The GOP should just setup a copy of the press room at the White House in a retirement home where everything is painted gold. Every day, they can place dementia Don in front of the podium and tell him, “there’s a million viewers.”

He’ll keep himself busy like that until a bigger stroke than the last takes him down to hell.

Nothing says, “our culture/political system is the best” more than a 2,000-question ideological test that attempts to make sure it will not be questioned.

Of all the articles to get coughed up in this community…

Witness Scottish robin a crested tit and an orca sealing the deal.

Thinking about it: There should be a contest to see who can fit the most functionality into the tube.

Future winner: “It wasn’t easy to cram a fully functional oscilloscope inside… I had to shave off bits off the tooth brush handle, but ultimately it turned out great!”

Big AI is a bubble but AI in general is not.

If anything, the DRAM shortages will apply pressure on researchers to come up with more efficient AI models rather than more efficient (normal) software overall.

I suspect that as more software gets AI-assisted development we’ll actually see less efficient software but eventually, more efficient as adoption of AI coding assist becomes more mature (and probably more formalized/automated).

I say this because of experience: If you ask an LLM to write something for you it often does a terrible job with efficiency. However, if you ask it to analyze an existing code base to make it more efficient, it often does a great job. The dichotomy is due to the nature of AI prompting: It works best if you only give it one thing to do at a time.

In theory, if AI code assist becomes more mature and formalized, the “optimize this” step will likely be built-in, rather than something the developer has to ask for after the fact.

How could pleasing older women ever bring dishonor‽

Mohammed himself did as much with Khadija!

Be the change the world needs by replacing oil with pleasure as Saudi Arabia’s strongest export!

Who says you get reincarnated right away? It could be a 1000 years between your death and rebirth!

That’s how I set it up in my silly comedy Isekai, Maizy’s Tails (it’s free to read on the web if you care… Just search it, it’ll be the first link): After death souls need to be “aged” at least 1000 years before they can be put in a new body. The gods think it’s a multiversal rule but the MC figures out a workaround 😁

It actually opens with the gods bidding on souls from Earth… A world that ended about a million years prior to the auction (because that’s how long it took to sort and categorize them all) 🤣

I’m curious what was in your pods?

Loads of containers.

Think the acronyms are bad now? Wait until your plane is in the cloud!

“Plane pod bay doors open unexpectedly! Engaging emergency AWS FaaS! AWS unavailable! Engaging GCP FaaS! GCP unavailable! Local CDN AZ cannot be found! No MSP available! Engaging SRE! Blaming DNS!”

Pilot: “We haven’t even taken off yet! Also, I told you to open the doors, you dumb AI!”

“Good catch! Would you like me to continue blaming DNS?”

Now, Some Republicans Join In

FTFY, NYT. I almost put “conservatives” (which would also be true) but the article is really about politicians in office. So it’s more specific and accurate to say Republicans.

MSM needs to stop being so biased in favor of fascists. Writing a headline like this is misleading.

Someone is wrong on the Internet.

They’ll claim that because someone is LGBTQ+, their birth certificate is fraudulent and that counts as enough evidence for denaturalization.

Mrs Brisbee is pleased.

Says chain male bear.

They can’t even AI right!

That should’ve been a pelican on that bicycle.

Due to cost cutting, norovirus decided to only do the bare minimum.

Quiet quitter!

If the gas giant has a serious, permanent storm like Jupiter’s Eye, that could provide enough mixing with the lower atmosphere to bring up heavier elements like argon, neon, and the like.

Heck, if there’s enough silicon in the planet, that could bring highly smoothed/polished sand all the way up into the upper atmosphere just like hurricanes on earth can deliver it to the southeastern United States, all the way from the Sahara desert.

This article is a bit sensational: You have to look at PEDOT:PSS in the context of what it’s replacing: Plastics that take hundreds to thousand of years to degrade. That also release much more harmful microplastics that also last hundreds of years.

Compared to that, “more than 8 years” seems pretty fucking good. Especially when you consider that PEDOT:PSS isn’t produced at anywhere near the scale that regular circuit boards are (which are made from FR4). In short, PEDOT:PSS is not a serious problem.

Think about it: If stuff made from PEDOT:PSS sticks around for just 8 years, that’s better than say, plastic shopping bags which persist for hundreds of years and we manufacture and throw away 5 trillion of those every year.

If everything plastic had the same environment impact as PEDOT:PSS we’d be in a much better situation (environmentally).

FYI: Speech recognition is an AI feature and it gets (marginally) better with the newer chips. For example, in noisy environments.

That’s probably the most-used AI thing that nearly everyone uses on occasion. Older phones had to send your speech to the cloud but with the new chips all that processing can be handled locally.