Don't worry, we're all Homo Economicus by default. Perfectly informed, perfectly rational, perfectly selfish. Otherwise the whole system would be a broken farce! So each buyer will independently source their own perfect climate risk data, obviously.

The keys were stolen last week but the developer doesn't bother to tell anyone about it until after the malware has been distributed.

Was he sleeping between last week and today?

I find that my phone is just too damn small to read on a long-term basis.

Receiving a text message, reading a single article on a website, looking at a picture, that's all fine and good. But reading all of this morning's news? I want something that's big enough that I can sit back in my chair and read comfortably, without squinting at the tiny print on my phone screen.

but you couldn't carry that in your pocket, which seems to be the objective here.

Much as I hate to defend Microsoft, if this is an update that's clearly marked as a "preview" or "testing", then it shouldn't be a shock if it breaks since that's the purpose of doing a test release.

"The city has issued an order" and "it's unclear whether Waymo will comply".

Since when does Waymo get to decide if they'll comply with local laws or not?

Now the next step is to take them to court, shut their operation down completely and ban them from setting up shop again until or unless they show that they have figured out how to comply with the law.

Interesting that the "EMI hardening" is a software/firmware error correction feature and not a physical shielding around the hardware like on military planes.

A slop-designed rocket engine might explode violently enough to give another big piece of metal a shot at becoming the fastest human-made object.

Rose: "The sun is too hot, now I shall die"

Cladosporium sphaerospermum: "Fuck yeah, strong ionizing radiation!"

I'm really hoping it pops before the Pitt Race track gets bulldozed.

Story for those not in the know, what's heavily rumored and circumstantially almost certain to be an AI datacenter operation is in the process of buying out Pitt Race at the height of its success from the already generationally wealthy family that owns it for what's rumored to be a 9-digit sum. The race track happens to be next to some major electrical infrastructure. Equipment from the track has already been auctioned off.

I was also kind of hoping the nuclear reactors might get started before it pops but that might be wanting to have the cake and eat it too...

I'm thinking sometime between right now and late 2026. It may be starting to pop already.

The guts of the data centers will mostly head for the landfill (or may get a short stint as cryptocurrency mining or HPC operations at most), they may get repurposed as conventional data centers or possibly warehouses or factories.

Counterpoints: The Great Depression, the impoverishment of the Luddites, the impoverishment of Gen. Y/Z/Alpha. The French revolution was an outlier, and the French aristocracy didn't even have the benefit of a massive heavily automated surveillance apparatus, much less the ability to even dream of armed killbots.

A pesticide for any planets crawling with pesky lifeforms you want to get rid of?

If you can't tell the difference then why does it matter?

It's either a good game that's worth having or it's not. Whether it was made using AI or not is just as irrelevant as whether it was written in C or Rust or Java; nobody is crying for labels saying what programming language or libraries every game was written using either.

No creativity or talent or specific knowledge required.

Whoever has the "biggest computer" can lock up all of human progress and collect rents for it into the future.

Somehow I don't think this is what the patent system was intended to accomplish.

Just like excessive copyright terms, patents have become a roadblock on the road to progress.