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Comment Re:What's with the "moon" term? (Score 2) 18

If "general public thinking" is the metric... the naming seems unhelpful in that regard since, at least based on TFS, it's not orbiting the earth - it's orbiting the sun and just staying in earth's proximity.

I would think something like "near earth asteroid" would be a less confusing term for such objects.

Comment Re:Blaming the People is Dangerous (Score 1) 256

When you vote, you are expected to be an adult.

Agreed but I think that the average adult is far less capable that you think. If you want a good scare look at the average level of education that people achieve, it is much lower than you think. This makes them more susceptible to charismatic individuals offering plausible (to them) sounding solutions. It's worth remembering that Hitler was democratically elected because people thought he could solve the serious problems that Germany was facing at the time.

Comment Re:Wrong again, idiot. You're really good at that. (Score 1) 147

Once again drinkypoo goes to great lengths to expose his stupidity for the world to see with another uninformed, idiotic Slashdot post.

Oh look, whoever you are. Nobody knows you.

The 90s and early 2000s was the peak of automotive engineering in the USA

And American cars were still shit. If you RTFA I linked you'll see that the best of the 90s and 2000s were not what was destroyed.

Now go off to cry to someone else about your tiny penis, you will not be missed.

Comment Re:Power imbalance (Score 2) 23

Truth is a defense to libel.

The truth is an absolute defense against libel in America.

It is a weaker defense in the UK.

Another difference is that in America, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show the statement is false. In the UK, the BOP is on the defendant to show the statement is true.

Comment Re:Workers still at the company claim they are inc (Score 1) 38

The fact that they're training AI with another AI would point towards them getting high on their own supply. So high they forgot about GIGO, so this probably isn't being pushed by engineers.

You'd think that even the suits would be familiar with the phrase "model collapse" though. It's new and cool.

Comment Re:Shocked (Score 1) 32

Yeah, as if we needed any more reason to consider this bloated "security" software to be malware. I really don't understand why anyone in their right minds would install it or allow it to be installed on their systems. Giving some third-party company complete control over what software can run on your machines basically screams "I don't understand anything about security" better any almost anything else you could possibly do as a system administrator, IMO, short of posting the shared-across-all-machines root password on USENET.

For most IT administrators, having complete control over what users can run is the idea. There's no need for your work PC to be able to run anything and everything - most work can be done using a limited set of applications. If your job involves doing nothing but paperwork and filing stuff all day, you generally only need access to an office package and a web browser for the online components. You don't need them running things like music players or chat apps beyond the company required one.

Having control is very different from allowing a third-party company to send down arbitrary definitions at any time that suddenly render arbitrary software nonfunctional. The whole concept of Crowdstrike can be summarized as "McAfee Antivirus on steroids". I mean, this sums it up.

Comment Re:Do it yourself (Score 1) 82

Cppcheck apparently knows "hundreds of other rules covering a multitude of language aspects" so you don't "have to mentally apply against every single line of code you write."

Cppcheck doesn't flag anything in Waffle Iron's example.

It also doesn't find anything wrong with:

std::vector<int> vec = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
auto it = vec.begin();
vec.push_back(6);
std::cout << *it << std::endl;

Which is another common example of how you can write memory errors without using C++ pointers.

Comment Re:Of course... (Score 1) 67

The 'explanation' is that the demo triggered all the devices within earshot because apparently a device designed to perform possibly-sensitive actions on your behalf was assigned a model line wide, public audio trigger in order to make it feel more 'natural' or something; rather than some prosaic but functional solution like a trigger button/capacitive touch point/whatever; and that the device just silently fails stupid, no even informative feedback, in the even of server unresponsiveness or network issues. Both of these seem...less than totally fine...for something explicitly marketed for public use in crowded environments on what we euphemistically refer to as 'edge' network connectivity.

This. The "someone says 'Hey Siri/Okay Google' on TV/radio/loudspeaker" problem is a well-known failure mode, and if they don't have reasonable mitigation in place by now, they don't know what they're doing, and their product shouldn't be taken seriously. Whether that mitigation is blocking it during meetings, doing handshaking to limit commands to the nearest device when multiple nearby devices detect the hot word at exactly the same time, making it recognize your voice and not other random people's voices, or any of dozens of other strategies for coping, having some mechanism in place to handle this should be considered a base requirement for any voice-based assistant.

Comment Re:There is already a safe subset of C++ (Score 1) 82

In the sort of places where MISRA and similar coding guides apply, yes, never allocating memory is expected, because once dynamic allocation exists you can't guarantee that you won't die with an out-of-memory error and similarly can't guarantee any time bounds on how long an alloc and dealloc will take.

Sure, so C++ is safe as long as it's used in a way that makes it incredibly painful. Sounds good. Let's just require all C++ code everywhere to be written that way. Rust usage will skyrocket overnight.

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