Where I live. (North Carolina), any one involved in a conversation is allowed to record the conversation from the moment they entered it until it ends, without any consent required. This is not uncommon as it allows people to protect themselves from others scams/threats/ect.

Anyone who think their conversation is secure and private is sadly mistaken. Its only private as long as all other parties respect you.

Get over this silly notion that you can say things to someone and it leave no evidence beyond a man's word. The time for low grade liars has passed.

At least you can define what the word "bioweapon" means, which means that you can, in principle, create a treaty to ban them. (Admittedly, the existing international treaty is unenforced and probably unenforceable).

No one can define what the words "artificial superintelligence" mean.

'caught off guard' ...

When? a few years ago?

The usefulness of Apple Unified memory for LLMs is a selling point they've been using for at least a year, if not 2.

It was a marketing strategy, not sure how it 'caught them off guard' when it was part of the plan.

This story keeps popping up around the last week or so and its as if you don't remember that the m3 was is great at it, and marketed for LLMs because of unified memory - and the M4 was more aggressively marketed for AI - in late 2024.

So again, WHEN were they caught of guard? in 2020? And yet dumbass 'journalists' keep reposting the same shit.

The only people still using it are the ones that will complain about anything they can, and will never be satisfied cause they need this one special tweak that everyone else KNOWS is stupid, but fuck it, we put a VPN in there, why not support the dumbest shit for one dude on his high rocking horse. Who immediately complains about some other stupid idea. So will give him a prompt first use ...

99% of users want things to work without having to answer a bunch of stupid questions based on some developers shit head politics and need to impress his childish view points on users.

And this is why Foxbat will always be nothing better that the replacement for IE6, it will continue to be an example of why developers and their personal politics shouldn't be allowed in the git commit history.

Add another option is usually the result of not beimg able to figure out a better starting point. Its rarely solving problems, usually adding bugs, problems and complexity.

I need a browser that isnt an irrelevant PoS that has spent its entire life with "trying to be a browser" as the last thing on its list of development priorities.

XUL, email, rrs, web page editor, VPN, all sorts of political shit, literally so many options it cant help to be a slow bloated buggy pile if donkey dung.

You live in a fantasy if you think hipaa protects you from data sharing.

When you agreed to medical service and signed the hipaa notice, that you didnt read, it was you agreeing to allow them to share it for business purposes, you are not allowed to opt out and get service ... then it gets mixed in with other data and sold.

You have this false fantasy that anyone cares about hipaa beyond getting you to sign the contract.

The town can simply ban that sort of surveillance. Contract can go fuck itself if the law supersedes it, yes retroactively.

This retarded idea that a company can do whatever it wants because of a weasely contract is false.

The residents control the town, not some secretly foreign run mass surveillance company these idiots keep getting bribed by.

Thats cute. Now put it in front of the public without the person on the other end following your demo script...

All of the sudden its shit.

My company has done this as well, and it works great for the guy who made it, who talks to it with knowledge of its capabilities and nuances... but then as soon as anyone with a slightly different choice of words comes along ... its fucked.

LHS 1140b has 5x the mass, but only about 2.4x the surface gravity (since the surface is further away from the center of the planet's mass). Which is still enough to make life difficult for large animals, of course.

But even if the gravity was 5g, you could get a lot bigger than bacteria. Regular mice from Earth can survive in 7G environments for months at a time. Bacteria apparently can survive hundreds of thousands of Gs.

Though, to be fair - this really isn't an important announcement - its just an improvement developers will appreciate - and a few guys that truly understand hypervisors. The rest of us, at best will say ... 'cool ...'

While not entirely true in desktop land yet - increasingly, more and more things are containerized, then run inside virtualization ... this does matter to everyone, even if its not immediately apparent.

Fair point, I should have specified "the professors and the administrators" need to do their jobs, not just the professors.

I also get it that colleges "need customers", but... two of the universities mentioned in TFA are Brown and Princeton. Both Ivy League, both top-10 in the US, both with applicant acceptance rates of 5% or less. These universities are NOT going to run out of potential students if they start cracking down and enforcing standards. In fact, if they start cracking down and if they're very public about the crackdown, this will help their reputation immensely, and will make them more attractive to prospective students (at least the ones who don't plan to cheat).

Long before LLMs, students would find ways to cheat on assignments-- either by hiring someone to write their papers for them, or by simple plagiarism. The penalty, if you were caught, was that you flunked the course with no appeal. The penalty for repeat offenders was that you got expelled.

The only difference here is that these students aren't getting appropriately penalized. These professors need to grow a pair and do their jobs, instead of rambling on thoughtfully about "best practices".

It did become "dated" faster than any of us would have expected, reading it back in the 1980s. But "dated" doesn't mean that it's bad or that it has aged poorly. It's still one of the greatest opening lines of any novel. The reason you can tell that it's a great opening line is that you were able to recall it word for word. You probably didn't even need to look it up to remember the exact quote.

Also, $70K is the median *household* income. The median individual income in Omaha is $41.6K. As gtall said, factor in taxes, healthcare, rent etc... then factor an extra $500-$1000 to register and title your new car, another $1000 annually for vehicle maintenance (except it'll be more than that because for $20K you're buying a used car), and factor in whatever you're spending on gas...