Come the fuck on.

In my career, I have worked (professionally) with Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OS/2, SCO ODT/OSR, a bunch of shit I can't remember, and every Microsoft server platform since NT4. My current environment is 98% Microsoft. That doesn't make me stupid and incapable, that's just where my career took me.

Is... English not your first language? I ask because you appear to be way overthinking this.

The metaphor was perfectly clear to me when I read it.

Err... definitely not "regional slang." Literally the dictionary definition of the word "hatch" i.e. "to emerge from an egg."

So, welcome to (checks notes) 1967, I guess?

I'm Pro-nuclear power, but I do have to agree that "containment leak" is definitely a very understated way of saying "you can see the pretty blue light from kilometers away."

I don't believe today's models are AGI, but "not understanding cost" is a dangerous assumption to make. If you read the METR analysis of the Hugging Face attack, the agents used were very much aware of their own compute budgets and worked to maximize what the swarm had available to achieve the task.

Yeah, Schumer of all people whining about the surveillance state is absurd. Voted for the PATRIOT Act in 2001. Railed against Snowden a decade later. But, sure, Chuck, we totally believe you're on the side of the American People here, rather than simply being smart enough to realize that supporting Flock is a fast track to being voted out of office in the current climate (and a bipartisan one at that).

Qualified Immunity is a red herring. Don't get me wrong, it's a whole cloth creation of the Supreme Court that flies in the face of section 1983 and Congress should have fixed this problem decades ago, but QI is, first of all, limited to civil rather than criminal liability and, secondly, every police force in the country indemnifies its officers in the event of civil litigation that arises out of their actions.

If you want a real fix here, it's holding police accountable. Not throwing up hands and crying that "the big bad police union said that if we arrest officers for murder they'll go on strike, so what can we do?" Not only should their jobs not be protected when they commit obvious wrongdoing, they should be held to a higher standard in terms of criminal liability than Joe Citizen is in general. (Conversely, bona fide good faith error should be treated as just that).

Tell me you didn't read the fucking article without telling me you didn't read the fucking article.

No, Flock did not indicate a 100% match, the alleged 'detective' queried for "all dodge durangos" in a given area and chose one that was a different color than the vehicle reported in the accident... which had no damage on it. This is, 100%, on the cop and not Flock.

Major transit routes have radiation detectors specifically tuned to find bomb-level signatures; not just strength but particle composition, at what speeds, etc. Your truck would be surrounded by a lot more than just police before you could get anywhere impactful.

Agreed - I was responding only to "Digital Shelf Labels" which is a term which I think is understood to only be used in brick-and-mortar stores.

The Walmart where I regularly shop switched to digital shelf tags a while ago.

There really is no practical opportunity to personalize pricing using these. Suppose Walmart were tracking a customer through the store and figured out that the customer met some demographic that would pay more. If it updated the shelf tag as that customer walked by, no other customer would see that price (as it would revert immediately after the targeted customer left the area). Furthermore, the record of that higher price would have to persist all the way through staffed registers and self-checkouts. If the customer returned to pick up a second jar of the item, and this time there was another cheap customer also in the area, would the system raise the price on the shelf tag again? If not, would it figure out that the first jar was $10 and the second jar was $8? What if the customer put the first jar back on the shelf and then picked it up again immediately -- would they then pay $8 or $10 at checkout?

Frequent price changes are simply not practical in general during operating hours. At least in my state, the rule is that the price you pay must be the price on the shelf (although I think the retailer is free to charge a lower price at the register), so changes would have to take into account the lag between a customer picking up the item and going through checkout. They could probably post a prominent sign saying, "Shelf tag prices are good for a maximum of two hours." Then, for price increases, they could update the tags and wait two hours before updating the POS system. For price decreases, they could lower the price in the POS system and update the shelf tags two hours later.

Since the digital shelf tags were rolled out at my Walmart, I have a subjective feeling that the prices do change more frequently, but I lack objective data on this. I have no problem with this.

One cool feature of the shelf tags at my Walmart is that, with the app, you can look up a product and the tag will, on request, flash a blue LED so you can find its shelf location quickly. Of course, this being Walmart, there's a pretty good chance that the item is out of stock or that the item in that location isn't the item that's supposed to be there!

... trumpstien got stats he lies... except now that goes against lowering interest rates. Poor trumpstien.

Yeah, you're not understanding what I'm saying: Azure doesn't just host Linux VMs, significant parts of the infrastructure are built on Linux. Microsoft has just as much (if not more) to lose from a resurgent SCO lawsuit than anyone, they aren't going to be the ones rocking this boat.

Even more capable than a pi5, with built-in battery, wifi, bluetooth, no need for cooling, etc, I think it would be more fun to make a cyberdeck that looks like it's built on an RPi but is really hiding an old cellphone inside.