Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score 1) 82
Yeah, and when that bubble pops in a few months customers will look at them side-eyed.
Comment Re:Good. Now bring in the smaller vehicles sold in (Score 1) 138
We can't have those because they wanted to sell chicken meat to Germany after WWII.
No, really, Fat Electrician has a good video on it.
(our government is just a loony bin now)
Comment Re: Paperclips (Score 1) 82
Until the AI bubble bursts.
Comment Re:"more semiconductors expertise on the board" (Score 1) 123
Yep, I had writeups from those flame wars. They *REALLY* did not want it discussed. Governors Brown and Kotek continued the pay-to-play system, which is what lost Oregon the Ohio CHIPs foundry campus (before they realized that Biden wasn't going to pay out CHIPs act at all).
Comment Re:"more semiconductors expertise on the board" (Score 1) 123
All one needs to see this is to be employed at Intel in June, when every single monitor becomes rainbows and the rainbow flag flies on campus every month.
Comment It's a lot harder to make 3000 glyphs (Score 1) 85
Among widely available fonts under OFL, GNU GPL for Fonts, or other free licenses, not many of them cover the 2,100-odd Jouyou (regularly used) kanji and 1,000 name kanji that BadDreamer mentioned. It's a lot easier to make a font that covers 100-200 characters from two alphabets, such as Chilanka that covers the Latin and Malayalam scripts in a distinctive and dyslexia-friendly handwritten style, than one that covers 3,000 different kanji made of 600 radicals (as iggymanz mentioned) with manually-tuned slight variations to their shapes to make them fit next to each other in a character.
Comment Switching to kana is homophonic (Score 2) 85
you could still [write Japanese] in native language with a manageable scope by sticking to the phonetic scripts.
Exclusive use of kana (Japanese phonetic characters) was common in games for MSX, Famicom, and other 8-bit platforms. The one problem with that is the sheer number of homophones in both Chinese and Japanese, words spoken the same and written differently. Kana normally don't even distinguish which syllable a word is accented on, which would be like writing Chinese without its tones. Yet somehow Korean avoided this and switched from Chinese characters (Hanja) to a suitable phonetic alphabet (Hangul).
Submission + - More Airbus A320 issues (cnn.com)
schwit1 writes: Airbus has identified an issue affecting “a limited number” of metal panels in its A320 passenger planes, a spokesperson for the company said Monday, just days after warning of another technical problem in its aircraft.
The plane manufacturer is inspecting all aircraft that are potentially impacted by what it called a “supplier quality issue,” but expects that only some of them will require further action be taken, the spokesperson told CNN.
“The source of the (metal panels) issue has been identified, contained and all newly produced panels conform to all requirements,” the spokesperson said, noting that the number of planes in service affected by the problem is “very limited.”
The plane manufacturer is inspecting all aircraft that are potentially impacted by what it called a “supplier quality issue,” but expects that only some of them will require further action be taken, the spokesperson told CNN.
“The source of the (metal panels) issue has been identified, contained and all newly produced panels conform to all requirements,” the spokesperson said, noting that the number of planes in service affected by the problem is “very limited.”
Submission + - Poor mental health linked to dark web use (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: A new Florida Atlantic University study reveals significant mental health differences between dark web users and those who use only the surface web, and sheds light on a group whose involvement in this secretive online space has largely kept them outside the scope of traditional research.
Published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, the study finds that dark web users reported substantially higher levels of depressive symptoms and paranoid thoughts as compared to surface web users. In addition, there were substantial differences between dark web users and surface web users pertaining to suicidal thoughts, non-suicidal self-injury and digital self-harm.
Adults who reported suicidal thoughts had nearly three times greater odds of reporting dark web use. Likewise, those who reported non-suicidal self-injury (e.g. cutting or burning oneself) were nearly five times more likely to report use of the dark web, and individuals who had engaged in digital self-harm (anonymously posting hurtful or negative comments about themselves online) had more than 19 times greater odds of reported dark web use.
