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Buffalox ,

Any system that rewards achievements of any kind work inventions or whatever, will have people cheat to fake it to get the reward. Even if there is no currency and it’s only for instance prestige.

Capitalism is bad, which is why it is regulated. But it’s the least bad system we have for now, so it all depends on good regulation.

Buffalox ,

Is this supposed to prove anything?
Clearly it was disqualified, since the idea was to show what AI can do.
Submitting non AI pictures is nothing but an attempt at sabotaging the event. It doesn’t prove anything but idiocy and malicious intent buy the submitter.

Buffalox ,

That’s far out!

Buffalox ,

Incredible is the right word, how does this still work after more than 47 years? How do they even still have energy to send and receive signals? That’s one heck of a durable power source. How do the computers and sensors still work? The reliability and durability of these probes is amazing. NASA truly had some reality wizards doing what seems like magic to accomplish this.

Either that or, aliens have been helping out and repaired it from time to time.

Buffalox ,

As long as they ask crystal healers and clairvoyants too, why stop at the pope, and not go full crazy?
I bet a pendulum would give better results, because it’s 50/50 and not 100% prejudiced towards bronze age arbitrary moral concepts.

Buffalox ,

I just heard from Enron Musk that it crashed into the patrol car way more safely than a human would have done.
Also according to Enron Musk Full self driving has been working since 2017, and is in such a refined state now, that you wouldn’t believe how gracefully it crashed into that patrol car. It was almost like a car ballet, ending in a small elegant piruette.

As Enron Musk recently stated, in a few months we should have Tesla Robo Taxies in the streets, and you will be able to observe these beautiful events regularly yourself.

Others say that’s ridiculous, he is just trying to save Enron, but that’s too late.

Buffalox ,

Yes I remember that, and then he has repeated every year since, that they will be ready next year. But THIS year he changed his tune somewhat, and claimed it was a matter of months.
How is this con man not in jail?

Buffalox ,

He is very good at what he does, being a con man.
But I think step one is to be a malignant narcissist, having such an oversized ego and disregard for others, that you actually believe you deserve it.

Apart from that I can’t really explain it, except IMO the stockholders that gave him that bonus are morons, that let themselves be exploited.

Buffalox ,

While this is very high, it’s still a huge improvement.
Best wishes to Argentina.

Buffalox ,

For things to improve, they still need a working economy, disregarding if it’s a left or right wing government.

Buffalox ,

That was the previous government, The current government has reduced it first to about 8% last month, to now 4.4%.
The current administration took office in December, and obviously it takes time to make reforms. But president Javier Milei is an economist, so we can hope he can get that part working better than the previous government.

But he is a populist as you wrote, and allegedly a libertarian, so I agree Argentina may be going from one evil to another.

It’s weird how South American countries often goes from one extreme to another?

Buffalox ,

I wrote month as the article states, you are the one who used old data from last year, which is either dishonest or ignorance.
The fact is the inflation is now dropping under this new administration. If it’s about 50% per year, it’s still a heck of a lot better than 276% it was before.
I hope it improves further, and with changes that are so dramatic, you have to use m/m.

Buffalox , (edited )

according to a social media post by Musk himself

Very few in the comments seems to have noticed this pretty crucial part.
Let’s wait and see the actual result.

Edit:

Ah well, they actually went ahead and did it. Good for Musk I guess, I doubt it’s good for anybody else.

Buffalox ,

Hey, you forgot to thank Steve!

Buffalox ,

Thank you, I needed a bit of optimism. 😀

Buffalox ,

That is 100% a lie, optimism is necessary to try to make change, optimism is the driver of progress.
Pessimism causes apathy.

So it’s the exact opposite of what you claim.

Buffalox ,

It’s running into the ground, and Musk is determined to keep on running.

Buffalox ,

who the hell vets this garbage?

Zuckerberg

Buffalox , (edited )

No need to worry, following what the CEO of Boeing called a “quality escape” regarding a door falling off, Boeing is now just facing a profit and customer escape.

independent.co.uk/…/boeing-alaska-airlines-door-p…

Buffalox ,

Despite the recent slow sales, Boeing still has a huge backlog of over 5,600 orders

I wonder what those orders are? They could be mainly orders for extra bolts.

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Buffalox ,

backing it for “national strategy”.

This doesn’t have to be nefarious but it could be.
China has 1.4 billion people to feed, and AFAIK USA has huge potential to increase agricultural production.

Buffalox ,

There are a few slight problems with FELs and ERLs. First, like any particle accelerator, an energy recovery linear accelerator is huge. Second, one needs an extremely complex set of mirrors to guide that 10 kW of EUV radiation to multiple litho tools without significant loss of power, and that set has not been invented yet (and its costs are unclear).

It’s an interesting concept, but it doesn’t quite work yet, so no it does NOT have EUV like capabilities yet.

