Comment Re: Trade one troll for another (Score 1) 91
He might get away with it if he smiles more (it worked for Trump). I haven't seen him flash a non-sarcastic smile since COVID. Some mysterious sadness has infected the man.
Comment Re: Magic (Score 1) 46
If we can stop doing that, the oligarchy will effectively lose their power.
Comment inputs and outputs (Score 1) 7
set_motion(right, 60 %, 1.5 m/s, 10 s)
They translated those functions into input for some aftermarket car controlling hardware, which looks kind of cool but I didn't know was a thing.
I couldn't figure out from their report how they returned data back to the LLM, but apparently they pasted images and telemetry into the chat window every so often, or something like that.
Comment Re:Trade one troll for another (Score 2) 91
We have zero chance of getting a competent president, for the same reason that the most skillful competitors never won Survivor.
Newsom comes across as bitter, though. He's a nepo candidate, never having won a particularly competitive race. He needs a little positivity. A positive slogan like, "Hope and Prosperity" or "High Time for Change" or "Change for High Time" or something.
Comment Re:Bankers are vultures (Score 1) 88
Comment Re:Same as the US and every other G7 gov? (Score 1) 124
Maybe they want to ensure those weapons designers don't leave before their deception is realized.
Comment Re:China is a totalitarian hell (Score 1) 124
Communism has never been for the people.
In China communism started with education programs for poor people. Once they got some power, they got rid of the landlords who were actually very abusive. So for many people, communism was a step forward. It was better than monarchy (or a system of warlords, which was the alternative at the time).
Communism: a step up from monarchy, a step down from democracy.
Comment Re: China is a totalitarian hell (Score 1) 124
Authoritarian one-party systems are evil. And ignorant colonizers are evil.
Ironically, China is both of those.
Comment Re:Web scale? (Score 1) 13
THAT is the story I want to see about MongoDB.
Comment Re: $3 Trillion off the books commitments (Score 1) 88
Comment Re: $3 Trillion off the books commitments (Score 1) 88
Comment Re: $3 Trillion off the books commitments (Score 1) 88
Personally, I prefer to not live in an Islamic theocracy. I'm having trouble thinking in history of a time when a theocracy turned out well.
Comment Re:LLM Bake Off: It's not just the pink slime (Score 1) 161
and he left power when voted out
Technically, Stalin left office before he was voted out.
Comment Re:90% of our news media is billionaire owned (Score 1) 161
It wasn't until the 2024 election that I really saw the billionaires fully exercising their control over our information sources
Really? Here's a 90s documentary about the power of the press a hundred years ago. This shit's been going on since the Roman days, and they had to use slaves to hand-copy the news.