Posts by CowHorseFrog

Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs

Did G use AI to write the entire app from scratch ?

Of course not. DOnt need to tell you the rest.

Re: AI Coding Agents: Failing to Do the Most-Common Programming Tasks

Exactly people cant grasp that even IF (big IF) ai was super intelligent... how is it going to fix or create if it doesnt know EVERY SINGLE detail of the problem it is solving ?

A lot of communication about a bug is scattered, some in emails, something a user expresses over the phone and more. Given AI cant "talk" and "listen" its simply not able to actually listen and learn.

Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

Im shocked, this cant be true, Zuck is saving the world.

Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity

Re: Experience a friend had with 4 day week

Hours is a poor measure of productivity.

We have all seen how often stuff gets rewritten or features continued to get fixed multiple times because the past efforts were pathetic.

Just because someone sits many hours doesnt mean they are producing quality.

Its almost like CEOs think they are jail wardens and their workers are nothing more than serfs or slaves.

Good old American freedom.

EU may target US tech giants in tariff response

Re: Reserve currency

Large portion of USA pop wants to disconnect ?

THey dont even know the world exists.

The EU may not be a federal state but they are able to punish countries in financial ways, such as withholding funds etc with recent examples against HUngary a prime example because of their human rights policies.

Re: That's not Karma

Of course there is no Karma god watching and counting, but bad stuff does eventually follow people.

Look at the USA, the gun violence problem is an example of karma, it has created a horrible situation and taken peace of mind from many people. Its not perfect but karma has changed things overall cimpared to other places.

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Yes well all know that TSMC are the fab. Im simply pointing out that Trump wants to bring manuf back to america, and he takes a bribe instead of sticking to the national security goal of bringing manuf back.

Surely paying for an exemption from tariffs is working against Trumps bigger vision of MAGA ?

Shouldnt Jensen be charged with treason by trying to circumvent American MAGA goals and delay bringing manuf home ?

EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted

Its strnage how nobody mentions how planned economy all these actions from Trump are. Where he wants to impose on the free market. Nobody in AMerica is mentioning this.

No relegation, only cartels that control the market.

Re: No feet left to shoot

Exactly.

When China gets a taste of food products from other countries why would they want to pick fake chemical food from America ?

Chinese food quality is poor, everybody remembers the scandal where one milk company was adding some nasty mining byproduct to water and selling it as milk. When that happened families in china everywhere bought Australian and NZ milk not American.

Why because they know Australia and NZ stands for quality.

Countries like AU and NZ also have the advantage of no tariffs with China, nobody in their right mind would be inferior garbage american food when they can buy the very best from AU and NZ.

Best here means not that the food is shiny, but best where it counts, real food, not chemical poisoned crap with no taste and only "weight".

America is not competitive...

Bit hard to make things cheap when you pay your ceo billions in bonuses.

Re: EU to charge citizens 25% extra tax on loads of stuff and pocket a stash of their cash.

Maybe China wont remove them.

They have a real complex about western countries treating them like shit. China has not forgotten what Japan did in WW2, and they still view the occupation of HK and other colonies as a century of shame.

I dont think China is going to back down without a significant win for their side, which I dont think Trump can give. TRump has ruined this relationship for a long time.t

China has already signiicantly pollutted its homeland, ruins millions of people by overworking them, theres no way they will lose face here. THey are quite happy to have their hordes of workers pay the price.

Re: Trump vs the EU

When someone tries too hard to tell you the truth you can be sure the opposite is true.

Lots of nationalism and claims that they love America. MAGA, etc.

No different from North Korea or Russia with their Make Russia Great agenda.

IM sure sening millions of RUssians home in body bags is great for their families.

Im sure all the pension funds who have been destroyed by Trump is appreciated equally by those ordinary Americans.

PRetty obvious nationalism is always a perfect marker for an arsehole, who never helps their country .

Hitler, Putin, Kim, Trump.

THe pattern and propaganda is always the same.

