If anyone had been listening to what he was saying, they would have had no idea what he was saying? The grandiosity masked the complete deficit not merely of ideas, but even of reason and coherence? They elected a mean-spirited moron.

Is it April 1? Or is this another manufactured moral panic?

Xi is a lot of things, but a tinpot dictator he isn't. I despise everything the regime running China stands for, but if we're going to look at the PRC's ability to maintain itself and even expand itself economically and scientifically. Xi may die tomorrow, but the PRC isn't going anywhere. If progress is measured in research, have you paid attention to how much basic research is coming out of China these days, as compared to the West, which seems bound and determined to decimate academic capacity, or hand it over to a bunch monomaniac billionaires.

You made an unfair comparison and then declared victory. I mean sure, if I plug my MacBook into a $20000 battery backup UPS I can probably get a few weeks out of the fucking thing, but that's not really any kind of rational comparison at all. Out of the box, MacBooks having some of the best battery performance of any laptop. You're comparison was the equivalent of "Oh sure, your Mustang can go 200mph, but if I take my Honda Accord and weld a rocket engine to the back, I can beat the sound barrier!

I think actually charging him and putting him in prison would have been better. But the Biden administration, and Garland in particular, were cowards and were afraid of creating a civil war. While Trump behind bars may have been able to win an election, and his imprisonment may have caused some sort of general MAGA uprising, the US Government has literally crushed and burned to the ground entire states that were in rebellion, so this all comes down to Biden, Garland and the DOJ being cowards, and not meaningfully taken Trump to task, and leave it to states to try to pick up the slack while they dithered.

I'm so very confused. I thought NPR was the fakest of fake news, a left wing Pravda outfit deliberately spreading misinformation to hurt Donald Trump... and thus America.

It's almost as if MAGA is comprised of morons and liars, who literally said anything to get Trump back into office, and deflect from his, and their, lies.

So basically, if you sacrifice hardware capacity, you get more battery life, as opposed to the pretty damned phenomenal Apple battery life out of the box.

And you feel this is something to brag about...

This is exploit they used.
https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu...

This is their link to pre-print of their paper talking about details.
https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu...

Indeed. This seems to be a very limited vulnerability. Even in optimal conditions, this isn't likely to be able to "steal 2FA from Google Authenticator" because as GPU.zip site itself plainly stated in their FAQ:

>I am a user. Should I be worried?

>Under most circumstances, probably not. Most sensitive websites already deny being embedded by cross-origin websites. As a result, they are not vulnerable to >the pixel stealing attack we mounted using GPU.zip. However, some websites remain vulnerable. For example, if a user who is logged into Wikipedia visits a >malicious webpage, that webpage can exploit GPU.zip to learn the user’s Wikipedia username (as we demonstrate in Section 5.4 of the paper).

So I'm not sure if their claim of being able to steal secure website credentials holds against GPU.zip people claiming it cannot do it.

America's allies were warned for many years on becoming reliant on Russian energy and how that could be used against them in the future. That time has come.

EU countries did that to themselves by cutting off their main natgas supplier, not from any action taken by Russia. And then whistled and looked the other way when the US blew Nordstream.

The sun doesn't stop shining and the wind doesn't stop blowing for literal months at a time. Your radioactive water heaters do for maintenance. Nuke fans love France for their nuclear fleet but half of their plants were down at one time for maintenance. Nothing is more unreliable than nuclear power.

Not anything. I'm sure when Federal troops take over the State Capitol and Newsom is put in prison for unspecified but certainly horrible crimes, the military governor that takes his place will make sure none of this kind anti-corporate nonsense continues.

AGI has nothing to do with the current technology that OpenAI is selling. At this point, it is just a nebulous idea. Right now, AGI is just like what cold fusion was twenty years ago. If you had invested like crazy in nuclear fusion companies because you had high expectations for them figuring out cold fusion, you would have lost a lot as fusion is still just a research toy that in no way functions as a profitable business model. As it stands, we do not know whether the existing technology OpenAI sells will ever be profitable. AGI, like cold fusion, may just be a dream.

While there are certainly valid criticisms of how Apple and Google have structured their app stores, blaming them for massive government overreach that they used their extensive lobbying power to fight against is quite a reach. What's next? Will you blame PornHub for the Texas age verification law because, after all, making porn available in Texas is just asking for it?

I really hit a bullseye on this, didn't I? Replies are everything from "this is a conspiracy theory" to "this is bipartisan (and vaccines because why not)" to "I will DARVO you for this!" to "doctors can't be activists, and certainly don't want to have their thing get more money, and there's absolutely no historic precedent otherwise (please ignore massive amounts of precedent to contrary!)"

This is indeed a "conspiracy theory" in that it's a fact that is unpalatable for activists. It is indeed bipartisan in that activists included everything from "dollar signs in their eyes" doctors to soccer mommies who got a reason their Billy is not just SPECIAL, but SUPER SPECIAL, which makes her way more important than other soccer mommies at their next book club meeting. To the political activists who assumed that the more fake grievances they can generate in people, the more votes they can grab for their cause.