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Did you just forget about the mobilization drive Russia had in 2022, where they grabbed young men off streets and from their houses? It was very unpopular, lead to people fleeing t…

I'm not sure if I'd go down to zero, but he did get fired from OpenAI for lying.

I know the this isn't the thrust, but the "jagged pac-man" is actually supposed to be a puzzle piece, and symbolizes plugins. The three dots at the right, for some reason, is the m…

I never see regulatory bodies demand money or powers. That's private companies and law enforcement, respectively. Regulators seem to be staffed by skeleton crews allowing them to t…

Your math is wrong. 5W/user * 200e6 user * 4h/24h = 167 MW 11 MWh/a/home = 0.00125 MW/home 167 MW / (0.00125 MW/home) = 133 000 home

Here's a reference to the term from 1987: https://archive.org/details/ParalanguageInElectronicMail-ACa...

A few weeks after I got my first touchscreen phone, I had to google for how to answer it. I had assumed you'd just tap the "answer" button, but that failed more often than not. It …

That's not so much a problem for the people who want to leave a meeting, but it is very much a problem for people who frequently toggle their mic on and off.

Shannon did not use the word intelligence to describe the mouse in this demonstration - instead, he talked about learning. That's why the second run was considered more important t…

This was explicitly gone over in the announcement. The short of it is that they validate further attacks by promising Trump's allegiance, assistance, and a target.

Indeed, CDC's numbers for March indicate that social isolation is reducing non-ncovid-19 deaths by twice as much as sars-cov-2 is adding them. That's short term, so not what GP was…

Weight is a weaker condition, since you can construct a polynomial weight sequence that results in linear height. In general, height is the easiest thing to restrict, but doing so …

Log-height is a sufficient but not necessary condition. There are a few other ways generalize balanced trees, notably logit-weight.

Fixing the percentile seems akin to the gambler's fallacy: since losses below a certain point don't matter, you just have to bet everything when you fall off, like you would if you…

Limiting their size would cut down on the clickjacking annotations, but wouldn't deal with the hated "buy our merch!" annotations that were damaging to the video content and led to…

My understanding of the argument is that you have to assume you keep playing after you lose, so your stake is dictated by the risk. For the example in the article, the potential up…

Right. I was making the comparison that mobile games are like horse races, and WoW was like payday loans. Now, I don't really have a solid base of experience to form these generali…

It was definitely less abusive, but I think it was more malevolent - like payday loans instead of horse racing. Both prey on the destitute, but one builds itself into your life (li…

WoW had an absurdly high recurring fee that it tried to make you renew again and again and again. Because there was no micropayment infrastructure, it didn't use "pay to throw dice…

The article does briefly discuss a slightly more accurate version of that definition, and why it's bad (it's convoluted and relies on the poorly-defined kilogram).

The cloud isn't there to meet processing needs, it's there to meet tech support needs. Everyone gets handed the same keys, so if something's wonky you just get a replacement. No de…

That depends on what you use Office for - which is why I qualified my statement. I wouldn't recommend them as general replacements, but they exceed my documentation needs.

And if you're willing to consider LaTeX, I'd definitely recommend LyX.

The claim is that there may be a market for AI-powered technologies, but that market is suppressed by non-AI competitors exploiting information asymmetry.

I paid attention to the part of the article that mentioned that the pizza slice comes packaged with a protein shake. That sounds just like veggie crackers to me.