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Comment What's with the rush to judgement? (Score 2) 154

Heinz's prediction was made 24,080 days ago and there are only 35 days left on the clock. If in the immortal words of airman Dougherty Jesus H Christ we're still here after Friday 13th then fine go shit on his grave... until then I fully intend to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Comment Re: State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 1) 136

Oh you want to do some more name calling. Ok you UnAmerican, open boards, commie retard prick!

FUCK YOU - you spend four decades supporting people and policy that created a wildly difficult situation to unwind, and then you complain when not everything is done perfectly. Except some of us see thru it. You know perfectly well you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs and no law enforcement effort in all oh history of any scale can be done entirely without incident.

You want amnesty and free for all, so you cling to impossible standards. Trafficked by ICE yeah ok dude so we have to allow 1000s of people to be trafficked by seriously bad actors because my goodness our enforcement operations might make mistakes that could impact a few hundred people unfairly. Who cares what country they came from, they have no right to be here. If someone is trespassing on your property and you ask them to leave you don't owe the bus fare home! It isnt your problem where they go, but they can't stay where they are. They should have considered that before being trespassers in our country!

Your policy choices have cause more children to be raped than Trump could ever harm if it is literally all he did all day! Save your bullshit you don't care about anyone but yourself and that is abundantly clear you shit eating viper. You just want your cheap toys to play with and fuck the nation!

Comment Re:mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 2) 122

If the mathematicians ever used ChatGPT to talk about math, then that is the source of the results. LLMs, by definition, cannot usefully contribute to anything that requires more than rearranging existing data. Rearranging existing data is their only function.

What does "anything that requires more than rearranging existing data" mean? Can you provide an example of an information processing device that does more than this?

Comment Re:State is probably best stated by the comics (Score -1, Troll) 136

Oh FFS.

This "private army intimidating people" is nothing of the sort. It is the administration doing EXACTLY what the 1996 law requires of it. The fact that everyone just ignored the law for 30 years does not make Trump the criminal now and it does not make what ICE is doing illegal. It makes what everyone did from 1997-2020 the CRIME.

If you don't like immigration law - then win enough elections to change it. What Bush did, what Obama did, what Biden did on the subject were actual crimes. My gwd DACA - holy crap an entire program made up entirely by executive whim based on wild interpretation of a few line in the code. Wow that honestly sounds a lot like what everyone accuses this admin of doing when it comes to things like tariffs. Funny how we only have laws when the LEFT does not like what President is doing, when the RIGHT does not like it miraculously the courts are unable to find any legal standing, and the legislature decides it has to play its constitutionally assigned role...

What is missing from the entire conversation right now is Trump is governing pretty much EXACTLY like Bush, Obama, AND Biden did. The attitudes about authority and rule making all the same. Even the rhetoric, anyone remember "bitter clingers", once again the real difference is nothing other than who it is directed toward.

The truth is their is no actual air between the leadership styles of Obama and Trump, the real reason he gets so much hate is because the opposition's heroes are opposite sides of the same coin.

Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 279

>"With permanent Daylight Saving Time, the latest sunrise in Atlanta would be 8:45am vs 7:45am without. If you are trying to get to work/school by 8am, you are up in the pre-dawn hours either way."

Exactly my point I was making. A large majority of people will be in the dark on waking, leaving, driving, and probably even arriving to work/school, anyway. So it isn't going to totally "solve" the issue for most people. Although it is true there will be more times there is light when waking on the thresholds of the changes. Yet they completely gloss over the sleep disturbances that occur for many people when trying to adjust their schedule due to the time changing.

There is no perfect solution. Only tradeoffs, and it will vary by latitude. Hence, let States have all three options and they can decide what works best for them.

Comment Is streaming still a thing? (Score 1) 59

I used to think game streaming was just stupid and wasteful yet in a way this now makes sense. Nobody can afford hardware because massive corporations are hoarding everything while other massive corporations rollback production in order to cater to massive corporations while intentionally exacerbating supply shortages.

With hardware now out of reach those same corporations to get to turn around and offer the plebs a "deal" of a lifetime to pay more for the privilege of renting games by the hour.

Comment Re:Summary ... (Score 1) 279

If you had any critical thinking skills, you'd realize that my original point applies not only to keeling over, but also to feeling unwell.

More feeble people would suffer throughout the year with either permanent DST or standard time than the current one bad night in March. (Which, BTW, could be totally avoided by planning ahead and adjusting your bedtime a few minutes per day in the preceding week.)

Biology matches DST adjustments more than a fixed clock. Most everyone woke up with the sun from the dawn of humanity until the late 19th century, and adjusting the clock for the seasons stays closer to that.

Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 2, Interesting) 47

Yes except, we are not talking about keeping ourselves warm in the winter, cool in the summer, the lights on in the ER etc... We are talking about power for AI data centers; not even data centers for "traditional" computer applications and software.

I'd be the last person here to argue we don't to develop energy infrastructure. I would agree that could maybe even should include nuclear fission at least in the form of modern much safer designs with real consideration for who bears the cost for the 'common defense' when a commercial entity is permitted to paint a giant target on a community.

Never the less this is a societal cross roads, where it comes to AI. The choice isn't massive unrestricted AI build out or mud hutts. We options spanning a range of carrying on like it 2016...damn the torpedoes restart EOL reactors and generating plants to feed the things.

Nuclear power plants (particularly 3rd gen and older) represent an enormous socialization of risk. Their really isn't any getting around that. Historically a rising tide has also lifted *most* ships. Even if it is not immediately clear and their are short term employment impacts etc, AI driven productivity probably will make most American's better off and a small subset with a lot if direct financial interested in things like restarting aging nuclear reactors more fabulously wealthy than they already are. So the question is does this "Promote the General Welfare" in net or not in terms of should regulators really go along with it.

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