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Comment Re:What's the ROI? (Score 1) 78

The timing for this seems poor as California is currently overflowing with solar energy. At least the storage capacity will help shift some of that from (currently) useless to useful. Maybe they're hoping to build a few AI centers with it? I wasn't able to dig up any plans for that with a casual search, though. As it stands, I don't think they'll be able to recoup the costs of the project within the lifetime of the equipment unless the price of energy suddenly skyrockets.

My first thoughts as well. What are we going to do with all that extra power? As it is now, PG&E (or rather it's customers) are paying other states to take it away. If we are going to continue with this mess, what we really need is just storage and not production.

Comment Re:The people didn't vote for this shit (Score 1) 198

A handful of mean-spirited boomers and a ton of mean-spirited Gen x did sure but voter suppression is the only reason their a guy one

The Gen xers are dumb. I mean real dumb. I mean the boomers I get they're going to be dead soon and most of them are already retired. Classic I got mine fuck you Boomer behavior.

And I get that the older Gen x that did all this have the same I got mine fuck you attitude. But they don't got theirs. They still have jobs and they don't have solid retirements lined up. Never mind the fact that they're 401ks are about to get looted by the same private equity ghouls that stole everybody's pensions.

This is the fuck around part in about 5 or 6 years to find out hits during Trump's third term. That's when they all lose their houses. I've said it before but about half the people reading this are going to be homeless by then.

I'm sure they'll blame trans girls playing field hockey and Hunter biden's laptop but that won't get them their houses back.

Ummmm, go fuck yourself.

Comment Re: Historians are not impacted by AI (Score 1) 166

I've been a professional CNC programmer since 96, and now own and run my own shop. I can see AI agents greatly facilitating CNC programming, but with human supervision and review, at least for a while. This could easily result in one programmer doing the work of many, putting the many out of work. I think that's how it's likely to work for many of these job titles.

I'm still waiting for an AI that I can feed two sets of plans and say "make plan A interface with Plan B'. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't see that coming anytime soon but I can ask someone like you to do it with no problem at all.

Comment Re:Aging occurs in stages (Score 1) 57

All of you in your 50's and believe that your still doing great, may have a big surprise soon. I was fine until my mid 50's then shit hit the fan. It does not take much to start the slide, for me it was a knee replacement, that led to forced retirement, not being able to train and work out as usual, which led to everything else going to hell, etc. Around and around we go. I'm now in my mid 60's and am not half the man I was just ten years ago. Now this is all just my experience and YMMV, but just don't get too cocky yet, kiddo.

Comment Re:Cut off and under the flouroscope (Score 1) 180

You ignore your own generation. Those who didn't grow up with trackers in their pockets none the less grew up with email inboxes full of spam and advertisements and guess what happened... nothing. The world has gone to absolute shit, there's few things I could care less about right now than some advertising fuck send me a promotional email because they know I bought milk and a dildo last week.

Possibly, my generation often has no clue about tech and tends to believe people on face value as that is the way we were raised. But for many of us, spam filters/blockers are surpassingly effective if set up correctly. But you missed my point, I'm not taking a shot at those generations. I'm simply pointing out that people under a certain age have grown up being inundated with marketing crap and scams. So much so that they don't seem to even notice it. You won't convince them to care about it, it's seems as if it is just background noise to most of them. The rest of your point I agree with.

Comment Re:Cut off and under the flouroscope (Score 4, Insightful) 180

I'm sorry, but good old cash insulates you from these issues.

You realize that you are effectively preaching against God to the choir, right? We have seemingly entire generations of people who have had pocket surveillance devices in their hand since childhood. They mistake addiction for convenience and the Tech industry loves them for it.

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