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Add a Tufte sidebar and Houston, we have nirvana.

And maybe some aspirin too, but probably less than you think.

Good point. What WOULD be the minimum age recommendation for Diplomacy ? A kid would have to be ready for blatant manipulation and mendacity.

Help! Murder! Police!

Stripping out copper... the USA has joined the ranks of post-Soviet Europe, where such thefts are (or have been at some point) routine. Infra-harvesting.

This makes you wonder what the US intel community (NSA et al.) must be doing with all THEIR massive A.I. power. Decades ago Bamford said the NSA always tried to be ten years ahead of the civilian state of the art. Of course that would not be possible nowadays (one would assume), but still, there has to be quite the sparring match going on in the shadows.

If you can also keep the usual tobacco-processing chemicals and other additives out, is the bare leaf, nicotine-free, arguably no worse than other common vices ?

Developer documentation in /src, yes. Anything else, no way.

IME developers have low tolerance for interrupting flow to track down the docu that is aimed at them, so keep it near and obvious.

> Those are infrared sensors that pick up the heat from car engines. They've had to be modified to pick up electric cars.

Do they pick up ICE motorcycles ? Electric motorcycles ?

Yup. It becomes crystal clear that nobody in authority in roadworks & traffic drives a motorcycle.

Did they learn this from the airlines ?

No no no it's not a game named Hex. It's a gaming genre where units move on a field of hexagons.

Let's play real stuff.

"Playing Hex and Counter Wargames using Reinforcement Learning and Recurrent Neural Networks"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13918

Stupid question: Does "total model footprint of 5.9GB" mean it will run in 8GB of RAM ? Or is that the size on disk ?

I grew up in the 60s & 70s and I was SO sure I'd be able to go into orbit for (say) my 40th birthday. Pan-Am space clippers and more.

No such luck tho. The US had the tech - but not affordably.

So let's acquire good karma by being nice to animals.

It's cleaning the dang bathroom.

AFAICT Finns don't know about them. I wonder if they're an Anglo-Saxon thang.

Those headlights look straight out of the "Cars" movies.

That rocks.

Why do file dialogs have a button for this ?

> An AI could make and release some super-pathogen or virus.

So could a human, if sufficiently educated and motivated.

TFA is lossy compression ?

> I would have expected at least a toggle to keep old Siri on the old watch.

Nasty destructive surprises in upgrades.

Years ago I had lots of archival material organized on my Mac under the root "/". Why not, right? It's a Unix-y system and Linux lets you put stuff anywhere. I had directory trees copied from old hard drives. Personal history.

So along comes a macOS upgrade and BLAM! all my stuff there gets deleted without warning or so much as a Hi how do you do.

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -Alexis De Tocqueville

But turns out it's a fun game for another branch of government too.

So fade the stem to dark grey already.

Sure, it's a satire of fascism, so the movie was lost on Americans and didn't do well in the box office there.

Ya gotta wonder how pervasive facial recognition affects the espionage trade.

Perhaps his idea was to remove the pro-violence influence of the likes of Cheney and Trump. War is not healthy for children and other living things.

> We could ask if it is possible to end up with an AI that is smart enough to destroy humanity and at the same time still blind enough to consequences and/or callous enough to do it

Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing any A.I. trained under the direction of Larry Ellison.