No, the 4GiB file limit is part of the filesystem itself. Changing that would be a breaking change. That's why, when they changed it, they also changed the name to ExFAT, along with a number of other fixes and updates. The 32GiB limit was just an artificial limitation of the GUI formatting tool. IIRC, the command line tools have never had such a limitation, and the drivers can access larger filesystems just fine. The 2TiB limit is a hard limit of the filesystem spec and going higher would be a breaking change. Again with the ExFAT fixing that problem.

We do have HUGE stockpiles of food. It's just not at grocery stores anymore, which can be a bit of a problem in times of crisis, for sure. Stockpiles of other shit: not so much. The reason we have huge stockpiles of food is because food is produced in seasonal patterns but consumed year-round. If you harvest apples twice per year, once in the southern hemisphere and once in the northern hemisphere, but you want to have apples available year-round, you'll need to stockpile them. And, with apples, they aren't grown much in the southern hemisphere, so we stockpile like a year's worth at basically all times. This is true of many crops, like potatoes, grains, corn, nuts, basically anything that can be dried out or chilled and stored gets stored. We COULD grow that stuff like we do for vegetables, which is in greenhouses on a constant cycle to always have fresh available, but it's pretty difficult to do that for plants like apple trees, and high-bulk crops like grains, onions, and potatoes, so we don't.

Speaking of potatoes, as a chef, I can tell you that I know when the first crop of the year comes out. The variety and quality of the potatoes will suddenly change when the first harvest of potatoes of the year comes out. The prior year potatoes become very cheap and generally get turned into fries and dried and frozen potato products (like mashed potato mix, shredded hashbrowns, that kind of thing), and the new, locally produced potatoes become available at lower prices. This, oddly enough, kind of sucks, at least in Michigan. The variety of large sized potatoes grown in Michigan, where I'm from, kind of suck. They tend to explode when boiled. The potatoes available in the winter are usually from Idaho and Eastern Oregon and are of a variety that doesn't fall explode so bad, but they do tend to have hollow-core*, a defect that requires an extra step to remove the nastiness at the very center of the potato. The variety grown in Michigan isn't prone to hollow-core, so that's nice, but is prone to explosions, which sucks. Trade-offs, I guess.

* What is hollow-core? you ask. Hollow-core is a defect that happens when potatoes grow really, really fast. The center of the potato forms a hollow cavity lined with potato skin and filled with grossness. This is easily removed if you cut the potato in half while peeling. An extremely similar (the same?) condition can also be caused by some kind of plant disease, in which case the cavity will be filled with rottenness and evil and often makes the whole potato useless. (Keep in mind that restaurants often peel potatoes after boiling, rather than before boiling. It's much, much faster that way. I highly recommend that you do that when making American Fries (aka Home Fries) at home.)

Anarcho-capitalism isn't really a thing. Or at least, it isn't anarchism. It's essentially end-stage libertarianism. If you want to see what it looks like, Somalia is currently in such a situation. It ends up being less freedom and more feudalism with petty warlords all fighting for dominance. It's not unlike the Crips, Bloods, the Mafia, etc., just with everything instead of just with illegal vices.

This is all to say that this kind of anarchy would not be pleasant. Only teenagers, idiots, and assholes actually want it. Actual anarchism, by the way, is the end-stage of Communism. Totes different things.

There's no way on (or off) Jupiter's Green Earth that you could ever put a terawatt of anything in space. Every one of those watts would have to be radiated into space somehow. Can you imagine how large the heat sinks would have to be? Keep in mind that radiating heat in a vacuum is about the most inefficient way to get rid of heat that one can think of. On Earth, you can use air and water to move heat around and then dump the air or heat into the environment. In space, you only have radiation, which is basically proportional to exterior surface area and temperature. And, that exterior qualifier is important in space. Using some kind of finned radiator like we use in air or water won't work very well, since most of the heat radiated off will just be re-absorbed by other parts of the radiator. This means that in space, the most efficient (in terms of mass and heat loss) is gigantic, quite thin, highly conductive disc of metal. To distribute the heat across the entire disc, you'd probably embed a grid of heat pipes.

And, then, holy space solar panels, Batman. A terawatt is a LOT of solar panels. You could probably make the solar panels double as radiators, but that would only work if you kept them relatively cool. You're still going to also need a bunch of radiator disc. The only way I think that you get possibly get this to work is to make like a sort of triangular prism type of design. Make one side solar panels and face the sun. Make the other two sides radiators. Keep the computers in the middle, connected to the radiators through heat pipes. And then you'd need a satellite dish sticking out one end, or, preferably, both, along with a smattering of thrusters.

