I’d guess that the 1945 report was sound, although I haven’t read it. Vannevar Bush was a bright guy who came within a hair of predicting the modern Web at around the same time. He almost certainly didn’t mention AI in his report, since even expert systems and such were science fiction back then.

The press release and the modern report? Both total garbage, I’m sure, regardless of whether they were written by an LLM or an overworked intern.

Yup, lost a battery to that (2019 Impreza). Pulled the fuse for the modem, and it’s been fine ever since. I never used (or wanted) any of those features anyway.

Well, if there are headlines about it, it isn’t actually all that quiet.

If you have a slam-dunk case, you can usually find a lawyer who’s willing to take their pay out of the winnings.

Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don’t know it’s there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn’t follow the terms of the license, and you’re set for life.

“American man” is all the explanation you need here. If you have to pay for doctors, of course people who can’t pay are going to turn to a free alternative that seems to offer some hope. That’s one of the reasons why doctors are free in civilized countries.

But ya, the car the Edsel was a dud.

From what I understand, it was less of one than the Cybertruck, though. Lots of marketing issues, lots of QA issues, but the only serious design flaw seems to have been the weird transmission setup, whereas the Cybertruck . . . actually, let’s not go there.

Trump’s understanding of science is on a par with that of Flat Earth and Hollow Earth believers. It’s hard to foster what you don’t understand.

Because “compared to the US” is a very low bar to clear these days.

Sounds like a simple swap error to me. Probably the nurse who was affixing the bracelets got distracted and got the two mixed up, so each baby ended up with the other’s bracelet. North Dakota and only two babies born that day makes me think it was a small hospital where a lot of things were being done by hand, and not a lot of checks were being made.

Legally, yes. I’m pretty sure a pilot is still responsible for their aircraft while the autopilot is engaged, too.

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.