Dark energy, to my understanding, is the fruit of supernova observations, which seems to show expanding universe, which would then require dark energy. It is deferents and epicycles once again - more and more complex mathematical models needed to explain a false hypothesis, as new observations surface.

I hope alternative models of explaining the supernova measurements would get more attention, so that some day we could admit that this geocentric..., sorry, this dark energy model was wrong after all.

It's not about costs. It's about saving the frigging planet. A concept that may be too hard to grasp for many of your kind.

Theoretical scenario, no? Going that route, the attacker can fill the whole damn card slot with epoxy, and no card, be it magnetic stripe or chip, can be inserted at all.

WTF... Here (Finland), I've been living my adult life for more than 30 years now. And I have NEVER written a check in my life. Electronic banking (direct deposit you call it there?) since last millennia now. And as for the taxes, the same thing. Actually local "IRS" is quite advanced, for years, there has been no need to "file" anything tax related. All information has already been gathered, I'll just get a copy of the calculation that I can verify on their website. Postal money order? WTF again...

For entertainment? Maybe a live gig, occasionally a Netflix movie (no series). For pastime, running, orienteering, swimming, forestry (lumberjack thing), hiking, whatever. Outdoors mostly.

We are worlds apart.

You confuse information search with entertainment. Like I said, I have a life outside digital world, wouldn't waste it on some "entertainment content" from Youtube. So yes, it is much more efficient to search for "how to fix a bootloader" video than to subscribe to a Windows tips and tricks channel and wait, if such a video pops up.

I know what I want to watch, so I go and search for it!

Youtube is quite handy in providing all kinds of guidance, e.g. lately how to replace a capacitor in my receiver, how to fell a tree, or how to get grub back, when windows took over the boot process. That doesn't mean I would have any desire to subscribe to an electronics, lumberjack or windows tips channel.

I have a life, I do not need random "content" to fill it with.

What are you using on Linux for file search? Have you tried FSearch, how does it compare to Everything? https://cboxdoerfer.github.io/...

Exactly. And it is seldom too cold for a heat pump, if you buy a modern one. I have Toshiba Premium+ 25 bought a couple of years ago. It gives COP 2 in -30C (-22F). Costs around $2000, installed, here in Finland.

Even easier is to use the other workaround given by russia, Use a warehouse near the border to manually connect sim cards to the russian network for a while, then move them to be used in the next batch of drones to be launched (if launched further away, activate the mobile connection only after the drone has reached russian network).

This explains a lot, as we all know, that you have a fetish for denouncing any AI/LLM use case, no matter how successful those would be.

I'll just give a counterexample, which invalidates your point. We have Fire detectors in our house, every room has one in the ceiling. Once in a while, a detector goes off to some random reason, typically cooking (with lots of steam generated). So no fire. False positive. Does it make the detection system unusable? Do you feel that I should rip out those detectors?

According to European Price Indication Directive, stating that the discount amount must be counted from the lowest price the item has had during the past 30 days.

Must be that Euroean socialism, protecting consumers' rights.

Well isn't it obvious? AMD thinks that being on OpenAI bandwagon would raise their share prices (due to PR, due to increased business, due to AI hype, whatever) - and if the share price really reaches $600, then it will have tripled from what it has lately been. So diluting the shares by that 10% is a price that the stock owner will happily pay after that tripling...

The Fine Article describes traditional encryption method (not quantum), which is RESISTANT to ATTACKS that run on (sometime in the future) upcoming quantum computers. Quantum encryption itself is a completely different beast, not discussed in this story.