Remember - the Federation reserved the Death Penalty for making AI Androids.
Noonian Soong had to exile himself to a remote planet outside Federation control to work on Data and Lore (and his sexbot...).
They needed people to be able to have jobs *that* badly.
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I recently got a "plastic" target that changes color and the holes mostly self-heal if you don't use a hollow-point.
Good for plinking but they do wear out eventually.
I didn't even know this material existed before a buddy told me they were on Amazon. Amazing times, for sure.
Heck, I picked up some 100-lb test fishing line the other day that is some sort of braided heavy-chain polyethylene that is 11 times stronger than steel wire at the same size. The company made mechanical spinnerets to mimic spiders' to get it to work.
Again, I had no idea until a buddy told me it was $20 on Amazon.
Wild.
Back in the day we'd install wild boards that would upgrade the Mac CPU's by a generation or two, add FPU's, etc.
All of this depended on the systems being too expensive to replace or buy new except once in a blue moon.
At $600 which is probably $200 in 1986 money, it's a bit harder to be mad.
Those systems were probably $10K in 2025 dollars. Heck, a few were $10K in 1986 dollars.
Your Nazi pals are collapsing on all fronts, and yes that's a copy and paste as your McCarthyite cocksucking trash was destroyed the first time. NATO admits Russia produces arms in three months what takes all of NATO a year to produce. Suck on that sucker. of. Satan's. cock.
*nerd alert*
The original script had The Matrix running in parallel on all the human brains.
Studio execs said that was too confusing and that they should be batteries.
Also Neo is seen on the Nebuchadnezzar with hundreds of acupuncture-looking needles with wires to get his muscles working while he's in a coma.
Writers should have been left alone (a story old as time).
The matte coating decreases contrast. People like contrasty displays, and most people don't use them outside. I wouldn't be surprised if matte coatings also reduce the resolution on high resolution displays significantly.
OpenAI's models, and most of the LLMs, are trained at least in part by having humans rate their conversations. That's what the "chat" in chatGPT stands for. Humans apparently rate chat partners that make up truthy sounding stuff more highly than chat partners that admit they don't know.
That's a useful finding for a company that makes LLMs. It should be an interesting observation for people who talk to other people too.
I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.
The Earth has frequently been much warmer than it is today and coral reefs grew much faster then.
Perhaps they have a fine point to make but the implications fly in the face of established evidence.
And not shaky evidence - you can go vacation on huge islands made of these old reefs, from when the oceans were higher.
You can go visit Chazy Fossil Reef today and see coral fossils 480 million years old, from when Northern Vermont was a tropical marine environment.
These data aren't disputed in the field.
I'm sure he does. You can buy an induction heater that will be happy to melt steel for $20 off Aliexpress. There are lots of DIY plans for them too, although I doubt you could beat that $20.
E.g. https://www.instructables.com/...
The claim that you can't get things hot enough with induction is ridiculous. Induction is what you use when cheap old gas isn't hot enough. If you want even hotter, you use microwaves.
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I don't believe you that anyone bitched about the loss of the floppy drive.
Too young maybe? Releasing an iMac without a floppy drive had much the same impact as releasing an iPhone without a 3.5" headphone jack. A lot of the old articles have disappeared, and apparently the Slashdot comments, but e.g.
https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
There were a LOT of articles written about it. Tech journalist careers were made.
Sure. Lots of people use DB-9 serial ports and even some parallel ports too. There's apparently even some Firewire stuff still around.
Doesn't mean we need them on every laptop.
#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.
50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.
But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.
Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
