Or at least that's what my friend Cy and his sister Sue say.

I'm waiting for Super Intelligence II Turbo: Hyper Fighting Championship Edition.

It also depends what AI is used for.

AI can be used for so many aspects but not all of it would warrant disclosure. Maybe it was used to generate an outline for a story, which was then fleshed out by a human writer to produce the story and plot.

Or maybe it was used to create a game prototype to see if some concept was "fun". Maybe some new game mechanic or something to see if it integrates well in the world. If they prove successful then the code was re-written by programmers to integrate into the final game.

Or used to develop test textures used to create initial maps to test them out, then artists designed the final textures.

For those, AI was used, but it was just used to test concepts and storylines and other things to see if it would work, and likely those are AI uses most people wouldn't mind.

But if AI was used in place of artists, writers, creatives or programmers in producing the final product you purchase, then that kind of disclosure would be warranted.

It's like people using AI on the Linux kernel. Most people wouldn't have an issue with AI being used for the code reviews of patches. It gets a lot muddier when it's used to create those patches though.

In the PC era with 80 column screens, a full 80x24 screen (PC screens were 80x25 but the last line was almost always a status line and unusable) is just under 4000 bytes (3920 to be exact - 80x25 is 4000). It's why you needed 8K for full screen text 80x25 for characters and 80x25 for attributes (color - 4 bits, blink, underline, etc).

The biggest problem with ANSI art though was corruption - some line noise or an overflowing UART would instantly corrupt it especially at the fancier levels when people had 14.4kbps or faster modems. Nothing worse than having a burst of line noise or something corrupt some multi-screen login art. Especially because it 3was sent without error correction.

PowerBook Pismo: Display cable sliced by Airport antenna connector. PowerBook Wallstreet: Hard drive connector board attached by a single screw that didn't hold it in place, causing constant disconnects. The iBook G3 graphics chip disaster. So many mechanical design mistakes, so few column inches to write about them.

You mean 24x7 solar power? Now calculate how many centuries an on-earth data center could go, even with having to use batteries at night, even with replacing the backup batteries every couple of years, before the cost would equal the cost of a single launch. In other words, that's not an actual advantage, at least in practice.

Besides, you can't repair or upgrade the hardware when it is in space, which is such a colossal disadvantage that the advantages would have to be almost unimaginably great to balance that out.

With the progress in solid state high voltage "transformers" I wonder how much of an issue that really is. You could use them to convert variable frequency, variable voltage sources to a common bus voltage/frequency.

Don't Boom need a lot of hours on their engine in order to certify for flight? This is likely the easiest way to do it, and gives them experience with the high temperature components. Gas turbines have such long lead times now that not optimizing the system for power generation efficiency might work. Presumably they would still go for a heat recovery steam generator.

If you were slick on the engineering you could even cycle the turbines to simulate different stages of flight while maintaining consistent system output across 20+ turbines.

We might see much lighter web pages, better-compressed images, etc.

But I suspect most of the traffic from companies like Meta, Google, etc. would be video and I don't really see a way to compress that much without losing quality.

All in all, though, I can't see this actually making it into law.

What is your beef with the standard deduction? That disproportionally favors people with lower incomes; under the old system the people it hurts are high income that live in expensive states with high state taxes. State taxes used to be fully deductible.

The problem is you are legally, and morally, correct. But you are economically completely wrong. He can't forbid you from owning RAM. But he can buy all the ram so theres none left for you to have. And thats precisely what he, and all his fellow travellers in silicon valley have been doing. They aren't even sticking it in machines, half of its just being warehoused for datacenters that arent built yet.

Meanwhile RAM continues to be absurdly expensive because retailers are struggling to find supplies. Prebuilt computers are rising in prices to astronomical levels. Barely more than 6 months ago Apple put out a computer for $600 , cue forward 6 months, and the Ram crisis has forced them to release their latest computer at substantially more than the equivelent model in the last generation. Apple famously had one of the most locked down supply chains in the industry, yet even THEY couldnt get around it.

Nobody is coming to take your RAM away. But they sure as fuck are making it hard as possible to let you affford any more of it.

The only theoretical advantage I can think of for a satellite would be that if someone launched one from international waters, if some random government wanted it to stop existing or stop doing something, they'd have to launch something to destroy the satellite, because from a legal perspective, it wouldn't be within their jurisdiction.

But in practice, as far as I know, nobody is launching anything into orbit from international waters, so this is entirely theoretical, at least right now.

Porn stars. At least back when I quit WP, one of the things that sent me over the top was that every minor porn star (especially female) apparently deserved their own page, while scientists didn't even if they had numerous published articles and citation and done important work - but their field was nothing famous.

In theory.

If you follow actual notability discussions, they are largely about "this isn't important".

The deletionists are one of the reasons I stopped contributing to Wikipedia. It's not like you need to fit into a 20-volume print edition, idiots. You can give every damn porn star who's been in one clip you liked their own page, why not everyone else? For all I care, every human on the planet could have their own page, and every house with a story, and every dog and cat.

Just imagine if the amount of time and energy spent on the deletion discussions alone would go into improving WP instead.

Or, you know, you could use the time to do something about the people hogging their favorite page and considering it their property and reverting everyone else's edits just because it wasn't made by them. Or one of the other dozen issues the site has. But no, whether or not Xav deserves a page, that's what needs discussion. Fuck off.