Considering the difficulties in dealing with the and the delay added to communications by being in space (even LEO would be bad; roughly half the time the satellites would be on the other side of the planet.), it would be much, much simpler, and cheaper, to put all of that computing power on the ground, preferably nearer to the Poles than the Equator, and preferably near a large body of water, like a lake or ocean. The Great Lakes region in the US and Canada would be great. Solar power isn't super great around The Great Lakes, but wind power is quite feasible, and the cooling potential is off the hook. I mean, there's cold water everywhere. I would think that, in Europe, the fjords of Norway and Sweden would be pretty ideal. Iceland would be pretty good too, so long as you bring in enough cross-oceanic cables from Europe and Canada. The mere fact that you wouldn't have to launch satellites into orbit along would make Iceland seem like a steal compared to space, even with the cables. Hell, even Antarctica would be cheaper and easier than space, and would have similar ping times.

Well considering that cancer is a class of diseases, rather than a disease of and in itself, meaning that one cannot "cure cancer", only cure certain kinds of cancer one at a time, I'd say we're doing pretty well, thank you very much. I mean, we basically cured most types of vaginal, cervical, and anal cancers as well as a number of oral and esophagal cancers in one shot with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This. If I could upvoter you on this site, I'd make a stack of alts and mod you to the moon. The sooner this AI craze dies, the better. Even though I also think that quantum computing will likely remain a niche physics experiment until after I'm dead in fifty years, I support physics research wholeheartedly and desire for more of it. At least that has a hope being awesome. So far, these AIs have really only gotten good at talking people into suicide and annoying all of us mathematicians who know how it works.

Microsoft themselves actually did go after the Texas company nearly a decade ago and won. Why the government didn't prosecute them criminally as well is beyond me.

As far the the scam goes, I think people aren't wrote realizing that the CoA stickers aren't the license to use Windows. Will they activate a copy of Windows? Probably. I have no idea if Microsoft can blacklist blocks of stickers or not. I think what people are missing is that someone has to print up those stickers. This lady just bought a few rolls of those stickers under the table from the printer. But she definitely didn't buy licenses from Microsoft and I don't think, realistically, that she could have thought otherwise. Technically, when she was selling those stickers, it was a type of fraud because she didn't have the Windows licenses to sell, just the stickers, but any ordinary buyer is going to see the sticker and think they're getting a license, when they technically aren't. You don't really need to give out DVDs or other installation media anymore; anyone can get that from Microsoft's website for free.

(I would also like to point out that I think the person I'm replying to probably knows all of paragraph 2 already; I'm just making it explicit.)

But the courts have shot down that argument repeatedly now. Only humans can be a an author. Period. An AI is not a human and so can't be an author. A monkey is not a human and so can't be an author.

The courts have already addressed this and shot it down. No matter how creative the prompt is, the output of the AI is not eligible for copyright. The prompt itself may be, but only if it's actually creative and not just a rote list of descriptors. And even then, a prompt isn't all that likely to produce the same output every time. The way the LLMs currently work, there's quite a bit of randomness that go into the image generation.

I think it may be you who is confused about units. MW are power, that is energy per time. MWh is a unit of energy. 1 MWh = 3.6 GJ.

They are doing something about it. They've shut down the government in order to force ICE to knock their terror campaign off. Individuals are reporting and monitoring ICE agents while ICE engages in their acts of domestic terrorism. They are protesting throughout the country basically continually. They do shit all the time. They aren't exactly in power right now, so what they can get done is limited. Even when they've been in power in recent years, they haven't had the numbers to get good stuff through. This is largely due to successful campaigns by Republicans to suppress the vote and to gerrymander themselves into more representation than they deserve. If the playing field were even, Republicans would never win an election again, assuming Democrats don't do anything super dumb, like having Biden run for re-election.

So stop pretending that Democrats have dropped the ball. No. Republicans took the ball and punted it into the sun and then got a bunch of M4A1s out and started threatening and even murdering everyone who points out they're cheating.

I can't think of the last time any Democrat led government had straight-up murdered people in broad daylight and lied about. Whenever bad shootings happen, Democratic prosecutors routinely attempt to prosecute the officers in question. Republicans congratulate them on their murder and try to blame the victims.

