Comment Re:gnome is not my favourite ui (Score 1) 25
Personally I find that gnome ranges from OK to cuckoo bananas
It's an ok way to open a shell.
Comment Re: So it's purely symbolic? (Score 1) 93
i could try if there were a "ongoing military incursion into bhutan", but there isn't any. you could talk about encroachment.
You are a liar.
Comment Re:OneDrive Surveillance (Score 1) 35
I find it strange that this simple design philosophy is ignored.
It's Windows.
For years, Microsoft used revenue as a metric to know if a feature was good or not. This gave them customer feedback, and they could adjust accordingly.
Around the time of Vista, it stopped working as a metric because everyone had already bought Windows. By that time, corporate motivation had changed, and the motivation of managers was to backstab each other as they climbed the corporate ladder. So they never really came up with another metric to determine if customers liked their product or not, they were too busy doing other things.
Comment Re: A good trade off (Score 1) 46
Consider a typical corporate bug tracker that is overflowing with bugs, the bug count always increasing. Inevitably this leads to a cludge, where the code is disorganized and almost unmanageable. Working through the code is like working through molasses. If they reversed the bug count vector, so it was decreasing (even slowly) instead of increasing, then soon the code structure would begin to get cleaner and cleaner as well. The correlation is strong.
So this is to Linus' merit, that he doesn't ignore bugs just because they are from AI. It will make the code cleaner.
Comment Re:Relavant XKCD comic (Score 1) 56
Why can't these things just be an add-on package to an existing distribution,
This one goes to eleven, you impotent numbskull.
Comment Sweet! (Score 1) 56
It would be cool to see a 3D file browser, too.
Comment Re:An Example of Market Failure (Score 1) 120
Comment Re:An Example of Market Failure (Score 1) 120
The market optimising for profit and income in the short term does exactly this: AI companies are willing to pay more.
The market doesn't optimize for profit in the short term or in the long term.
In economics, there are two curves: a supply curve, and a demand curve. In a free market, they meet at equilibrium.
Comment Re:Self-reliance (Score 1) 26
They know they U.S.A. Is not reliable anymore.
It's not about the USA. It is not about Trump. It is not about you. Try to not make every single situation America-centric, you self-centered twat.
A minority in Japan really really wants nuclear weapons. The majority doesn't. By "leaving the door open" she is able to appease the minority while not being rejected by the majority. Japanese politics is full of double-speak of this type. If you turned off your American-centric worldview, you might know this. Again: not everything is about you.
Comment Re:Big techs' "browser problem" (Score 1) 32
This is like the little red hen here, but KDE and Mozilla did all the initial hard work, and Apple, Brave, Google, Microsoft and Opera hijacked it all to add advertising and tracking, with security holes that are now being ultra-exposed by new AI vulnerability finders.
This is worth repeating. In addition, Google pushed people hard to install Chrome by nagging you every time you visited one of their websites.
Comment Re:Nomad (Score 1) 38
Voyager weighs a little less than a ton and is moving away at 17 kilometers per second
I didn't realize it was so heavy.
Comment Re:A flattening curve (Score 1) 29
AI is, and always has been, exclusively nothing but exponentially-increasing requirements for logarithmically-plateauing results.
I was going to say this is way too general, and AI involves many algorithms that are not LLMs.
Then I started thinking through the algorithms of the past, and many of them have indeed shown great promise in the beginning, then exponentially-increasing requirements.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 29
Current top models are already undertrained by multiple orders of magnitude vs their number of parameters. Not for lack of will or money, but for lack of data
Because of bureaucracy. Individuals all up and down the hierarchy are trying to meet arbitrary metrics set by someone who doesn't understand the situation. The ones who meet the metrics get promoted, even if the metrics make no sense.
Of course, there are smart scientists in China who try to do good research, but as is true everywhere, bureaucracy is a hindrance.
Comment Re:Truly radical, or by accepted dogma? (Score 1) 104
you ignoring the part where reports say things like "if confirmed, this result means..." or "According to senior scientist x, further work is needed to see if this conclusion holds up."
That is too optimistic on the listening.
A lot of people out there only heard "stay six feet away from people" and logicked, "What, a disease can only travel six feet then it drops dead?" No scientist said anything remotely close to that, but that is the reasoning people ended up with because they weren't listening at all.