Buffalox ,

It’s kind of funny how AI has the exact same problems some humans have.
I always thought AI wouldn’t have that kind of problems, because they would be carefully fed accurate information.
Instead they are taught from things like Facebook and the thing formerly known as Twitter.
What an idiotic timeline we are in. LOL

Buffalox ,

They learn how to pretend

True, and they are so darn good at it, that it can be somewhat confusing at times.
But the current AIs are not the ones we read about in SciFi.

Buffalox , (edited )

Yes VW, Audi, BMW, Mercedes are all definitely garbage. /s
Absolutely the companies that make some of the best cars in the world, should make better cars. What a moronic comment!

They are actually very attractive offerings too, I recently tried a BMW eDrive i4-40, it’s an absolutely amazing car. And VW has some pretty attractive prices IMO.

Buffalox ,

The Germans have been dragging their feet on electrification

Not true, VW, Audi, BMW and Mercedes all have excellent electric cars, that are even better than Tesla now. If they aren’t good enough, maybe you need a Porsche.
They are also way better than Chinese cars in general especially BYD. It’s only when compared on price to subsidized Chinese cars they have difficulty competing.
The country that’s behind on Electric is Japan, yet Toyota remains the #1 car manufacturer in the world.

they can’t afford a trade war with China

Generally everybody loses in a trade war. But if China subsidizes EV production, that needs to stop if they want to be part of an open market.

Buffalox ,

This doesn’t specify X, so it’s probably Tesla too, except I seriously doubt this threat is serious, because banning iPhone integration from Tesla, would probably hurt Tesla sales, and hurt Tesla and Musk 1000 times more than Apple.

Buffalox ,

Ah yes, I bet they consider Trump is almost one of them now. /s
Oh boy what an idiot. 🤣 🤣

Buffalox ,

Yes it literally has come a long way, all the way from 1991 to 2024, I think the only other OS that has managed that is Windows.
I know that’s not quite what you meant, it was just a thought I came to think of reading the headline.

But apart from that, it’s also become quite good, but IMO it has been for more than a decade now.

Buffalox ,

Yes it is absolutely cool. 😎
I tried Linux earlier, but didn’t find it really useful until 2005 when I switched to Linux as my main OS, but games were a huge problem, so I had to dual boot for a couple of years, before I dropped Windows completely.

Buffalox ,

That’s kind of true, but MacOS and Mac OSX are 2 different things. What is based on BSD is the MAC OSX that came out in 2001 AFAIK.

And BSD was interrupted for 2 years because of copyright disputes with AT&T. If that hadn’t happened, BSD would be the longest continuous OS today, and probably way more significant than it is.

I don’t consider MAC OSX as part of BSD, just like Android isn’t part of Linux Desktop, but only uses the Linux kernel. OSX took parts of BSD and shielded it behind a proprietary wall, because the BSD license offer no protection from that. So they become separate projects the moment they enter the Apple domain.

Problem here is when people mix up the use of the word Linux as an OS with Linux the kernel. I am 100% sure OP meant Linux as a Desktop OS like GNU/Linux or something like Free desktop according to freedesktop.org. Using his experience with EndeavorOS as an example.

But you are right, it can be said Unix/BSD has an even longer running time, but it has been somewhat problematic and interrupted because of AT&T and SCO and Novell.

Buffalox ,

Windows became popular with Windows 3.0 that came out 1990, And the Linux kernel came in 1991, but the first distro which is a better comparison came in 1993.

So Windows had a 3 year advantage.
But that wasn’t the more crucial thing, the real advantage was DOS compatibility, which everything legacy ran on. So with Windows people and companies could still run their old DOS programs, they could even run them better than in an old fashioned DOS system, because Windows was brilliant for multitasking DOS programs.

Buffalox ,

Yes BSD just hasn’t had much luck, I have no idea why the GNU project didn’t use the BSD kernel? They say the Linux kernel was the final piece to make it a complete OS. But AFAIK BSD existed with a kernel way before that.

Buffalox ,

Good catch, I guess that’s mostly true, but Windows NT was an evolution of Windows that mainly got rid of the DOS legacy. Which after Windows NT ran on a compatibility layer, where Windows 3 ran on DOS directly.
It’s a bit of a grey area. But I’d say windows NT was a continuation of Windows that shared almost the entire API from Windows 3.0.
The old “System n” OS was also called MAC OS. And the switch to OSX was a completely new OS where the old MAC OS software ran on a compatibility layer.

I guess it can be seen either way.

Buffalox ,

That’s an impressive list, 👍
I admit I forgot AIX, but the others there are reasons I didn’t consider, I have explained in other posts why on BSD and MAC OS. Same arguments are true for most of your list.
But it’s still an impressive and interesting list. And yes AIX absolutely qualifies.

Buffalox ,

Interesting, I just don’t get that last line, Linux came out in 1991, so how is 1991 way before Linux?

