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Comment Re:Yes, but... (Score 1) 68

Q. What do you get when you play country music backwards?

A. You get your wife back, your truck back, your dog back, your house back, and your job back. /s

And to really ruin Country Music: Johnny Cash - Barbie Girl (Cover by There I Ruined it) Restoration

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Path of Exile 2 is a boring, tedious Ruthless Souls-Lite grindfest.

Comment Re:I wouldn't care if my taxes hadn't paid for it (Score 1) 89

To be fair, even the Saudi government claims that they would rather have their oil used for the things you mention. Especially if oil becomes scarce enough to make them even richer... Of course you can't (and shouldn't) take their word for granted as they are about as addicted to oil money as an economy *can* be.

The whole Line idea was to start transitioning their society to a more sustainable model, which is laudable in itself. It just shouldn't have been so absurdly and incompetently designed as what seems to be no more than a rich guy's masturbation fantasy.

Comment Re:Bubbles are strange. (Score 1) 83

Computing power is still a hugely beneficial thing.

At the very least all this compute will ensure that we have plenty of energy going forward. People still assume that green power is about replacing fossil fuels. It isn't. We will need way more power in the future, and thank gods the green power wave came in time so that we won't burn up the planet next century with all those energy requirements. But we're not off the hook, because waste energy alone will simply cook us all in the 2300s, so we're going to have to find ways to reduce our energy footprint anyway. But that's another discussion.

Comment Re:Look at the evidence! (Score 2) 227

Bart Ehrman is a new testament scholar. He studied theology at a religious university and when he started looking at the new testament with a scholar's eye, putting the gospels next to each other line by line, sentence by sentence, he lost his faith. He believes it's likely that Jesus existed though.

One remarkable thing is the end of the gospel according to Matthew where some monk in the middle ages added the resurrection to the text cause he couldn't understand why it was present in other gospels but missing in this one.

So I'm wondering what evidence the journalist you mention found. The evidence regarding even Jesus himself is extremely scant; outside the Bible there is only one reference to him that is considered genuine (by Josephus), even though even that one was embellished with extra wording afterwards. The resurrection story is found in just about every culture that ever existed (as far as we know). Are all of those true too?

I suspect that the journalist somehow "found god" and then found him in all sorts of places, looking at stones and bread and so one.

Comment Re:Only after 2015? (Score 1) 14

This seems fair enough to me. Apple was able to make a lot of money off their investment, which is not unreasonable: rolling out a product like the iPhone was a huge risk and some rewards are due if and when it works.

Once they started using it to strategically carve their market share in stone it became another matter.

Comment Re: Bad ideas that just won't go away (Score 2) 148

> "Tea; earl grey; hot." and you wind up with a 3d print of the letter "T" painted earl grey and warmed to 100

LUL! That is a perfect example of voice UI being ambiguous. I've had these discussions for decades but never had a good example. I'm cribbing that.

> "Computer, fire torpedo bays 1 through 5!" takes a lot longer than me pressing the button

Yup, as much as I love ST:TNG I've had that criticism for decades. Voice UI is HORRIBLY SLOW, not to mention ambiguous.

Why the hell wouldn't the captain just press a button to raise shield instead of wasting time to say "Raise Shields", waiting for Worf to listen, and wait for them to actually execute it. That's at last 1 - 2 seconds of wasted time.

Also, wouldn't the computer monitor this and automatically raise shields? I'm sure its reaction time is helluva lot faster then humans!

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