Re: No feet left to shoot

Did you see my repeated posts where i have mentioned Trump is a selfish arsehole who only thinks about himself ? I have questioned many times why would anyone vote for a person whose only promise is to fuck everyone else but himself and never to give or help otehrs ?

Re: Trump vs the EU

Minnows ?

If one removes the poor Eastern European countries like Albania or Moldova, USA is easily the poorest.

Remember because Elon and his cabal has Billions doesnt mean you do.

It takes wealth to give citizens freedoms, freedoms like healthcare, personal safety without fear from gun violence, workers like rights.

Poor people cant afford holidays, just look at 1/3 of all Americans dont even have any holidays. American cant even afford to reward the workers who work hard the reward of a month of paid holidays or any holidays at all.

I will skip mentioning the hoardes of people in America who have given up and live the American dream via Fentanol and other chemicals.

Re: No feet left to shoot

And just like poker, everything doubles i nthe next round.

Re: No feet left to shoot

You dont understand Trump negotiations. THis is like poker, one minute its this and then is that. Tomorrow Trump will crush everyone with his next move.

Remember the art of the deal, The genius that is Trump.

I wonder if American flags have tariffs ?

We all know America needs more flags.

Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney

Re: Why hate Musk?

Electric cars are over a 100 years old.

The outstanding problem back then and for a long time was the batteries. Tesla has always been buying batteries from other suppliers. It was innovations in battery that made it practical.

Trains have been electric for over a 100 years. The fuel many burn is to make electricity for the electric engine part. Trolly buses and trams themselves were electric, they use over head power lines.

Re: When all the damage is done

People have choice, they can have no kids, one. or ten.

Being an adult is about living with the consequences of their choices.

> The plight of the Palestinians is the result of decades of oppression where two million humans have been locked up in what can only be described as a prison camp for over 50 years.

Its two million today because they have too many kids. It has been OFFICIAL PLO policy to have lot sof kids so the Palestinians could outvote the non Pal in the Israeli democracy. Many PLO leaders have encouraged P famlies to have a lot of kids for this reason.

The entire story is sick, its sick and wrong to bring a large family into such an environment in the first place. People shouldnt be having 5 or 10 kids if they cant afford one.

The Israelis arent stupid they saw this happening so they locked them up.

Sometimes being this smart isnt a good strategy.

Re: When all the damage is done

The war in Gaza is a perfect example of overpopulation.

TOo many people in a land that simpy cannot give. THe Israelis dont want to share, and the Palestinians in their wisdom have so many kids ... we all see the end result today.

Its also the same reason why nobody else wants the Palestinians. Jordan cant host 3 - 4M MORE people, they live in a fucking desert, with basically no water... Same for Egypt, 120M in a desert. THeir cities are filthy,...

Feel free to go live in Cairo, even the Great Giza Pyramids are surrounded by filth.

Re: When all the damage is done

Hey dip shit.

In the 1980s Ethiopia had 30M citizens and a really bad drought.

Today they have 120M, what do you think happens the next time there is a drought ?

Is it really smart to burn every tree for fire wood, kill every animal, clear all trees to try and grow food for today and have a barren wasteland in the near future where nobody can grow anything ?

What happens there when in another 30 - 40 years they have 300M or 1B in 100 years ?

Re: Tape is here for a long time

Tape is not immutable, it can be erased.. thats not what immutability means.

Re: When all the damage is done

Actually long term aid is a bad thing, it simply causes stupid overpopulation.

If theres one thing the world doesnt need is more people.

Re: Optical media stable?

Trumpeconomics...

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Re: Minor correction

I have quite a dvdr and cdr collection from the old days and the backing film on many is flaking away and they are on good Japanese brands

Re: Minor correction

Isnt a defense weakness to buy hds from south east asia...

I mean how exactly can you trust those hds are beaming all that data back to china ?

Re: Minor correction

And what happens when the HD fails ?

Re: Only $1M?

Someone has to pay for all the security and AFOne flights for Trump to play golf.

