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What does this have to do with Alibaba? Are you saying Alibaba is the reseller? If not it sounds like you are describing a separate phenomenon.

It is even worse than the article says. You can, though these dialogs, wind up having folder on your hard drive moved around, have your desktop or other folders which you do not in…

Obviously ~nobody has read this yet... But I did have a question based on the opening: "If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop u…

I haven't had much success yet with this. My ratings follow. Reading and interpreting datasheets: A- (this has gotten a LOT better in the last year) Give netlist to LLM and ask it …

Lots of this is right, but > and PRC's was to peak emissions by 2030s This appears to be wrong. Peak is supposed to be before 2030. They will not hit it. https://climateactiontrack…

This is not energy output (production, usage), it is that plus an adjustment for the in->out energy efficiency. It would only == production if all energy sources in the mix has the…

That metric doesn't answer the same question. It isn't saying 18% of their needs are being met by renewables.

Beautiful pictures. To be clear: China runs on coal and will for the foreseeable future. https://www.iea.org/countries/china https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-…

If you want a consequentialist answer: If, for ethical reasons, fewer people were willing to take these jobs, then either salaries would have to rise or the work would be done less…

> Article Context-free raw #'s "Dollar General stores have failed more than 4,300 government price-accuracy inspections in 23 states since January 2022" Is this a lot or a little? …

Article Context-free raw #'s, no comparisons to traditional grocery stores AFAIK. Dad journalism. You should not update on this article unless you have some outside knowledge of th…

Why is this worth doing? What wrong with the status quo? The author does not give any examples of Oracle threatening people for using the JavaScript (tm) name.

Interesting line to draw: - you can record all manner of video in your store... - but you can't process it in this particular way.

The authors largest bullet point is on author identification. What are the arguments against this and do people really feel they outweigh the benefits? My view: I would think given…

Malpractice slightly hyperbolic. But anybody relying on Gary's posts in order to be be informed on this subject is being being mislead. This isn't an isolated incident either. Peop…

Papers make specific conclusions based on specific data. The paper I linked specifically rebuts the conclusions of the paper. Gary makes vague statements that could be interpreted …

This doesn't rebut anything from the best critique of the Apple paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09250

Many people drive places other (further) than work multiple times a year. "75 mile battery" wouldn't even be good enough for a one-way trip of this kind let alone there and back ag…

The authors don't say anything like this that I can see. Their conclusion specifically identifies these as weaknesses of current frontier models. Furthermore we have clearly seen i…

People are drawing erroneous conclusions from this. My read of this is that the paper demonstrates that given a particular model (and the problems examined with it) that giving mor…

This is about way more than software. It's all R&D It's effectively 6 years too. You only get to depreciate 10% in 1st year. This might have killed my company if it was around duri…

That isn't the reason. They sunset in the bill so it has a lower CBO score (which calculates costs out to 10 years). If you sunset in the bill after 5 years, even if you know it wi…

NOT in professional communication. If you want to run your lab that way, feel free.

We have certain professional communications standards in the scientific community. This isn't a corner bar.

Profanity should not be in the title of scientific articles. Most unprofessional. In addition, titling your article for shock value should be discouraged. The end point will be a d…