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Re:Stop Making TUIs on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:22AM (#49384892)
Incoherent and far too long .

Lists a bunch of things .

Fails to make any clear points .

Fails to give real reasons for the few claims it makes .

Re:Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:13PM (#48564530)
Good to see a whole genre of scam artists and their books being displaced.
Rogue nation.

North Korea behaves better.

Donald wins.

Donald silently gets 10% of any deal money.

Re:Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:40PM (#48549868)
Some books deserve to be banned.

I would put Kevin MacDonald's antisemitic trilogy The Culture of Critique, the Turner Diaries ( which calls for mass extermination of non-white groups in the USA ) and Mein Kampf in the realm of books that should be shunned.

Beggars cant be choosers.

She would rather have done corporate law but did not have the academic credentials or the networks needed for a job at the likes of Latham Watkins or White and Case.

Still it is good for society that criminals get the worst lawyers to defend them.

Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:24PM (#48535344)
"EPUB is an amazing open standard for ebooks, and yet so many implementations of it are just fundamentally flawed, all in the name of keeping IP lawyers happy."

Easy to be dismissive, but IP violations can cost a large company hundreds of millions.

IP lawyers are more important to many companies than their software developers.

If you doubt that, check to see who gets paid more...

A lawyer I know who specialises in rape, and is excellent at getting the obviously guilty exonerated, lost a case last year because of GoPro videos.

Her client was recording while committing the abhorrent crime. The criminal would otherwise have got off.

From my perspective, the GoPro camera produced a good outcome. Still, one has wonder why anyone to record their criminal actions.

Re:Linux 7.1 on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:35PM (#48533026)
Current default for Arch is 7.0.10

Looking forward to 7.1 rolling out soon.

Re:"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:32PM (#48532990)
If your translation is as bad as your English, I really have to wonder what value you bring to the table...
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:29PM (#48532969)
Words of wisdom. PG is always worth Reading.

The haters do not seem to be actually reading and comprehending PG's article.

I have news for you.

The article is not written for those of you who are comprehension challenged...

Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:33PM (#48522989)
This is why for the census my forms said that I was a poor widow from Kazakhstan with 9 chidren , no education and an adherent of the Mandean faith.

Never ever provide true information in any form.

Re:On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:49AM (#48515417)
AI slop warnings should be mandatory.
Re:Leaving Mozilla on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:21AM (#48515225)
Rust was an own goal foot gun.

Interesting language with a passionate community / cult, but the value to Mozilla was vanishingly close to zero.

Re:"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:32AM (#48513641)
Despite the protests, he admits using AI and then charging his clients full price...

"But maybe I will ask Claude’s opinion, and if one of the suggestions is smart—cutting a paragraph, for instance, or clarifying a sentence—I might accept it.

When I started translating 15 years ago, we used to paste uncooperative sentences into Google Translate to see if it had interesting ways to phrase things differently. Then came DeepL—same idea."

Time to switch to open weight Chinese models.

Any company that uses Magaland LLMs should be aware of the very real Trump related risk.

What happens if the LLM your firm runs on is disabled tomorrow, because Trump wakes up feeling slightly annoyed...

MAGA madness strikes again ..
Re:"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:53PM (#48511087)
I had transliterated lyrics of a song * with stanzas in Urdu , Braj Basha, Persian and Arabic , that I wanted to understand better ..

Gemini did a pretty good job of translating this to English .

Sure a professional human translator would have done a more nuanced job if I was willing to invest the money and time . But ...

* tajdar e haram originally by Payam Saihalwi, later versions by the Sabri Brothers and recently by Asif Aslam

That at least one intelligent and civilised person of intelligence was involved in this car.
Or in most of the civilised world, you can just buy a BYD Shark 6 instead.

Far superior to American made rubbish.

One must admit that Jiaqi Liang, senior director of electrical hardware at Ford's Advanced EV team went to Tsinghua University.

So the Ford design is probably nearly as good as a purely Chinese design.

The problem is going to be the rubbish American MAGA manufacturing.

There are a LOT of bad CEOs.

There are also a LOT of bad software developers.

When they meet, the software developer is fired.

The CEO exits after a while, after exercising their stock options...

Should just bribe Trump again.

He will bomb Paris and London until Europe capitulates.

Two billion in bigly notes should suffice.

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