To expand on the tritium point, only a small amount of tritium (a few dozen kilos) exists on the planet at any given time because it has a half-life of only about 12 years. In North America, the primary civilian source is a byproduct of the CANDU reactors in Canada, and that's only a few kilograms per year. The other major source, used for supplying tritium for US nuclear warheads, is a fission reactor in Tennessee where special rods are irradiated over the course of months to produce a few hundred grams of tritium.

To have enough tritium for fusion, effective lithium blankets need to be developed that capture neutrons and produce tritium (Li-6 + n = He-4 + T) to be fed back into the plasma. To my knowledge, this has not yet been demonstrated, though work has been ongoing.

Of all the publicly accessible AI systems Bard is the worst by far. There's no way I'd pay $20 a month for it.

It is unbelievably "woke" and many of the responses to queries that do sneak past its firewall of "we must not offend" are just totally wrong.

Google are a long way behind in this area -- which probably explains why the AI behind all the moderation stuff-ups on YouTube is so bad.

We had no option but to use tape to write-protect on our 128Kbyte hard-sectored 8-inch floppy drives. Oh, we're not going that far back? :-)

The Constitutional Convention was very much a consensus project, with Madison doing most of the work of assembling the agreed ideas into a single document. Washington's primary role was to keep order and enforce secrecy; he deliberately chose to provide little input into the actual ideas, as he knew that anything he said would hold undue sway over the participants.

What recent post has been made and signed by Satoshi? The last confirmed communication is from April 2011.

Google's geniuses decided that switching tabs is something one needs to do with a mouse.

CTRL-PgDown / CTRL-PgUp. Geez...

And before you ask: Reposition the current tab using CTRL-SHIFT-PgDn / CTRL-SHIFT-PgUp.

TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt both have published source code, and third-party security audits have been published for both. Neither was found to have any significant flaws and there have been no serious indications of backdoors found in almost 20 years of their availability (first TrueCrypt and later VeraCrypt when it followed TrueCrypt's cancellation).

It was stored in the blockchain, which isn't part of a wallet, and the actual CSAM was limited to at most a handful of small images, with most of it being links to CSAM. If you have a wallet, you probably have at most a couple of megs of data, and that's basically the Bitcoin addresses and associated keys. The blockchain itself is currently over 500GB, and there is little need for most people to download significant portions of it, with even that just the most recent parts.

Obama commuted Manning's sentence. Manning did not receive a pardon and still has a felony record.

I asked it to create an image of an eVTOL flying car in flames.

It responded:

Of course *EVERYONE* who sees an image of a flying car in flames will be "inspired" to recreate that scene in real life.

What are you smoking BARD?

We are all such snowflakes that we must be protected from evil images of scenes that may become commonplace in the not-so-distant future :-(

We recommend using a .22 calibre firearm if you plan to commit suicide. It discharges a less harmful bullet than larger calibres but is still more than enough to kill you.

Sounds straight forward but any time there's mention of an obelisk you should always check for an asterisk (in case there are special conditions that apply) :-)

"...Although I am unable to go into specifics, we had to evaluate our priorities and had to make the difficult decision to discontinue the service."

"Sensors detect Microsoft OneDrive contract, Captain..."

Narrator: "It was not, in fact, cheaper to host their files in The Cloud."

Technically, it's a violation at one mile per hour over the posted speed limit. Few police are that strict, but some are or can be when they're in a bad mood. Many people believe that there is a 10% cushion in the law, but I know of at least one person who was ticketed for going 1-2 MPH over in IIRC a 65 MPH zone (the judge threw it out when the person took it to trial).

It's fairly well known throughout the US that if you're driving through small towns in rural areas, you need to pay close attention to the speed limit signs (which are not always properly maintained), as local cops will often write tickets for out-of-towners for just going a couple of miles over the limit, knowing that the chance of it getting fought in court are limited.

If you claim it as your own interpretation of Satchmo's work, then no, though you might be on the hook for royalties if you too closely follow his work. It gets a lot fuzzier if you're trying to claim that it is what he would have done if he were still alive.