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byDrethon
2025 @11:09AM
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Attached to: 'Colleges Oversold Education. Now They Must Sell Connection'
It's worth *something*, but the price has been outpacing inflation by a wide margin for years and years.
So we have value, but the price has been running away...
This is my thought. Being somewhat pedantic I feel like oversold is not quite right as there is still value in what they are selling, but they are going overboard on the costs to provide the degree. Many local/State colleges are still more than worthwhile.
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byDrethon
3, 2025 @12:37PM
(#65832901)
Attached to: Windows 11 Growth Slows As Millions Stick With Windows 10
Repeating somewhat a recent post. I bought a pretty powerful gaming desktop 8 or 10 years ago. Now it still runs all of the games I play (short of like Starfield but it will run Cyberpunk 2077 fairly well). Until the computer is not fast enough I don't need a new one and if someone hacks my machine, a bunch of computer games is not a great loss. What value is Win 11? Not the price of replacing the hardware in this desktop to me.
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byDrethon
2025 @01:09PM
(#65830497)
Attached to: Trump Administration To Take Equity Stake In Former Intel CEO's Chip Startup
Investment into a chip startup. What is that these days, like investing $500 toward someone learning an advanced degree?
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byDrethon
2025 @01:56PM
(#65824921)
Attached to: How Bad Will RAM and Memory Shortages Get?
We may have freed up RAM capacity by limiting unnecessary computer purchases.
Oh my gaming computer will not be replaced for some time until it is worth updating it, even if Micro$soft thinks otherwise. If someone hacks it, not much of value will be lost. Note most of my games are indie games that run just fine on a computer that was near top of the line eight years ago.
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byDrethon
2025 @05:59PM
(#65816027)
Attached to: The Slow Transformation of Notepad Into Something Else Entirely Continues
I use notepad++ for little note windows, the tabs work great. It can be unwieldy if you have 30+ tabs
notepad++ just feels a little heavy for note windows, but if notepad gets worse, it might be the better option.
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byDrethon
2025 @02:19PM
(#65815627)
Attached to: The Slow Transformation of Notepad Into Something Else Entirely Continues
Use something better like notepad++, if you are still using notepad maybe change your workflow. I realize that this can be difficult if you are doing tech support on someone elses machine.
I love notepad++ for most of my document editing outside of an IDE, except I liked notepad for having a bunch of little note windows. Maybe I'll have to switch over to the sticky notes app and forget notepad.
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byDrethon
2025 @08:17AM
(#65814911)
Attached to: 'We Could've Asked ChatGPT': UK Students Fight Back Over Course Taught By AI
as a rule content that is largely AI generated is not useful
Keep deluding yourself. If AI is not useful then why are trillions of dollars being invested in it? Or is your thesis that all the tech corporations in the world are idiots? If it hasn't massively increased your productivity then, sorry, but you ain't using it right.
AI is very useful, it does a lot of things with summarization and compression that really exceeds previous capabilities. However a lot of those trillions of dollars are not being invested in what AI does good, but instead what AI _appears_ to do good by sounding very authoritative on things it is wrong about, much like a lot of people running tech corporation. Not the first time companies have invested poorly in new technology and many companies will be pruned and lose all of that investment just like has happened before.
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byDrethon
9, 2025 @11:33AM
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Attached to: Gen Z Officially Worse At Passwords Than 80-Year-Olds
There is a difference between your Bank account password and your Slashdot password. I am perfectly willing to use 123456 as my slashdot password. I don't, but I am willing to use it. But my bank accounts now use two factor authentication.
Frankly, there are a ton of services that ask for a password for the benefit of the SERVICE, not for you. They want their metadata on you to be clean, rather than caring about your privacy.
If the study did not ask what the passwords were for, then the study proved nothing.
I have a simple word/number password I use for slashdot and websites. Security extensions have told me the password showed up on the darkweb and I need to change it, I really don't care enough.
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byDrethon
2025 @04:19PM
(#65803449)
Attached to: Oracle is Already Underwater On Its 'Astonishing' $300B OpenAI Deal
Oracle stock is up almost 19 percent on the year still and it looks like most of the drop is a correction after the stock jumped after the announcement? Not that I think Oracle is a good company to buy, but this report seems a little off from what the stock is doing.
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byDrethon
2, 2025 @03:34PM
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Attached to: US Ends Penny-Making Run After More Than 230 Years
For those who don't remember, the plan to stop minting pennies in the 1960s got canned when the John Bircher Society came out claiming it was Communist influence, somehow.
I support removing the penny, but I also think I would support being able to watch the fireworks if someone could make a popular video linking to this claim to say Trump removing the penny is Communist... sorry, end of a long day.
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byDrethon
2025 @01:42PM
(#65730250)
Attached to: Microsoft Wants You To Talk To Your PC and Let AI Control It
... with the voice control nonsense. If you're physically disabled then voice control is obviously a major win, but for everyone else its almost always much quicker to type with a keyboard or use a mouse/finger unless you're doing something like text dictation and even then its a PITA to do delete/amend. Car makers don't seem have got this memo either.
Yep, tried it out twenty years ago. Got really good accuracy after a couple hours of training and it pretty much did everything I could need to do with a PC. Unfortunately, voice command still doesn't work as good as a mouse and keyboard.
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byDrethon
2025 @01:40PM
(#65730242)
Attached to: 'China Has Overtaken America'
Can I adjust that for you?
"Trump Administration Hands U.S. Supremacy to China on a Glass Plaque"
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byDrethon
2025 @04:48PM
(#65713074)
Attached to: Insurers Balk At Paying Out Huge Settlements For Claims Against AI Firms
This was my thoughts. Insurance against bankruptcy seems like a horrible bet for the insurance company without massive premiums.
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byDrethon
2025 @06:48PM
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Attached to: Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
[ ] Verify you associate with the mental condition formerly known as "being human".
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byDrethon
2025 @02:02PM
(#65698998)
Attached to: Linkedin CEO Says Fancy Degrees Will Matter Less in the Future of Work
With all the AI posts on LinkedIn that are presented as something real, LinkedIn doesn't really know what AI is, despite claiming expertise. Seems like the CEO knows even less.
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