He's still delivering exactly what he promised.

The difference is that now a lot of people hate him for delivering what he promised.

I was drinking a lot of french press and my cholesterol starting rising fairly dramatically. I've had really good cholesterol numbers my entire life, so this was fairly alarming. I stopped drinking french press and when I had my next test done less than a year later, my cholesterol numbers were back to normal for me. Highly dependent on your individual physiology and the amount of coffee you're drinking, but something to watch out for.

Apparently the paper filters in drip and pour over are effective are effective at blocking the oily compounds that lead to a rise in cholesterol for many people.

as long as the topic is not controversial and political.

The problem is that the Wiki mods are VERY VERY biased. Not just a little. I have run into this personally just trying to make very simple edits. They would not accept simple facts that I had backup sources for.

This was just for movie credits for an actress that at some point had turned conservative...

So for anything political, Wikipide will be factually wrong, sometimes (or often) egregiously so.

But that's ok if it's only for political content right???

But there's the trouble you see. It affects what is political TO THEM in ways you cannot comprehend, so ANY page might be touched by the corruption of the Wikipedia moderator biases. I wouldn't think a simply actress filmography would be affected yet it was. No visitor other than that page would ever know it was inaccurate or incomplete.

So you can trust absolutely nothing from Wikipedia without extensive checking of what facts they refuse to list. Which makes the entire body of work garbage - I have not used it for years now.

My grandfather died at around 90--of lung cancer! He never smoked a single substance in his life, never worked in factories, etc. It was basically random. Near the end, one of the docs asked if he had been exposed to asbestos. He answered "Well, I did go on a school trip to an asbestos mine in 5th grade..."

I'm a neophyte, but there's some interesting information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Local...

It's easy to tell you haven't used Apple hardware in a long, long time.

Yeah, Siri sucks and Apple's models are behind, but Apple is doing some interesting research and the M chip architecture is very, very good for running local models.

Even if you ignore Apple's own AI software, it's popping up in 3rd party software all over the place, including graphics and video editing.

Yeah, they absolutely are. There are some Local LLM reddit groups where people are doing some neat stuff.

The M* hardware is very impressive.

I don't know anything about comics, but according to Wikipedia (IDW):

Wikipedia also links to IDW Publishing States They Will Definitely Be Around For Another Year

So, it doesn't seem that rosy?

A more interesting question I think is, does anyone own this AI actress?

That is to say - if a company took her likeness, and used other AI to make porn - could "her" agent sue them?

Or in other words, is a purely AI generated likeness even copyrightable, when technically no human made it?

If you have induction, how do you feel about the sound of the range? I still have an ancient gas burner (though I did install a good ventilation fan), but when I've cooked on an induction stove elsewhere, it both made an annoying high-pitched squeal (think old CRTs but louder) and had fan noises kicking on and off. It annoyed the crap out of me.

I don't want to get another gas burner, and technologically induction does seem like the clear winner, but the noise thing is really throwing me off. What's your experience?

AI has already made just about anyone who knows how to use it vastly richer. You can get (often better) medical diagnosis without taking time off from work, navigate a will and a tax return without having to hire a lawyer, figure out how to structure investments without hiring a financial manager, learn exactly what steps to take and what you need to buy to do a home repair. Have an idea of something to sell? You can offload a lot of figuring out market fit, advertising, business structure, etc. People who want to be entrepreneurs have a lot less holding them back.

As for killing economic activity, I realize you view all of those all as net losses to society since no six or seven figure salary professional gets to send a massive bill in the mail. But for my part I am buying **more things** things because AI is helping me find out exactly what I need - often solutions I hadn't realized were available. And I am engaging **more** services for the same reason - not every home repair is feasible with AI help, but I can use it to find out when and what professionals are needed, expected cost, and who is licensed and well-reviewed.

Effectively having an auto-shopper buy all sorts of stuff for me and hire services I previously didn't have time to verify would be a net benefit is supposed to "reduce" economic activity???

If we even buy into the theory that humans or some group of humans will be completely sidelined by the AI economy, to the point they don't have jobs - might not those extraneous humans still want to eat? And might not they turn to finding ways to produce their own food? And wouldn't some of them need to work on the necesssary equipment? And isn't it conceivable they would start trading skills and material for food, mediated by some agreed upon means of exchange? And if some portion of that food or material might be even the least bit useful to anyone in the AI economy, might not they trade with them as well?

There is not going to be an end to economic activity. Economic activity isn't whatever is leftover for humans to do after the machines finish, economic activity is whatever humans (A) want and (B) can obtain. 'A' is limitless; 'B' only increases over time.

I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

Ok, I'm making a note to check in with you in 15 years to see how the extremophiles are doing.

I think that's a total misread of the situation.

Tesco has a contract with VMware. According to Tesco, VMware/Broadcom is now breaking this contract. The point of litigation is to determine which said prevails in this dispute. Of course, during litigation, Tesco will make many claims to show how important they are, and how insidious VMware/Broadom's actions are, all in support of their position. It doesn't mean that they Tesco could go offline at any second (though that is of course possible).

You later said "Tesco sell groceries, like potatoes. Do you think they only have a single potato supplier?"

That's a good point, but the more direct analogy would be it Tesco signed a purchasing agreement with a particular potato vendor where they paid £1m for a certain amount of potatoes over three years. Now let's say that after the first year this particular vendor fails to supply the agreed upon potatoes and won't refund any money. Tesco would undoubtedly sue that one vendor (even though they have multiple potato vendors). I have no doubt that Tesco would likewise claim that "This vendor's refusal to supply us with potatoes is endangering the food supply for Britain and Ireland!"

You wouldn't say that Tesco was "negligent" for trying to enforce a paid contract with that potato vendor, would you?