This page claims over 400,000 recordings but links to a listing of only 187,034 audio files. I'm guessing the discrepancy is the girth of the suit: IA agreed to take down the files that the plaintiffs could prove were theirs and no money changed hands.

They probably do go after wine or spirits drinkers too, but the "study" (such as it is) was conducted at a music festival, which tends to have a lot of beer but relatively little wine or spirits.

Thanks for admitting up front your laziness.

The most important thing to understand is that the whole mission is to explore in detail the surface of Mars in an area that has never been examined before. Although over time we want to rover to check out different areas as it continues its mission it has no need to get anywhere fast. Every meter of unexplored Mars surface is, at this point, as informative and unknown as every other meter. It is making detailed observations every centimeter of the way. NASA was never thinking -- "Oh we wish we could make this thing go a lot faster, but we just can't (gnashes teeth)"! They could in fact drive it faster than they have, or could have built it to go faster, it that somehow improved its ability to carry out its mission. The rovers are being driven in fact at less than 1% of their top speed on average as it is because their mission is not to get from place to place quickly -- it is to study everything carefully. Most of the time they are not moving at all, they are static observation platforms, and that is by mission design.

It will be interesting to see if the idea is ever verified in practice.

Still seems like part of the humanoid robot will still be cheaper than the whole robot.

Let's compare, shall we?

Little Bobby Tables:

• No framework required: conventional database entry + payload only
• Wreaks havoc in an instant
• Total size: 32 bytes

This:

• Downloads ollama (672 MB, on Windows)
• Downloads a 14 GB data file for the model itself
• Requires a bare minimum of 16 GB of VRAM—and still runs like absolute molasses, eating up all resources
• Total size: 15 GB

Personally, I'm on Team Tables here. Maybe in a decade or three this will be practical.

Since there are lots of desalination plants being built around the world, which consume electricity to produce freshwater this is not a well-thought-out notion.

He said Apple was one example, he didn't say they were the *only* example. Samsung are also greedy assholes who try to lock you into their ecosystem.

I heard FAT12 had it beat for raw performance.

Umm... what about the $4 billion from NASA?

Starlink only turned cash flow positive last year.

I am currently re-re-watching Mr. Robot and just saw a Season 4 episode where the Elliott main character comments on the massive privacy and security implications of everyone uploading pictures to the Internet without thinking about all the data that is embedded in the files (such as the exact location and time it was taken).

Here we have a phonemaker forgetting that their fake staged images have the camera information embedded in the file if they don't scrub it with some utility.

The perfect statement on this is provided by Weird Al Yankovich Mission Statement.

"Hello, Ecuadorian embassy? Yes, I heard about the weird shit with the cat, but listen..."

Most of the people responding this and saying "but Nordic countries aren't socialist!" are missing your point entirely. Actual socialism isn't even in the discussion here of course. Policies or programs that make economies and societies more livable for most people, like universal health care or unionization, to provide good working conditions and wages, are attacked by right-wingers as "Socialism!" which is bullshit.

Never provide personal or especially financial information to any communication (phone call, text or email) that you did not originate. The increasing sophistication of scammers requires making this a hard rule.

I have seen some clever scams recently -- a call from my "bank" that actually showed up as my bank's number, that then had me call them back on a number that showed up as belonging to the bank on Google, and they recited to me some correct information about myself. It failed when they could not provide a piece of information that they should have had available if they really had access to my account data as they claimed.

What they did to set it up was to spoof the actual bank phone number, and had seeded the web with pages listing the fake number as a bank number so that Google would show it as belonging to the bank. And they had gotten publicly available information about me from one of the privacy invasion companies that sell your data and they had a sophisticated script and a guy who was a pretty good scam-actor for the person I called. I can readily see most people being taken in by a scam set up like that. They key to revealing the scam -- you must tell them to provide a secret piece of information that you select that the real party would have but someone who did not have actual access to the internal systems could not.

Also possible. OpenAI's models do love their bullet points, and especially having exactly three examples in a list. The catchphrase "math magic" at the end also reeks of GPT-4's didactic blandishment.