"Our findings suggest that many individuals who turn to the dark web may be doing so not just for privacy concerns, but as a reflection of deeper mental health struggles and the possible desire to socialize and engage in information-seeking in a context free of scrutiny that might otherwise be experienced on the surface web or offline," said Meldrum.
Published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, the study finds that dark web users reported substantially higher levels of depressive symptoms and paranoid thoughts as compared to surface web users. In addition, there were substantial differences between dark web users and surface web users pertaining to suicidal thoughts, non-suicidal self-injury and digital self-harm.
Adults who reported suicidal thoughts had nearly three times greater odds of reporting dark web use. Likewise, those who reported non-suicidal self-injury (e.g. cutting or burning oneself) were nearly five times more likely to report use of the dark web, and individuals who had engaged in digital self-harm (anonymously posting hurtful or negative comments about themselves online) had more than 19 times greater odds of reported dark web use.
"Our findings suggest that many individuals who turn to the dark web may be doing so not just for privacy concerns, but as a reflection of deeper mental health struggles and the possible desire to socialize and engage in information-seeking in a context free of scrutiny that might otherwise be experienced on the surface web or offline," said Meldrum.
Comment Fork (Score 1) 10
I wonder how many people will immediately push to fork Bun.
Comment Re:AI is just an untrained novice! (Score 1) 91
Yeah, using Intellij via Amazon Q. In "theory" it should've been on the same context but maybe there's some quirk somewhere.
There was a separate time where I had a really complex test, same code, that required merging 4 different data sets into a unified data set. I generated the 4 different test sets from real world data then gave the prompt about generating a test for the merge using these 4 different data samples and... it, first time, made a proper test with mocks that read the files at the appropriate time and then verified that the returned, merged result was correct.
It's just wild that that complex unit test was 100% on the first try but simpler tests went off into the woods. But, like I said, that's been my experience with AI, so far.
Submission + - Why meetings can harm employee well-being (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: On average, managers spend 23 hours a week in meetings. Much of what happens in them is considered to be of low value, or even entirely counterproductive. The paradox is that bad meetings generate even more meetings in an attempt to repair the damage caused by previous ones.
A 2015 handbook laid the groundwork for the nascent field of "Meeting Science". Among other things, the research revealed that the real issue may not be the number of meetings, but rather how they are designed, the lack of clarity about their purpose, and the inequalities they (often unconsciously) reinforce.
Faced with what we call meeting madness, the solution is not to eliminate meetings altogether, but to design them better. It begins with a simple but often forgotten question: why are we meeting?
A 2015 handbook laid the groundwork for the nascent field of "Meeting Science". Among other things, the research revealed that the real issue may not be the number of meetings, but rather how they are designed, the lack of clarity about their purpose, and the inequalities they (often unconsciously) reinforce.
Faced with what we call meeting madness, the solution is not to eliminate meetings altogether, but to design them better. It begins with a simple but often forgotten question: why are we meeting?
Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 64
First Street very likely doesn't have some magic model that can predict the future better than anyone else.
When you get a mortgage you have to pay for a flood survey. Even my house 700' above the village where the bank is.
Your flood risk is absolutely predicted by the flood history of your location. The bank writing the mortgage has the skin in the game which is why they make the buyer pay for the flood survey.
It sounds like First Street might be liable for damages based on pseudoscience if these Realtors bring a case. It would be interesting to see them present solid evidence that they prospectively beat the existing flood models and survive a cross-examination.
If they've published a peer-reviewed paper then I missed it.
Comment Re:if the youtube app wasn't enshittified (Score 1) 17
Hostile design is often a sign of libido dominandi, not just laziness.
SmartTube has probably hundreds of settings you can tweak to improve usability and accessibility. The developer clearly has a user-first philosophy.
Comment Re:if the youtube app wasn't enshittified (Score 1) 17
You have Revanced for Android but Apple doesn't allow such things.
It has some excellent accessibility improvements over stock.
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