Which of course also conveniently earns them $$$ when there is significant data traffic from deployments in us-east-1 to deployments in other regions.
Except for us-east-2. Traffic between us-east-1 and us-east-2 costs the same as traffic within us-east-1.
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And yet, your imaginary friend still isn't real.
They clearly didn't even use a proper image generator - that's clearly the old crappy ChatGPT-builtin image generator. It's not like it's a useful figure with a few errors - the entire thing is sheer nonsense - the more you look at it, the worse it gets. And this is Figure 1 in a *paper in Nature*. Just insane.
This problem will decrease with time (here are two infographics from Gemini 3 I made just by pasting in an entire very long thread on Bluesky and asking for infographics, with only a few minor bits of touchup). Gemini successfully condensed a really huge amount of information into infographics, and the only sorts of "errors" were things like, I didn't like the title, a character or two was slightly misshapen, etc. It's to the point that you could paste in entire papers and datasets and get actually useful graphics out, in a nearly-finished or even completely-finished state. But no matter how good the models get, you'll always *have* to look at what you generate to see if it's (A) right, and (B) actually what you wanted.
And clearly God (who as we know, is a scalar field) is an AI. That's why there's so much "slop" in the Bible - factual errors, contradictions, different versions of the same text that heavily contradict each other, etc etc. It all makes so much more sense now!
At one point last week I pasted the first ~300 words or so of the King James Bible into an AI detector. It told me that over half of it was AI generated.
And seriously, considering some of the god-awful stuff passing peer review in "respectable" journals these days, like a paper in AIP Advances that claims God is a scalar field becoming a featured article, or a paper in Nature whose Figure 1 is an unusually-crappy AI image talking about "Runctitiononal Features", "Medical Fymblal", "1 Tol Line storee", etc... at the very least, getting a second opinion from an AI before approving a paper would be wise.
Are you saying you didn't see this coming? It is a democratic system, ain't it? So this means politicians just do what is expedient, that's why they are elected. Leaders have stopped being elected long long time ago. Not that I am for any government intervention into any of this at all, I am against it. I believe we must do what we do as a species without any collective action enforced by government, I am against all government intervention. I am totally against anyone trying to architect our survival as a species, I am all for real natural selection.
Asked the thing to tell me:
I have heard that you sometimes give wrong time and sometimes even answer that you cannot tell the time, why does this happen to some people?
ChatGPT said:
You see different behavior because the system reads time from the userâ(TM)s environment. Some users block this data. Some browsers hide it. Some devices send inconsistent region info. This leads to gaps.
You see steady answers because your browser shares stable time data.
Other users trigger fallback behavior. In those cases I answer that I cannot read the time.
is this it?
I don't know how some people get these types of weird answers, I cannot get the damn thing to tell me the wrong time. The only really weird thing is that it is 'searching the web' while 'thinking'.
No. This is inconsequential. Literally nothing at all.
I wonder how much the FAA will pass away "investigating".
Shirley the thoroughness of the investigation is inversely proportional to the amount Amazon "invests" in Trumps latest scam.
Not surprising at all. This was a concern that was raised over a decade ago, even in discussions here on
The fact is that road maintenance needs to be paid, and it was long thought that charging taxes on gasoline was a good way to fund roads because it was simple to implement, it scales with how far you drive, and it also scales with the size of your vehicle (larger vehicles do more damage to the roads). So it was relatively fair. It also didn't require invasive data collection, such as how far or where you drove your vehicle.
When it was first discussed here on
Of course now we voluntarily GPS track ourselves and send the data to our corporate overlords, so that all seems like a moot point.
Will this new law also apply to those crazy guys that power their diesel cars off used french fry grease they get from restaurants?
The free ride for EVs was going to end at some point. If your only reason to get an EV was to evade a small amount of taxation, well you're SOL and should probably re-evaluate your priorities.
In the UK, you have a yearly car inspection called an MOT that registers your mileage at the point of inspection. In that way it's easy to determine what the per mile tax would be. Personally I'd rather a blanket tax on all EVs as it would be easier to administer but I don't have an EV.
However I feel that we're about to discover the hard way the dangers and downsides of the extreme amount of computerisation in modern cars. They're already sending telemetry to the manufacturer, often without the knowledge of the owner, what is to stop the cars from sending similar telemetry to the government? Your car becomes the snitch, especially if people start to fiddle with the mileage before an MOT. There's no need for a new GPS spying system to be installed, it's already there.
BTW, when it comes to diesel, modern cars can't really run off of chip fat from the local chippy and converting it to biodiesel would be more expensive than buying diesel (especially as it won't scale)... however something similar has already been a thing in the UK for ages as we have "red" diesel... which is diesel sold tax free for non-road use (industrial, mining, agricultural, generators and the like, vehicles and applications that would never use the road) with a red dye added for easy identification. A few people used red diesel for road going vehicles but it's never been such a significant issue that anything beyond token enforcement has been necessary.
I believe that there is no limit to the incompetence of government committee.
We've formed a committee to limit the levels of incompetence in the previous committee.
They are going to lose the next election, maybe to Reform, if they don't turn things around. Pandering to Reform voters is pointless, they are not going to vote Labour unless they go full fascist. Meanwhile they are alienating everyone else.
LibreOffice doesn't have cloud sharing features that allow multiple users to access a shared file with different permissions.
LibreOffice Calc does allow multiple users to edit a spreadsheet on a network drive, but doesn't have a user permission system or integration with a single login somewhere. The other apps like Writer don't support collaboration at all.
That seems unlikely. The worst case I could find for high speed rail was 52.7g/km of CO2 emitted, with a capacity of around 1,300 passengers. That includes the emissions from the stations and so forth, and equates to about 0.04g/passenger/km.
For a typical A350 you are looking at 0.18g/passenger/km in economy class, and that is just the fuel, not the airport or the aircraft or the transport to get to and from airports at either end etc.
It is better to never have tried anything than to have tried something and failed. - motto of jerks, weenies and losers everywhere
