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We can go even shorter “Trump kills children to distract from raping them”.

Gee, it’s almost like power vacuums tend to be detrimental to the stability of a country.

Oh, I am not saying they’re not still opportunistic money-chasers. Hence the comment about there not being any good AI companies. To me though, their reluctance on some topics and honest admissions on the capabilities of their AI make it appear that they less happy to throw all principals overboard in the race to win the AI market than the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Musk.

Still. I will happily take a company with some moral fiber over one with none when it comes to this AI race to the bottom.

Not saying Anthropic are the good guys here (there are none IMHO) but they are clearly trying to be the “less bad guys”.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody who has paid even a modicum of attention to the ongoing escalating authoritarian power grab in the US.

Nothing is as permanent as a temporary fix.

Huh. TIL I guess. That study cites a bunch of credible sources at least, but I haven’t had a chance to dig into the findings in detail yet.

That said, even per the cited paper, the difference between your kids growing up dumb or smart is primarily environmental. So, that supports my original point: Given proper education there’s a good chance these kids will grow up to surpass their parents.

The folks in charge really needs to stop trying to implement the torment nexus don’t they? Hello Skynet!

Intelligence is not a transferable trait, unlike physical traits. There’s no guarantee that these kids won’t educate themselves and surpass their parents in intellectual capabilities. All we need is indeed better public education.

fair point.

I think that the nukes did certainly affect Hirohito’s willingness to accept a surrender, together with the Soviet attack on Manchuria. There is little evidence to suggest though that it was the population’s sudden lack of support for the war effort or an attempted revolution that forced Hirohito’s hand. As such I don’t think we can even consider the nuclear bombings to have had much effect on the population, which is generally the point of terror bombings - to break the population’s resolve and force them to depose of their leadership.

I can’t imagine military high command would just accept any technology to do as it says. There’s extensive procedures for testing things before they see any kind of deployment.

Terror bombings don’t work full stop. Even the nuking of Japan didn’t result in the populace giving up, and there’s ample evidence to suggest that it was at the very least the combined threat of the Russians shifting focus to the eastern theatre as well as the nukes that caused Japanese high command to conclude that their current losses would be infeasible to sustain. And even that wasn’t without internal controversy and disagreement.

I can see absolutely no way this could not go wrong.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/ I presume? Looks like fun, thanks for the suggestion.

I will gladly sacrifice my sanity to play that. Sounds like a ton of fun tbh.

As someone who was never fond of the concept of social media, and who never had a MySpace or Facebook account as a result when I was in my late teens/early twenties - this hits home for me.

I did it knowingly, but I sure missed out on a lot of stuff that I usually only found out months after.

For a while my friends nicknamed me “the untagable” 🤣, but I guess not having my entire dumb early adulthood saved for eternity is a win in the end.

The trusting one is very clearly an invitation by one of our cats to rub her belly. In fact, if she flops over like that and you don’t rub her belly right away she will vocally object to your inaction.

Her favourite belly rubs are extended both-hands affairs, and she demands them just about every morning.

Honestly, in a properly designed WiFi6 or 7 network with sufficient ap density the average user experience will likely be better than most end station wired connections these days. Especially if that wired network includes a bunch of these bad boys.

This is a very cheap network switch that serves as a great example of shadow IT happening in most companies. Because they were cheap and just about any computer store had them in stock, it was generally faster for an employee who had ran out of network ports to run out and grab one of these than to request proper network upgrades from the IT department. Sadly, because they are not very fast and lack features needed to prevent network disruption due to misconfigured wiring, they cause lots and lots of headaches for the IT team over time.

A good starting point to learn about physical networking would probably still be to grab a recent set of Cisco CCNA prep books and give those a read.