I saw it at a drive-in. Chevy van parked backwards, doors flung open, pillows and sleeping bags to lounge on, cute high-school friend beside me, a mickey of run and two cans of coke. Damn, I'm very very old. And Han shot first.

I dropped 55 pounds in the 12 months by crowding out processed crap with fruits & salads, and replacing prepared freezer-crap with home-cooked meats & veggies. I looked in the mirror yesterday and can confirm two things: My clothes look baggy on me, and my vision works fine.

Woohoo! 3.5 inch hard-shell disks are on the way. Welcome to the 1980's.

Who likes folding laundry? Pretty much nobody. But one thing it does do - quiets the mind. Like so many other 'mindless' chores we do, like mowing the lawn, washing the car, and shovelling the driveway, our minds wander and shift to more peaceful states as we work, and we come away feeling a little clearer-headed and quieter-minded. The meditative qualities of this type of work have been shown to have a healthy effect on the human brain, and given the assaults of modern living, we need this - alot. It makes one wonder if making robots to do mindless tasks is yet another way we'lll inadvertently rob future generations of mental health.

That is AMAZING! Finally, a use for a 'DPU' other than 'slave processor' - you know, the thing the Commodore disk drives had way back in '79. I guess the IBM FEP was a DPU too. What's old is new again.

The parent poster asks the most important question of all: How will the student's intellectual property rights be protected, or will they be protected at all? If the AI gets me off the "blank page", does it get a piece? Does this "school" for having provided it? Do the councillors for their suggestions?

The show Silicon Valley had an episode on "brain rape" (theft of intellectual property). This sounds like the same thing, but on a factory-farming scale.

It's rather amusing that Flock also spies on the cops using it.

The only thing I see accelerating is the rate at which opinion on these matters flip-flops.

This is not 'best of both worlds' - it's the best of 1 world: The online world. Now if you could also convert online-only games to physical media, then yes, it would be the best of both worlds.

I've been an armchair fan of quantum mechanics for decades. I read the nerd magazines when I was young, and continue to this day. I can even spell quantum chromodynamics, but I've never heard of quantum memory. Lost in translation, or drowning bs?

No one in their right mind would start a business hoping that a protectionary 25% tariff would be permanent. Right objective, stupid plan.

Zuckerberg has finally realized his shop doesn't have the AI muscle to compete with the top dogs, so instead he's emulating the Chinese model of releasing open models in an effort to undercut OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.

The Ellisons are a very litigious family. I'd be checking those 'commitments' very carefully for escape hatches. And 3 years of good behavior is clearly a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things. I think they could do (much) better.

And the world laughs even harder at the craven stupidity of the current American government. You're caught up in a kleptocracy my American friends, and the Thief-In-Chief is in the Oval Office. He'll steal your mid-terms if you let him.

To properly care for this garment:
- store it in the fridge
- wash it in the dishwasher
- iron it with a hair-straightener

When the garment has exhausted its useful life:
- cut it up and make a salad
- mulch it into your garden
- wrap Christmas presents with it