Novel respiratory infections.

Also. Second base.

(without the parents in the next room)

The problem is asymmetric. It's easier to attack than to defend. AI scripts simply helps more attackers over the steep barrier to entry of the field.

What's prompt engineering? Is that a euphemism for what a non-lazy engineer does?

....And now everyone knows how to disable the VTS and steal a working Porsche. Streisand Effect.

....blah blah....EU....blah blah....fail...blah blah.

Ah. I see what you did there!

To be honest, I'm kind of surprised this bullshit doesn't happen organically.

Presumably ChatGPT reads plenty of advertising copy as it trawls the Internet trying to read everything it can. Why doesn't it just repeat, albeit garbled, advertising slogans regularly?

Read my post again. You didn't understand it.

Last I checked Ruby execution was slow compared to Python. That, however, tells you where you shouldn't use it, not *that* you shouldn't use it. And Ruby can easily call C routines (with the usual caveats).

OTOH, in some task spaces, design in Ruby is fast compared to design in Python, and in almost all it's fast compared to design in C. (That said, I generally prefer to design in Python and then re-implement in C++.)

Whether it's serious or not depends on what you're doing. For me it fails only because I require Doxygen compatibility. (Mind you, I would rarely choose to use *only* ruby, but for some things it would be the superior choice.)

OTOH, Ruby is not a low level choice. It's a slightly higher level than Python. And I often design things in Python and then convert them to C++ (with, of course, minor rewrites).

So, "What do you mean by 'serious'?".

Not at all. Stock market prices are much more inefficient than academics lead us to believe.

My sympathies to the woman involved, as Linehan is a shitty person and no-one other than actual pedophiles deserves that kind of label (can I venture a guess that the woman involved was being accused of that because she felt suicidal children suffering from gender dysphoria should have access to psychiatrists, who in turn should be able to use mainstream psychiatric therapies for GD?), but I'm reluctant to say that ambushing someone with a camera and microphone isn't a legitimate occasion to have your device(s) damaged. You're intentionally trying to piss someone off.

It sounds like the failure here was X holding Linehan to account (whether due to their own policy, or the UK not having laws allowing obvious defamation to be pulled down.)

I'm increasingly of the opinion we protect property far too highly over privacy and other basic rights to be treated humanely in the western world. And everyone can be manipulated into doing things like property damage or minor "violence" (pushing back, etc). These things shouldn't carry a criminal sentence, not even even if you're a rotten person.

(Oh, and cops are notorious for being able to do that kind of manipulation to get bogus assault charges against victims they've provoked, it works both ways.)

Break the fucking cameras.

Or, follow the glass hole into a quiet alley and smash his face into the wall from behind, then run away.....

I'm not advocating this, I'm just pointing out that there are many more options than you make it out to be.

...no real evidence either way.

Most of the opponents are unions. Their interests will be ignored unless a Democratic government is somehow put into office before the merger completes, which is doubtful.

Paramount opposes it, but every argument they give would also apply to the Paramount takeover of WBD they are arguing for, so... I don't even know why their lawyers submitted this brief.

This year there have been multiple mergers, all heavily against the public interest, where it became clear the deciding point was whether adequate fealty was paid to Trump. Two massive TV station operators were involved in seperate mergers that are only going ahead because they opposed ABC showing a comedian critical of Trump and because ABC "settled" a bogus lawsuit filed by Trump. CBS is going ahead because it cancelled a major Trump critic, also settled a bogus lawsuit with Trump, and the new owner is run by a right wing nutjob relation to Licence Ellison. T-Mobile bought US Cellular after dropping anti-discrimination policies, paying towards Trump's inauguration fund, and funding the "ballroom", despite DOJ objections. And, so on.

The merger will go ahead just as long as Netflix keeps up its steady stream of crappy right wing action movies and right wing comedy specials. And, of course, makes "donations" to Trump "causes".

2024 Corollas aren't like 1997 Corolla's, they're pretty much the size Camrys were back then. The fact it has grown in size, and the fact that there isn't a lot of competition (does Ford even make sedans any more? Best I can find is the Mustang - a quick look at this page shows that "alternatives to the Corolla" are mostly crossovers, the Jetta, Forte, Impreza, Elantra and Civic (of course) being the only similar vehicles considered competition), suggests that the entire market segment is poorly supported by both manufacturers and consumers alike.

While have you seen the amount of SUVs and pick-up trucks on the roads? It's absurd, especially given the vast majority are owned by people who'll never use the things that make them expensive and fuel inefficient.

So one Ford pick-up truck, out of a selection of Ford vehicles that makes up top selling pick-ups and SUVs, outsells the Corolla 4:1? That's a sign Toyota might eventually phase out the Corolla in the US, not a sign the Corolla's market segment is popular.

It sucks, but there you have it. Hopefully things will change, but with this administration in charge, it's going to take a while.

Are you claiming that inflation was the fault of Biden? You do know what happened the year before Biden took office, right? That continued for two more years and caused supply chain issues that wreaked havoc on the entire economy?

Also throughout 2021-2024, despite all of this, we had full employment. I'll take temporary inflation over unemployment thank you, even if it's not been US policy since Carter decided to adopt monetarism.