The problem with better DNA error checking is you risk choking off evolutions necessary source of entropy, and if that life can't evolve, it wont do well protecting against OTHER threats.

The conclusion would be that while too much radiation precludes evolution, (as it requires too heavy "error checking"), too little radiation also precludes evolution (no errors means no changes) and therefore there has to be a 'just the right amount', making that yet another constraint , in this case magnetic, on what sort of environment qualifies as the "goldilocks zone" for life.

Most of those complaints are from people too lazy or too stubborn to just type in the word into google and see what comes out. Worse, there is also a variant of people who say "I dont know what is", in a transparently bizzare attempt at trying to sound knowleagable, by feigning ignorance.

Don't this just make them chase never-ending profit to the detriment of all?

Anthropic where always a for-profit company, meaning that chasing a profit is a fiduciary legal requirement.

Tbh, of all the AI bro companies, Anthropic are the least obnoxious, and I do wonder how their stance against weaponization survives when board is stacked with venture capitalists instead of TESCRAL doomers.

Mindyou Nvidia may well be skewing young with its headcount. Prior to the AI boom NVIDIA had a very generous vested share program for its engineers, and suffered a rather unique problem when the AI boom shot their shares through the stratosphere when suddenly all their senior engineers where sitting on, in some cases, upwards of 20 million USD worth of shares each. And like normal people instead of wall street suits, they pretty much collectively said "Well, fuck this working shit" and cashed their chips and retired with their millions, gutting their ranks of senior engineers.

DACs are a dime a dozen and you aren't able to tell the difference on between whatever silly expensive headphones you use and my $30 pair with a 3.5mm port and good drivers. DACs were a solved problem more than 20 years ago, support circuitry at this point is also a pretty well solved problem for the most part - you have to go out of your way to fuck up a reference design to make it bad enough for your claim to be true.

A mac neo is certainly producing a quality signal that I'd bet a paycheck on that you can not tell the difference with audio equipment to help you, certainly not with your ears. I'm fairly confident you couldn't tell the difference between your choice digital headphones and my $30 3.5mm set.

And my 3.5mm device works all the time, never goes dead - which is pretty much what is constantly the state of wireless devices. Its absolutely silly to think like we're in 1992 and you're arguing a gravis ultrasound vs sb16 DAC.

A 3.5mm port is cheaper and smaller than any other port your are going to use in its place, including USB-C. If your device is so short on real estate place that it can't afford the space for a 3.5mm port - it better be a foldable phone or something that fits in your pocket cause pretty much every laptop has room to spare something like a 3.5mm port

I can tell by your comment that you own lots of monster cables so you get that warm sound out of your digital signal.

Because if it doesn't, its not a rival, its just another PC clone knock off wannabe.

I don't want a neo for the hardware - I want one so my kid can have OSX and not have to deal with half assed operating systems.

Almost no one buys a macbook because of the hardware. Don't get me wrong, its quality stuff - but its not the most cost effective unless you buy immediately after a good hardware refresh, otherwise its over priced and not worth running any other OS on.

People by Macs for OS X.

So Meta == a tobacco company ... rather than a cartel - no wait - cartels do it too, heard of crack cocaine?

Even if that happened, absolutely nothing of consequence would happen to the people that actually did it.

No more fines. No more sanctions against organizations.

Criminal charges, multiple years of very punitive jail time - against the people that ACTUALLY did it - from Zuckerberg right on down to the SRE that deployed the changes. Every single one of them made an active decision to be a complete shitbag and they should be treated as such. I don't really care if the SRE was ignorant or just doing his job - if you don't expect people to put effort into it, they won't - AND ALL OF THEM could have spoke up and done something to stop it. But they didn't. It was easiest FOR THEM to just do what their boss said, and screw everyone else ...

No legal protection of any sort for any of them.

Theres a reason the only people on the planet that speak out against Luigi are CEOs and politicians - not the rest of us who are all basically like 'Yea, that was wrong, murder is never the solution - but he deserved it for being a pile of shit who profited from letting others die with 0 compassion, we aren't really going to punish Luigi'

We probably would do well to shake the conception that Intelligence agencies are all-seeing/all-knowing fountains of competence. In reality they are filled with paranoid people of various levels of competence with a whole range of dispositions, including occasionally criminal.Intelligence agencies need to be a little criminal at times to get the job done. The idea that one of them might have been doing shady shit, in an agency that specializes in shady shit shouldn't surprise anyone. Hell, it was probably why they hired him.

Honestly, its almost a good thing.

A friend recently asked me to look into their kids laptop who had gotten around some age restriction stuff, and I was mystified. I asked the kid how they did it, and they laid out all the registry keys and the line of reasoning they followed to find them, and all I could think was this 10yo kid was as good a security professional as I am (he's not, but well, it was absolutely impressive work. ). I see this as a positive. The world of computers I grew in involved 10yos teaching themselves assembly to make C64 and Amstrad (I'm australian, so we got the same computers the UK folks did. BBCs, Sinclairs, and eventually C64s and Amstrads. Tandys where esoteric american imports) games. We started with basic, supplemented it with assembly we learned from library books and magazines (no internet in the 1980s!) and taught each other at school, then when we got to highschool and the fancy new IBMs we then learned Turbo pascal and got hooked on the possibilities. 40 years later I'm still at it.

But kids now, its internet slop, fortnight, and computers that dont require you to learn to LOAD "*",8,1 and tempt you with a manual promising infinite games if you learn to code.

But kids are resourceful, and if hacking their way around idiot-boomer designed age locks force them to actually learn how their computers work, then great.

I told my friend to download for their kid a copy of the Godot game engine, and look up the GDQuest lessons, because clearly this kids got a future, if he can be inspired to chase it.

Also, fuck AI, let kids learn.

I guess we can add a whole new category to the Darwin Awards.

Because you are only accessing a 'local' node and the change is applied instantly because you are connected to where the change occurs.

If you VPN to some other geographic location far away in their hierarchy, your account may not be available for some time.

It also may get updated quickly to start with, but then its cached and tge cache will exist for some time until it expires.

The cache could potentially be cleared, but when there are potentially millions of cache locations it could be in, you arent purging them all instantly.

Large distributed systems hide ALL of this from you by alway directing you to the same group/cluster where cache can be managed efficiently without global performance impacts.

You cant delete the evidence but keep the data.

The pictures have to be available to challenge the data. ALPR are wrong A LOT, and people get falsely accused often.

You either keep the data so the defense cand defend itself fairly, or you immediately throw out the license plate data AND ALL DERIVATIVES CAPUTRED AFTER AS A DIRECT OR INDIRECT result. Meaning anyone can claim any data collected after ALPR data was accessed must be thrown out as tainted, since the ALPR data gave you a hint to look further in a specific direction.

I saw a pretty funny video on youtube (something like "creating the worst AI music") and they are just pumping more and more absurd prompts into it, and getting some pretty funny (and occasionally disturbing) results

He could easily have been a billionare with Jobs. Jobs wanted him by his side the whole way, but Woz is built different. He doesn't really care about doing the billionare thing , he made enough from his apple shares that he'll never want for anything. Hell, I doubt apple would even let him go broke, he was the left hand of their god-king Jobs.

He just wants to do cool tech and make the world around him better.