This exists in the Mac world as well, but the primary reason I'm tied to Windows for my DAW is because I can't register my instrument because Native Instruments never bothered making a registration app for Linux.

Depreciation is high, meaning you're mostly paying for a name—which people probably aren't going to do anymore. I was just looking at the market for used Polestar 2s last week: a 2024 AWD model with 48k miles (so someone leased it for three years and put every mile allowed onto it) can be had for $29k. This was almost identical to the pricing of a used Hyundai Ioniq 5 with AWD, and the Ioniq started about $5k cheaper.

While a sudden simultaneous shutdown is sometimes unavoidable, there is no reason why everything has to come back up at exactly the same time. Certainly, supercomputers of decades past didn't expect that all systems would spring to life simultaneously.

Something violent happened to Uranus. Why do you think it's tipped over on its side?

So who is to blame when someone uses a model that has had the safety rails deliberately stripped off, like a Heretic or Abliterix fine tune? These are generally couched in "for research purposes only" terms, but I use an Abliterix fine tune of Gemma 4 26B-A4B as my "daily driver". It absolutely never refuses anything, although it spends a lot of time patting itself on the back for understanding what I say well enough to paraphrase it (reasonably) accurately.

Having $40 million in gold would be on-brand for a Russian oligarch. I have no idea why he would need to do this inside the U.S. though.

When you're on the ride of a sigmoid curve, you never know where you are. How many times has Moore's Law died now?

Why is this a problem? It's just another job opportunity for Marco Rubio. Even AI is afraid of being replaced by Rubio.

How do you know that's not just one significant digit, which would mean >95%? Or maybe it only has one-bit resolution and it's anything over 50%.

It makes all the difference whether someone is being an asshole to you, or an asshole for you. Sometimes you actually welcome the latter case.

The powers that be will say "let them fight".

In my experience, no... but context loops are a hint the model is starting to go mad and should probably do some of this "dreaming" to consolidate memories and correct some of the semantic drift it has incurred.

Enlarging the size of the House of Representatives would also eliminate the tyranny of the Electoral College. Two senators per empty state won't matter when even those empty states have six or eight representatives and the largest have hundreds.

Where do you think he learned about penis birds?