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New comment by notabotiswear in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

notabotiswear — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:24:16 +0000

Yes. Perhaps pushing sophisticated models that require validation, on users who most definitely won't (and the whole premise of the model itself is that it spares them work) was a bad idea...

New comment by notabotiswear in "Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents"

notabotiswear — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:55:26 +0000

Yes, but did they _pinky promise?_

New comment by notabotiswear in "Mexico crackdown on coastal development"

notabotiswear — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:18:20 +0000

Now that's just wasted effort. Why save the rich from themselves? Let them build on coasts and see their investments slowly drown over the coming years.

Seriously, it's refreshing to see an authority figuring out that fines are only a bar to make an activity exclusive to the wealthy.

New comment by notabotiswear in "Earth.nullschool.net"

notabotiswear — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:38:54 +0000

Something something about immitation being the sincerest flatery.

The website works for me.

New comment by notabotiswear in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

notabotiswear — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:17:11 +0000

I would say it was growth that killed it, and what would kill any platform that allows some sort of public-facing, user content.

Keep adding people, and you would both lower your bar towards an obviously low average, and you increase the pressure to "particpate", which is damaging even to scenes that do have high barriers of entry [1].

MS added the KPI-maxxing corpo cancer that boosted the decay, but I don't believe they were a cause. To quote the AI bros, "it's inevitable."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish

New comment by notabotiswear in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

notabotiswear — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:41:41 +0000

Those unfortunate enough to be desperate for a job (or keeping the one they have) do. Which sadly translates to a very huge portion of the population.

New comment by notabotiswear in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

notabotiswear — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:15:26 +0000

It depends on the water balance. Reservoirs would help you smooth out variability/seasonality and mitigate infrequent, short term droughts, depending on its size. They would not help with a long term drought or if you are water stressed (i.e. you simply don't have enough to meet demand). Quite the opposite, they may exasperate the issue as they consume (or lose) water themselves.

New comment by notabotiswear in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

notabotiswear — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:10:47 +0000

Can't speak for Hungary specifically, but the problem with flat terrain wrt hydro storage isn't just elevation difference - which can be offset with flowrate - it's the large surface area to storage and to depth ratios.

Large lake means more losses, mainly due to evaporation, but seepage is also to be expected. Now put this fact in the thread's context: water shortage/stress...

New comment by notabotiswear in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

notabotiswear — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:31:30 +0000

Planting more PV farms isn't better, it just convolutes the equation and hides the true sources of damage behind things with a less negative image, and would eventually just prove Jevon's law, one way or the other.

Not preceding "using better" with "consuming less" (on a system-wide basis) would get you the same result as going for recycling while forgoing the first R: empty, marketing points in green-coloured font.

New comment by notabotiswear in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

notabotiswear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:47:38 +0000

Some sorta god complex resulting from dealing with machines that has the sole purpose of answering one’s commands, perhaps?

New comment by notabotiswear in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

notabotiswear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:52:15 +0000

Uh, how many rapists do you guys have trolling about to even manage to produce a percentage like that?

New comment by notabotiswear in "Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI"

notabotiswear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:25:32 +0000

More like 90-ish percent. On the high side, yes, many educators have experiences that would make the figure relatable.

Signed: Someone who had to do away with prose/essay assignments after the bright people in tech decided that making these "tools" accessible is a good idea.

New comment by notabotiswear in "Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction"

notabotiswear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:25:26 +0000

It's a game for those with the most cash to burn, and Zuck has that cash (or the ridiculous and numerous equivalents the financers/economists come up with whenever the old set of Monopoly currencies come up short).

New comment by notabotiswear in "French President Macron backs effort to ban kids under 15 from social media"

notabotiswear — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:00:41 +0000

Create the demand and supply will follow...

Not that I agree with the premise that there isn't anything to do. Even if were to limit the scope to just your examples, printing presses are still around, and those screens can be used as digital alternatives.

The only missing input from society here is that it actually need to put real effort into raising its young.

New comment by notabotiswear in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

notabotiswear — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:53:01 +0000

It also makes choosing it easier for others. “Hosting on Codeberg is a good indicator my code is handcrafted”, or somesuch.

I don’t want nor am I interested in arguing whether “handcrafted” is good or bad, just positing that some people would prefer it. May not be great for [i]growth[/i], but it’s not like Codeberg is a service by a megacorp aiming to corner the market (one of the reasons why everything is regressing to mediocre slop these days, but I digress).

That Torvalds plays for the other team is irrelevant. But if we’re mentioning him, one should recall that it was ol’ swears-a-lot himself who said “fork it or just walk away” on a similar topic.

New comment by notabotiswear in "How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in"

notabotiswear — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:46:50 +0000

To be fair, that’s 50% the shop’s fault. They could have probably provided access via a link like GDrive allows. But of course, some moron on the other end would probably find it incomprehensible why you don’t already have an MS account or why you’re not willing/hesitant to create one, “it’s free!”

Of course, even if they did give an “insecure” link, you’d probably have suffered a terrible experience of failed downloads, partial and corrupted downloads, random snail speeds, etc.

(Sorry, I had to vent)

New comment by notabotiswear in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

notabotiswear — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:35:31 +0000

Have to throw in this 13 year old Ars Technica article as a follow up:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...

Still amazes me how everyone isn't cynical-by-default about anything Google (or big tech in general) open-sources yet...

New comment by notabotiswear in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

notabotiswear — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:29:09 +0000

Writings on the wall can’t be clearer on AOSP’s future…

New comment by notabotiswear in "Egypt Is Building a New Nile"

notabotiswear — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:04:44 +0000

I believe you are [trying to?] dedcribe typical river morphodynamics; meandering and oxbow lake formation. While yes, they do happen, rivers like the Nile, especially in its milder sloped ends in Egypt, don't see the dramatical versions of these phenomena. And even rivers/reaches that do braid/meander a lot tend to do that within a limited corridor. The topic at hand speaks more of inter-basin conveyance.

New comment by notabotiswear in "Egypt Is Building a New Nile"

notabotiswear — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:59:27 +0000

Uh, it isn't. GERD's operation's negative effect on the Nile's yield are minimal, and they could be even positive with coordinated, basin-wide, water management, but that's something Egypt has been continusouly against. They've never really looked at the other nine/ten as equalls...

The problems are that the Nile is a modest River and that Egypt has a population problem in a resources-strapped region, coupled with extremely unsustainable government policies (a topic in itself is an amalgum of compounding issues).