One dollar for each unit sold. Seems fair.

-S

I haven't taken a CS course since the Reagan administration, but even in the olden days, The Halting Problem seemed to preclude software that could prove correctness.

I don't think you're talking out of turn, I think you've identified a major limitation of any such software.

Or better yet, "False Hope" -S

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast interviewed Blake Lemoine in early April. The host, Steven Novella, is a practicing neurologist and professor of neurology at Yale university and he wasn't having any of Blake's nonsense.

The interview is wide-ranging and starts at about 40 minutes into the podcast episode. For me, the most interesting part of the interview comes at 59:00, where Dr. Novella schools Lemoine on the current state of neurology and our understanding of how specific structures in the brain relate to specific emotions and our experience of being sentient.

"Hallucinating" is a word we use to describe living brains misperceiving the world. By using that word, we're buying into Elon's frame that ChatGPT is like a brain. Its not. Its nothing like a brain.

Its not reasoning. Its not perceiving. Its not anything.

Its a statistical bullshit machine.

When it says something weird, its not hallucinating - its bullshitting.

Lets call it that.

ZuckFuck

... or "AstroGlide". :-)

It certainly means that all Slack posts must now be composed as SOQL queries. This will have the side effect of creating a consulting industry entirely dedicated to writing custom SOQL postings for you and, ultimately, the Foo Fighters will play at the new Slackforce convention.

YouTuber Austin McConnell produced a good explainer on the high cost of printer ink cartridges and the underlying forces that perpetuate it.

Its both enraging and cathartic.

-S

It seems Twitter has been taking lessons from IBM circa 2001:

https://slashdot.org/story/01/...

Probably won't get noticed 150+ comments deep, but...

Perhaps the default configuration for the pedals should be a failsafe mode where the car is always "under control". When you slam the brake, you trend toward 0 MPH. If you slam on the gas, maybe the pedal interprets 100% as 0%, and applies no throttle. If you're accelerating, you should always have control of the accelerator. Flooring it isn't going to give you much more than 95% throttle would, and you could have a tactile bump at the end of the accelerator play that is easy sensed when you feather your foot, but also easily bypassed if you slam the pedal.

Basically, allow people to still gun it, just not outright "drag racing", and prevent unintended acceleration.

That's an interesting data point. My interview(s!) were actually much more detailed and involved. I think I spent about 20 minutes with the agent in Canada, not to mention around 40 minutes combined with both US and Canadian border personnel doing a more cursory interview and an explanation about how the system worked from a functional standpoint (IE - How to use Nexus when I cross in a boat, with multiple travelers, etc). The main interview in Canada was largely focused on making sure I wasn't violating business visa limitations but I'm sure a 10+ minute interview is probably enough to also identify the presence of someone being disingenuous about the purpose of the program enrollment.

Might be the difference between strictly Global Entry and NEXUS (which includes Global Entry by default).

I seldom hear about the maintenance issues of the trans-bay tube.
A catastrophic failure of the trans-bay tube would certainly shut the system down for years.
Anyone knowledgeable about how that clever bit of engineering is maintained?
-S

Yeah, I'm not an electrical guy, I should've just said "two prong", heh.

The AC cable for the Surface Pro series is two pieces like most laptop cables. There's a simple AC cable without ground that goes from the wall to the transformer block, and then the transformer has a fixed DC wire that goes to the tablet itself.

This recall *only* affected the AC cable, and that cable was already pretty short (like two feet tops). The bulk of the cable length comes from the DC cable itself, and that did not shorten (because it wasn't replaced). Don't get me wrong, the DC cable has issues and needs a reinforced boot, but we're talking of a total cable length loss of maybe six inches.