Comment Re:How about? (Score 1) 95
I had VERY SPECIFIC requirements and I wanted the extended warranty. I would have paid 2x at a dealer. I know what I was doing.
Comment Re:How about? (Score 3) 95
I bought a used 2020 XC90 from CarMax last week. I did everything online from shipping it from Texas to Minnesota to financing the extended warranty. I walked in the door, gave them a cashier's check, and drove away within 10 minutes.
That's how it should be.
Comment Russia is also fighting a hybrid war against EU (Score 1) 50
Western governments have always downplayed these kind of incidents.
It's about time we face reality.
Comment 10 sec on a modern Laptop (Score 1) 137
Used to take several minutes in the nineties.
Comment Old concept, well researched (Score 1) 67
This has been around for quite some time.
This article on related research in Belgium is from 2012.
https://wavewatching.net/2012/...
And they are now building a commercial scale facility.
Comment Paywall free link (Score 5, Informative) 151
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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.
The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."
Comment Re: Don't worry (Score 1) 52
https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...
Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.
Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.
Comment Re:Don't worry (Score 2) 52
The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.
What shareholders?
Comment Re:It was a good run for 250 years (Score 1) 126
It's certainly underappreciated how much Russian influence ops helped Donnie boy to succeed in politics.
Comment Re:It was a good run for 250 years (Score 2) 126
It's just the tip of the iceberg.
https://www.nature.com/immersi...
https://journals.sagepub.com/d...
https://thereader.mitpress.mit...
You handed the future to China.
Comment Re:It was a good run for 250 years (Score 2) 126
Thx! The power of Open Source
Comment It was a good run for 250 years (Score 5, Interesting) 126
After a quarter of a century America is now committing some kind of unprompted national suicide.
It's very odd to observe from the outside.
Comment Only humans should qualify as people (Score 1) 80
It's bad enough that companies are legally classified as people.
That's how the US ended up with an absurd Supreme Court ruling that declared that money spend by companies on political races qualifies as "speech".
Only humans should be able to get copyright on their work. I am 100% with Cory Doctorow in how we should handle and regulate the current crop of AI.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/1...
Comment Re:In the beginning there were analog computers (Score 1) 32
Glad to hear that you enjoyed it!
Comment In the beginning there were analog computers (Score 3, Interesting) 32
Analog computers are much closer to the new neuromorphic computing paradigm then the digital one. And they were the first ones used to solve differential equations.
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