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  1. Re:An Algorithm.... on Artificial Intelligence Can Now Predict Suicide With Remarkable Accuracy (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    Machine learning is _the_ A.I.

    Your carefully crafted expert systems need knowledge.

    however it does it in ways that an unaided human brain cannot duplicate.

    You also cannot duplicate my human method without aid (and pretty sure not even WITH aid)

    You are adding requirements that don't exist, and not even doing is honestly.

  2. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Sane programmers have even more rules for indenting than python.

    Unfortunately Python has decided that being a sane programmer is not compatible with its indentation rule, which is the only rule allowed in the Python world.

  3. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    So basically they added visual markers in addition to the indentation, and everyone complained.

    Because its still not good enough.

  4. Re:Betteridge says: on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    To.... rule them all?

    Thats called LISP.

    Unfortunately every time it would be a benefit to use LISP, there just never seems to be a compiler behind it (see Nyquist, built on XLISP, built on a LISP interpreter)

  5. Didn't the C64 use Microsofts ROM BASIC? If so then it should have had DEF FN. Every other machine sporting a Microsoft ROM BASIC did.

  6. The "Miracle" in China, is also its "Curse"

    The Miracle is that the government created zones with the economic laws, not written but simply understood, "don't be dicks to your fellow Chinese." The economic prosperity this has created is as much as miracle as free market capitalism ever was. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have migrated into these free market zones in spite of the Wests attempts to make it sound so terrible to be in one of them. From time to time the government arrests a ton of people, heads of corporations, police chiefs, what-not. It offends my sense of due process, but my guess is that most of the time the people being taken down deserve some of it..

    The Curse is that their future is just like every Western nation. England has a Queen, China will have its own power-stunted supreme leader too. The bureaucrats are coming.

  7. Re:bullshit on Former FBI Director Predicts Russian Hackers Will Interfere With More Elections (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you want more proof

    before you can offer more proof, you need to offer some proof.

  8. There's a reason why hard evidence will not be in the public domain - it's a matter of national intelligence.

    You mean the National Intelligence Agencies that are a never-ending source of leaked State secrets... you are saying that they will never let evidence be seen?

    Do you even listen to yourself?

  9. Re:Insert "collapse from its own contradictions" h on Former FBI Director Predicts Russian Hackers Will Interfere With More Elections (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    yes thats why The American Left decried the ousting of the democratically elected government in the Ukraine, and are in full support of the Russians working to restore the Democracy taken from them.

    oh... wait... our American Left is actually defending the overthrow of the Ukrainian government? They have actually vilified the people that had their democracy stolen from them by the CIA?

    The American Left will say anything at any time, completely opposite positions dont even give them a single millisecond of pause.

    Fuck The Democrats.

  10. By "meticulous", "research", and "sourced" .. he means every article "meticulously" waits until the very end to point out that there isnt any evidence of anything, that the "research" done is finding out what the corporation the media works for wants, and the "sources" as people that say things without evidence.

  11. We have no reason to think voting computers aren't getting hacked.

    The continued lack of any evidence isnt a good enough reason for you?

  12. Re:trolling libtards on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No those were Democrats, not Liberals.

  13. Re:This is just the beginning on America's Five Biggest Tech Stocks Lost $97 Billion Friday (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The fear of deflation is based on a fallacy.
    br. If the same stuff over time cost a smaller and smaller percentage of peoples incomes, that would almost be like they made more money, and we cant have that... down with deflation!

  14. Re:This is why I support mandatory drone registrat on A Power Outage In Silicon Valley Was Caused By A Drone Crash (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 0

    Since there will never be a way to track the owners of these things (registration doesnt do that people) the solution isnt to track the owners.

    If the power lines can be attacked by simple drones, harden the power lines. Period.

  15. I'll care about Net Neutrality just as soon as the legislation is no longer written by AT&T, and no, one of its competitors doesnt qualify.

  16. When I love Lucy was on, there were only 3 networks, and you hate to know which one to tune to before getting up from your sofa to walk across the room to change the channel.

  17. Re:I don't care WHY he did it on Prosectors Say the Kansas Shooting of Garmin Engineers Was a Hate Crime (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Hate crime" means whatever the State decides it means at any given moment, and so long as there is an appeal to emotion associated with it they will get away with redefining it however is convenient for the moment.

    While the law is written such that motive is considered, thats completely different than the motive itself being an additional crime, which is exactly what "hate crime" is.. and additional crime added on.

  18. Re:I don't care WHY he did it on Prosectors Say the Kansas Shooting of Garmin Engineers Was a Hate Crime (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He said 'objective', not 'subjective'

    He is right. You would also be if you knew the difference.

  19. Since Alan Watts joined the pre-existing London Buddhist Lodge

    ...where immediately upon "joining" he became the organizations secretary.... at age 16.

    Are you sure you want to have this debate?

  20. He was a philosopher, he just didnt invent the philosophy in question.

  21. Re:This is generally, and specifically, incorrect on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 2

    All of that is true

    THE VERY FIRST THING WASNT TRUE - I DIDNT READ FURTHER

    64-bit apps still use a native 32-bit word size for everything but pointers, and most of the pointers in a compiled program are still 32-bit because they are "RIP Relative" ... Thats taking the 64-bit instruction pointer (RIP), adding a 32-bit value to it (relativity), to get another 64-bit pointer. Thats how all direct branch instructions work, be they absolute or conditional.

    The pointers that get stuck into structures... arent in the compiled program. They are created by the compiled program. The guy literally immediately first sentence had not a fucking clue what he was talking about. I'm assuming that he couldn't even say ONE true thing.

    I swear every time a subject comes up where I literally am an expert, I can see... slashdot is literally full of people pretending to be experts.. and they do it all the fucking time. They post on every story acting like an expert. Clearly they are Renaissance men... right? ..and not just a bunch of dishonest fucks?

  22. Re: Because 64-bit WinOS doesn't support 16-bit ap on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    The CPU still starts up in 8088 8 bit mode. The problem is that MS largely doesn't care about its legacy API.

    What a bunch of crap.

    The hardware can't do it. End of discussion, liar.

  23. Re:Because Microsoft has legacy business customers on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is false, and amd64 CPUs can execute 16bit instructions just fine

    Nobody said differently. it just can't mix thunk between them at the same time, and other restrictions on using them simultaneously.

    Words have meaning, you pretend expert cunt. Learn to read before you reply.

  24. Re:Because 64-bit WinOS doesn't support 16-bit app on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 2

    These arent "apps" he is talking about.

    The "solution" of course is to buy new industrial equipment to replace the old that you are controlling with that 16-bit computer. So it''ll only cost a few hundred grand at best to move off of that 16-bit CNC setup. Not a big deal at all, right? Then they can run windows 10 too... thats an awesome operating system for industrial equipment. Honest.

  25. Re:Because 64-bit WinOS doesn't support 16-bit app on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardware.

    The CPU shares the same flags and switches between both 16-bit and 64-bit mode. For instance there is an instruction prefix that indicates if the next instruction should use the current mode's word size or the word size of "the other mode."

    The difference between...

    add eax, ebx (32-bit)

    and both add rax, rbx (64-bit) and add ax, bx (16-bit)
    ..is a single byte that prefixes the instruction. Other than that the instructions are identically encoded. The prefix byte says "no not this mode dummy, the other mode!"

    So here we are, stuck with "only" 2 modes to switch between. Amazingly some people complain...