TFS is also being pretty disingenuous about the subject matter, either that or whoever wrote it doesn't understand the topic at all. They have it in their head that today's rockets aren't as complex, and that corners are being cut to lower costs.

The truth is exactly the opposite -- they're more complex than ever, and that's for the purpose of lowering costs. And it shows as even Soyuz -- which was a lot cheaper than anything NASA ever offered for manned orbital flights -- was $87 million per seat, and also a far less comfortable ride, whereas SpaceX is $37.5 million per seat. And Soyuz still uses much of the old tech that TFS is glorifying, not to mention benefits from cheap labor compared to SpaceX. That cost advantage mainly comes from the added complexity of landing a booster without relying on a parachute.

Also, nobody is claiming space is easy. Who knows where the hell he gets that idea from.

Restitution for criminal conduct generally can't be discharged via chapter 7. This is different from civil liability.

I remember a while back, I submitted an application to a bank, and they literally had me record responses to written questions on a webcam. About halfway through it I remembered thinking "this is really stupid" and simply closing the browser tab. I didn't care whether they had any interest or not, never bothered to look again.

I'm wanting to say it was silicon valley bank, back when they were doing pretty well, but it was years ago and I don't remember for sure.

Depends on your jurisdiction.

The New Hampshire Constitution guarantees that the only purpose of prison is reform.

I know, in some self-proclaimed "Christian" states they love to talk about gay rape as a purpose of prison.

Those are psychopaths, Donnie.

Nothing paying this well lasts that long in a free market. The massive salaries attract more people to the positions and unless there's some magical factor that limits the number of qualified applicants, that will drive salaries back down. AI is a specialized field, but there are plenty of people who have the capability of expanding their skill set to work in those positions. Some may not care about AI at all, but may be willing to if the price is right.

"Oh, you're in Dallas, what part? That's very interesting. I'll be there next month - what's a good restaurant there that you like? I always like to ask locals where to eat when I'm visiting get the real scoop."

The North Koreans get tripped up and stammer something irrelevant. Buh-bye, stop wasting our time.

The Feds took down one instance of the racket. It's like busting Epstein and Diddy but not the other twelve.

> Why are we struggling to do now what we once achieved decades ago with far more complexity and far less technology?

"Everybody is stupid and lazy now" isn't the most parsimonious explanation.

Especially from the Gulf of Tonkin/MK Ultra era.

To add to what you said there wasn't a bright line between the Apollo Program and the ICBM program.

Though SpaceX is being funded to build a war-fighting duplicate of Starlink and a weapons-deployment copy of Starship for the Air Force.

Whether or not Armstrong walked on a moon or a set at Elgin Air Force Base wasn't important to the ICBM program, just to TV and politicians. And he refused any TV interviews for decades.

The rumor I've heard from those who work at Apple or have worked at Apple is that Apple bit way, way too hard into the rotten apple which was/is DEI. They promoted and hired people completely unfit for the jobs simply because or their DEI checkmark credentials. This has had disastrous impact on "softer" disciplines specifically, like project/program management, release management, and so on - nevermind more creative/artistic disciplines.

You can see this in how milquetoast a lot of their later software releases have been, and how they fall short of being meaningful improvements or something a person would even be able to conceptualize a use for - like Apple Intelligence. The message/notification summaries are nice, yes - but beyond that, it's a nothingburger. iPhone Mirroring? Slow and inconsistent (while the more useful clipboard sharing feature is... intermittently broken, it seems.) Desktop widgets? Who even looks at their desktop?

So, I'd not be surprised if the result is this. The internal projects have been stagnant or making negative progress to useless people of one stripe or color, and they can't simply get rid of them outright. But they still need to deliver something for shareholders, so absent a new hardware release they need something to show for the money spent on fancy offices.

Depends on whether you buy video games for video game gameplay or high polygon ray traced titties.

Yep. I can't see why you'd want this over, say, a 2020 M1 with 16GB of RAM.... at 2/3 or less the price. NPU capabilities? In most cases, I can't see it mattering at all.

I didn't say they talk, you might want to reread that. I'd say you have Broca's aphasia, but usually that doesn't come with cognitive disorders, so it's probably something else.

We actually don't even know that a problem even exists yet, other than just isolated incidents. Science doesn't work that way. The first step for each of these is a case study for each patient. I.e. here we have a case where patient presents with X, friends and relatives say Y, let's do a full workup to see if we can rule in or rule out any other explanations, look at their medical records, possibly even public records like criminal history, and see if there may even be any episodes or hints about them that friends and relatives aren't necessarily aware of. After you get a few of those, then you're at "there may be a greater problem, more research is needed" instead of "previously misdiagnosed or undiagnosed schizoid and/or dissociative disorder".

I mean, shit, we don't even know at this point whether all of these guys simply have a case of alkalosis, which is known to cause psychosis and can be caused by diet alone. The way you guys jump to conclusions with so little being known is just bonkers.

Soooort of -- it's far from perfect. If you keep your ear to the ground, every now and then you'll see stories about somebody doing some kind of prompt injection even on the mainstream services like chatgpt. Their engineers can't figure out how to prevent deliberate attacks to divulge data that the company has a major vested interest in keeping private, but you expect that they'll somehow be able to prevent the thing from gradually, over a long period of time and many prompts as in the case here, prevent the dialogue going in a direction that is otherwise forbidden? Take for example the mention of the (simulated) guy talking about losing his job and then asking what the tallest buildings in new york are. Does that mean it should associate any negative emotion with suicidal thoughts? And how is it even supposed to know that it's a negative emotion? Guarantee you the "sorry to hear about your job" bit was just statistically the most relevant answer it could give, with zero in the way of understanding what it meant.

It wouldn't even surprise me if the whole reason the guy who attempted suicide went down that path was because the guy's own prompts were very gradually going in that direction, quite possibly from his own subconscious thoughts gradually ending up in his prompts without him being consciously aware of it, the LLM only picked up on it as a statistical matter, and is just slowly giving him back what he put into it, only in a different way.

Or like this bit:

How is a chatbot going to cause a person to forget like that? This smells of a dissociative disorder. I'm not a psychiatrist, but I don't see how reading text on a computer is going to be a big enough cause of trauma to cause a person to dissociate like this. Because if it is, I can think of more dangerous places on the internet than chatgpt.

>"A car's repair history matters, as does the odometer."

The funny thing is, the odometer-only-metric is so outdated. I have wondered for decades why it hasn't been updated to at least include number of engine starts, and total runtime hours. Combined with distance, those three metrics would say a hell of a lot more about the vehicle.

Anyway, it is true that something like that on a laptop is likely some elaborate excuse to manipulate the market or screw the consumer. The SSD and battery wear/health, we can already read. I am not sure the CPU or RAM actually "wear" like other components do. Fans and power supplies, maybe? But I can't even remember the last time a power brick failed, outside of a cord or plug being accidentally damaged. They are easy to replace, and now that they are all moving to USB-C, they are fairly universal.

I wouldn't ever buy an HP laptop, anyway, being a Lenovo Thinkpad snob, myself. It is my favorite brand/line for loading Linux. Especially fond of the newer AMD ones.

>"Windows 11 has alienated users with perfectly functional older machines, prompting some to stick with unsupported versions or abandon Windows entirely." ...by installing Linux. There has never been a better time. Funny how the entire article (and summary) glossed over that.

But fear not, the same Tom's Hardware does has a separate, earlier, article on that: https://www.tomshardware.com/s...