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- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 4 days ago:
I certainly remember PS2 consoles being used like that. The cell processor was impressive.
- Comment on eleven 1 week ago:
Remembering those who died in service maybe…
“The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” is when WW1 ended and is held as Remembrance Day across Europe .
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 1 week ago:
That explains it being like the 90s. That’s Australia in general. New Zealand is more like the 70s.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 1 week ago:
Depends on what stage of life you’re at.
- Comment on Quentin Willson: Former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter dies aged 68 1 week ago:
Damn. He was politically active recently trying to push environmental policy. He was a great spokesperson for that kind of thing given his history.
That’s a bit young to go.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
I’m assuming the duck’s on top
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
They probably are. They’re trying to make sure it hasn’t leaked onto archive.is.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
Well he found out about the sub-prime mortgage fiasco by looking at the public filings that nobody bothers reading. All of the companies involved are public companies that have to file accounts. He’ll be tracing what’s going on and painting himself a picture.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 1 week ago:
Not sure if it’s exactly the same kit but you can get that for £300 in the UK.
- Comment on MPs urge minister to adopt definition of Islamophobia amid rise in hate crime 2 weeks ago:
The key point here seems to be the because Islam is a religion and not a race then it doesn’t get classed as racism, and that matters because certain laws reference racism.
To me, this points to a problem with our laws where we need a crime to be in the right category of motivation to be treated properly. Why is a racially motivated assault any different to a assault motivated for any other reason? Assault is assault and should be dealt with by the same law.
- Comment on ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ 2 weeks ago:
True, but it’s a step in the right direction.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
I think that it’s an astute observation. AI wouldn’t need to be hyped by those running AI companies if the value was self-evident. Personally I’ve yet to see any use beyond an advanced version of Clippy.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It’s a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 3 weeks ago:
…and how many come back?
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 3 weeks ago:
Strap explosives to their chests and send them to thier competitors?
- Comment on Space is beautiful 3 weeks ago:
Sound of Linguine
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of crossover here. It encompasses the “you rent everything and own nothing” aspect of today’s society. It’s multi-billion corporations against consumers.
A win here will be something that will expose chinks in the armour for a lot of other issues. I know it might seem unimportant because it’s games, but that’s its beauty. It’s a backdoor into so many other fights.
- Comment on It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages. 3 weeks ago:
My french is good enough for the first part, and it’s practically non-existant.
- Comment on It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages. 3 weeks ago:
This is one of the reasons I think education in languages are really important. It makes you realise that language is just an encoding of a thought. The sounds are irrelevant. The choice to try to insult is key. Just because somebody used a word you do or don’t take offence to doesn’t matter. The important part is whether they meant to cause you harm.
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 3 weeks ago:
I doubt that was a literal shower thought .
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 3 weeks ago:
My thoughts are “Why do they need one?”. It’s not like UEFI stops you doing anything.
UBIOS’s unique features over UEFI include increased support for chiplets and other heterogeneous computing use-cases, such as multi-CPU motherboards with mismatching CPUs, something UEFI struggles with or does not support. It will also better support non-x86 CPU architectures such as ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch, the first major Chinese operating system.
[citation needed]
I would say this is about increasing the level of control of the platform, not about technological issues.
- Comment on William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ 3 weeks ago:
FFS!
How hard is it ? Nobody needs more reasons not to be a doctor. They are valuable to society. That justifies good pay. Nothing wrong with that. Lawyers are more debatable, but certainly they perform a civil function and often serve a community.
Go after the companies that are robbing you blind.
- Comment on Ed Miliband says it is ‘possible’ that UK government should leave X 4 weeks ago:
Government ministers are bound by collective responsibility and so if Milliband states something definitively it is taken as government policy. All other members of government would be expected to say the same thing.
So the weasel words here are because it’s not agreed government policy that they should leave X. I expect they haven’t discussed it. If he’s more definitive it would potentially expose a split in opinion within the government (Oh the horror!).
Understand the code words. His opinion is that they should leave. This is his way of making it a topic for discussion in the government.
- Comment on I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re seeing the tragic result of a shark having shark repellent bat-spray used on it.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 4 weeks ago:
Won’t somebody think of the children? (/s)
The death of online gaming? - Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?
- Comment on Dutch government intervenes at Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia 5 weeks ago:
Also China require local representatives in subsidiaries management in China, possibly even Chinese leadership. The Dutch are only playing from the same rulebook.
- Comment on those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me? 5 weeks ago:
Conflict often arises because somebody is pissed off and nobody is listening. The first thing to do is listen and understand where they are coming from.
Tense situation is a karen yelling at one of my colleagues because her father’s operation was postponed because I kid you not 4 doctors called in sick today. Rumor has it they’re striking for better pay.
So, this “Karen” has a sick relative that she wants be helped, and nobody is helping. Sounds like she’s got a fair reason to be agitated. Now you may not be able to do anything personally about it, but ignoring her makes the situation worse. Listening and then explaining why you’re unable to help, maybe pointing her in the direction of somebody who has responsibility.
The first thing is to listen, then show a little fucking empathy.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 5 weeks ago:
A paper mill will produce a lot of papers.
