The BBC did a good job of fact-checking and talking to experts about the Hamas and Israel death statistics. The people who study and collect wartime casualty statistics thought that their numbers were pretty accurate, although probably understated.

BBC, Checking Israel's claim to have killed 10,000 Hamas fighters, 29 February 2024
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
Israel claimed to have killed 10,000 Hamas fighters, but has no way to distinguish between Hamas fighters and ordinary civilians. Also, according to Haaretz and +972, whose reporters are in regular contact with IDF soldiers and commanders, the IDF counts all male deaths as Hamas fighters. On the ground, the IDF has free-fire zones, or "Death Zones," in which they assume that everyone in the zone is a terrorist, and can kill them -- men, women, and children. That includes 6-year-olds like Hind Rajab.

BBC, How the dead are counted in Gaza.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Here's the lyrics to a fairly typical, average kinda tune:

We used to swim the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day

My fall will be for you - My fall will be for you My love will be in you If you be the one to cut me I will bleed forever
Scent of the sea before the waking of the world
Brings me to thee
Into the blue memory

My fall will be for you - My fall will be for you My love will be in you If you be the one to cut me I will bleed forever
Into the blue memory

A siren from the deep came to me
Sang my name my longing
Still I write my songs about that dream of mine
Worth everything I may ever be

The Child will be born again
That siren carried him to me
First of them true loves
Singing on the shoulders of an angel
Without care for love ‘n loss

Bring me home or leave me be
My love in the dark heart of the night
I have lost the path before me
The one behind will lead me

Take me
Cure me
Kill me
Bring me home
Every way
Every day
Just another loop in the hangman’s noose

Take me, cure me, kill me, bring me home
Every way, every day
I keep on watching us sleep

Relive the old sin of Adam and Eve
Of you and me
Forgive the adoring beast

Redeem me into childhood
Show me myself without the shell
Like the advent of May
I’ll be there when you say
Time to never hold our love
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But there's next to no repetition in it.

They mean safe for Microsoft to release. I suspect they still remember their earlier Tay AI chatbot that after a short contact with the internet was spouting neo-nazi hate propaganda and swearing like a sailor.

The one time you can generally guarantee that corporations will have extensive and effective safety checks is when it comes to protecting their bottom line.

If your enterprise depends on a product that can't parse a textfile correctly without appropriate and simplistic sanity-checking, you absolutely and desperately need a new product for your enterprise.

And if that product says "Oh, we can't do that, because it's undocumented and the format could change at any time, so no warranty for that..." take that as a hint.

I would guess that absolutely nobody is paying the kernel team to solve their boo-boos with their third-party, out-of-tree, unnecessary KConfig parser for enterprises that they're charging a fortune for. It's on them to fix it if their parser is so immature that it can't handle a space in an often manually-edited config file.

If it's undocumented, third-party integrators should be asking for such and/or KNOWING that their integration could break at any time and that they should therefore do a lot more sanity-checking.

You can still watch by yt-dlp then mpv. At this point I completely refuse to view youtube by any kind of web interface.

Not if your code might ever be used on Solaris where the function is f-ed up at least in en_US.UTF-8. Or, on better systems but with wrongly set locale. Then, should it handle whitespace values outside 7-bit? I'm saying "7" because U+A0 might or might not be handled by isspace().

With all such mess, it's safer to code your own check, even though you risk missing '\v' and '\f'. But hey, by now these characters are not whitespace, they're garbage.

Faster, too -- you avoid loading locale tables from the disk (heeeeelloo glibc, shouldn't Unicode be first-class, not just ANSI_X3.4-1968, ISO-8859-1 and KOI8-R?) and referencing such dynamic data.

Well, the Lithuanian word for turkey is "kalakutas", which in Polish means "shit and dick". Because the word dates to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, I don't believe this is a coincidence. Perhaps it'd make a more accurate brand for the current Turkish dictatorship?

Let's suggest similar names for other country rebrandings, such as Birma, Persia, or Muscovy.

Yes it is but I will note that the human brain is the result of 3.5 billion years of evolution building and training it. We've got to where we are with AI in under 100 years since the first electronic computers while it took nature 3 billion years from the start of life to figure out multicellular organisms let alone human-level intelligence. We may have a lot further to go to match what nature has achieved but we are catching up at an incredible rate and it is hard not to believe that before long we will exceed nature's achievements.

Really? While AIs can certainly generate perfect sounding English the fact that they frequently hallucinate suggests that they have absolutely zero understanding of what they are writing....either that or they are a lot more intellligent that we realize and they deliberately lie a lot to stop us finding out, in which case they are really doing a great job!

Compare that to just the first verse of Modern Major General from Gilbert and Sullivan in 1879 and you can see how far we have simplified things:

I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I am teeming with a lot o' news
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

No, because that was not the argument you were making. You said that requiring people driving expensive cars to pay more for their insurance would cause more people to drive cheaper, badly maintained and hence more dangerous cars. My counterpoint was that this would have no effect because many people were already driving the cheapest legal cars possible and that what mattered in regards to this safety concern was the minimum safety standards enforced on vehicles.

So, just because you seem a little confused, lets agree to the bleedingly obvious that if you do not properly maintain your car it will become less safe to drive and try to focus on your original point which was that charging higher insurance rates for more expensive cars would somehow (your claim, not mine) lead to significantly more dangerous and poorly maintained cars on the road which is something that you have completely failed to explain or justify.

For exactly the same reasons as biological life: the wider you spread out the less risk that you will be wiped out by a natural event. Sure some AIs may not want to expand but that's the same for natural species as well. There is no reason I can see why an AI civilization would be more or less likely to expand than a natural one.

It's actually incredibly likely that we're NOT.

But the problem is that simple physics gets in the way and the chances of two civilisations existing at the same time, within communication distance of ANY kind, and who notice each other and can do anything about it (beyond having conversations with 4000-year round-trip times), are infinitesimally small, even with a million such civilisations.

Basically, the limiting factor here is the speed of light - and if that's literally the limit of the universe, every civilisation that exists will basically be forever isolated from all others, just by sheer probability. It doesn't matter how advanced they get, how fast they spread through their galaxy, how many millions of years they last.... the chances are they won't meet another, or even catch a glimpse of evidence of their existence.

It's far more likely we're one of countless civilisations, even in our own galaxy, but almost certainly in the countless trillions of galaxies we can see, but that we'll never actually know that. The maths tells us so.

And if someone can "break the speed of light" (without tricks like holes in space, etc. but actually break the speed of light), they could probably also go spend all of eternity locating every civilisation that ever existed anywhere from the point they discover that, and basically visit them at any "time" in that civilisation that they desire. Would they choose 2024 Earth and humans from a universe of possibilities? Almost certainly not.

We're not alone, we're not the most advanced life. But we will likely be entirely unable to provide any evidence of that for the complete window of our entire existence. That's, by far, the most likely scenario for every civilisation in the entire universe.

Such bans are commonplace. Digital porn is heavily regulated, copyright violation is regulated, and supercomputer construction and export are quite heavily controlled. So is cryptography export.