Relatively smart people believe boneheaded things all the time, and have done so throughout history. Extreme case: Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. “In his autobiography, Mullis professed a belief in astrology and wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon that he suggested might have been an extraterrestrial alien.”
Oh goody, we might have a real use for the “Printer on fire” message in the Linux kernel again!
So it’s not serving the bottom-feeder market for effectively disposable Windows laptops.
Why should it need to? Serving a niche interest is perfectly valid as long as you’re making enough money at it to be self-supporting. Despite what the line-go-up-at-all-costs advocates think.
Long anime series are treated a bit differently than North American live action productions. One Piece will most likely continue being made as long as there’s manga to adapt. (Whether the mangaka will finish the story, drop it abruptly to do something else, or die of old age with it still incomplete is another question.) The only other thing that might kill it is if the studio making it folds, but as far as I know Toei is relatively healthy.
At ~1170 episodes, One Piece isn’t even close to being the longest-running anime series airing in Japan today. I don’t think it’s even in the top five.
With Linux, in the worst case, you can probably find a dev who’s willing to take your money to maintain a feature. Might not even be that much money, depending. Windows? Not a chance.
this seems like an intentional way to make sure that people can’t make things without paying the oligarchs. I think the fact that we are getting close to being able to make 90s level tech in garages is scaring the tech bros.
Nah, I suspect it’s a way for the politicians to look like they’re doing something about gun violence without, y’know, actually doing anything about gun violence. Or just generally to distract from what they’re doing on other issues. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” stuff.
Well, we did put all available engineering capacity into improving ICE vehicles for around a century. I’m sure the next century will see considerable improvement in EVs, if humanity survives that long.
If I recall correctly, that’s consistent with the other scrolls from that library that have been deciphered by different methods, so at least some of the text is likely to be correct.
After a quick skim of the article, it isn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but the author 1. only worked with a single Intel CPU (no AMD devices at all) and 2. could do with a wider knowledge of niche distros.
A religion is just a cult that’s bamboozled a certain number of people in positions of power into going along with it.
Since the article clearly states that even Canada—where we drive the same vehicles and have some similar infrastructure issues—isn’t showing the same uptick, the most likely reasons are legal/regulatory or cultural rather than physical. In other words, there’s more going on here than just oversized SUVs with bad collision outcomes for pedestrians (although they certainly don’t help).
We may also be separated by a common llanguage—“lecturer” isn’t a word that’s much used in Canada. I’ve only encountered it as a Briticism.
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Where I come from, that’s read as “x to the [power of] minus one”. “x minus one” is, well, x - 1. Not the same thing at all.
(I admit, my chances of deciphering what you meant might not have been all that high even if you’d used the correct phrasing, but without it, the chance was zero.)
Thing is, it just takes one person with a spine to completely upend things if you try to do it that way. Too risky.
They obviously need to design cleaning robots and rat-catching robots and repair robots to support the delivery robots. I mean, we could have an entire robot ecology here, living unnoticed under the city streets.
Anyone else remember the export crypto nonsense with early web browsers? This is going to work about as well.
The difference between the 65+ bracket and the 50-64 bracket in the original data is larger than the gap between 50-64 and 30-49 on every chart I’ve examined so far (where they’re broken out by age), so the real break is at retirement. Which makes sense: retirees are less likely to be forced into proximity with LLMs whether they want to be or not. (Interestingly, the older demographics are also less likely to think they have enough control over interactions with “AI”.)
they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots)
Tunnels, at least in heavily populated areas. They already make pipes that should be big enough. It might require a slight redesign of the bots so that they can “climb the wall” a short distance to pass each other, and maybe extend/retract some bits depending on whether they’re inside or out, but my heart would not exactly bleed over the money spent. And they’d be out of sight, out of mind most of the time for the rest of us.
I expect you’d have to start with one of those binocular magnifiers. And the smallest soldering iron tip in history.
Legally, yes. I’m pretty sure a pilot is still responsible for their aircraft while the autopilot is engaged, too.