NaibofTabr

You think “windows is easy”, but do you think it is “easier to use” than Linux?

easier to use

This is true, but the people who think of Windows as easier to use are not people who install operating systems themselves.

Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet.

I mean… the Pokémon kind of get forced into combat for your entertainment… so more like cockfighting?

Jenny’s number: (area code) 867-5309

Of course it probably doesn’t matter if you also use a credit card to make the purchase - every single purchase is fed into your personal consumer profile.

You probably agreed to it when you installed the app.

AI learning isn’t the issue, its not something we will be able to put a lid on either way.

So… there is no Artificial Intelligence. The AI cannot hurt you. It is just a (buggy) statistical language parsing system. It does not think, it does not plan, it does not have goals, it does not understand, and it doesn’t even really “learn” in a meaningful sense.

Either it destroys or saves the world.

If we’re talking about machine learning systems based on multi-dimensionl statistical analyses, then it will do neither. Both extremes are sensationalism and arguments based on the idea that either such outcome will come from the current boom of ML technology is utter nonsense designed to drive engagement.

It doesn’t need to learn much to do so besides evolving actual self-agency and sovereign thought.

Oh, is that all?

No one on the planet has any idea how to replicate the functionality of consciousness. Sam Altman would very much like you to believe that his company is close to achieving this so that VCs will see the public interest and throw more money at him. Sam Altman is a snake oil salesman.

What is a huge issue is the secretive non-consentual mining of peoples identity and expressions.

And then acting all normal about It.

This is absolutely true and correct and the collection and aggregation of data on human behavior should be scaring the shit out of everyone. The potential for authoritarian abuses of such data collection and tracking is disturbing.

With a lirpa, apparently:

that bug was so egregious, it demonstrates a rare level of incompetence

I wish so much this was true, but it super isn’t. Some of the recent Cisco security flaws are just so brain-dead stupid you wonder if they have any internal quality control at all… and, well, there was the Crowdstrike thing…

Some of these projects split from their parent branches for technical reasons… and some of them for not-so-technical reasons.

If you have some contradictory evidence from a reliable source to present to substantiate your claims, please present it now. If not, then your

Maybe it started in China. Maybe it didn’t.

is a super weak and transparent attempt to spread doubt of the actual research. Your claims, made without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Westerners spread the image of indigent communists eating bats and civets, ignoring the growing number of anomalous respiratory illnesses at home.

We can tell the difference between SARS-CoV-2 and other sources of viral respiratory illness because we can test that shit, so again your attempt to spread doubt is super weak and transparent. There is research, there is data, there is corroboration from multiple sources. You haven’t presented any sources.

Science works. Denialism is stupid. Nobody with any brain cells is buying your garbage. Go home.

There’s strong evidence it was in the USA well before the first cases were reported in China.

In fact there is strong evidence against this conclusion. Here is a graph showing reported instances for China and the rest of the world (ROW) starting in January 2020:

In which you can see that Global Cases match China Cases until the end of February 2020.

And here is a graph showing cases in Hubei province, the rest of China, and the rest of the world starting in January 2020:

And here is an animated map showing confirmed cased starting January 2020.

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It is very, very clear that the COVID-19 pandemic started in China, specifically in Hubei province, and that anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

Counterpoint - if everything was FOSS it would be absolute chaos with no direction, conflicting goals, incomplete projects, and limited oversight… and also lots of inter-dev-team drama and forking.

For instance…

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There’s a very good reasons why people and organisations will pay for proprietary software when there is a free alternative available.

Yup… risk transfer

Pay somebody else to take responsibility for pieces of your business process, then blame them when something goes wrong - that’s why we have a contract.

This is probably just a regurgitated comment scraped from somewhere on reddit.

Is “dragged” the new “slammed”?

It’s more likely that the winning search engine will be the one that generates the most ad revenue via clicks.

I seriously doubt this thing can maneuver when traveling at its operational speed. Air resistance would be like hitting a brick wall, it would rip apart. Of course it can probably just fly past everything so fast that it doesn’t matter, including air intercept missiles.

It must just eat fuel. I wonder what its expected operating range is. I bet it has to refuel inflight as soon as it gets off the ground and up to cruising altitude, before it can go do anything useful.