For those who didn't follow it, it's not that it's a contact binary that is so neat in and of itself, it's that when they modeled it, they determined that, the collision that formed it was less than 5 meters per second (less than 11 mph / 18 kph). Like a parking lot fender bender, but with the cars being ~750 billion tonnes.

How many people, possibly Cramer himself, were saying they wanted to see tangible benefits from all the spending companies were doing back in the early 90s? How much technology was thrown at the internet back then? How long did it take for all that spending to see results?

It's only been a few years (less than five?) that AI has been truly in the mix. It's only at the infant stage where it's learning the basics. It's taken that long for all the pieces to be juggled and mixed to get something partially useful. Come back in five years and see how it's progressed. Til then, spending is needed to make that progress happen.

I drive a stick-shift in a city and it's not so bad. You get used to it.

While I do like manual transmission cars, the one I own now is probably the last one I'll own because I expect my next car will be an EV. Or even if it's internal combustion, it's likely going to be hard/impossible to find one with a manual transmission.

In November, the Voyager 1 probe will be one light-day away from Earth.

Let us hope New Horizon's can last as long and provide its own wealth of information.

40% of Canada's land area is covered in forests. It is simply impossible to "manage" that much forest, and it's utterly fucking absurd to suggest otherwise. And to try to take climate change out of the equation is just a way of misdirecting away from the actual fucking cause; GHG emissions raising surface temperatures.

When will humans stop buying the most trivially fucking moronic red herrings? What a disreputable idiotic species.

It's almost as if allowing emissions to ramp up with little meaningful effort to control them is having the inevitable consequences predicted decades ago. But let's not deal with that, because it's hard. Instead let's have the President of the United States demand Canada hold back the tides.

It's New Jersey. What did they expect?

It's a cost estimate from AWS Health Dashboard, and with that word in the name the trillion $ amount actually sounds credible.

This would still not provide an explanation for trillion $ charges ...

There is an uncomfortable truth here: trojan horse LLMs.

It is possible to use data poisoning to insert special keycodes into an LLM, such that the presence of the keycode will totally change its behavior, throw off its guard rails, and motivate it to do things that harm users to benefit the LLMs creator.

Here is an article about a tool designed to detect precisely this. Though the recommendations leave me feeling like this tool is not guaranteed to find them. There may be clever ways to make them hard to find.

This is still very much emerging tech, so reputation is going to play a role in adoption. A modern version of the red scare could be enough to prevent widespread adoption of Chinese models, and keep people (or at least Americans) using models made by American businesses.

Peer review is still a thing.

If your peer review process is just a rubber stamp, then you're already fucking it up whether AI writes the code or not.

If anyone is blindly accepting AI code, they deserve what they get.

I've found that AI is a great copywriter. It can write copy. I turn into an editor, accepting or rejecting things.

This is faster, and usually ends up with equal or greater quality, and absolutely meets functional requirements, testing requirements, and the stated "definition of done."

If the Democrats get the House, then we will at least start seeing some government oversight again. They can hold hearings, subpoena people to appear, and generally dig into all the shit that the current spineless GOP twatwaffles refuse to look at.

Enforcement is still not an option, because the best they can do is refer criminal cases to the DoJ who can summarily ignore them, especially if the Attorney General still thinks of himself as Trump's lawyer instead of the Peoples' lawyer.

The best we can hope for is total gridlock while they drag all his shit through the street in preparation for 2028.

It should surprise absolutely nobody that he wants to rent-seek to get a taste of the Wall Street TACO trade...

You still don't see it.

He doesn't care if he gets prosecuted "some day" because he'll delay, appeal, and waste time at every single opportunity to delay his moment of accountability to after his moment of not sucking oxygen any more.

How long did it take him to finally pay up on the E. Jean. Carrol thing? 10 years? And the final disposition only occurred last week?