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mbfg··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
gamer's nexus responds to lg's response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME
mbfg··on What will our economic future look like?
it will cause unprecedented growth AND widespread unemployment of course. A distopian horror, not by the AI itself, but by its owners.
mbfg··on Could AIs Become Conscious?
we'd probably all have to agree what consciousness is, first. good luck with that
mbfg··on All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
"not necessarly" and "more likely" are not at all at odds with each other.
mbfg··on Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
Gabriel Jesus is not a goal keeper.
mbfg··on Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds
The glaring truth is no Large company ever says WOW with AI we can do so much more with the same staff. It's always We can do the same, with much less staff.
mbfg··on College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
you could have stopped with AI makes them rich. Why cares about anyone else.
mbfg··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
This collection of people, well actually, more like the 1% set the tax rules. Compare the tax rules from 1970s, to today, and you will definitely see that wealth is a zero sum game.
mbfg··on 3.4M Solar Panels
What are all the tables and plots for rooftop solar presented in the article then? I am confused.
mbfg··on 3.4M Solar Panels
Amazing how politicized panel use is obvious by these maps, as opposed to effectiveness.
mbfg··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
The top 10% of American families own close to 70% of america's wealth. So if "America" is rich. Those are the folks who are rich. 90% of Americans are not rich.
mbfg··on Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made
I suspect if he changed the name to not include the college name, while people would be angry, there wouldn't be a real reason to take it down. The sending emails to the college system is also iffy.
mbfg··on Hold on to Your Hardware
I've never have a personal computer that came even close to powerful enough to do what i want. Compiles that take 15 minutes, is really annoying for instance.
mbfg··on The Future of Version Control
well, the mismatch here is widened by the fact that almost everyone it seems uses git with a central, prominent, visible, remote repository. Where as git was developed with the a true distributed vision. Now sure that truely distributed thing only becomes final when it reaches some 'central' repo, but it's quite a big different than we all do.
mbfg··on How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps
More importantly, the US has banned these cars in America to give protection to american manufacturers.
mbfg··on How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)
Now we need the 1 cut and fold algorithm.
mbfg··on OpenClaw is changing my life
I definitely think it's language specific. My history may deceive me here, but i believe that LLMs are infinitely better at pumping out python scripts than java. Now i have much, much more experience with java than python, so maybe it's just a case of what you don't know.... However, The tools it writes in python just work for me, and i can incrementally improve them and the tools get rationally better and more aligned with what i want.

I then ask it to do the same thing in java, and it spends a half hour trying to do the same job and gets caught in some bit of trivia around how to convert html escape characters, for instance, s.replace("<", "<").replace(">", ">").replace("\"").replace("""); as an example and endlessly compiles and fails over and over again, never able to figure out what it has done wrong, nor decides to give up on the minutia and continue with the more important parts.

mbfg··on Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
I wonder how one does like queries.
mbfg··on Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
Is there anything stopping americans buying chinese EVs in canada and bringing them home?
mbfg··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
a pick up without flat bed rails has significantly reduced the areas where it can be used as a work truck. Pretty clear signal that the CyberTruck was a status symbol not a work truck.
mbfg··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
why would you think that?
mbfg··on Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years
IMO mockito has a relatively good use experience. If you use MockitoExtension, especially, you write code that is relatively maintainable, and easy to mutate. The problem without MockitoExtension is you can throw all kinds of junk in there and it just sits there doing nothing, without you knowing it.

Spy's on the other hand, are a pain in the neck. I think they should be good in theory, but in practice they are difficult, the debuggers really don't work correctly, setting breakpoints, stepping, etc, is just broken in many cases. Would love to know if this is just a difficult bug, or something that is baked into spying.

mbfg··on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
Maybe where AI needs to take over is at the CEO level.
mbfg··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
also, there is the case of the mismatched quantities for shopping, ie, the old hot dogs come in 10 packs, and rolls in 8 backs, etc.
mbfg··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
the advantage of fast-food over groceries, is that you don't have to worry about spoilage and waste. So the delta is probably less than you think. Now granted McD is an s-show, they are no longer the restaurant of the poor, You likely can get a better burger meal deal at a Chilis than a McD, as sad as that is.
mbfg··on Majority of teens hold negative views of news media, says report
maybe the kids will save us, afterall.
mbfg··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
I believe the Aptera was originally going to have motors in the wheels... My understanding is the the first version will forego that, as there were challenges i guess, but i think they still to eventually do that.
mbfg··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
"I Could ... Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn't Lose Any Voters" - Trump
mbfg··on Empathy for Dummies
TLDR: I can manipulate you more for my benefit by being empathetic.
mbfg··on Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack
I think the idea from putin is, they are done in 20 years anyway from a population/financial position anyway. There only chance is to expand and take over populations to rebuild their ability to survive as a country.
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