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Comment Income Tax applications (Score 1) 243

Income Tax applications like turbo tax are missing from Linux.

Of course it doesn't help that there is no standard distro of linux that software developers can support. There's no standard c library version that every linux distro includes, that developers can compile against, and then know it will work. Linux is more like an appliance OS then a desktop OS. That's why they all compile themselves, the additional software you can install. Such a waste of resources. It should be a compile once, and then can run on every linux distro.

This also mostly prevents proprietary software from being included, except for the proprietary software like drivers from nvidia, who need to take the time to make it work. But this is because it is used in the server space, where Linux is huge.

In the desktop space, not to much. And if you bring up the steam deck, that is clearly made for games.

The biggest thing is that Linux still doesn't have a working clipboard. With wayland developers, they are saying that the desktop environment developers have to implement it. But desktop environment developers say that wayland developers have to implement it because that's how xorg and x11 did it. But the way xorg and x11 did it was awful because if you copied something to the clipboard from an application that was opened, you lost the clipboard results if you closed the applications. Windows doesn't work this way, neither does Mac OS. I can copy from an open application to the clipboard, close the application, and still be able to paste it.

Comment Re:"AI systems now make decisions" (Score 1) 24

A. Coward, you keep saying that, but it does not mean anything. You show no understanding, just repeating words you think fit.

So how about defining some terms then? What is understanding, if we are going to try to apply it to non-human intelligence? For decades we have been applying these questions to animals. Mirror self-recognition, theory of mind etc.

The problem is that most people have really actually thought about it, so do not have a meaningful definition of "understanding". Yet many of them make confident pronouncements anyway. I call this "Natural Stupidity". But they can't help it, they are just a bunch of neurons firing according to simple rules of electrochemistry. There is no such thing as emergence.

Here's one such study that was done showing ai has no reasoning ability: https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/...

Comment Re:Friendly Reminder (Score 1) 52

The studios are also arguing that some items in games like cars are only licensed for a certain time frame. That is a problem the execs in the game companies created. They created this problem, they can fix it!

Games didn't use to be like this. The license for items like cars was for the entire time you could play the game, which when the publisher stopped publishing it, the people who bought it could still use it with those licensed items. They weren't removed later from the game.

Comment Linux could learn from Next (Score 1) 34

3 things:

1. no having to manage swap space
2. standard file format for storing preferences for user and system applications, except for very low level command line commands. That's why the unix directories exist still like /etc.
3. storage of file/dir owners and file/dir permissions

2 allows you to export and save settings for every application. This makes backup and restore easy.
3 allows the OS to repair itself in case file/dir owners and/or file/dir permissions do not match what is expected.

Comment Re:Life Expectancy Study. (Score 5, Informative) 115

just how long will an EV owner drive before running face first into that five-figure maintenance bill? Will that be before or after the 7-year auto loan is paid on an asset that has depreciated like milk..

From the article on why they're able to use the batteries after just 10 years:

Waymo did not specify the average mileage at which it swaps out batteries or retires vehicles from service. But Waymo robotaxis drive around much more each day than the typical EV, which means the Waymo fleet is likely to experience faster usage-related degradation of battery capacity over time.

But since you asked, this shows batteries in EV's driven by consumers last 15-20 years: https://www.evconnect.com/blog...

Comment Re:Propagation takes time! (Score 1) 23

Not a nothingburger. Propagation may take a while for normal configuration changes, but a revoked key is not a normal configuration change and absolutely requires a different approach so that it doesn't take more than seconds to show up.

If, for example, Twitter pre-Musk can show a new tweet to a follower within seconds of it being posted, Google can implement a key revokation propagation protocol that's just as fast. Twitter was transmitting millions of messages every hour, the # of key revokations is probably in the hundreds at most.

The tweet may have shown up to you instantly because you were on the server that sent it, but it didn't for others. There is always a delay with distributed systems.

Perhaps you can suggest a more efficient means to do this.

Comment Re:Life? (Score 1) 197

Browning food (baking, frying, deep frying) makes them taste better, but it forms acrylamides, which are cancer causing. Likewise many food products from before the 80's were made with transfat/saturated fats, not vegetable fats, which means if you consumed a lof of that before it was phased out (which phased out their long shelf lives too) you likely consumed a lot of carcinogens.

This has been shown to be false: https://www.wcrf.org/research-...

Eric Duell’s research did not provide convincing support for the hypothesis that higher acrylamide exposure is associated with higher risks for endometrial and ovarian cancers, but more research is needed

Comment so severence pay is limited to the last 5 years? (Score 1) 45

According to the NYT, employees have been asked to work remotely that day and emails about the layoffs would be sent at 4 a.m. local time. Employees in the United States will receive 16 weeks of severance pay, along with two extra weeks for every year they worked at Meta.

Facebook changed to become Meta in 2021. Does this mean the most number of extra weeks employees can get is 10 weeks?

Comment Re:Kills start ups and adds to waste (Score 1) 26

Right to repair is not about requiring companies to make electronic devices easier to repair. But it shouldn't allow companies to make an electronic device harder or more expensive to repair.

Such as Samsung gluing the battery to the display so the cost of replacing the battery is not economically viable, since now you pay for both the battery and the screen when the screen was already working, and you just needed the battery to be replaced.

Digital locks should also not be allowed since they're only there to prevent third party repair technicians from easily replacing the part that needs replacing.

Schematics or die.

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