Or you could hire someone to do it on Fiverr or TaskRabbit.

They'll do the task they were paid to do so that they can get a five-star review.

Ukraine did something similar for the 2025-06-01 drone raid on Russian airfields. The truck drivers who delivered the drones had no idea what cargo they were carrying or why. They were just told where to go and where to park when they got there.

Here's a non-paywalled article:

Hackers can tamper with train brakes using just a radio

The obvious reason is to remotely stop a runaway train.

The stupid part is that there is no authentication or encryption.

Another option would be to use a deadman switch, which the engineer has to periodically reset to keep the brakes open. Most trains have some kinda deadman switch.

How many companies used llama instead of paying OpenAI for API access?

If Meta saw OpenAI as a market competitor then denying them revenue is a cunning move.

Especially if llama isn't Meta's core competency but ChatGPT is OpenAI's.

Maybe even legal in that aspect, though they both seem super guilty of not paying for copyrighted material.

Is it?

I'd say it's some random journalist's conjecture about what investors are demanding.

Apple's share price is declining because of Trump's tariffs on China, where most Apple products are manufactured.

That's a much bigger problem for Apple than AI.

Apple is listed on NASDAQ, not the NYSE.

No private corporation has ever sent men with guns to my house in the middle of the night to pound on my door.

My government has.

TFA doesn't say that.

There's no technical reason the identifiers need to be unchangeable.

The app could be designed to issue a different confirmation code for each transaction.

No, not really.

Juniors know how to code. They wrote plenty of small programming assignments in college.

They don't know the details of the codebase and have less experience making changes to million-line systems, but that's different from being unable to recognize a buggy function.

The solar company can arrange the financing and do all the paperwork.

You might get a better deal from your bank, but you don't hafta go that route.

If you own a home (why else would you buy solar panels?) but need to borrow money to fix your car, then your finances are severely mismanaged. Perhaps you should ride a bicycle while you build up your savings.

It won't even cost $55M.

Government budgets are bloated.

If it is moved to the private sector, they can fire the fat Americans and replace them with skinny Indians at a tenth of the price.

Maybe. Or maybe some banks won't because that way they get more depositors. The market will sort it out.

My bank charges fees for many things, but most fees are waived if I maintain a high enough average balance.

Other fees are waived if I have my paycheck direct-deposited and have my mortgage payment auto-deducted.

So only poor people end up paying the fees, which is yet another reason not to be poor.

If the interest on the loan is less than the savings on your electric bill, you come out ahead even with borrowed money.

Some solar companies provide financing and guarantee a positive return.

Northern Europe has a lot of wind turbines, and the winds are stronger in winter.

America is behind mainly because of Biden's tariffs on imported PV panels, in a failed attempt to build a domestic solar industry.

Trump is hostile to anything green, but he's mostly just blathering with little real-world effect.

A base Tesla Model 3 sells for about $32k in China.

A BYD sells for $9k.

Tesla is way behind.

BYDs are banned in America, but are very popular in many Asian countries.