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  1. Re:Didn't they activly piss off these companies? on White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a lot of ego's and strong personalities in the same room.

    Trump is going to challenge them all to take an intelligence test.

  2. When you eliminate the requirement to avoid running into things, the problem gets a LOT simpler!

  3. Dutch Elm Disease.

    Chestnut blight.
    Pine bark borers.
    Lady Eboshi.

  4. I like trees, but on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    What is the "just when they need it most" part? Is there a sudden, unforeseen shortage of firewood or lumber in the cities?

    I'm guessing the submitter must've been recently watching one of those movies where the hero's gun jams just as the bad guy comes around the corner with his own gun drawn.

  5. Most of the code came from the Kalanick era on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    In all likelihood the AI did detect the woman, but then decided she wasn't attractive enough to harass and switched to "ignore" mode.

  6. Re:Why devise ways to prevent recycling? on Engineers Devise a Technique To Fight Counterfeit or Recycled Smartphone Memory (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I guess part of the question is - when you measure flash degradation over time, is it linear? If yes, then 5% is not that big a deal. If no, then 5% current wear might indicate it's about to fall off a cliff.
     

  7. Re: I like Pandora on Pandora Stock Surges 25% After User Data-Based Marketing Push (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha no, I don’t even remember seeing it. But I saw “Shelbyville” and figured it was a Simpsons reference. And, since it was about old people, I figured it had to be Grandpa. The rest was DuckDuckGo.

  8. I don’t get something on Devices Supporting Google Assistant Have More Than Tripled In Last Four Months · · Score: 2

    Why is this story on apple.slashdot.org? It’s about a Google blog post regarding a Google device.

  9. Re:No They Haven't. on Devices Supporting Google Assistant Have More Than Tripled In Last Four Months · · Score: 1

    Devices can't triple because they aren't numbers or numeric quantities.

    Yeah, they’re not like the number of elephants in Africa.

  10. Re:Are you tired of your existing compilers? on GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support (gnu.org) · · Score: 2

    In the case of Apple and Qualcomm, they apparently prefer a compiler that will let them distribute a proprietary (non-free, user-subjugating) derivative.

    Okay, and how about FreeBSD and OpenBSD - and, since you called out Apple, how about Android? They've all moved to Clang.

    I guess not everyone is sufficiently adherent to The One True Faith.

  11. Re: I like Pandora on Pandora Stock Surges 25% After User Data-Based Marketing Push (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    More like old bastard music. Don't ask him about that time he went to Shelbyville.

    Thanks for asking!

    So there was this one time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

    Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

  12. “Are you tired of your existing compilers?&r on GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support (gnu.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn’t that why people left gcc for clang/llvm in the first place?

  13. Re:Darwin award nominee? on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on what killed him. Despite the summary, we really have no reason to conflate his self-experimentation with his death.

    Odds are, if anyone is paying attention in a few weeks, we'll find out he committed suicide in some conventional boring manner.

  14. For the types of music I listen to most - jazz, big band, swing - they’ve been great. Their predictive algorithm matches my tastes better than either Spotify or Apple Music.

  15. You have to remember on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The guy telling us this is a professor of anthropology.

  16. Incredibly annoying on Forty Years of Spam Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I really hate those unsolicited telegrams. I don't want or need any of your dag blum miracle liniment, consarn it!

  17. Dear NPR/PRI stations on A Group of Public Radio Companies Acquires Podcast App Pocket Casts (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Please don't ruin Pocket Casts. I've been using it ever since Apple crapped the bed with the iOS 11 version of its own Podcast app.

    Sincerely,

    93 Escort Wagon

  18. Well played!

  19. But it'll always be Burma to me.

  20. Well-known "security" guy Ray Ozzie on Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As I recall, Ozzie was at Microsoft during the heyday of remote SQL ports being open by default, IIS 4, IE 6... basically back when Windows security was a laughingstock. Why anyone would take anything he says regarding security seriously is beyond me.

  21. Tabs crash constantly, GIFS stop working

    That second one sounds more like a feature, not a bug.

  22. And I checked the resource usage, one tab was using 2 gigs of RAM for some reason! ACK!

    So you're saying you’re not seeing anything out of the ordinary?

  23. It's as close as I'll ever get to the Sun on NASA To Send 1 Million People's Names To the Sun (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Cuz I can't really afford the rents there.

  24. Don't like it? on AI Researchers Revolt Against a New Paywalled Nature Journal (oregonstate.edu) · · Score: 1

    Don't use it. Yes, perhaps your institution gives lots of tenure points for Nature publications, but you should be willing to stand up for what you believe in regardless of personal cost, right?

    Why not create and manage your own open journal covering machine intelligence? (obligatory: with blackjack, and hookers)

  25. Luckily this is the Internet and a bit of search engine foo can turn up good leads to answer a question.

    Admittedly this is only tangential to this conversation, but - I don’t generally go to Stack Overflow or any other specific site when I’m looking for an answer to a technical question, build problem, or whatever. I do a web search. Sometimes that does lead me to SO, but just as often it leads me to some random person’s blog post explaining how they solved the issue.

    I’m guessing people who go straight to Stack Overflow are looking as much for community as they’re looking for technical answers. Me, I’m generally just looking to solve some problem I’m banging up against so I can move on to the next step. If I want “community”, I’ll come read (and maybe post some nonsense here on) Slashdot.