I've noticed a trend on Reddit these days, now when someone doesn't like your comment, they say it's an AI post as a way of dismissing it. It would be kind of handy at those times to be able to say "Ha, no - verified human!" I guess that may not outweigh the downsides though.

The average major movie is a bit longer than that; in many cases I wish they were only 90 minutes, but blockbusters these days are usually well over the 2 hour mark, and in many cases heading to 2 and a half hours. E.g. Avengers: Endgame - 181 minutes, Oppenheimer - 180 minutes, The Dark Knight - 152 minutes. So if they were to tend towards the epic end of the scale, as you'd kind of expect for a Game of Thrones movie, it might be more like three episodes long, almost a third of a season.

I presume that's Duncan M. Hamilton? I don't read read much fantasy. Surprised he doesn't seem to merit a wikipedia page.

Well, if you're into ReactOS, I guess it's proof that you're not in a rush for anything.

Don't complain, it gave you another chance to get some upvotes.

... Porsche's profits collapsed 99% in 2025. Feel free to not mention that when talking about how their year went though, I'm sure it's not relevant at all.

Dunno, but we spent £1.5 billion last year paying for curtailment (i.e. paying wind farms to stop generating because we can't do anything with the power), so I'm guessing the answer is "not enough". 13% of the total potential wind generation was curtailed last year. Eventually I guess grid capacity and storage will catch up, but for the moment, I'm guessing the amount of curtailment is only going to go higher.

People would probably just switch to even more predatory forms of credit like "buy now, pay later", and keep buying things they can't afford.

There may be no easy solutions, but if the peer-review system worked as intended, a lot more results like this would be picked up before being published rather than after. At the moment, there are few incentives for people to spend their time peer-reviewing others' papers or reproducing others' experiments, and thus there are not enough reviews or time spent reviewing to pick up a lot of errors. Surely it's not beyond the wit of man to find some way to fix that?

Not this time. The rocket failed to land, I saw it on the news ticker hours ago. "An abnormal combustion event occurred during the process, preventing a soft landing on the recovery pad" the report said. "The recovery test failed and the specific cause is still under further analysis and investigation." Of course, LandSpace could still become Chinas first company to land a reusable rocket, but not with this attempt.

I imagine they're shooting for 69420.

so why does there need to be like 6 dozen of them.

Because it's profitable, so lots of companies want a slice of the pie. For those that don't know, a stablecoin issuer takes cash and mints an equivalent amount in their stablecoin, charging a small fee for the privilege. They then invest that cash in short term treasuries, and keep the interest earned. Very simple and highly profitable, if you can capture significant market share, so without something *preventing* people from trying to launch new stablecoins, you're going to end up with quite a few of them.

It's both. He's intentionally spamming the politicians as a form of activism.

Microsoft Is Plugging More Holes That Let You Use Windows 11 Without an Online Account

Technically, they are plugging more holes that let you set up Windows 11 without an online account. Once you've done that, I presume you can still create a local admin account and zap the account used during setup. Now if they were to remove the ability to create local accounts entirely, that would be a problem.

Ah, I guess it's "all-cash" as in existing shareholders will receive all-cash for their shares.