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New comment by flibbityflob in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

flibbityflob — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:40:23 +0000

How will a machine ever replace his famous warmth or empathy?

New comment by flibbityflob in "Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply"

flibbityflob — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:46:24 +0000

Have they tried paying them consistently?

New comment by flibbityflob in "Is OpenSUSE at Crossroads?"

flibbityflob — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 16:01:57 +0000

“Linux distros are dying!!!”

“The young people are !!!”

Literally in the same thought. It’s almost impressive.

New comment by flibbityflob in "Americans Are Skipping Doctor Visits Due to Costs"

flibbityflob — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 06:03:18 +0000

Water gets wetter.

New comment by flibbityflob in "I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days"

flibbityflob — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:06:25 +0000

As an example, my 2017 Corolla runs the fuel pump for a while 5 hours after shutdown to test fuel system pressurization. I didn’t even know until I recently started parking it inside and I finally heard it running.

New comment by flibbityflob in "Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge"

flibbityflob — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:39:01 +0000

I think if the Tesla had been avoiding a hazard, there would be a lot more gray area for FSD to hide in. It’s true that sudden braking and swerving is sometimes the least-bad thing for a driver to do, but if a human driver showed a pattern of repeatedly performing that maneuver for no reason, at some point a reasonable person would have to conclude that that driver is at least partly at fault for the inevitable crash that happens.

New comment by flibbityflob in "Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup"

flibbityflob — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:06:13 +0000

Microsoft has a(t least one) Linux Distro: CBL-Mariner [1]. Not a desktop offering, obviously, but I felt like it was worth pointing out.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner

New comment by flibbityflob in "ONiO.zero offers a RISC-V Microcontroller that runs without battery"

flibbityflob — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 22:38:09 +0000

The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions.

The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."

Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.