The Line was the worst idea ever. 200 meters is way too thin, it needed to be at least 400 meters wide. 200 meters is the distance you walk in about 2 minutes. A mediocre golfer can whack the ball farther than that. Speaking of sports you can't fit a stadium in there.

Economically-challenged version: Solar power is already at 3 cents a kilowatt and dropping. Redo your math that's $2.25 per gallon (independent of capex amortization).

A gallon a day is what? 25 miles? That's many people's daily commute. If you have a gasoline powered car at home, spending $15K on this may save you money in the long run even if you don't power it with solar panels. If solar powered, it would enable you to go off-grid and not be subject to electricity companies price increases.

Also, what's the capital expenditure needed to have a bunch of these producing 1000 gallons a day? $15 million? That should pay for itself in a year or two.

Except there aren't enough EV customers of that (yet). There are people buying gasoline today. So you can offer the direct electricity for the occasional EV while selling cheap gasoline too.

Exactly, a human doesn't need to be shown 1 million examples of a coke bottle and "not coke bottle" in order to recognize it. Furthermore we don't require gigawatt data centers, we do inference and training with just 20 watts.

We are at least 50 years from AGI, and even that is if humanity put a major sustained effort ..10 times current amounts .. into developing it. By AGI I mean a robot that can walk into any existing home, rewire it, and fix the plumbing or do kitchen remodeling. We are at least 15 years away from even a tele-operated robot that can do such a thing btw, mainly due to the hand dexterity requirement and also the autonomous safety brain needed (how does a tele-operated robot climb stairs and also avoid crashing into things).

It's a bunch of transistors switching, there's no conciousness ingredient there. There's no soul. No part of the microprocessor has a self-awareness unit. Our brain has one, we just don't know how it resides or what it is.

The most important technology product is the solar panel. If we can make that dirt cheap and plentiful, then everything else -- transportation, farming, mining, medical, elderly care, public safety, and robotics will fall into place.

That not seem like an overly harsh sentence to you? Airlines think they're like super important or something? People who scam elderly of their life savings get away scot free (meaning we don't care enough to even investigate or stop those crimes) or with minimal sentences. We're letting rapists off after 2 or 3 years, while putting petty scam artists in jail for extended periods. We need to have harsher and more rehabilitative penalties for violence but not be excessive on petty things which is totally useless, there's a price society pays when it is excessively cruel.

"(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)"

I am not against outsourcing stuff, but how does a couple of dudes in INDIA have the info on this and not people where Autodesk is headquartered?

And btw, that entire "report" .. which was just a regurgitation of stuff in the 8K filing .. could easily have been done by AI. In fact I just tested that theory by pasting the filing into it .. in fact it produced a better article with useful outside context. I won't paste it here, you can do it yourself by asking your favorite AI to detect and discuss layoffs in the SEC 8-K filing (here: https://investors.autodesk.com... ) and provide analysis.

The other aspect, of this is that Reuters selected the news report for a main story .. that too can be done by AI .. just ask it what companies are popular and newsworthy and put that in the top news.

When we used to have real reporting and journalists, we'd get news from the 8-K filing PLUS the reporters would have info on top of that via connections .. human connections .. within the company being talked about and we'll get some scoops like "the new VP is a jerk, here's the real deal etc"

That's less than 0.3% of their total expenses.

One thing to point out. Regarding his previous attempt -- the edit didn't work perfectly. It's likely in my opinion that although the two kids will have a reduced risk of getting HIV/AIDS .. they may still be susceptible but less than before.

CRISPR has advanced a bit since then, so he should be better able to make the exactly needed edits today.

Define "somehow" ... If a leading cancer scientist murders his wife because he didn't like the way she cooked his dinner, should they be put in jail? What if that scientist had gone on to cure cancer? Nobody on slashdot argued to let Hans Reiser off because he made a file system they liked. You can't justify a Dr. Mengele evading justice based on the outcome of their work, there must be consequences in society for people with callous disregard for human life even if there's a short term penalty.

Note: unlike most of the luddites here though, I believe CRISPR can be considered pretty safe and the genes being targeted are worthy of it.

I remember back in 2005 (and before that as well) about 2 years before the iPhone launched .. people were getting +5 Insightful for posts that said we need to have a separate device for everything and smartphones are a dumb idea without utilizing any brain cells thinking that tech would get better/improve. And this was SLASHDOT .. supposedly tech people,. The same fools who today argue against full-self driving cars, AI, robotics, and satellite broadband services.

Reference .. against smartphones:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

Pro touchscreen-based smartphone (me):
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

Didnâ(TM)t spinlaunch generate more? Or any cannon? If you need to test a material just put it in front of a bullet in a capsule.

The patch works really well. Haven't had any issues. Make sure you get it from the right source. I downloaded mine from ubuntu.com.