Equuleus42 - Slashdot User

Comment Just acquire the Overture (Score 1) 74

by Equuleus42 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:33AM (#65692936) Attached to: Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement

If Boeing is looking for something more innovative than their existing designs, they should consider acquiring Boom Technology to obtain their Overture supersonic plane, and then scale the production of it to reduce costs and improve revenue passenger miles. There's already an order backlog for the Overture as well.

Here's a video of the final XB-1 demonstrator test flight: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Comment Long key travel times (Score 1) 70

by Equuleus42 on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:41AM (#65685036) Attached to: Raspberry Pi's Upgraded Keyboard Computer Gets RGB Lighting, Mechanical Switches and SSD Storage

They had me until "long travel times" for the keys.

Comment Re:Where is the like button? (Score 1) 42

by Equuleus42 on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:56PM (#65671116) Attached to: Austria's Armed Forces Switch To LibreOffice

There should be a way to like an article.

There is... Slashdot's Firehose:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fm.slashdot.org%2Ffirehos...

Comment Re:No shit (Score 1) 90

by Equuleus42 on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:58PM (#65666554) Attached to: OpenAI Says Models Programmed To Make Stuff Up Instead of Admitting Ignorance

Watson.

Speaking of Watson, Slate recently ran a retrospective article on IBM's Watson playing Jeopardy!. Coincidentally, it also mentioned when Watson made up the response that Toronto was a U.S. city:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fculture%2F2025...

Comment Related video (Score 1) 93

by Equuleus42 on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @09:35AM (#65665588) Attached to: A New Report Finds China's Space Program Will Soon Equal That of the US

Ross Douthat recently had an interview with Breakneck author Dan Wang about China's accelerating pace of technological innovation:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FZNK3vNg13XA

Comment Re: shakes head (Score 1) 16

by Equuleus42 on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:39PM (#65656314) Attached to: Google is Shutting Down Tables, Its Airtable Rival

It's definitely a trend:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkilledbygoogle.com%2F

Comment Re:"crypto government" (Score 1) 91

by Equuleus42 on Thursday August 28, 2025 @07:28PM (#65622946) Attached to: US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says

Is that anything like "cryptozoology?"

It's more like cryptobiotic soil... old and crusty.

Comment Welp, there went Adobe (Score 2) 23

by Equuleus42 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:08AM (#65618326) Attached to: Google Improves Gemini AI Image Editing With 'Nano Banana' Model

Sounds like this could be a powerful alternative to Photoshop... at this rate, I wonder how much longer Adobe will be around. I was never a fan of their subscription model anyway...

Comment Night terrors (Score 1) 59

by Equuleus42 on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:14PM (#65575974) Attached to: Frequent Nightmares Predict Early Death More Strongly Than Smoking or Obesity, Study Finds

Also, night terrors during early childhood are linked to higher rates of psychosis:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F43...

Comment Let's see what Gemini can really do (Score 2) 14

by Equuleus42 on Friday August 01, 2025 @05:34PM (#65561240) Attached to: Google Has Just Two Weeks To Begin Cracking Open Android, It Admits in Emergency Filing

Google has just 14 days to enact major changes to its Google Play app store

Sounds like a good dogfooding opportunity for Google to use Gemini to devise and implement these sweeping changes.

Comment Re:How did Tinder (Score 1) 42

by Equuleus42 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:30PM (#65492652) Attached to: Tinder To Require Facial Recognition Check For New Users In California

At one time I had a FOUR digit UID, but that login was tied to a university email I no longer have.

If it's any consolation, my 3-digit UID and five bucks might buy me a cup of coffee. I didn't even get a lousy T-shirt.

Comment Re: pro users will get some new "AI-driven insight (Score 1) 15

by Equuleus42 on Thursday June 26, 2025 @12:43AM (#65476950) Attached to: Google Rolls Out Street View Time Travel To Celebrate 20 Years of Google Earth

Agreed. I'd be happier if they instead updated Google Earth Pro for Desktop to natively support ARM64 CPUs like the Apple M series.

Comment Re:Whoosh (Score 1) 110

by Equuleus42 on Monday June 23, 2025 @01:48PM (#65470329) Attached to: Tesla Begins Driverless Robotaxi Service in Austin, Texas

>> We already know that statistically, modern AI cars get into far fewer accidents than humans do.
That's pure investor B.S. propaganda.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fcars%2F2...

Comment Re: Look up (Score 1) 34

by Equuleus42 on Friday June 20, 2025 @03:54PM (#65464229) Attached to: The 16-Billion-Record Data Breach That No One's Ever Heard of

As of today, this dataset is not yet included in their list:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhaveibeenpwned.com%2FPwn...

Comment How is this surprising? (Score 1) 36

by Equuleus42 on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:12PM (#65461811) Attached to: Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator

Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator

What did they think Google would use, old VHS tapes?

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