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  1. Re:We don't have a usable desktop operating system on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you understood the solution, you weren't just cutting and pasting. That's great.

  2. Re: Prove you got there. on NASA's Space-Suit Drama Could Delay Our Trip To the Moon (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There was only one sentence.

  3. I *was* going, but then there was a space suit problem, so I couldn't. Thanks, Obama.

  4. Re: We don't have a usable desktop operating syste on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Stack overflow is a fine resource and many programmers use it. However if you are copy-pasting code from stack overflow without understanding it, you suck at programing and should change. Documentation isn't *that* hard even for illiterates.

  5. Re: Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with economic predictions is the difficulty of acquiring data. If you want to know the average temperature in America, all you have to do is place 5000 or even 500 sensors across the country (it's a little more complicated, but not insurmountable). Measuring the GDP is a lot harder, and takes longer. You can't get daily data. The second problem with economics predictions is the questions economists are asked to answer: everyone wants to know if the stock market will go up or down, but economics doesn't have the tools to answer that. There are many questions economics *does* have the ability to answer, but they are less exciting.

  6. Re: Interesting information on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that? I've never seen the effect of "stock mirroring profit report before it's released." From my perspective, the way the stock trades before the release is rather random. (I am not a Tesla stock holder but I want to see them succeed: electric cars replacing ICE will be good for the world in many ways)

  7. Blue on Logitech Is Acquiring Blue Microphones For $117 Million In Cash (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Blue is kind of like Beats: stylish, easy to use, popular, but never the top quality in its price range.

  8. Re: Why so complicated? on Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Great idea.

  9. Re: Regulating 'Big Tech Platforms' on Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Good point. If freed of speech is still controversial 200 years later, then the framers were wise to keep it in the Constitution.

  10. Re:We don't have a usable desktop operating system on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but - a lot of "modern" solutions are basically built to work like that. I'm doing some hobby stuff in a Javascript framework right now

    It's extremely frustrating. It's not a matter of laziness, but rather incompetence.

  11. Re:data migration, vendor pseudo lock-in, and inte on Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "I think the solution for this is to require companies to allow interoperability between sites." - Well, sorry but go fuck yourself, legally speaking. Bad idea, zero chance of happening, back to the drawing board. Sorry but that's just dumb.

    I must be dumb then, because I don't see why it's a bad idea. Can you explain it to me?

  12. Re:data migration, vendor pseudo lock-in, and inte on Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    It's kind of amazing how on the internet, where literally anything can be decentralized if you want it, and starting a competing website is cheap, all the power goes to one website (in each field). In Facebook you could say "it's because of network effects," but it's not really true with search engines. When freed, we just kind of......flock together.

  13. And 4000 people employed there??? For less than 2GW peak?

    When labor is cheap, you can hire a lot of people to do things that wouldn't be cost-effective in America. fwiw

  14. Re:Impressive on OpenAI's Dactyl System Gives Robots Humanlike Dexterity (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They used a 3D model for training, then moved to the real world. Physics in the model don't match physics in the real world, so they randomized some aspects of the model (like gravity) so the network wouldn't overtrain to the wrong physical environment.

    Their current method took a lot of work (CPU time, space) and at the moment is basically useless (and in many cases performs worse than the shown video according to tfa), but it seems there is a lot of potential for improved efficiency here. It's not going to develop to strong AI, but it might be possible to develop the technique to where it can dramatically improve robo soccer, for example.

  15. Re:Way to make money? Force customers to pay month on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    It won't even be a managed desktop. Is Microsoft going to bring the system back up when it goes down? Ultimately it will be exactly the same as Windows 10 except with monthly licensing fees.

  16. Re:Where is Open source software to rescue us? on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The question for me is whether Apple or Google will throw a monkey wrench in Microsoft's plans by making a real effort at conquering the desktop.

    Apple won't: they're too busy removing the USB port. Google might: but it will still be a managed system, probably a step backwards instead of forwards.

  17. Re:We don't have a usable desktop operating system on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Proof: How many man pages actually have examples.

    This is a problem for people who learned to copy-paste from StackOverflow instead of learning to read documentation.

    Of course, it's also a problem of programmers not knowing how to create a proper interface.

  18. Re:Not A Democracy on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What you are describing is a direct democracy, but the US is still a democracy. If you're going to be nitpicky, get it right.

  19. Re:headline is Logic bomb exploding on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    Yeah, allowing everyone to say stupid things is still better than only letting the privileged few with a printing press say stupid things.

    In my view, the solution is one of personal responsibility and the publishing of VERIFIED original source material.

    This is a good idea.

  20. Re:Starting? on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, conspiracy was an indictable crime

    You're not going to find the legal definition of collusion and conspiracy in Webster. If you want to know whether he committed a crime, you should look in a law book.

  21. Re:Starting? on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The difference I see today vs. yesteryear is that the populace at-large is doing less critical thinking about how news should be ingested.

    I think instead that the internet has allowed more and more people to voice their stupid opinions to the world. Before that, they told their neighbors, or a few friends who "liked talking about politics." Eternal September still hasn't ended. I admit when I first came to the internet, I also said one or two stupid things

  22. Re: And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming temperatures were random (and thus the climate isn't affecting the results) and independent,

    They definitely aren't though, even in the event of no AGW.
    Nice research.

  23. Re: Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    That is fascinating.

  24. Re: Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a cool mechanism but you still didn't answer the question.

  25. Re: And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    What are the odds of that?