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Comment Re:Gemini 2.5 Pro (Score 1) 12

is there a way to know when the AI is losing the thread of conversation before it drops the ball?
can you monitor the context window?

I find it to be practical to ask the AI to summarize where we are and what have we been trying to do before 'we run out of tokens', so I can copy/paste the result to start a new thread to pick up where we left off.

Comment Re:Data centers in orbit... (Score 1) 76

MachineShedFred said:

I think it would also be an issue that when the a coronal mass ejection comes around at sufficient magnitude that your stupid orbital datacenter is in the path of, it would cook absolutely everything inside of it and your business is now done, and all of your customers are pissed off.

It's not like Cisco manufactures readymade radiation-hardened switches, and Dell doesn't make shielded blade computing chassis to my knowledge. And getting an on-site service call is a real bitch.

There's a reason satellites are so god damn expensive. Off-the-rack hardware isn't used in space applications by-and-large for good reasons.

Han Solo once said, "Hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy!"

Both of which roughly translate to, "And IT support ain't like lightsaber duels - you can't just brute Force your way through a data center meltdown in orbit!"

Comment Re:Marginal News for Nerds (Score 1) 28

...here is someone that used a computer, built a YT channel with all the work that goes into the media creation, then was able to buy a "playground/film area, whatever" and setup a subscription video on demand on his own. That's really quite awesome and something you could only dream of 30 years ago.

TFS title comes from Ars Technica, which is also mentioned at the beginning of the text, but there's no link to TFA. Here's a link to TFA.

Comment Re: I see no reason to go beyond Git. (Score 1) 114

I do have problems with Git: Rebase, squash merge etc. Because the real history is hard to visualise, people rewrite history, destroying the underlying information needed to do merges correctly, removing commits from history completely - commits you might want to keep because it might point to a version, where you code worked well. Why have the git community not added information to make a nice history overview instead of hacking the otherwise well functioning commit graph?

GitLab is a free, open-source GIT server that does what you desire.

Comment Re: Destroying your country (Score 3, Insightful) 566

If the Democrats win Congress at the midterms, Trump can be impeached in the House and convicted in the Senate so we don't have to wait 4 years to get rid of the criminal.

And...exactly what "crimes" do you think he'll be impeached and convicted for....?

I'm seriously curious....

Just off the top of my head, decimating 'soft-power' agencies such as USAID which are created by Congress and can only be eliminated by Congress, and letting Elon Musk run amok which has gotta be the height of corruption to the 10th power, not to mention crippling what's left so functioning at one's job, serving the American taxpayers onsite(!) is even more of a heroic endeavor than ever before, stealing buildings worth a half billion dollars while firing all the staff, and firing all those Inspectors General without cause or proper adherence to the legal process, (which is exactly what a criminal in a hurry would do, as we've seen play out).

That's just off the top of my head, after my shift at work.

Comment Re:What would a Russian asset do different? (Score 4, Insightful) 146

Also- he has a bridge for sale...

Wait. Let's back up to the 2024 pre-election times. DJ Trump was primarily motivated by keeping his ass out of jail until he died, not to mention all the power, greed, and retribution against those that dared to oppose him. DJ Trump happened to win his freedom by us electing him from his many, many serious crimes and now we're all paying the price.

Comment Re:We've seen this playbook. We know what will hap (Score 1) 84

All they have to do is give him something he wants and he'll do what they want without realizing or understanding the implications.

To support your point, it has recently been reported Putin sent Trump a portrait of Trump painted by a well known Russian artist, which seems to have done the trick. This painting is now most likely valued by Trump just like the "love letters" sent by Kim Jong Un.

Comment Re:We've seen this playbook. We know what will hap (Score 5, Insightful) 84

Imagine if Trump really was a Russian asset, and this was not a secret at all. So much so that Trump received explicit instructions emailed from Moscow, followed them, and all of this was reported openly in the press. If that was the situation, how exactly would anything be different than all of Trump's presidential decisions and the consequences that are happening?

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