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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Or reprise their old assistants from XP.

At least a "computer Wizard" would make them stand out compared to ChatGPT in a funny box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Excel definitely has its flaws though. For example, in science, it will mangle your data in its attempts to be helpful by reformatting the file if you so much as open it.

The genomics committee had to change their naming scheme for some genes because excel kept converting them into dates (for example, you had a MAR-10 gene, it'd be converted into a timestamp or 3/10) and destroying the names, even if the file wasn't saved.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

CPUs have multiple cores now? Amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The split might leave a monopoly still, if it's the only major browser.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (18 children)

If Mozilla does become defunct, it does raise the question of whether Chrome would be considered a Google monopoly, and therefore subject to antitrust legislation.

I can't imagine any governments would look kindly upon internet access being guarded behind a single company's product.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least it's better than ed.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That, and people don't know how to adjust them, or are unwilling to. My parents' cars have a dial to adjust the headlight angle for when carrying weight in the back of the car, or when towing, but they never touch the setting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Does he think that the demand for AI-accelerating hardware is just going to go away? That the requirement of fast, dedicated memory attached to a parallel processing/matrix multiplying unit (aka a discreet GPU) is just going to disappear in the next five years‽

Maybe the idea is to put it on the CPU/NPU instead? Hence them going so hard on AI processors in the CPU, even though basically nothing uses it.

[–] [email protected] 182 points 6 days ago (13 children)

The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.

They're not, though. Stark is a rare engineering powerhouse who personally pushed past a lot of engineering boundaries, and Musk is an investor/programmer who mostly puts his name on existing things.

I might change my mind if Musk personally invents AGI, nanobots, and a previously-unknown clean energy source capable of powering a 1/3rd of NYC with a room no larger than a foyer, like Stark did, but I'm not holding out much by way of hopes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

They'll be boggled by hiccough and gaol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That was his name. Plus, unexpectedly being exposed to that kind of content does leave an impact, more often than not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Automatic moderation has been a boon in that way. A decent portion of it gets caught by the automatic procedures, instead of having to deal with CSAM and spam yourself.

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