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Comment Re:Perhaps Rust should have been kept out (Score 5, Insightful) 137

Take a look at the Linux CVE list- https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.openwall.net%2Flin... . Over 80% of the bugs are from drivers, with over 300 suspected security bugs in January 2025 alone. If Rust even quash 30% of them (fair assessment since memory management in C is hard) then Rust in Linux would be considered a success.

Comment IRS should backdate revoke OpenAI's non-profit (Score 0) 19

Isn't OpenAI is suppose to be a non-profit and doesn't have to pay any tax till now? Now suddenly it wants to raise $100 billion and presumably make everyone involved very very rich. You can't possibly believe that someone is willing to put in $100 billion into a company that doesn't plan to make any money for its shareholders.

Hey IRS, time to do a deep audit on OpenAI and backdate revoke its non-profit status. It is clear that OpenAI never intended to be non-profit in the first place- it's just a tax avoidance scheme. Revoke its non-profit status and tax it like a normal for-profit company.

Comment Re:I predict 75% chance that Gartner is wrong (Score 1) 93

75% of the prediction might be wrong, but for Google they can't just say 'Gartner has 75% wrong on the prediction of the complete dismissal of our company.' If a doctor is wrong 75% of the time, but has 25% that it's right, your child would die, would you take the chance?

Comment Even sons of famous athletes get them (Score 4, Interesting) 194

As the article said. last week Lebron James (the most famous basketball player in the world)'s teenage son collapsed on the court and suffered this.

Aside from all the cretins that crawl out and claim vaccine, this study shows that this is endemic even before covid, and that you could have the best diet in the world, with the best doctors looking after you, and exercise everyday, and still get heart attacks.

Comment Re:Why is this in tech and not games? (Score 1) 112

Correction:

It's an anime that's based on a novel, that's based on a web serialization, that originally came out on 2001. The novel preceded Ready Player One.

Also there aren't explosive charges in the headsets- instead it's a microwave megnetron that disrupts the brain in a very physical way.

I guess the fact that there's a LED with the label BK (Brain Kill) didn't tipped off whatever the equivalent of FCC in Japan.

Comment Millions of shots? (Score 1) 227

>these are switches that are used in applications where they're run for millions and millions of shots

Surely a misquote? A 4-stroke engine runs at an average of 3000 rpm-> 1500 sparks per minute -> 25 sparks per second.

A million sparks would be 10^6 / 25 = 40000 sec = 11.1 hours. So the switch is rated for only 11.1 hours of usage?

Comment Religion (Score 2) 83

>The Saudi royal family has started a not-for-profit organization called the Hevolution Foundation that plans to spend up to $1 billion a year of its oil wealth supporting basic research on the biology of aging and finding ways to extend the number of years people live in good health

I guess they are not eager to meet their maker. They reckon they are more likely to go 'down' than 'up', I'd imagine.

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