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Comment nope (Score 1) 11

>"Recently the Browser Company (the startup behind the Arc web browser) switched over to building a new AI-powered browser"

No thanks. Last thing I want is an "AI infected" browser.

>The Chromium-based browser has

DOUBLE no thanks. Not giving any mind-share or power-share over the hundreds of machines I oversee to Google.

>[per wikipedia] for macOS and is also available for [MS-]Windows, iOS and Android. "

So not even Linux support. So I guess that is TRIPLE no thanks.

Comment prosecute (Score 1) 77

>"According to LAPD Officer Chris Miller, at least three suspects were apprehended in connection to the Apple Store burglary. One woman was arrested on the spot, while two others were detained for looting."

And will any of them actually be prosecuted and punished? Or will officials make all kinds of nonsense excuses for them?

Comment Re: Near native performance? (Score 0) 23

So, no idea why you think Apple fucked up, when they invent a faster disk image?

I want to know how they fucked up with the first disk image. That's why you have no idea why I would want to know something I didn't want to know.

So if you think something was fucked up before, perhaps point out what it was?

It was obvious to everyone else. This is a you problem.

Comment Re:Total number of qbits (Score 1) 25

The summary is hilariously ironic:

This was the approach IBM focused on initially, but the company eventually realized that creating the hardware to support it was an "engineering pipe dream"

And then later:

"We feel confident it is now a question of engineering to build these machines, rather than science."

"Cracked the code" might be overselling it a bit at this point, I would say.

Comment Re:20+% growth is stalling? (Score 1) 18

When your head is firmly buried in the sand, it may look like that.

The volatile pricing of inference is correctly seen as hard to plan for, which simply means that inference providers will start offering more rate limited flat-fee options and other pricing models that are attractive to customers who need the predictability. This is nothing special (cloud computing has had similar issues and solutions for years) and definitely not evidence for "OMG AI IS HYPE YOU IDIOTS" with which you so consistently pollute Slashdot.

Comment Re: How do people get stuck with Teams? (Score 1) 86

I never used the original Wordperfect, I was only near people who were using it, but by the time I wanted to do any word processing at all I had an Amiga. And while I still had it, Workbench 2 came out, and brought scalable fonts along with it.

Of all the DTP software of any description, I align myself with PageMaker -> InDesign. I have used a number of packages and still go back to Adobe when I want to do some layout and typesetting. I go back to before they required a sub, though. My experience with it also goes back to Aldus. I've tried Quark, and yuck, they never did get the UI figured out worth half a shit compared to Adobe... or even Aldus.

Comment Re: Near native performance? (Score 1) 23

And from this follows: there is a ton of ways one could fuck up performance with a shoddily implemented custom file system for a particular disk image format.

I only know a little bit about filesystems (I haven't dug into any deeply since using fsdb on SCO Unix) but even I know that. I want to know, in what particular way did Apple fuck up?

Comment I'm going to have to tell you (Score 1, Interesting) 75

There Aren't Enough Cables To Meet Growing Electricity Demand [...] The International Energy Agency estimates that 80 million kilometers of grid infrastructure must be built between now and 2040 to meet clean energy targets

I'm failing to see the relevance of the text to the headline. As if we were going to meet clean energy targets? As if we were trying?

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