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

Re: Erm

Said it before and will say it again. Trump only thinks about helping Trump.

Stock manipulation everyone else are just victims.

Re: Trump doesn't think

$1000 for a phone yesterday is no more a bargain than $1500 tomorrow, when your old phone was fine. If you are happy to spend 100% on buying a new phone or no reason except vanity, then whats 130 or 150%.?

Re: Attrition

Hey you seem to forget that Musk is Trumps side kick... hes the man on earth who knows more about manufacturing than anyone else.

Re: Trump doesn't think

Trump has done more research than you think. Remember he knows Musk, the guy who knows more about manufacturing than anyone else on the planet. We all know Musk can easily make phones, remember when he promised the Tesla phone a few years back.

Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana

Heres a crazy idea why doesnt Atlassian run this on their massive issue list for Jira or Confluence or any of their bug ridden corpses sorry software.?

SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts

Re: Who would have thought it!

So why have SpaceX failed to achieve a single deadline for landing a man on the moon ?

Thats a $3B gift and SpaceX has not delieverd anything.

Re: Who would have thought it!

You fail to also include all the other grants and freebies that SpaceX receives from tax payers.

Everything Musk does has freeies from local, state or federal governments, to pretend otherwise is plainly dishonest.

Re: Who would have thought it!

John: Why do you think a commercial company would sell at cost? Of course there's a mark up.

cow:

I never said there was no markup, im simply pointing out when yuo actually look at the price, SX is hardly cheaper than ULA or anybody else.

Feel free to quote my words where i said they should not make a profit.

Way to reply Mr Trump, inventing words I never said or implied.

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John: Although I'm assuming that you quoted SpaceX's cost price and ULAs "retail" price so you could big up the difference.

cow: I never used the word COST, i was simply reiterating the price many others CLAIM spaceX charge without actually giving TRUE numbers.

Re: that sounds unlikely

Americans dont use meters, the M is short for minutes.

Its military policy that Ospreys must not fly further than 30m from their base because they could fail.

Re: Don't feel sorry for Boeing

Why not simply fire 100x missiles instead of having one fighter plane ?

Those 100x missiles will also hit far more targets and cost far less.

Fighter planes need hundreds of man hours so they can fly again. Nobody can fight a REAL war like that. Your enemy isnt going to let you take 2 weeks to prepare your fighter for the next bomb it drops.

UK's attempt to keep details of Apple 'backdoor' case secret… denied

Re: Yvette loves to do things behind closed doors...

I never claimed it was free.

But its far more affordable than America corporate health.

Imagine if all the other things provided by the gov was corporate. Imagine Big Pharma running all the other stuff ?

Yeh keep on believing that the market brings prices down. Keep on believing the American dream.

You have been brainwashed jus tlike the NK of this world.

Re: yeh right

Yeh lets give everything to the megacorps im sure they care far more about you.

Let me know how well that goes when you need an operation or you lose your job and have no money for food and somewhere to sleep.

Don't open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE

Its a good thing that Whats App invests a few QA testers to verify periodically that this function does indeed work.

Re: It's 2025....

Yeh a 100B program like WhatApps doesnt have the resources to actually check ?

Re: It's 2025....

This problem exists because Whats app didnt put the effort to actually think iff opening every file without checks is a good thing. THey took the lazy option and didnt give a fuck.

No this problem exists because most people think LESS code is better than MORE code which actually does some safety checks.

Samsung trumps USA's tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed

Said it before will say it again, the mor eyou need to say something or publicize it like MAGA the more its bullshit.

Take the other day when Musk had a few Teslas outside the WH and Trump was saying how much he loved Tesla.

Why would anyone give a shit what an old fart like Trump says about cars in the first place ?

USAID like all other aide programs a way to bribe officials in other countries...

Some gets thru but a lot disappears to make local officials happy.

IBM's z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance

Dollar for dollar im pretty sure you can buy a thousand pcs that will kill that mainframe.