Talent is real. It takes a special kind of mind to be good at math, engineering, science, programming, etc.
For years a myth has been promoted that the key to riches is a STEM degree, and that anybody can do it.
Some believed that the only thing that mattered was the degree, not the talent or hard work required to get it. So they slouched through college, putting in minimum effort, socializing, binge drinking and cheating on exams, with predictable results.
Talented people set their own standards, so to them, the concept of lowered standards is meaningless.
Meanwhile, in China, millions of very talented people are working hard.

Precisely. LLM systems are, ultimately, auto complete on steroids. That they can present a reasonable simulacrum of intelligence, does not change the fact that there is nothing else intelligence involved. No reasoning, no knowledge. Just probability based word assemblies.

that is why we are not sufficiently impressed for this douche. We see the limitations, and the harms that come from ignoring the limitations, and end up underwhelmed. They are promising something they are not actually delivering.

Yup, got to ask Schumer for the stats - he must be sitting on it.

There are 131 oil refineries in the US - a little more than few

Sure. I would expect that each country would want to protect themselves from other countries.

What about the artificial vanilla flavor?

Chemically it's identical to what you get from vanilla beans, and it's not synthesized in a lab. The only differences are that it's extracted from wood, and the other chemicals that give natural vanilla its rich flavor aren't there.

Karo is not HFCS , but yeah, lot of kitchens have hydrogenated oils (a.k.a "shortening", also "margarine"), artificial colors ("food coloring"), and flavors (vanillin probably is most common). HFCS would be unusual in a home kitchen, but "invert sugar" is less so and pretty much the same thing. Sucrose itself is already highly processed, it doesn't exactly come out of the beet as a white granular substance.

The UPF thing is woo, by people who should know better. At least the bro science people know they're bro science people. Or it's just a scam.

>"This is about whether a hostile third party can affect a vehicle remotely because of manufacturer incompetence."

Oh, well, both are important :)

I have often wondered if it is reasonable to just find the antenna(s) and put a keyswitch across it/them, so you have absolute control over when/if they can be accessed remotely at all.

Pretty odd to complain about the Dutch being the US' bitch on an article on how they just bent over to the Chinese.

>"I will pause judgment until they conduct the same test on domestically made buses."

Most new vehicles have all kinds of spyware and remote control crap (mine certainly does). But, presumably, domestic ones are nowhere near as much of a threat than a foreign, potentially hostile nation-state.

Whenever a government tries to force companies to do something they don't like, companies respond by doing it in the most cumbersome and awful way possible, hoping that the public will get so angry that they force a change in policy

In practice, scalpers will find workarounds
Some people actually believe the fiction that governments can effectively stop things by banning them
All laws do is raise the price and fine or imprison those too incompetent to find good workarounds

Power plants, including nuke plants, hydro and coal plants, are maintained and refurbished all the time. There is nothing strange about it and there is no reason to abandon a power plant - anything can be refurbished and upgraded.

Maybe it's because people already know or, at least, suspect NSA backdoors in Windows. The network gear is a moot point.

IBM stays IBM, I feared that in the long run the aquision will be the end of Redhat, it is happenning now as it seems.
IBM is a shithole employer and has been for decades!