that's been my style for longer than even many Slashdotters have been alive, not going to change it.

also, Biden deserved that nickname and i've known about him for a lot longer than most, long before Obama picked him & let's just say he was very different.

Reagan's cabinet used to joke that Biden didn't know which party he was supposed to be in and i'm not talking about his memory.

when i saw Duvernay's "13th" one of the very few surprises was interviews with people like Grover Norquist & Dennis Prager but NOT a single mention of "Sleepy" Joseph Robinette Biden.
i reached out to the filmmaker on Twitter more than once about that but was ignored. i've never found a reason to believe excluding him was not a deliberate decision.

given that Slashdot still doesn't allow deleting or editing a comment, perhaps you should verify that you're replying to the right person before publishing your screed

"There are some 50 MILLION interactions with police per year in the USA. Around 800 result in death. That is 0.0016%
And almost all of those are due to non-compliance and/or valid threats made to the police"
Please do everyone a favor and tell that to the POLICE!!
Because they ALL act like every one of those 50 MILLION interactions is actually one of the 800.
Why is there so many more police shootings in America compared to Canada or other advanced nations?
US cops kill about as many as LEO in Mexico and i've been told that is a dangerous shithole.

never been a fan of Sleepy Joe but things were less chaotic when he was POTUS even during COVID.
Speaking of "Weekend at Bernie's", where is Mitch McConnell? If his recovery is going so well, why hasn't he made a video statement?

Cancellation payouts so far this year for wind projects and lease terminations:
$1.2B to RWE AG
$928M to TotalEnergies SE
$900M to Golden State and Bluepoint
$765M to Invenergy

These deals of course were made very strongly,
Could Sleepy Joe have done this?
Of course not.

similar to Lisp and Java machines or transputers running Occam

If the weather is bad enough, people choose not to go out in it. Unless someone has a gun to your head, you always have a choice.

Heh, there's some validity to that. Human drivers are a daily rolling disaster that society tolerates only because there hasn't been any reasonable alternative. If-and-when autonomous vehicles actually become cheap and reliable enough, I suspect that human driving will gradually start to be curtailed -- not necessarily by banning it outright, but by making licensing requirements more restrictive, by making insurance costs more onerous, and/or by "nerfing" the cars such that they simply refuse to perform dangerous maneuvers.

What this country needs is a good two-dollar red-team AI, that will try to create an exploit based on a submitted bug report and use the exploit to compromise a Mac in the QA lab. If it succeeds, the bug report is definitely genuine and should be prioritized.

I agree that has historically been the case, but OTOH Trump is deteriorating so rapidly (both psychologically and in terms of his level of popular support) that after November's bloodbath (and whatever Trump's unhinged response to that will be), the remaining Republicans may well decide it's in their own interest to get him out of office sooner rather than later.

We've reached the "Pope is selling indulgences" phase of the American government's decent into blatant corruption.

They could have done this a year ago before the AI tax made CPU & storage spike from extra expensive to unaffordable.
Happy now?

"telling engineers to focus on business results rather than maximizing AI usage"
why does that even need to be said?
especially for a longstanding for-profit, publicly traded corporation

Capitol One did a review of several HUNDRED accounts held by the Trump Org in 2021 and closed them, tell Mango Mussolini he had 90 days to move them elsewhere but later granted him an extension.
By contract, they had the right to do so without explanation and he or any other person with similar terms could close or move their accounts without notice.
Instead of simply complying, he decided to sue.
Thanks to that boneheaded move it's now known that the reasons were because the accounts exhibited activity consistent with money laundering.
Show of hands if you're at all surprised by this.

the AI companies are selling $100 bills for $1