It'd be nice if there was a Federal department for these types of things, one who could collect and provide such data and guidance for state and local school districts who lack the funding and resources to study these things on the scale needed. Let's call this imaginary place, oh I don't know, let's go with Department of Education. Oh well, no such luck there.

Bill "Fox and Sinclair" Clinton

Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.

Holy ackshually guy. Didn't know I was talking to a bunch of ESL folks. I misused the word but explain notice what they (purposefully) misunderstand has nothing to do with that.

But good on you, you sure showed me!

In what way are long copper wires immune to EMP?

Gotcha, it's a conspiracy of course.

Nonsense anyway, what they are is a company that sells speakers which are hobbled by their garbage software. If they were first an operating system company then you would pay for it and it would support other companies' devices. He's just a typical fraud.

They chose to make them not work by choosing not to coordinate adequately with states so that there would be an excuse to need something else.

How are you connecting to Slashdot from the year 2024?

If you have ~128 GB of RAM, consider Qwen 3.8 Flash + Freetoken. You'll only get half the tok/s as 27B but the quality is significantly higher than 27B - it beats it solidly in all compared benchmarks (for example, DeepSWE 1.1: 42,2% vs 58.7%).

Grok is a "discount model". It's cheaper than Claude Sonnet yet better than it. Doesn't compare to Fable or Opus, but then again, they're way more expensive models.

Note: I avoid using Grok - not just for the Musk factor, but because there are better options, e.g. GLM-5.3 and Qwen-3.8. Also, if you really want to save money, GLM-5.3 Flash and Qwen-3.8 Flash are amazingly good for their price range.

Once AOC is President you have to use they/them under penalty of catapult.

Sure, but they make big leaps every time they launch. It's not incremental like SpaceX, so it's hard to say how they compare.

They are putting fibre on the poles now. Not just BT, around here we have Cityfibre using the poles for their connections.

To be fair there are advantages to above ground lines. Japan got onto fibre very early because they opened up their above ground infrastructure so that other companies could use the poles for their own cables. It looks messy but they are a couple of decades ahead of the UK for internet access.

They are above ground around here. Had to get them to come and fix the neighbour's cable that was attached to a bracket on my house. The guy took a look at it and said it was too much hassle to get the cherry picker, but if I just cut it myself they would eventually send someone. So I did. And they did. With the cherry picker.