards when users open a PDF ...

I don't like tech doing thing I didn't ask it to do, so I hope this can be disabled -- not that I'll be using Gemini, if I still have that choice. Also, I don't generally use Google docs, so perhaps this is moot, for now, until Google pushes this out to other areas.

Comment Re:I can't wait for the brouhaha that arises (Score 1) 60

when somebody figures out how to make Barbie say something horrifically inappropriate.
Or better yet if it just happens without any special prompting to do so.

Of course, what will depend on the owner's parent's demographics.
Some places it could just be saying something like, "I deserve equal pay." /s

Comment Re:Despite (Score 2) 262

The documentation people were so afraid that anyone who was not a full-time Word expert would irrecoverably screw up the corporate branding (IOW, formatting) of their docs, they didn't want developers to directly edit them. So I was often able to get away with emailing a quick text summary to them, and they had to do all the fidgety proof reading, formatting, etc.

Perhaps they should have been using something like Framemaker for stuff like that. Admittedly, I only used it *way* back, before it was bought by Adobe.

Comment Re:Despite (Score 1) 262

... the open Office suites work just fine. I've helped people migrate from Microsoft office for years now, no one is complaining. And it is compatible between Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Yes. As part of my migration from Windows 10 to using my Mint 22 (Cinnamon) system full-time, I've switched all my Word/Excel files over from Office 2010, and a few older files in Lotus WordPro/123 (which run fine on Windows 10, btw) like my budget, to LibreOffice and it does everything I need. The only hold-up here is Publisher, which I use for making greeting cards; I haven't quite nailed down the equivalent workflow in LO. Maybe I need something like Scribus instead? The only other thing is a Linux alternate for AxCrypt v1.7, though some data can be entered into KeePassXC instead...

Comment Re:seen this movie before (Score 1) 262

The geopolitical situation is different this time around. Countries rightly see reliance on US-based services and US-based closed-source software as a national security risk.

You must be new to this. This kind of sentiment has existed since computers have become prominent around the globe.

Comment Re:Call your governor (Re:asking for screwups) (Score 2) 111

They might get replaced with some DEI hires. DEI in this context means people who were hired because they're stooges or kissed the ring, not because of qualifications or merit.

Specifically, how well they do on the 4 essays in the application, New Federal Employees Must Now Write Essays Praising Trump's Policies ...

Comment Re:Call your governor (Re:asking for screwups) (Score 1) 111

Rather, RFK Jr. saw people acting against his phobia w.r.t. vaccines and other diseases. Gov. policy? With this alleged gov.? You mean the policies are whatever increases the wealth of la Presidenta. Lying and cheating are acceptable means to that end.

Coming soon: Your prescription formulary will be based on how much $TRUMP coin you own...

Comment Re:WOW That is some shark-jumping. (Score 1) 37

How complex do they think it is to follow an ordered list of drink assembly instructions can be?

Well... with the mentioned, "iced shaken espresso" you have to make espresso, add ice then shake -- in that order, and presumably in a cup. W/o AI a barista might try to shake and/or ice the espresso machine, which would be a disaster or, at least, messy. Then they'd have to look up how to clean that up, with a line forming ...

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