It was probably invented by the mail-clerks at Exact Sciences. They were tired of the mishaps when receiving Cologuard return-samples whose patients didn't understand the packaging instructions.

I wonder if anyone's going to revive that old hacking tool, "back orifice".

Cheech and Chong could have benefitted from this technology.

Thanks. Now you tell me...

If the camera is poorly aimed, it puts a whole new meaning to end.

If one changes how electricity is billed, ie, the more one buys the more expensive it gets, that would help a lot. Particularly when those huge-demand customers would end up paying for the development of the very power plants that they require in the process.

Demand-surge pricing is already common in many places. I see no reason why it shouldn't be applied to industry.

Yes, that is the argument of the climate zealot side. "But none of it matters because planet is going to die. We need to stop raping Mother Gaia and start worshiping her".

These are the same people who predicted in 2000 that we'd have a "global starvation event by 2020", as well as that Pacific island nations would be underwater and cease to exist by this time. And that were talking about "global boiling" in 2020.

Turns out reality doesn't bend that way. Regardless of strength of faith of the zealots.

Yes, because Russians are key partners when it comes to operating the ISS. They own and control about half of it after all.

It's in the name. International Space Station. Not American Space Station.

I would guess the point is that eventually games are available for more than just Windows. Because Microsoft has been trying for better part of decade to make their own "games store/app store" to compete with Valve. Down to making editions of OS where you couldn't even install software from outside Microsoft's own store. They're really trying to lock down the OS without losing most of the customers.

And while it has been failing miserably so far, the writing is on the wall and Valve would be smart to push software companies off Windows into "works on everything" paradigm.

Funny how if you look at the change log of proton, it's full of fixes for the "tricked-out crazy-straw-coded games". Which would suggest they're running anything but flawlessly.

https://github.com/ValveSoftwa...

Reminder: most of these papers cite numbers by which growth will be reduced by the end of the century. Projected total growth in the same time frame is several hundred percent. This is a factor that slightly reduces that number.

"Climate sceptics" generally argue that this sets a ceiling on cost of efforts to mitigate climate change, because otherwise cure is worse than the disease.

Again, the best evidence of someone arguing in bad faith is their pointed refusal to look up a basic fact. Examples:

Pictures of planet from space on "is earth round" argument.
Basic mathematics on "does 2+2=4" discussion.
Basic medical ethics on "do we halt studies and administer the cure if during testing we find overwhelming evidence that cure works".

You are pointedly refusing to do this. And then complaining about the dumbest grammar communist level of red herring I've seen on internet in a month. It's hard not to observe this weird behavior and not conclude you're acting in bad faith.

Do you know who else "does a catastrophically worse job than a human in specific conditions"?

Other humans.

Because they're also self-learning neural networks, and share the problem of "each distinct neural networks develops its distinct quirks as it learns" with current AI.

These people aren't hired by Elon. They're brought in by NASA in cooperation with Russian authorities.

SpaceX's only relationship with them is that they're a NASA subcontractor taking them to space.

you won't be able to buy your 'sensible amounts of ram' for at least two years at any sensible price