I assume that, as an exercise, getting 5 simultaneous introductions working makes for a better paper; but is there a reason why you would want that in practice? Especially if there is any wobble in the ratios either randomly, across generations, or in the presence of certain environmental conditions that tweak the plant's metabolism one way or another that sounds like it would be a real pain in the ass to have to re-balance (and, if different patients are deemed to need different combinations even a perfectly stable plant is going to need re-balancing of the outputs) vs. very specifically going for a specific target output per-plant(or e. coli or yeast or whatever is easiest to bioreactor) and then just mixing to taste after purification. Is there some advantage I'm not seeing?

I realize that there are cases where some plant-sourced pharmacological effect looks like it is actually driven not by the identified 'active ingredient'; but by dozens or hundreds of assorted things, and in that case you just have to live with the complexity if you get better results with that than with purified isolates; but if you are deliberately engineering for very specific outputs why a mix of 5?

Your dumbfuckery is self debunking, stalking McCarthyite cocksucker. All fresh corpses, found next to donated Russian rations or with their hands tied behind their backs with white armbands used to signify non-aggression to Russian forces. You're only highlighting your shit for brains when the CIA adjacent WaPo has told you of Nazi death squads and Bucha fits their MO. Nazis who are collapsing on all fronts and your cope is Russia lost a plane.

Please crash and burn harder AI industry bubble. I'm not buying RAM again until it's less than $6/GB. We are currently at 2009 prices for RAM:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

I'm really regretting not just maxing out my homelab with RAM when it was all reasonable.

It baffles the mind that Microsoftware - known for decades for being unreliable shit - is allowed on space missions at all, no matter how uncritical the role. The potential for malware alone is ludicrous. "Hey, pay us 2500 bitcoins if you want your space capsule back".

Then again, I figure the days when NASA did the right stuff are long past.

Facebook is tightly tied to the government, launched the day after DARPA shut down LifeLog and was originally funded by Peter Thiel. It's always been intended as a global surveillance system. OpenAI also has ties to the US government and any of the same Peter Thiel backed entities.

OpenAI benefits from a global control grid. You know what China has with surveillance and companies providing individual person credit scores? The US and EU governments want that, but automated and on steroids. These people are evil and OpenAI/Anthropic are devouring the world's data, eating through RAM and storage and ultimately push for technocratic subjugation of people to fit into their perfect regime.

My suspicion is the Russian government isn't scared of its citizens, now. That's mostly because they have been well-behaved about the war so far, (reprobates like Prigozhin notwithstanding). Why would that change?

I guess Putin is expecting it to change, and that's probably because he is about to do something they won't like. Such as expanding conscription. He has a history of planning and preparing these sorts of moves well in advance.

When throwing meat waves at the front hasn't worked for 4 years, the obvious solution is bigger meat waves :D.

Chromebooks had zero to do with education. They were 100% about Google forcing every high school student to have a Google account as early as possible. I bet less than 1% of parents said, "No, we're not doing that. Here's a Ubuntu laptop instead. Never sign in to Google, cause I said so."

Everyone wants digital tracking of every human: governments (via ID programs), Google, Meta (both are pretty much governments at this point), Anthropic, OpenAI ... they all want to know exactly who everyone is. They all want a Technocracy.

> I can't imagine anyone making the argument that using AI tools to rewrite code in another language removes the copyright.

Literally everyone is making that argument right now, like ChartDev:

https://www.theregister.com/20...

The article is paywalled and every other article I found was obviously LLM generated shit and didn't link to this new implementation. It took me a bit, but I found at least one of the Rust implementations of Claude's CLI:

https://github.com/Outcomefocu...

I was to see Anthropic choke on this so bad.

Courts still haven't really ruled on AI generated code in any big countries yet, as far as I can tell. Courts could view AI code the same as AI generated images: non-copyrightable. Generated images can still be subject to trademark if you try to commercialize them, but code not so much. If code ever gets rules as non-copyrightable, any generated code is open game if it gets leaked. Courts could also rule it is subject to copyright of the original training data holders.

Both of these outcomes would be equally devastating to the entire industry in entirely different ways. I'm kinda read to see it all burn.

I heard the bats and pangolins there are delicious.

Immunology, presumably.

The only donor bodies that aren't going to treat the transplant as an act of war are clones or heavily immunosuppressed; and it's probably more plausible to assume that you'll be able to clone a human like a sheep than assume that you'll be making some fundamental breakthroughs in immunology to deal more elegantly with unmatched hosts.

I can see the utility of having spare organs in certain emergencies; but how much life extension would you actually get even if the sort of neurosurgery involved in removing a brain and reattaching it to a new host's spinal cord were viable? Is the theory that the assorted ghastly flavors of neurodegeneration are actually to be blamed on older organs and everything will be fine; or is this just a very expensive way to ensure that you skip the various ways peripheral organs can kill you and are assured to be the spryest patient in the dementia ward?

I'd be trying a QUIC based VPN. Done well, port 443 still serves web pages - but hit the right URL and you have a VPN instead.

The Russians have always been afraid of their government, with good reason.

True. But this is not a symptom of the Russians being afraid of their government. These are the actions of a government afraid of it's citizens.