Amen, but Han was the ONLY one to shoot at all. Greedo never shot.

No, in films it was a picture of the time-waveform, not a picture of the spectrogram. The film image was is in the time-domain, and was equivalent to a phonograph record with the grooves unwound to be linear, and then shown as a long picture. The spectrogram is like somebody adjusting all of the levels on a 128-channel (or more, maybe) graphic equalizer 128 times (or more, maybe) per second, and keeping the data of all of those graphic-equalizer settings and turning that into a picture.

Any university student in their second year of signal processing studies would know it was possible to transform the spectrogram back into sound. Actually doing it with this spectrogram is kind of ballsy and insensitive. Posting the real high-quality spectrogram was irresponsible.

Little "d", democracy.

Big "D" is the Democrats, which I'm sorry to say is a bunch of mismatched train cars that can't agree what needs to move, nor get moving, nor stay moving. Meanwhile the Republicans are a train that is speeding along and smashing the Constitution as fast as the Orange One wants.

That should probably be phrased "the only SPONSOR with USAID". The tens or hundreds of million people who benefited directly from USAID we also participants.

Marshall Plan
USAID
UNESCO
WHO

There were clearly some benefits to the US with those, but the US had at least been a reliable and beneficial participant, and those had been a net positive for the world. (With the US being the only participant with USAID)

However, it seems there is another loss path which is greater than the background loss in the universe, and that is the salaries and the perks that companies dole out to their senior executives.

That's "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" level.

I came here to say the same thing. LLMs are not going away, and are almost as ubiquitous as search sites. Kids should know what they are getting into.

We can be skeptical about the involvement and motivations of the tech companies, but it's better to have the schools have some say in the messaging about this stuff.

Sorry to hear about that. Which area in Australia? North of Sydney, I'm guessing?

I seriously doubt this will be The One and Only Method to use when putting out a fire. As others have pointed out, parts of the Pacific Palisades fire reignited because the embers were not fully out. This thing may help stop the flames, but the firefighters will still have to follow up with water.

If so, then that's really not succeeding in Sudan. The civilian population is suffering the most.

Damn. "Squiggles" and "bard"? I think I read the same story.

Yeah. No argument, there.

I note that none of his properties seem to be in the vicinity of coal mining or burning locations, nor oil drilling nor refining. He should move closer to some of those, since they are so beautiful.

The Daily Show is also in that situation.

Ask Tank Man in Tienanmen Square. (Yes, it's outside the list of "lie, cheat...")