Are they machines? Are they capable of deliberate movement? Do they have any decision-making of their own?

From TFA:

The externally generated [emphasis mine] magnetic fields made the robots spin and tumble through the liquid and squeeze through tiny water-filled gaps in the soil.

So, why are they referred to as robots? If I mulch my bushes — is each chip a "robot" fighting the weeds around the plant? When a brick wall is sanded, is each grain of sand a "robot"?

I gave you the link with all the data citations if you'd like to check the margin of error.

Translation: you don't know the margin of error either.

eclipsing the Dust Bowl's July 1936 by an eighth of a degree

What is the margin of error? Asking for a friend...

>"unsolicited telemarking calls are banned in France unless consumers explicitly consent to them."

And we kinda have that in the USA as well. Plus possible fines. Plus a do-no-call registry. Plus other stuff.... And nothing changed. Companies claim "existing relations." Or they sneak something into fine-print that you sign. Or they call from out of jurisdiction. Or they just don't care and do it anyway, however they like.

There is no easy way to report them, and really no teeth. It is sad. I wish we could just press a single button and it would submit them automatically to a central database and we had an agency that would look for large offenders and nail them. (Same for text). But not gonna happen.

Maybe France will fare better. But I kinda doubt it.

>"Then explain SystemD...

You know, when I wrote the post, I was thinking about "well, there is systemd..."

As I just said to someone else using this line of logic: Explain SystemD...

Then explain SystemD...

The only thing that matters is that they were able to exfiltrate your data again.

Esoteric bugs have a way of becoming security nightmares as people more fully understand them. *shrug*

Everything should be picture perfect and coherent all of the time. This is the real world and that is impossible... but striving for it is not wasted effort.

I believe their entire point was that it is possible to use AI effectively, not to humble-brag. Why waste time being a hater?

What is this 'we' shit? Maybe you deserve to go extinct, but I do not.

Too few few people are entitled to too much wealth. There is no way out of this without lots of death. :(

So what? The administration is hostile to all concerns other than their own. Japan received tariffs already. Japan will be used as thoroughly as they let themselves be used; therefore, they must speak up immediately, regardless of consequences as the consequences are guaranteed anyways.

You are absolutely correct; however, the people who care have no voice.

If the government were honorable and didn't lie for convenience, there would be almost no anti-vaxxers.