Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 196
It [AM radio] needs to be forced as standard equipment.
Why? What good is it for me? I don't speak Spanish.
Comment Entropy phase (Score 5, Interesting) 64
Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.
"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.
Comment Absurd pricing (Score 3, Insightful) 70
900$ for a base model with 256GB SSD is pathetic.
Comment Triple it (Score 3, Interesting) 130
Then make it retroactive. Donate the proceeds to the victims of this program who had to train their replacements.
Comment Re:It was never intended to end (Score 1) 96
Most of their revenue is from the cloud, but they still want Linux off the desktop.
MS couldn't give 2 shits about Linux on the Desktop. It's a tiny and irrelevant market share to them.
Not in 2003 it wasn't
Comment Re:PJ must be losing her mind over this! (Score 4, Informative) 96
Does anyone actually have any evidence PJ was a real person and not just a persona created by IBM's PR department? PJ appeared mysteriously, exclusively posting stuff supportive of IBM's position in this case. They never turned their attention to any other litigation. It's awfully suspicious. You'd think a real person who knew that much about the relevant law would have opinions on other cases as well, and you'd expect them to market themselves using the fame/goodwill generated with Groklaw. You'd also think they'd have done at least one interview, or you could find at least one person who's met them. I'm not saying anything posted on Groklaw wasn't true, just that it always seemed like a very successful IBM PR exercise to me.
Her name is Pamela Jones, she was a paralegal. She's done real interviews in the past. She was/is real!
Comment Re:Wrong conclusion. (Score 1) 60
Given that we live in a "market-driven" society, the correct conclusion is that companies are refusing to properly compensate skilled workers.
With executive pay at all time highs and the gap between executive and workers larger than ever, I would agree. This is a failure in the system where boards of directors are not holding executives accountable. The system can't hold for long.
Comment Re:The only reasonable move (Score -1, Troll) 151
The baby killers always lie. Absolute scum of the earth
Comment Re:This is amazing news! (Score 1) 73
I believe that would be the Increasing Transparency in Generic Drug Applications Act, and the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act, both bipartisan, and both passed this year.
Comment Nonbinding - move along (Score 1) 13
"Japan is preparing a nonbinding "comply or explain" code that would urge generative AI companies"
This has no teeth whatsoever
Comment Re:That desperate for press leading into IPOs? (Score 1) 70
You sound like an idiot
Comment Re:That desperate for press leading into IPOs? (Score 1) 70
So powerful that Claude requires a billion little hacks to be optimized so as not to use ridiculous amounts of tokens. The programmers are so good they can't build those optimizations into the model to begin with.
AI was supposed to resolve these issues, not add to them. Claude is the worst offender of them all.
Comment Re:Invention (Score 1) 50
"automatically create personalized highlight reels"
Basically its posting dumb shit for you in the background while you are at a dinner party. Peak Facebook garbage
Comment Re:Not sure this is a new discovery (Score 0) 18
The only decent song they wrote.
Comment Daycare (Score 2) 264
University is just becoming another adult daycare. Sad
