So, die of skin cancer instead of Alzheimer's?

Nope, there's now a vaccine for that.

Probably some version of shell company and/or reselling equipment from manufactures that nominally do not make stuff for export and can be sloppy with BOM documentation; coupled with studiously avoiding asking questions that might lead toward any material knowledge of controls violations.

When Ukraine dissects the remains of Russian drones or missiles, they inevitably find western components. In one case, reported on here, they found an Nvidia chip inside a missile.

Is someone, or someones, inside the supply chain redirecting chips? Is this the same as the servers getting to China? Or is this merely a case of someone buying this stuff under a shell company and then passing it along?

Some people write their love letters with the "help" of a LLM. Politicians write speeches, teachers write their report cards, managers the reports on their underlings and so on. Except for having an empty mind and being an imbecile, there's not much of an excuse for doing so.

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...

And DARPA has a whole program for it:

https://www.darpa.mil/research...

Last time ivermectin worked like charm - maybe it also works against heat stroke? And coal, beautiful coal emits chills when burning.

I had to add minimum paragraph and sentence counts to the prompts it uses to keep it from trying to write a few terse sentences each time.

I noticed this in Claude (from DDG). It invariably tries to shorten sentences or make them more compact and concise. Sometimes that can be good, but most times long-winded sentences are what are needed.

and there is no way I can find to make it stop popping up giant intrusive ads for their other services every single time I open it.

Just like Firefox. There is no easy way to turn off being harassed by an intrusive pop-up telling me about a new update.

There used to be. It was a simple checkbox. But somewhere along the way someone had to justify their existence and removed that simple checkbox in favor of harassment.

Here's the guy who is way smarter and more knowledgeable about engineering satellites than SpaceX engineers cause he watched a few TikTok videos.

Would like to add one tidbit because I've had this same conversation at work. The professor stated they used AI to help edit only after hundred of hours of writing. In other words, they did the heavy lifting and only used AI at the end to help refine what they had already done.

Is this any different than a human editor? If I write a book, do what I can to edit it down, then go to an editor who makes suggests, removes or reorders parts, and so on, is that any different than having AI do the same thing? In both cases you wrote the words. In both cases you went somewhere else to help edit.

If people claim that using AI to edit a work is "cheating" because it's no longer your work, then the same should apply to a human editor.

Man we live in a world where phantomfive does not even read the sentences he is quoting. Maybe the problem is YOU and maybe it is a symptom of to much screen time.

Screen time is killing our kids, no wait screen time is making our kids smarter than ever, maybe screen time does not really matter, omg screen time is killing our kids...

For individuals there really is only one reasonable course here. Ignore the sensational studies and news. Make sure you kids get some play with things that are not screens. Make sure not all the screen time is 'games' and at least some of it cognitive activities even if it is writing little text games in python/ruby/perl/etc that AI could crap out in seconds, letting them think work and solve a problem matters.

wait 20 years for the science to catch up as it has on cholesterol and saturated fats; tell yourself you did your best and let your kids know to not mess up your grand kids they way you did them.

"patch your shit" totally works too with 1000s of patches per month thanks to 'AI'

sounds exactly like sort of guidance CISA would spend $1 billion in tax dollars coming up with in 2026.

I have negotiated as part of my hiring package some additional time off in my first year for some pre-planed travel, or other event for pretty much every job I have ever taken after high school.

This is really no different. In all seriousness the main motivation for almost anyone taking any job is money. Even if you "love what you do" the vast majority could simply do it (at some scale) as a hobby.

Making this about GTA gets attention, its free advertising for military recruitment. In reality it is essentially four days of extra PTO as hiring / retention sweeter. I would even be surprised if someone thinking of signing on for another tour said, can have my four days in ... the answer is probably yes, because after all granting everyone leave at the same time isn't really convenient operationally speaking, probably better if for the service if they do let people who are not so interested in playing GTA take their time some other time.

Point is this seems really smart to me. It is headline grabbing, and it is very likely something that was already on the table anyway.

"Can we get it in cornflower blue?"

Don't mock it. Cornflower blue can be valuable.