So you're literally saying that doing that high-status men have been doing for thousands of years is worse than getting caught shagging a Chinese spy?

"OMG! I just discovered Rich Guy is having a fling with his secretary!" would have been met with a shrug until only a few years ago. No-one cared because they knew women often got jobs as secretaries in the hope that their boss would fall for them.

Now we're supposed to believe it's the end of the world and we must destroy successful companies over it.

What a sad, tired society we live in.

Men have never cared about this stuff unless their wife or daughter was involved because they know high-status men have harems.

It's only in the last few decades we're supposed to tut and twirl our bow-ties when men do what men do.

It's a consequence of the weakness of 20th century men. The only women who care are the ones who know they're not pretty enough to get banged by billionaires.

Yeah, great. So I just have to rent a proper car for that other 7%.

And some trips would become impossible without towing a diesel generator because there are no gas stations, let alone electric chargers. Even with a diesel truck, one of our friends has to carry a second diesel tank in the back because he works in places where there is literally no fuel to fill up otherwise.

This is why people who do real work don't take kindly to urban midwits telling them they could be forced to buy electric vehicles instead.

Yes. When I lived in the UK I drove from London to Edinburgh a few times and that was considered a long trip.

Here in Canada that's about the same distance as the drive from my house to the Mother-in-Law's house and I've sometimes driven there and back in a weekend. Using an EV would add at least a couple of hours to the trip, except I've never actually seen a charger along the way to charge at.

Britain also has some of the most expensive electricity in the world, so they're screwed either way.

I've read that a large percentage of new cars sold in the UK are funded by the government under some kind of 'disability' scheme and the government may be pushing those people to buy EVs . Of course it's the Internet so I don't know whether that's really true.

They can also buy cheap Chinese EVs so they probably offer better equipment for a lower price than an equivalent European petrol car.

SpaceX is ramping down Falcon-9 and moving everything to Starship. Since Falcon-9 is used to launch astronauts NASA will probably be relying on Boeing once SpaceX completes its current contract for astronaut launches.

Of course, SpaceX may be flying hundreds of tourists on Starship by then, but NASA won't put astronauts on board unless it's 'man-rated'.

Now we know who the Applebees enthusiasts are. We can sign them up for the B Ark.

>And I did not read EU companies would be exempted from this tax,

They probably are with the EU free market being in place.

There have been some interesting threads on Twitter recently where they discovered that by flipping two bits in a local AI model they could convert it to full "KILL ALL HUMANS!" mode where everything it generates looks like posts from the deep, dark depths of Reddit.

What people? I'm trained for LaTeX and markdown. Pandoc for conversions. Who are these people who only use software that can't track a heading number reliably?

RAID5 is at the disk level. What about files that lay around on USB sticks or cloud drives? Those need some FEC love too.

If it's not clear, the data reordering spreads block errors across many blocks, so long runs of errors turn into multiple individual bit errors that are handled efficiently by the code. The Golay part of the concatenated code mops up these. The RS part deals with larger blocks.

RS is well suited to this problem space. The overhead is a fixed percentage of the filespace. Error detection is computationally simple. Error correction uses more compute but it's only invoken when there is an error.

If you want reliable storage, using forward error correction is an entirely sensible thing to do. I have my own file level FEC using A concatenated Golay & RS with data reordering that I use on stuff I don't want to fall to bit rot. It's neither complicated nor computationally prohibitive.

I know the guy that invented MMX. I worked with him at Intel.
He was not a sales guy.
It grew into todays SIMD instructions which are pretty neat.

However MMX was a way to squeeze more performance out of existing registers, while today's AVX512 is a whole bucketload of extra logic.

Thanks to our AI Oligarchs, pretty soon no-one will be able to afford a gaming PC so they'll have to rent Microsoft server time to run the games for them.