I’m not sure either, that if the GNU project had managed to make a decent kernel, that it would have made the world a different place today. At least not for the better.
The Linux kernel is the most successful piece of open software ever made, and it’s GPL like GNU. I am far from sure another kernel would have been equally successful either technologically or in benefiting all sorts of computers.

Buffalox ,

Just don’t use Chrome, switch to Firefox and use the original µBlock origin.
Firefox saved the Internet from monopolization by Microsoft once, hopefully it can do it again against Google.
But it requires that people stop using Chrome.

Buffalox ,

😀

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Buffalox ,

Coca Cola was originally a health and energy drink and contains caffeine, as do about all colas today. Does that still count?
I don’t give one shit about modern energy drinks, it’s just shittier reinventions of an age old idea. Why people even would want to buy that overpriced heavily commercialized garbage IDK?

Buffalox ,

Personally I’m an AMD guy, I don’t like the proprietary approach Nvidia takes to everything.
But I have to admit, Nvidia has been on the ball for 30 years now, and it’s very impressive what they have achieved.
I think the rest of the industry needs to pool together around an open standard, if they want to have a chance to compete against the near monopoly Nvidia has because of CUDA.

Buffalox ,

I am not an AI programmer so I can’t really say. But CUDA had a head start and was some years ago allegedly the best combo with Nvidia hardware for AI programming. Over a period of time a lot of companies/projects have come to use CUDA, and so it has an advantage both for compatibility and know how among many AI programmers.

It’s kind of like how X86 has maintained a market lead on desktops and servers, despite ARM being very competitive. The change of API is disruptive and costly, so people stay with what already works.

Buffalox ,

I was thinking more which had the better gameplay. All else is fluff around that IMO.
Diablo II for instance had very minor story and dialogue, but is an all time classic.

Buffalox ,

China is on an insane powertrip about Taiwan, and quite frankly they can go fuck themselves IMO.
Taiwan is an independent nation, we don’t have to respect China in any way in that regard. If they agree to become one nation again that’s their decision, but Chinese threats of military invasion and takeover are immoral, and we should NOT accept the “One China” policy in any way that threatens Taiwans right to self determination.

Buffalox , (edited )

That’s kind of the opposite, Taiwan is a de facto independent nation, Texas is not. Texas is a state in a federation it joined voluntarily, that prohibits secession. Still if they can politically negotiate independence, and the rest of USA accept that, USA shouldn’t start a war later to take it back.

As you saw with EU, UK could become independent, because those are the terms when you join EU.

The split of Taiwan from China is a result of civil war, and Taiwan has been independent since 1945, that’s 79 years of independence. China reluctantly accepted this because they lacked power to invade. For many years Taiwan rulers claimed to be the legitimate rulers of China, which was ridiculous, now China claims to be the legitimate rulers of Taiwan which is equally ridiculous. To restart an almost century old war against a peaceful neighbor because of some sense of entitlement is insane.

The country was split in a civil war, there is no law of nature that requires the two to be one.
It’s a sick way of thinking, that you can claim sovereignty by power over an independent nation. Just because historically the borders were different.

By that logic, Denmark could claim to be rightful rulers of Ireland, UK, Norway, half of Sweden, Northern Germany, Estonia and Iceland.
It’s absolute insanity for a nation to feel entitled in that way. Even if we (Denmark) could, it wouldn’t be better for anybody… Except maybe UK.

Yes once Taiwan was part of China, but it isn’t anymore. If Texas want independence, they’ll have to work on it politically.

Buffalox ,

So your idea of premium is fragile and expensive?
Plastic has superior usability in every way, weight, bulk, durability, shock absorption, less slippery than glass, meaning it doesn’t drop out of pockets handbags or even hands as easily.
So what part about a high end plastic is that isn’t premium in this situation?

Buffalox ,

Nice to finally see a review stating what I’ve been thinking ever since the Samsung Galaxy 2 was scorned 13 years ago by reviewers for having a plastic back, and not having the premium feel of the much more fragile iPhone.
Ever since it’s like a conspiracy of reviewers hailing the premium feel of metal unibodies or glass backs, despite the clearly lower quality of those materials, while dissing superior plastic bodies that weigh less, has way better shock absorption, is less bulky, and is less slippery and therefore less prone to drop out of pockets or bags.
The main reason it feels more “premium” is the extra weight, which is clearly detrimental to usability.

It’s like cheap stuff like cheap loudspeakers, where they have iron bars in them to ad weight, to make the speaker “feel” better. Where a speaker with a stronger (magnet) may actually be better.

But with phones it is 100% people fooling themselves, if they think heavier is better, and fragile glass is somehow better than sturdy quality synthetics.

Buffalox ,

Absolutely, but I think they feel they have to, to get good reviews.

Buffalox ,

Ah yes the classic story about the guy who asked for a suite without windows, and the concierge says: “Ah you want the polonium suite then!”.

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