...I've ever seen has had multiple layers of safety interlocks. Many of them have laser light curtains which shut the machine off if anything larger than a rabbit breaks a plane that completely surrounds the working area. I suspect this wasn't just breaking a safety rule, it was an overridden interlock that was either malfunctioning or inconvenient for the operation they wanted to perform. The guy wasn't just in the wrong place, the thing that was supposed to keep him from getting killed if he was in that place at the wrong time was probably disabled.

Streaming is shit until movies like these are all available somewhere readily accessible.

LLM's have no experience with the real world, and only know of it, and history, and everything else through words they read that (hopefully) humans have posted. The LLM has no basis to tell which of those words are fact, fiction, lies, or propaganda; it just draws frequency vectors and connects them back up in similar patterns. There is simply no way for such a thing to be made either truthful or accurate. The best they can ever do is to create a template for something you might want to create, but every single aspect of that template then has to be checked against reality because the LLM can't do that and the errors they make are sometimes hilariously bad. The biggest danger is that their output sounds so good that the temptation for human users will be to trust it much more than we should, and actually try identifying random mushrooms by tasting them (to give one of the more hilarious examples).

The idea that there is a single cow anywhere in the world that was raised and butchered because of the existence of the leather market is daft. The value of the leather from a cow hide is a rounding error on the value of the animal. In the 1980's you had to pay a minimum of $500 to $1000 for a full length pair of leather pants or a full leather dress. Very similar garments are available today in the $100-$150 range. This is because of the explosive growth of the fast food industry in the 1990's. Leather is a glut on the market, there are no longer enough bidders to drive the price up very far and they sell for whatever they can get just so the slaughterhouse can get rid of them. It has in fact become so common that other items which used to be super expensive premiums when made of leather are now not much different in cost from other much less durable materials.

The 8088 and 8086 were introduced in 1979. They had the same 16-bit CPU core and instruction set, but the 8088 had an 8-bit memory bus while the 8086 had 16 bits. The 8080 was a purely 8 bit design. While they were inspired in part by the earlier 8080, featuring similar register maps and instruction set, they were not object-code compatible with 8080 programs. They were meant to be "source compatible," meaning that porting 8080 assembly language programs to the x86 would be relatively easy compared to, say, porting to the entirely different Motorola architecture.

It's not a good situation. I lean to the political left and ecological stuff myself, but there just isn't much you can do with this water, and the ocean is vast and will do a really good job of dispersing it to a truly unnoticeable concentration. I'm honestly surprised they've waited this long, and the wait alone has probably about halved the amount of tritium in the waste. Release it slowly in a controlled way so that it is dispersed, and that is probably the best solution we have for the situation.

The CBS journalist who went down to the wreck last year read the waiver to the camera for yuks, including the part that said "including death." Then he looked the camera in the eye and smiled and said, "Where do I sign?"

Back around 2010 we were in a situation where the only viable option for general internet was wireless. We got a Verizon MiFi hotspot and thought it was great. We're frugal with our bandwidth, so the 5 Gb cap didn't really bother us. But one month we did need a bit more and we went over a bit. Going to just under 6 Gb doubled our bill. There was no meter or warning. I called the customer service and they "generously" canceled the charge "this time." I explained the situation and said that if it happened again I'd have to cancel the service. They had no answer. Two weeks later I got a call from the provider. They had a new service that would text me to warn me I was approaching the cap. Great, right? I explained that the MiFi hotspot isn't a phone and that while it could receive texts, the only way to read them was to disable the wifi and plug it directly into my computer with a USB cable. How often am I supposed to do that? So I switched to T-mobile who promised that would never happen. They just throttled down to 2G speeds when you hit the cap instead of engaging in usury. OK, that was better. But then my wife landed a job working for an online outfit that required a lot of usage. She was hitting our 10 Gb cap around the 20th of the month and then couldn't work without going to the library to mooch their internet. I went to the T-Mobile store and said, I need 20 Gb per month, how much will that cost? They had no way to sell it to me. I opened my wallet and said "I have money in my hand, please take it from me." The staff spent nearly two hours trying to figure out something. But there was no plan at any price available with a higher cap. They even looked at business plans but those had all kinds of hoops I couldn't jump through as a consumer. I couldn't even open a separate account with a different hotspot because everything was tied to my meatspace ID and the computer knew I was the same person with an existing account. Much as I hated dealing with the cable company I ended up with a cable modem. It may be capped, but if so at a limit I never come near. There have been the usual run of outages and mishaps with the billing which any cable customer can tell you about, but at least I have enough service to do the shit I need to do.

Federal laws trump state laws, but I don't think Federal agency rules made up by unelected bureaucrats trump state laws. What will probably happen, as another poster already suggested, is that automakers will simply disable telematics on vehicles sold in MA. Which would be fine with me, were I buying such a car. I would consider that a feature, not a bug. As for the other right to repair provisions, such as making the diagnostic systems available to everybody, it's a long stretch to even think this logic would affect those requirements.

You are writing to convey information. Do not use unnecessarily complex or obscure words, complex sentence structures, or other devices to prove how smart you are. Just explain as simply as possible what the reader needs to know. This is what I was told on Day 1 of my college technical writing class and it's one of the most important lessons I ever learned.

Last year I got assigned a service call for a customer for whom I'd designed a PC-based data system. They had a HP printer which the customer had supplied, but it failed, and they could not get the replacement printer to work. Part of the specification for this system is that it cannot have internet access for security reasons. I was told to purchase two printers and toner cartridges myself, deliver, and install one of them. At Office Depot website I saw that every single HP printer came with a warning that it would not work without continuous internet access, presumably to prevent blocking these hostile updates. I bought two Brother printers. This cost my customer north of $2K but they were happy. The HP printers went in a dumpster, and I warned my own company to never buy another HP printer.

Microsoft has already almost fatally sabotaged their own OS for anybody doing remote automation. Once a month every computer I own boots to a screen advertising Windows online services instead of to the desktop and my auto-starting apps. Microsoft has provided ways to disable this and then sabotaged those ways several times. (I'm still on Win10 on all my boxes, but some of my customers have Win11). I haven't moved to Linux mainly because I have software tools and hardware that aren't supported on Linux or in emulation there. Most of my customers also still want Windows because it 's what they understand. But it's getting very annoying, and tides can change.

I remember when people in their early 20's regularly bought houses. All it took was a good manufacturing let alone white-collar job and you could buy a house and a new car every few years. My parents bought the house I grew up in in their mid 20's. Of course by the time I was that age it was not so much so any more.

YouTube was bought by Google and for practical purposes is Google at this point. And Google is allergic to the entire idea of human review. Their entire existence is owed to an algorithm for automatically ranking search results. They will only ever use human review in a reactive way, and then only when they're forced by some external pressure.

I have been building practical industrial control systems for nearly 40 years. Since 1990 or so much of what CS students have been taught is either useless or objectively wrong for practical work. I know several manufacturers with engineering staffs who have gotten into serious trouble because they believed "never optimize your code," which was actually taught in the1990's, or because they weren't taught finite math which hasn't been part of the standard CS curriculum for at least 30 years but is actually kind of important when you are telling a computer to do math for you. I have advised my employers that if they ever want to get me an apprentice or assistant, not to look for a CS grad but rather a HS grad who has a hobby like robotics and maybe doesn't want to go deep into debt to get into a field where they can do a lot of interesting projects.