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The original was published as a one page story. It was later reprinted in a longer format.

For the lawyers: If an AI hacks a company, who should be charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

The effort frontier model providers are going through to generate a permanent client base would make Philip Morris blush.

> Taylor Sheridan can do a new series where a Ranch owned by a family for many generations is targeted by a Datacentre company. It’s all fun and games until the cost of beef and oi…

Look at the host name and learn to temper your expectations.

That’s a pretty uninformed argument. For most of the global south USAID was the arm of America they were most likely to interact with. It was food and schools and medicine and disa…

Both are valuable and present in a well rounded life. The Diary of Anne Frank and Those Who Leave Omelas cause you to question life in different ways.

It still has a monopoly on my heart.

The University of Iowa has a Social Sciences department that has professors in for Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy, and other fields. It’s an accredited institution.…

Oh, how about that! I stopped checking because I maxed out long ago. BTW - They’re still censoring human rights violations.

My computer lacks the ram.

Can anyone check its knowledge base for me? I’m honestly not able to run it and the Qwen models I can run censor information critical towards the Chinese government. Tiananmen Squa…

If Zuckerberg is trying to make you feel guilty, take it as supporting evidence that you’re doing the right thing.

I think people underestimate the loss of physical media in general and video stores in particular. Physical media use to account for half of a films eventual gross. Some films even…

SpaceX is profitable. Merging with xAI hides the absolute dumpster fire P&L xAI is bringing to the table. He can continue to fund his ego projects to the detriment of both orgs.

The actual most common crime is wage theft. https://niwr.org/state-policy-clearinghouse/spc-wage-theft/

Frequently I’m told “A.I. will solve global warming.” Without remembering that we know how to solve global warming, we just choose not to. There are so many more concerns around LL…

There are problems with YouTube and the library is free. https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01dz010t34x

You’ll notice their specific example, the Cybertruck, is easy to identify on any road. And, as far as I can tell, not being mandated by any government for purchase.

I feel you. For me it was a love of problem solving. Now that’s been taken away from me and people keep telling me how happy I should be about it.

If I’m going to pay for News, I want to never see another advertisement so long as I live.

Beyond “Introduction to Algorithms” or the typical undergraduate course books, what are the next level of book you recommend for software engineers? Not including platform or tool …

I once used the Xcode feature to play a sound when a breakpoint was hit. My EM had a conversation with me.

It’s that there’s no life native to those environments. The authors is making the point that lay people, us, lack a frame of reference for how inhospitable Mars is.

Star Wars: The Customizable Card Game. Of the 90’s era deck building games it had the most advanced mechanics. The unique, beautiful, brilliance of the game was an element of rando…