Not quite true. The Trinity test was for the implosion design, whereas the gun-type design was dropped on Hiroshima untested. It was a crappy design, practically a dirty-bomb, but very lethal nevertheless.

That's intersting! So they became notorious for marketing (and subsequently trashing) every stupid idea they could think of, and yet they managed to come late to *this* party? Yes, that's one of the most epic fails, ever.

I see where you're coming from, but actually, most people *do* prefer a question-answering oracle, because more often than not, the search is triggered by a specific question. In addition, the ongoing enshitification means that specif8c and useful information is increasingly hard to find in the open web, so asking the bot is actually less painful. Until the bot gets enshitified too, that is.

We discovered *square* blankets when my grandmother-in-law gifted one to my wife. I will forever be thankful to that woman.

Sorry mate, you and the GP are just out of your element. "Plastics" is a family of thousands of compounds. If you're looking on a study on the health impact of "plastics" you will not find any. Such studies must focus on a single or small subcategory of components and generalizations do not hold. Also, a single type of plastic includes not only the polymer itself but also additives like pthalates (please *do* search on the health effects of those!), lead compounds (now mostly banned) and residual monomer molecules. These leach out or outgas especially when the items are new. They usually biodegrade, but you are constantly exposed if you keep buying a steady stream of plastic stuff.

We will know when we have achieved AGI when it responds with "not now, please, I've got a headache".

The internet was not abandoned after the .com-bubble crashed. One interpretation of your citations is that it would be a smart move to wait for... ehem... "market consolidation" and then buy stock from the AI companies that survive it. AI may be way overhyped, but AI is proving itself useful, and useful technologies only get abandoned for something better. A couple of years ago the LLMs were hallucinating often, could not do math, and including additional information to the prompt was limited at best. The hallucinations are now getting increasingly rare and subtle, math is now working, and you can practically throw every bit of information you have at it, not problem. I don't think people will just turn their backs at the new capabilities, I know I will not.

I do, but I think you don't. I understand that a kid with pocket money can make something that works, but a team of engineers with billions in EU funding can make something that: 1. works, 2. is built to millitary spec, 3. can be produced at scale, 4. is made of components sourced from reliable suppliers, 5. has been stress-tested, 6. the design, materials, manufacturing process, supply chain, test-results, i.e. all of the above, are documented and certified for compliance to laws and regulations.

P.S. I'm undoing moderation by posting this, so make sure you take it in.

Meh, content is more important for me. The grammar militia can fix the rest.

That's only until you realize that half of the population are more stupid than that.

If they would have cloned the device, as the GP suggested, it would be trivial to discover that the size of the intact image and the amount of data in the unlocked phone are different and something has, in fact, changed.

Not necessarily a lie. There could have been an internal legal review. The internal lawyers may have been involved. These may as well be facts, but an internal review and the involvement of lawyers do not necessarily mean that the result and the related actions are lawful.

When make CEO face prospects of going to jail for actions of their company and they will find *some scapegoat* employees within minutes.
fixed that for you

I could go for Funny, but I'm pretty sure I'll end up with Troll instead...

Just don't go to the seagulls. They stop often and long for fish sandwitches along the coast. Terrible service.