Orderlies are on the 'least affected' list.

I am actually kinda surprised at that one. It seems like it would be fairly easy to automate that one, not even sure you need AI.

It is just scheduling and some image processing/lidar/sonar/etc to make sure crafts are clear of, properly positioned in the lock before raising or lowering.

I don't really know, I am not lock operator and I am not belittling what they do but it seems to me it should be simpler automation problem than trying to do say, Self Driving for a car.

SE did not really simplify much. It was just Windows but they intentionally crippled / broke some stuff.

Much of the bloat, none of the value; does not a product make. Meanwhile by '21 Microsoft was all on o365 as the future anyway. If that is vision what is needed is well ChromeOS essentially a web browser with a bundled HAL.

This is the same problem with that version of Win2k8 server where you could chose not to install the desktop experience...Reality is that did not mean much more than setting the shell=cmd[.]exe in the registry in actual practice. Windows just isn't modularized and does not lend it self to stripping down. You need "a lot' of hardware/storage just to get a basic UI up.

The common Linux stack is much easier to cherry pick just what is essential to run chrome and little but have it all still work right. That is where the heterogeneity of the Linux world is a strength. Various system components and user-land software a like does not get to make so many assumptions about what else will and won't be there.

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening which is measurable by the accelerating traversal of the magnetic poles. That's why a relatively small CME last year caused the same Northern Lights all the way down to Hawaii as the Carrington Event which was 10x stronger. The beauty is unquestionable but the impacts will cause us difficulty.

There was a recent solar storm which ionized the atmosphere more than we are used to as "normal" in our recent history, which sets up the conditions for lightning to travel further. The physics on it are pretty simple with all variables considered.

We're going to see more of these than we're used to as the pole shift continues to accelerate.

This happens every 6000 years or so and we're right on schedule but we're really unprepared to handle it. Preparing for this ought to be a planet-wide project for our species, and to help out the other species that rely on geomagnetic migration for their reproductive success.

As a kid in the 80's we only needed to update our compass calculations for variance to True North every 20 years or so; now it's yearly.

I wish Humanity could not plant their heads in the sand on this one but I'm planning like we will.

You said 'a long time ago' so you could be forgiven for the lack of NAC etc, but no dhcp/helper and snooping?

Even with access to wire closet, no DSL installer should have been able to get off the ground in the first place, not in the last 25 years anyway.

LOL - and here I have just been using an upside down can of air-duster..

You had an answer...Are you sure it was correct?

I remember that; there was a ton of hype around Google's internal search thing. I never saw it do anything better than basic full text search already present in SQL/Sharepoint/Exchange

The problem is software or hardware it is 'how' do you do it in a useful way. Page range for all the fancy academic writing about it boils down to don't actually do it, let humans do it, and pick up on the fact the content is interesting by how much linking to it there is/was.

One kind stupid but maybe not stupid approach I could see Reddit taking is actually

1) train an AI model on all their content and refine or retrain it pretty frequently with their new content.
2) Have users write a query and generate a completion using the model - but -
3) Rather than send the completion to the user, use existing similarity algorithms to locate actual posts / threads with human content that shares the most in common with the generated response
4) send the user the links.

Obviously this is over simplistic and would need some refinement and experimentation like if you don't find many posts that clear some similarity threshold, its a good indicator the generated response was trash, and then what ask the user for a different query question? Not sure..

But I think there could be some value here rather then serving up often garbage AI summaries that get important details wrong, generate the summary and use that to the locate the best original resources or discussion that provide the most coverage of the topic or question.

Yes, it's quite rare that a Congressman's constituents are his voters.

Maybe a dozen, max.

Yet incumbents win reelection 92 % of the time.

We also have the government we deserve.

Just for history's sake, it's obvious that mimicking these cavities on a nanoscale chip could be very useful in optical computing.

Hello, future archive.org viewer.

> It also has its own NIC.

Now the story makes sense.

Thank you for the important context.

Now we know the name of the reboot character.

and only Play Store can do background security updates due to special privileges.

For F-Droid you have to run a Magisk extension on a rooted phone. That's bad for security because most people can't or won't.

Detractors claim Epic just wanted Google to run the Play Store infrastructure at a loss to increase Epic's profits.

Nobody numerate believes that but they claim Epic did it for that reason which would be shitty except they didn't.

Somebody could probably make a good business out of running a store at 5% markup.

They yammer on about Temu but the hardest hit sector will be small R&D shops that get parts and components as the need comes up and now they'll have 2-3 week delays on every order at Customs.

I've seen stuff disappear into the Customs black hole for six weeks and there's nothing you can do but reship and home the Chinese Roulette favors you.

It would be great if Adafruit and Sparkfun were 50x their size but that's not reality and manufacturing was driven out on purpose. It can't return for a decade even if a project were started today.

Watch: the media will say small businesses are complaining about the 15% to try to fool everybody. In prototyping almost nobody cares if an SoC is $10 or $11.50.

Trump's Corporate donors will be just fine and face fewer upstart competitors so it is working as intended.