Fuck right off with this both-sides shit. When's the last time the Democrats ever advocated putting children in jail, separated from the parents, en masse, or sending thousands of secret police to terrorize and murder the citizens of cities run by republicans (no, they no longer deserve to be capitalized)? Oh, that's right: NEVER. That's because Democrats actually do care about the people and the rule of law. They aren't a crazy death cult run by a tyrannic fascist. Do they have problems? Sure. Are they on a level with the republicans' outright opposition to the Constitution, the rule of law, and of every form of justice? No, not even close. The republicans have buried themselves so deep in the evil mire that they should probably start worrying about buying fire-proof suits. If Hell exists, I'll see them burn in the deepest depths of the hottest Hells, from the Heavens, while me and Obama laugh it up somewhere out there in the Galaxy, while chatting casually with Jesus and the Buddha.

(And I don't want to hear any shit about the Democrats prior to the 1970's. Before then, the parties' loyalties were divided very differently. The parties back then are NOT the parties of today. They're related only through a shared history.)

People often misunderstand the works of Karl Marx. You, sir, understand perfectly. I mean, he was wrong about the whole Communism thing, but the idea that if the rich piss the poor off enough, the poor will rise up and kill them is pretty solid and has happened plenty of times. It's starting to happen right now again, it seems.

I mean, Jesus wasn't anything. He never existed IRL. But, setting that aside, if we look at the "teachings" of Jesus as a whole, it is a serious stretch to believe that Jesus would be a capitalist. If anything, he'd be a Socialist or a full-out Communist.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom." - Matthew 19:24
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.” - Mark 10:21
The list of saying goes on and on. Jesus didn't want you to hoard your money. He wanted you to support the poor. Now, in ancient times, supporting the poor was seen as a duty to be performed by rich individuals currying favor with the masses. Those individuals were effectively the government, at least in the Roman Empire, where Jesus was. Today, our governments are more centralized than in the past. The way that we, as a society, help all the poor is by having the government ensure that all people have what they need.

The particular way that has been found to most effective at doing that is a system we call Socialism. Socialism is a capitalist system, but with certain industries tightly regulated and (usually partially) funded by taxation set up to ensure that all people get all that they need. There's no chance that Jesus, given a choice between having everybody individually do good through charity alone and having everybody collectively do good through Socialism, would have chosen charity alone. He'd have picked Socialism.

This whole "He wanted individuals to choose to be good so the government can't do it for them" idea is nonsense. The government doing it IS everyone being charitable. Remember, the government IS THE PEOPLE. It is the collective will of all the people. If the government socialistically provides for the poor by taxing the shit out of the rich, then that IS the rich people being charitable. Yeah, it's not exactly by choice, but who gives a shit? The rich are still rich, even under Socialism, but at least your gardener can get his chemo when he needs it. I mean, you could still choose to be an asshole and just not be rich and pay little to no taxes, thus not being charitable. Or you could get rich AND have everyone in society be cared for. Why go for the shittiest option of being rich while everyone suffers unless you, personally, decide to be nice today? If you think that's a good world to live in, fuck your mother.

Seriously, this is such BULLSHIT. There isn't really that much CO2 in ordinary air. There's a lot of air, yes, so the total amount adds up, but on a liter per liter basis, air doesn't have much CO2. It has roughly 400 ppm aka 0.04% CO2. This means that for every liter of CO2 you want to collect, you'll need to pump 2500 liters of air, assuming you capture all the CO2. That works out that for every gram of carbon you collect, you'll need to process 4700 liters of air, minimum. If you do the math, it's roughly one Empire State Building's worth of air that needs to be processed to get enough carbon to make a single car-tank's worth of gasoline. The fans that you would need to move this much air, much less extract the carbon from it, would be enormous, and likely cost as much as a tank of gas costs to run. An Empire State Building's worth of air is a lot of air to move. And, of course, you need to do this at scale, which means you'll need many of these giant fans. And you'll need to be pumping the waste air far, far away from your plant before releasing it lest you accidentally pump in your now-carbon-free air for reprocessing, which would be a pure waste of time. The pumping costs alone would eat you alive. And this aside from the fact that we don't really have very good carbon dioxide removing technology. What we do have requires intermediate chemicals like lithium superoxide, which are quite expensive. Yeah, you regenerate it in the end, but some will be lost every cycle, and this will also cost a fortune.