Gordonjcp

So what we have here is a vastly overcomplicated development of a perfectly ordinary lathe chuck. I guess the patented bit is the vastly improved scope for things to go wrong and jam?

How exactly is it a political problem?

Nobody does believe the Earth is flat.

Yes, but nobody ever believed that Uri Geller could really bend spoons.

Penn and Teller, for example.

Or, going back a lot further, Paul Daniels, who did the same kind of thing Penn and Teller did on his TV show decades earlier, where he'd show you a trick, then show you it slowly, then show you how to do it, then show you the same trick with a twist you'd never figure out - real magic :-D

He actually wrote a computer game in the 1980s where you had to learn to do some close-up magic tricks in real life in order to solve the in-game puzzles.

The real magic is showing people exactly how the trick is done, and *still* fooling them with it.

The problem is that its safety is being compared to human drivers on every possible kind of road, when it only works on straight well-lit motorways with everyone travelling at the same speed in the same direction, which tends to be when human drivers don't have accidents at all and when Telsas make an absolute fucking beeline for emergency vehicles.

So, much the same as Tesla Autopilot, which is currently far less safe than driving manually?

[citation needed]

Portions of the "Autopilot" and FSD systems are written in Node.

You reckon self-driving cars are going to be safer? I have a 1998 Range Rover that barely has *any* software on board, never mind things that will shit a brick because of the next Leftpad Incident.

Okay, so relatively new then. Cool, no worries.

The "new Ubuntu crap" is actually pretty good. You should take a look at it.

Right, but that's all taken care of. Chromebooks outsell everything else, and Android phones outsell everything else, and Steam Decks haven't quite got there yet but it's early days.

Linux is 100% of one market segment, broadband routers. No matter how staunch a Windows zealot someone is, there's a bunch of stuff they depend on that cannot be done with Windows at all, not no-how.

Sure, but if you can get some sort of understandable result, we might learn a bit more about what the worm's neurons are doing.

Would you mind explaining why you think I said that?

Yeah exactly, like the car industry. Christ, can you imagine if one of those cloud-cuckoolander morons decided they wanted to start a car company? You'd have kinda cool-looking cars that were surprisingly affordable but all the switches would be replaced by a big touchscreen that's too bright to look at when you're driving at night, and all the important safety systems would be written in node.js or some damn thing.

Same. I wanted to buy a really chunky graphics card for BMD Fusion, but the price got pushed up by the cryptobro wankers mining their Dunning-Krugerrand, and now the price is getting pushed up by all the chatgpt wankers trying to run hardware-accelerated Eliza bots.

Video is a niche market, and NVidia has had that sewn up for 20 years or so now.

Actually, no.

NVidia has always been the first choice for graphics work, and especially now with large complex VFX pipelines there really isn't an alternative - particularly since most of that work is done on Linux which has always had excellent support from NVidia.

> There's a long list of construction startups who thought the industry was low-tech simply because everyone in it was dumb, and that they would be the smartest guys in the room who'd revolutionize everything.

And therein lies the problem.

The guys that work in construction aren't "dumb". They're most likely way way *waaaay* smarter than you, particularly about construction, but maybe not so much about the computer industry.

Guess what? Construction is absolutely nothing like the computer industry, and nothing the techbros know about it remotely maps onto construction.

What would a "real world" application of this be? Could I for example chuck a bunch of simulated worms onto a map and have it solve a route? "Given enough worms, all Travelling Salesman problems are shallow?"

> Connectomics used to be a big word when I started my Ph.D.

On a scale of one to ten, how sick are you of people asking you about Neal Stephenson - "The Fall, or Dodge in Hell"?

Oh I could tell you a "throw enough engineers" at it story...

Hm. And how long have you been using Linux, exactly?

Okay, but it's all just Linux. There's no real difference between any of them.

It's a reskinned version of Ubuntu, that has some slightly questionable packaging choices.

> Linux Mint or MX Linux are the way to go here

So, Ubuntu, but with a slightly reskinned UI?

As I mentioned elsewhere, does the conversation "Okay it's just using the Insta login service just now but I'll have its own one ready next week" "nah fuckit, just ship it, it's fine like that" sound likely or indeed familiar to you?

> Is that shitty user-hostile behaviour from Meta? Absolutely yes — but not that shitty.

I think you're reading too much into it. "Shitty user-hostile behaviour" would be "Muahahahaha, if anyone ever wants to get rid of their Threads account they must also *delete their Instagram account*, hahahaha, the world is MINE! MINE, I TELL YOU!" <fx: thunder crash, up grams dramatic music>

Is that scenario more or less likely than "fuck it, just use the Insta signup server for auth, we need to ship something *today*" "yeah okay, that'll take me ten minutes"?

It's old and it still blows me away.

I've seen movie CG that looks way way shittier, that's ten years newer.

I put Google Analytics on my forum because I thought that maybe having it would help it be found in Google Search.

Google Lighthouse immediately started pissing and bitching about slow page load times because it had to wait for Google Analytics to load.

My site still does not really show up much in Google Search.

I binned Google Analytics because it basically did fuck all of any use.

I don't have one of those fucking idiotic cookie popups, because it doesn't need one, no-one needs one, and they're entirely meaningless noise.

Okay, let me know how you get on editing video in ffmpeg.

ffmpeg is one very small but important part of a complex chain.