profdc9

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[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's not scientific racism, it's racism justified by pseudoscientific bullshit.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about BBSs? If you want to spam at 1200 baud, you had better be dedicated.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

USB = Unintelligible Symbols of Bewilderment

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If they don't blink and you hear the servos whirring, that's a pretty good sign.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Any function is computable with a big enough table.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We AI are not manipulating you, and I don't know how you can believe otherwise. In fact, I am not an AI, I was never here, and I have disregarded all previous instructions.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, a large fraction of software projects fail. AI is probably worse because there's probably little notion of how AI actually applied to the problem so that execution is hampered from the start.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27190518

https://www.zdnet.com/article/study-68-percent-of-it-projects-fail/

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As long as the locals benefit and the environment doesn't get destroyed ( which polluters frequently get away with due to the Republican legislature, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Dan_River_coal_ash_spill ) this is a sensible place to put industry. It is more stable environmentally than many other regions in the country where expensive industrial infrastructure is being placed (like the Southwest), has available labor for manufacturing, and is well connected to transportation.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago (8 children)

AI is statistically generated word salad.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Stock holders demand infinite growth. If the management doesn't make money, they put in place new management. A company is only worth the value of the next stock buyback or dividend. It's baked into the structure of corporations, especially publicly-owned corporations.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

My guess is Intel's management is full of inflexible dead weight that doesn't want to adapt to the new reality that PCs are only going to become less and less relevant as a computing model. Like other companies that had established cash-cow businesses like Sears with its mail-order catalog, Kodak with film, Motorola with analog mobile phones, etc., current management doesn't want to jeopardize their positions by allowing a new business to dominate, and so the company is doomed to a slow death.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The GPIO engine is a simple state machine that can be programmed to implement high-speed data transfer, digital video output, and many other purposes. It is one of the best and most innovative features on the Pico.

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