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Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:54PM (#49915993)
Working on a novel OS seems like it would fun to work on....
Re:What's New in Flutter 3.47 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:07PM (#49281365)
Try out serverpod. Not affiliated with them- it's just a super nice integrated Dart backend:

https://serverpod.dev/

I do wonder about the economics of CCS vs. investing more aggressively in wind and solar.

This is a big deal here in Alberta where the Oil companies are complaining about footing the bill for CCS. If instead of spending a few billion on CCS, how much CO2 reduction would we get if invested in solar and wind.

I'm not so sure. It seems those with capital will accumulate it even faster.

Without some kind of income redistribution we are sailing into dark waters.

Re:Phone is about to stop being yours on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:40PM (#47936870)
To be fair, that's a one time process. You do not need to do that for every app you want to sideload.

The malware issue that the flow is designed to mitigate is a very real problem. Perhaps there is a better way, but it's not immediately clear what that is.

That seems disingenuous. Crypto made ransomware much easier.
Insurance money doesn't grow on trees. The economy is highly connected, so increased costs impact most consumers.

Ransomware is a scourge enabled by crypto. We should do whatever we can to eliminate it.

A bunch of people here are conflating low stakes amateur sports with elite sports.

Mixed league works fine for your company softball team. Not so much for professional sports.

If we are talking about amateur sports where the stakes are low, the concept of slotting athletes into divisions makes sense.

In elite sports, no one wants to see "best in division X". They want to see the best hockey players, the best golfer, the best skier, etc. The money incentives are considerable.

This would destroy women's professional sports.

Re:UBI as a productivity dividend on Saturday March 14, 2026 @01:48PM (#47379180)
UBI will require a more progressive tax system. The Oligarchs are having none of that.
Clearly they have not reached parity, as evidenced by the crash rate of Tesla.

It's far from clear that the current HW4 + sensor suite will ever be sufficient for L4.

Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:07PM (#45903516)
I have HW4, and have tried FSD with every major release.

It works brilliantly, 99.5% of the time. The issue is that the failure mode is catastrophic. Like getting confused with the lane marking and driving off the shoulder. And the complete inability to read construction zone signs (blasting through a 50 KM zone at 100 KM).

I'm deeply skeptical that the current sensor suite and hardware is going to have enough compute power to safely drive without supervision.

It will no doubt improve, but until Tesla steps up and assumes liability for any accident, it's just not "full self driving".

For the back seats you can order webbing strips from Temu for five bucks. They are easy to spot (bright yellow).

I point them out to any passengers in the back seat.

If you have kids that are likely to pull them ... different story.

Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:30PM (#45457755)
Reading the comments on that Fox site is depressing. A lot of hate for Apple, but for the wrong reasons (as in, completely missing the danger of centralized app stores..).
Re:ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live from the Air 'Indefinitely' on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @08:14PM (#45283170)
Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.
Or a more likely scenario is that Apple picks up even more market share, and we go from a duopoly to a monopoly.
Re:Telo MT1 on Saturday August 02, 2025 @03:10PM (#44770446)
This is what Tesla should have built instead of the Cybertruck.

With their distribution and service centers, this would sell like hot cakes.

Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:40PM (#44513444)
It should be obvious that the thing doing the interpretation and navigation is a human, not an automated system.
Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:17PM (#44513215)
> Clients can be almost automatic with a HATEOS implementation, because it is a self describing protocol.

That was the theory, but it was never true in practice.

The oft comparisons to the browser really missed the mark. The browser was driven by advanced AI wetware.

Given the advancements in LLMs, it's not even clear that RESTish interfaces would be easier for them to consume (say vs. gRPC, etc.)

Re:MCP is eating the world–and it's here to stay on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @09:52AM (#44377360)
Looking at the demo I can see project managers going wild with this. And not in a good way.
Re:Android and Wear OS are getting a big refresh on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:56PM (#43979919)
It all went to shit when they removed the floppy drive.
Re:A Tour Inside the IBM Z17 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @05:25PM (#43787677)
Consider me skeptical. A mainframe has to be the least cost effective "crypto-style" math machine you could imagine.
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:43PM (#43347468)
Tesla's insane valuation based on future hypothetical robots is hard to justify given announcements like these.

It seems unlikely that any company (Google included) will have a robotics moat.

Re:Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down? on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:03PM (#43322584)
BlueSky. Less algorithmic boosting and it allows you to curate your feed.

It's VC funded - so it remains to be seen how it evolves

For those of you in the field, this seems like a big deal? ELI5

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