Comment Re:Who here wants to be first? (Score 1) 107
Speaking for myself I would prefer a bottle in front of me.
Speaking for myself I would prefer a bottle in front of me.
Knowing the community here there have to be more than several that are anxious to try this out for themselves.
Why not install an INS system to corroborate the GPS reading? I think the military does that don't they?
Yeah, about that. You're not going to get away with that kind of talk in mainland China.
Interesting how it becomes newsworthy when a cabinet member says something so obvious. And then nothing more of substance.
I'm glad you included Florida in you list of examples but be advised that Republicans want that censorship regime for the whole country.
Cost for Shuttle to lift 1Kg to orbit: ~$30,000
Cost for 1Kg to orbit on a Falcon 9: ~$2,500.
Holy crap that's cheap enough for me to put on a credit card!. But wait, there's more.
Estimated cost for 1Kg to orbit on a Starship: WTF. ~$200!
But yeah. NASA's been "doing that" since the 60s.
There's always someone foolish enough to think they'll be the ones to benefit from inequality and authoritarian dictatorships.
In the United States we call them Trump voters. Or MAGA. But you are right they are always there.
I remember when I was making Ethernet switches back in the early 00's that each and every RFP I ever saw made IPv6 support a hard requirement.
Which then they ignored completely after implementation. I don't recall one single site using it. I visited the NASA facility back then near Moffet Field and they were 100% IPv6 way back then. (We didn't get that deal). Nobody else until Telco back-haul networks developed and they used it a lot.
NAT happened, and that extended the life of IPv4 by at least 40 years.
Even if all of those allegations are true, they are all personal gripes of someone who hates immigrants and would much prefer Governor Abbot's style of extra-judicial state murder as demonstrated just the other day. None of the allegations can be construed as insurrection.
None of them have anything to do with inciting a mob to attack Congress to disrupt an official proceeding. Not even in the Civil war did the Virginia battle flag fly in congress. It did on Jan 6th. That is insurrection, hence the 14th Amendment.
If Trump represents to you all that his good and patriotic and holy and manly, that is your problem.
I have a hard time believing that the worst misinformation ChatGPT can spit out would be any worse than what Trump voters eagerly consume thinking it is ambrosia.
Likely I will get voted Troll on this but it's true. And felt good to say it. So there.
OK, let's ask our favorite LLM:
Are online forums in the Internet considered "social media?"
Yes, online forums are often considered a form of social media. While they may differ in format and structure from more commonly recognized social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, online forums share key characteristics with these platforms:
1. **Community Interaction**: Forums are built around communities where members interact, share information, and discuss various topics.
2. **User-Generated Content**: Like other social media platforms, the content on forums is primarily generated by the users themselves.
3. **Networking and Communication**: Forums facilitate networking and communication among users who share similar interests or objectives.
4. **Profile Creation**: Most forums allow users to create profiles, much like other social media platforms.
The main difference lies in the way communication is structured: forums are typically more topic-centric and discussion in forums is usually organized into specific threads, as opposed to the more dynamic and varied content feed of traditional social media platforms. However, this difference in structure doesn't exclude forums from being classified under the broader umbrella of social media.
Worth what you paid for it.
I've never heard of, nor have I ever thought of Slashdot as a "social media" site....??
LOL...anti-social at best?
What category would you put it in? What is so amazingly different about it than, say, reddit, X, 4chan, fark, or for that matter, disqus? Or any of dozens of others?
The clique is different. The moderation is a bit different. The community feedback needs to be re-written but never will be. It doesn't support pictures.
But at the end of the day it is a social media site. Now I'm curious to know what you thought it was.
If you want the "numbers" then a social media site like
If you want real climate science without all the political bullshit and willful ignorance go to Real Climate where only real scientists discuss the real research they are doing.
Of course I doubt that many of our our participants here will ever go to that link. It is much more comfortable to hang on to their own cherished "common sense" positions which they believe will place them at the apex of any scientific debate.
We are evolving here, and it seems that the judges in there have at least some idea of what they are dealing with.
All the hype around AI and LLMs have done a lot of damage. A superficial look at it -- which is what most media does most of the time -- thinks they are looking at Lt. Cmdr Data when in fact what they are looking at is closer to a Speak-and-Spell (tm)
Maybe they started to realize the obvious: It Is A Tool. Not an Oracle and not a sci-fi calculator to the Answer To the Universe (which works out to 42.)
Use the tool smart/skilled you get smart/skilled results. Use it like a clueless idiot and get clueless idiot results. Like any tool!
Is that so hard?
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
