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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too on Sunday January 20, 2019 @10:57PM (#18957529)
>Linux kernel has SMP and good multi-core support, just for you to know.

SMP is garbage and multi-core IS trash, whether you like it or not.

>Linux kernel is not just for desktop, and being used in near real-time systems as well as mobile. It is the 'distribution' that makes the difference to their audience.

yeah i mean for servers it's ok, on mobile it's a JVM anyway so it wouldn't matter what you swapped the kernel with.

>Multi-user environments are very real in workplaces. At least one additional employee account is needed for using a system without modifying it.

yeah not on the consumer desktop though, families don't need multi-user systems, laptops don't need them either.

>There is no obligation to understand car design to drive them. But, what if one day you wanted to check the engine? That is at least you can't do with proprietary systems.

maybe not but understanding a car design is possible and within reason, understanding 15 million lines of code on the other hand is not. also I don't recall when I said you could understand proprietary systems either?

Re:Driverless Cars Tap the Brakes After Years of Hype on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:43PM (#18951164)
I wouldn't trust an autonomous vehicle at all unless it wasn't networked; in fact I've made sure that my car isn't networked at all due to the fact that autonomous or not they can be hacked by cutting power to everything except power steering, the radio, and the car outlets. Networking and control of the car being linked is asking for trouble, not to mention that somehow they fucked up the non-autonomous cars so that it's possible to hack those and drive them with a laptop too.

Link for the lazy: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

>I don't understand why people want corporations to behave like non-profits. It's a corporation whose sole aim is make profit. But that doesn't mean they can't do something for goodwill that actually benefits the community.

Because people act like they're altruistic and nice when the reality is that they're not. I'm not gonna suck your dick because you pulled a PR stunt, I don't swing that way.

>What does this have anything to do with them doing something good for the community?

On the surface level more support for linux is good thing, but like all corporate-developed software it eventually becomes bloated and unstable and dies a slow death.

I disagree. Anything a corporation does they do because it directly benefits them, in this case they get more people moving close to their HQ and it's good publicity. In the case of their Linux support it's death by a thousand paper cuts. Pretty simple.
Re:The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:53AM (#18750631)
That's obvious to anyone with any sort of basic idea as to how machine learning works. Feed bots data and test the bots predictions - the more data you have then obviously it'll be better. If you have 1 picture of a bee to test you'd only ever get one very specific shape for a bee from any AI, if you have thousands, you get a much better representation. It's pretty simple.
Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? on Sunday December 23, 2018 @07:05PM (#18749294)
I haven't had it for years already, deleted it a few years ago, and to be truthful I think it's been long enough they legit don't have much data on me anymore.