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Comment Re:Yes (Score 2) 145

Because the female mosquitoes from the mating are sterile but the males are fine and carry the trait. Presumably those males mate with unaffected females of their generation and produce another generation of sterile females and carrier males. This can continue until there are no remaining fertile females, then they all die out.

Comment Re:What about 'new' stuff (Score 4, Insightful) 115

Meanwhile, new analysis and techniques come along (often in areas related to security and resilience to hacks) from time to time that no AI is going to manage.

Vibe coding is essentially cargo cult programming if you peek behind the curtain.

AI isn't actually intelligent in the general sense and doesn't actually understand the problem. Vibe programming is when you request something from the LLM and it essentally "says to itself" when programmers are asked for something like that they usually write something like this.

At best, LLMs can be the new code monkey. They will not consider maintainability or expandability. They have no ability to anticipate that XYZ feature will probably be requested sooner or later, so the design needs to at least be able to accommodate that to avoid a complete re-write.

Give it a few years and watch as some poor schlep has to try to do something with the steaming pile to get it to do XYZ without requiring a whole new system with data loaded from scratch. You'll have to pay those people handsomely because it will be nasty work nobody wants to do. The AI won't likely be able to help you. We know that when you feed the output of AI into the input, it tends to go crazy and start babbling about quantum fluctuations and giving people 6 fingers.

Comment Re:They're plenty motivated (Score 1) 131

I'm more of a baseball fan. Last year, my legit options to watch were a crazy-over priced streaming service with deceptive advertising or the even crazier over-priced DirecTV. It's possible I may have watched some less official streams for free.

This year, it's available for $20/month and goes month to month. So I'm paying and watching the official streams.

It's that simple.

And by the way, it's not the streaming devices enabling the yo ho ho. By the time they see a stream it has already been stripped of it's DRM and looks just like any other stream.

Comment Re:The Atari 800 was amazing (Score 1) 65

The power bricks were always failing. I ended up chiseling the case of the power supply and potting plastic to get at the wires so I could solder in a regulator IC from Radio Shack to revive the C64. That lasted several years (longer than the original).

Comment Re:Some things to note here (Score 2) 53

Meanwhile, the steady march of breathless press releases anticipating larger numbers of Qbits seems to have dried up. MS turned out to have nithing and Google abruptly went silent about the time they were anticipating crowing about success.

I'm guessing they discovered some new and exciting way that Qbits lose coherence.

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