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Their list of studio acquisitions over the years is damning. Something must be deeply wrong at Microsoft, because it seems like after one game release worth of time of being under …

I don't go to a lot of parties, but at the parties I do go to I'm starting to see non-alcoholic beers become a regular thing. From none, to one variety, to two... Seeing NA beers a…

I had it behave dangerously on a VW Atlas I rented, driving south out of Atlanta. A section of 85 has those half black, half white high-contrast stripes, and I had to firmly grip t…

Their previous strategy of being a nominally more ethical Chrome clone was a slow suicide.

...seriously? Where do I jump ship to now?

So far, they largely seem to do what you tell them. The problem, it seems, is that the threat of paperclip maximizers is real. If you give a highly intelligent model a goal and too…

I don't know that energy balance makes a difference here. Slapping a mosquito probably takes more energy than a mosquito uses in an hour of flight, but we do it.

They're still in the stage of trying to get uptake on the sub. Ads come later. When they've got sufficient uptake, they'll start to add different sub levels.

If other subscription services are anything to go by, I expect that business subscriptions will be free of ads. Personal subs will initially be free of ads, but ads will slowly be …

I rip CDs as they enter my house, so I don't have to worry about decay.

If you decide to do mods, you can make your life much, much easier by using a launcher. I use Prism, but I haven't looked for anything new in the last few years so it's possible th…

I think it's supposed to be an anti-abuse thing for commonly abused drugs. Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think killing people is an improvement.

Coated rebar could be good, but the coating can be damaged anywhere from manufacture to installation.

Pretty much all the melatonin in physical stores is hilariously overdosed, yes. If you're in the U.S., you'll have to look for products from specialty supplement brands. I take a t…

I absolutely believe that AI can be used by bad people in harmful ways. I don't think that's going to take the form of mass murder. I don't think knowledge is the missing component…

AI changes lots of things, and many for the worse. The idea that it's going to enable terrorists to perform biological warfare isn't credible.

You can, right now, find out how to synthesize VX or sarin, or how to weaponize anthrax. You can and have been able to acquire this knowledge without the use of AI. Knowledge is no…

This sounds like you may be taking a very high dose. What dose do you take?

That was likely what I was thinking of - I have vague memories of seeing an ad for this in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science in the 2000s.

A 'smart pen' that records the student's writing in some way, maybe? My first thought was a tablet that boots straight into a writing software but students should not be subjected …

Awesome, I was a bit concerned.

That's from the June 16 post, does that still apply?

edit: Kagi Translate still works for paying customers. I was completely unaware they'd been giving it away for free. >Kagi News and Kagi Translate have both been successes that too…

If you asked a politician point blank, I doubt they'd openly say that they want to take parenting decisions away from parents.

This is already possible. There's not enough people doing it, so instead we get age verification schemes. The benefit of an age attestation scheme is that it makes it easy for pare…