SteveSmith16384
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Re:I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time
on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:03PM (#42624650)
The technology to do all of those things existed well before iPhones & Macs appeared. You may argue that "yeah but he made them popular", but the iPhone & Mac users were never in the majority.
Re:I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time
on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:57AM (#42621871)
History would suggest otherwise. Ripping Woz off springs to mind. And is giving the world expensive Apple products making it a better place?
Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K From A Di...
on Monday January 06, 2025 @08:32AM (#42610411)
Ah, the golden age of Android where any app could make you money.
Re:My 25-year adventure in AI and ML
on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:30AM (#42574232)
It makes such a refreshing change to have a web page not cluttered with adverts and popups. Just nice, clean, well-spaced-out text and simple organisation.
Re:How Fast Does Java Compile?
on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @08:29AM (#42245535)
I think it means "compile it into bytecode", which can then be run by the Runtime.
Re:We can all be AI engineers – and we can do it with open source models
on Thursday November 14, 2024 @11:10AM (#42137604)
If it makes any kind of decision whatsoever (like an "if" statement), slap the word AI on it.
Re:What Came First, The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular say...
on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:15AM (#42077358)
I'm going to call a non-chicken a chocken from now on. :)
Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah
on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:40AM (#41858390)
Cos things were so idyllic for them before that.
Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to...
on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:21AM (#41858238)
When did the people specifically asked for this kind of system?
Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah
on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:18AM (#41858216)
Let's not go down this route here.
Re:Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel...
on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @08:37AM (#41847929)
I think they were just parodying the typical text that used to be shown against a page 3 girl bitd.
Re:Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel...
on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @08:35AM (#41847919)
Re:Your Computer Is Not Yours
on Monday September 30, 2024 @08:22AM (#41696341)
I'd be very surprised if things were better today.
Re:Guiding principles: How US dietary guidelines contribute to obesity
on Monday September 23, 2024 @08:31AM (#41625369)
Maybe this is the issue: 95% of the 2020 DGAC was found by an analysis to have at least one tie with a food or pharmaceutical company, and 50% had 30 such ties or more. (https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/news/usda-fails-to-fully-i...)
Re:Guiding principles: How US dietary guidelines contribute to obesity
on Monday September 23, 2024 @08:26AM (#41625333)
The irony is that the government is supposed not to interfere with people choice, but for-profit capitalism is allowed to interfere in everything.
Re:Core: New way to develop video games
on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:09AM (#41489238)
GDScript is closely tied to the engine, making it incredibly easy to affect any part of your project. It's also very terse and simple to use, and anyone with a passing knowledge of Python should be able to pick it up in minutes.
I've used C# for my day job for years, but never felt the need to stop using GDScript for any of my projects.
Re:Core: New way to develop video games
on Monday September 09, 2024 @10:58AM (#41489130)
Godot much prefers composition over inheritance. It's possible to use inheritance in Godot, but no-one recommends it, except maybe for a data structure.
Re:Core: New way to develop video games
on Monday September 09, 2024 @08:43AM (#41487970)
I remember joking 10-15 years about how Sourceforge seemed to have far more game engines than actual games. Is this another one to add to the list?
Re:Core: New way to develop video games
on Monday September 09, 2024 @08:37AM (#41487936)
I'm not sure why you were using Inheritance in Godot? Just use the "gameobjects" paradigm as you did with Unity.
Re:Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happiest resort ...
on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:28AM (#41434300)
Jeez, just don't go to Center Parcs already. Everyone knows it's massively expensive.
Re:84% want stronger online privacy laws, but Congress's corruption st...
on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:00AM (#41320367)
Maybe they're letting the big corps get fatter ready for a big EU-style lawsuit.
Re:The Empathy Punishment
on Monday August 12, 2024 @11:46AM (#41225782)
Related: I clicked on "Start your trial now", and got a 404.
Re:Big Macs and the Cost of Living Crisis
on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:22AM (#41170170)
By the same token, generalizing the whole of Europe to say "33% increase also applies to health insurance" is a very broad brush.
Re:Fully-automatic robot dentist performs first human procedure
on Thursday August 01, 2024 @11:11AM (#41129974)
If (world_pace == false) solve_world_peace();
easy!
Re:Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking a question only CEO c...
on Monday July 29, 2024 @11:09AM (#41101047)
"The WhatsApp messages seen by Bloomberg didn’t come from Vigna’s usual business mobile number. The profile picture also was different.."
I think common sense was more than enough here.
Re:Bananas Don't Taste Like They Used To. Here's Why
on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:10AM (#41004430)
Agreed, I think the statement should be "supermarkets want to sell us products all year round".
Re:Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:44AM (#41004235)
"No-one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft".
Re:Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without p...
on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:34AM (#40967770)
But we shouldn't have to, and just because Google is famous for it, it doesn't make it right or acceptable.
Re:Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without p...
on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:32AM (#40967756)
That doesn't change anything.
Re:Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%
on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @07:40AM (#40914917)
I'm not sure what your point is?