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You can make that silly argument to justify almost any government overreach

These seem mostly like Claudeisms. I feel each model (and even generation) has their own set of these isms.

This is probably the natural conclusion but it will take some time to get there

Incidentally GSM-R problems led to a nationwide train service shutdown in Norway on December 25. Related?

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There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have…

A coating for projectiles to be able to withstand the heat from laser weapons would be one with possibly significant impact, given recent announcements.

It probably does work for certain kinds of software, but groundbreaking research breakthroughs not so much.

Twitter has been rebranded as 'X'. Elon has the domain x.com and I suppose he wants to use it

That's one of the most jargon-dense sentences I've ever read

Was about to say this. Kudos to them for actually conveying the information! They seem to have learned that what they're (partially) in the business of selling is long term trust.

Considering continental drift is about 2.5cm per year (or one inch)...about 50km from where it is today.

But SF is also very chilly for California so it really helps with the perception of humidity.

This is the reason. Institutional investors (which hold the lions share) are more wary of stocks with astronomical P/E ratios when the macroeconomical forecasts are what they are t…

There's very little relative trading volume on the price slope below 165-150 here, I wouldn't be surprised to see a fall to 95 and down to 30-50 in the medium term, and a cap of "o…

Well, I'd like it to be a standard size I could stack. Maybe I'm just nostalgic but I pine for the days where I had a shelf full of self-burnt CD's. Shame they're so prone to bit r…

I've been thinking that there oughta be a human-sized cartridge for data in general. Current SD-cards are flimsy, and it's just getting worse. The Minidisc/Gameboy cartridge/MiniCD…

The fallout from that scenario being discovered alone would make it absolutely not worth it, so I leave that for the conspiracy bin.

I've been dreaming of a book decompiler that would some newfangled AI/ML to produce a perfectly typeset copy of an older book; in the same font or similar, recognizing multiple lan…