And ribosomes.

So, they took apart living e-coli cells, purified the pieces, and put the pieces together. To make something not as good as what they started with.

(the summary seemed to imply that ribosomes are enzymes. They're not.)

It's not the highest scope in the world, but its forte is mass surveys, not resolution, so it doesn't have to try to compete with Hubble. If it finds something interesting, then another resolution-oriented scope can zoom in.

It's great for finding moving and flashing things, as it allows automated comparisons over time of most the sky. This scope might even find Planet X, although let's not call it Planet X because Elon tainted X things. Call it Planet NoElon.

People seem to think that the first living organism to evolve has to be as complex as the simplest cells we know, but more likely it was much simpler. We just don't have any living examples because such protocells probably can't compete with modern ones. The first life-forms can be slow, inefficient, inaccurate at reproducing, etc. because they had zero competition. Somebody joked "union workers evolved first!"

One interesting theory is that the first living thing(s) were actually a set of complimentary proto-cells where reproduction happened in cycled stages say: A to B to C back to A, because self-replicating is hard to get right in a single step. Each stage may have fed off different chemicals. Eventually they evolved into a single unit.

If Musk can be in the space-car-socNet-Borg-terraform-botfarm* biz, then Zuck can be in the socNet-VR-botfarm biz.

* Did I miss any?

I will never make an account, so I guess they want me to only access Reddit-posted content through LLMs.

Got it.

... sadly for the Americans, the rest of the world now knows they can't count on a US based provider for this kind of thing any more.

It was uncomfortable enough relying so heavily on American software back when it couldn't be switched off remotely on the say so of an idiot. Today it's an intolerable risk.

That's generally what JavaScript was supposed to be: a glue language that does things like call a GUI engine, it wasn't designed to BE the goddam GUI engine.

sit in the damned dark and accept your punishment for greed and ignorance!

If somebody put the open-source models on an AI server farm(s) and charged only based on what it costs to host and serve them, would the income cover the server farm?

It's nearly impossible to test that right now because it would be competing with subsidized services.

And matrix chips tend to wear out quicker than CPU's, meaning higher replacement costs.

Nice, so in 5-10 years there will be a glut of supply and prices will plummet.

That's the problem. They are buying up the energy, and outbidding the schools for it, thus raising the price.

microwave labotomy ... We just put the machine against your head here for a bit and those bad urges go away, all better.

Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.

Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.

Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.

Now there's a blast from the past.

Those shitweasels caused a lot of pain and cost a lot of money. Darl's reward was picking scraps from the SCO trash heap, bankruptcy and then croaking of ALS.

I wonder what PJ is up to.

But if they subsidize it to gain market share against western tech they are still distorting prices.

If Uranus makes you uncomfortable, just wait until you learn about hairy black holes (HBHs).

It's as if astronomers have an anal fixation or something.