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Comment Re:I know they'll be consistent (Score 0, Troll) 74

Yeesh, I thought that bit of stupidity had reached its expiration date at least a year ago. Israel is openly massacring civilians by the thousand, people who have never touched a weapon in their lives beyond a kitchen knife. They're shooting people queuing up to receive food from tanks, for the gods' sake, and deliberately starving people to death. Just listen to the boasting by their leadership, Smotrich openly says that they're going to kill every man, woman and child who are unable to leave Gaza or the West Bank, and then they'll start on "Israeli" Arabs, and Ben Gvir is only slightly more reserved.

You are insane. None of those things are happening.

Comment Re: um what??? (Score 1) 228

by dj245 (#65680114) Attached to: Why AI Chatbots Can't Process Persian Social Etiquette
That can be true in some instances, but often it just means that there are steps which require significant time or needs the involvement of more people and obtaining their cooperation. "It's difficult" often just means that significant resources and time are needed, and is especially relevant for unbillable work. This often results in things not proceeding (an eventual "no") but that is not a foregone conclusion. Alternative phrases such as "this plan is unrealistic", "this sounds expensive and nobody will pay for it", "this needs approval from a high level and will take time and effort to convince 3 levels of managers", or "we have no capacity" are often the actual position, but politeness and succinctness distill this to "it is difficult". This is almost never the end of a conversation, just the initial indication of if something can or can not happen.

Comment Re: But... (Score 2) 57

by dj245 (#65677790) Attached to: China Launches Stealth Jet From Electromagnetic Catapult Aircraft Carrier
It depends on how it was designed, and the operating conditions. Steam catapults have their issues too- making freshwater from saltwater occasionally has hiccups and contaminants can enter the steam system, causing corrosion and erosion. The advantage of steam is that the catapults themselves are mechanically fairly simple, the steam source is external so the hardware embedded in the deck isn't too complex. Electric catapults have lots of electrical hardware at the point of use, including many coils of wire, any of which can suffer an insulation failure and presumably put the whole catapult out of action, or at least degraded in output. The expense is also an issue as linear motors are more expensive and each full-size US carrier has 4 of them.

Comment Hmm (Score 1) 63

There's little interest in thinking about what's going to happen when the LLM companies decide that they have plateaued, that there's no more money to burn/spend, and a bunch of them fold—but we've perturbed education to such an extent that our students can no longer function without their AI helpers.

Er, they'll switch to local LLMs maybe? Some adjustments of course but same basic idea.

(Also, I've heard this discussed plenty; there has been plenty of interest in this ... can't speak for the universities though, lol)

Comment Kinda disappointed (Score 1) 93

I am kind of disappointed in the wake of Steamboat Willie going PD ... I had hoped to see a lot of creative use of (granted, limited canon) Mickey.

Instead we get lame horror stuff, some token game appearances, and now ... an ad for lawyers?

I'm almost tempted to conspiracy theory about false flags here, lol

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