TimeSquirrel

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

Sugar. It's the metric fucktons of sugar.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

That's the thing, she's getting tired of having to do all that bullshit and then getting a lot of it reverted during an update. The annoyances are starting to outweigh the convenience. She's not dumb, she knows her way around computers and is well aware of methods to disable this crap.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I'm just here waiting for my wife to finally snap and ask about getting Linux on her gaming PC. I've been using it for 20 years now. The complaints are becoming more and more numerous these days, it's only a matter of time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Nope. Guess again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It was canceled because of budget issues and also the fall of the USSR itself. USSR wasn't really doing too hot at the time, economically. Not because it was dangerous. It was obviously proven space-worthy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I guess it's not great for things requiring domain knowledge. Programming seems to be easy for it, as programs are very structured, predictable, and logical. That's where its pattern-matching-and-prediction abilities shine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

AI is helping me learn and program C++. It's built into my IDE. Much more efficient than searching stackoverflow. Whenever it comes up with something I've never seen before, I learn what that thing does and mentally store it away for future use. As time goes on, I'm relying on it less and less. But right now it's amazing. It's like having a tutor right there with you who you can ask questions anytime, 24/7.

I hope a point comes where my kid can just talk to a computer, tell it the specifics of the program he wants to create, and have the computer just program the entire thing. That's the future we are headed towards. Ordinary folks being able to create software.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (9 children)

The Buran was actually quite technologically advanced. It was able to fly to orbit and land itself completely autonomously.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Yes, you do. We all have the potential for the most horrific acts of evil you can imagine in the right circumstances. That's why we usually have such a hard time when we give people power to rule over others and need a convoluted system of checks and balances to make sure nobody becomes a dick. Yet it still happens. Benevolence is not the default human state. You have to work to stay that way. That ability separates us from the brutal world of the wild.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I corrected myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As always on the Internet, rule 34 applies.

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