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Comment If you don't hire entry-level workers now... (Score 1) 124

... where will you find experienced workers seven years from now? Seems like someone's making a really big bet on AI improving a whole lot soon. And when the next AI winter comes, a lot of people will be paying a lot more for the workforce they need.

Comment Re:Not much tritium (Score 0) 50

Wrong, hahaha. Your linked article says something different. Tritium inventory will be to low to sustain research long before 2050, by 2035 inventory shriveled to not be able to support anything but ITER!

The CANDU reactors are end of life and going offline.

No, most commerical reactors can't be tritium sources, would poison the environment to have your commercial PWR or BWR doing it by putting in lithium rods, they're not allowed to!

Instead of pissing away tens of billions on a pipe dream that may not work out, we should be going to the energy supplies that have millennia of fuel. Nuclear fission with uranium and thorium. Already our "spent fuel" really is a goldmine of energy with 7 times more the energy that can be extracted in a proper reactor than we've already used. And those proper reactors would leave short lived waste to boot, not these thousands of years of curse waste we have now.

Comment Re:Quite a bit of culture in Japan is ossified (Score 1, Insightful) 85

For those that have attended a Christian wedding ceremony there's often a biblical passage read about the need for the man and woman to break ties with their parents and create a new family.

- But why should I give a crap what it says in your cult's shitty book full of rape, murder, incest, and other bullshit?

Comment Re: We need nuclear (Score 0) 48

you're funny. Nuclear ground bursts on fusion plants would do the same. and be irrelevant next to taking out dozens of military bases and targeting over a thousand siloed nukes.

Fission in plants with proper containment and reactor design is the smart choice. Fusion power plants are speculation and might not work. Hope you werent misled by claims of breakeven by 400MJ of electricity to lasers making 3 MJ of fusion energy.

Comment Depends on the discipline (Score 1) 78

Good old fashioned AI used to be hands-on - your dissertation code had to at least work for the examples in your thesis, and your code was under development for long enough that it had to survive OS and language updates.

Being wary of code by theoreticians is definitely valid - I believe it was Knuth who said something like "I have only proven this code correct, not tested it".

Comment Systems like LLMs are amplifiers (Score 1) 52

I first heard this comparison back when IDEs were young (kudos to Larry Masinter, at Xerox PARC at the time).

Amplifiers don't really know or care what they are amplifying.
If you tell them to create good, bad, immoral, or dangerous code, they'll try to comply.
Laws against bad uses of LLMs just make them illegal - they don't make them impossible.

Mediocre programmers with IDE/LLM support will create reams of mediocre code, at best.

Comment You pays your $$, you takes your choice (Score 0) 169

I have a paid subscription to the Washington Post (I live in the DC suburbs), so I get their content sans paywall. They let me create a few non-paywall links per month, and I share them when I see something the rest of the net should see without the paywall.

I pay Reddit annually, and I get their content sans ads. Whenever I see Reddit before I log in, I want to go wash my eyes out.

The real problem is I don't want to spend the money for a full subscription to every news source I read occasionally.

If there was a way to pay, say, $10/month to get 30 links from a basket of paywalled news sources, I'd be on it in a heartbeat.

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