I wonder how many cars ran into buildings that same day? or that week, or that month?

The only reason we hear about this is it's novel.

It's like comparing airplane crashes with car crashes. Frequency of occurrence: 1:10,000. Frequency of media coverage: 10,000:1

It's impossible to tell how unusual something is baed on whether or not it made the 6:00 news.

"If you continue to behave lawfully, we will continue to arrest you!"

alrightie then.

The latest news I've read on these is they generate milliwatts in square meters of space, and are about as useful as those "nuclear batteries" people were scamming around (again...) recently.

The only application for tech with that low of a power return is satellites?

Space will always be slower. There's only so much radio spectrum. There's no point having satellites 50 miles apart, they'll be getting signal from the same customers, so the same bandwidth is shared. You'd need some fancy beam forming tech or tracking antennas to mitigate that. And you're also sharing bandwidth with an entire neighbourhood.

Anyone familiar with AI is painfully aware that AI models are ONLY good at what they're trained to do. If you train it to pass your interview, then of course it's going to be very good at that. But as soon as you take a step or two away from what it's been training on, it will be anywhere from bad to horrible. And what's worse, they often have an absurdly high level of confidence in their wrong answers when you go off training.

that's what I'm assuming. Their recent hike from $10 to $12 seemed entirely reasonable. And then this HUGE hike they just pulled off is just off the charts.

I gave up hosting my own mailserver a few years ago due to the obsessive mail server security hikes that basically made it impossible to host my own mailserver at my own house anymore. RBLs, certificates, etc. So I just gave up and went to Rackspace because their prices were reasonable. $10 a month for basically just an email is a bit high, but reasonable. And now i have to change again.

I've had my own email domain for decades, and I have NO intention of changing my address to a Gmail. But I only have a few weeks to hunt around, make a choice, and make the change. It's likely they'll be getting a month of their blood money from me before I can get my exit plan figured out.

Like you, I'm assuming they're doing the collosal hike to get out of the consumer email business. When I did a text chat with them the rep flat out refused to acknowledge that I was a private individual and not a company. Even after I'd told him several times that I was an individual with a personal domain, he still continued to talk with me about "your company". So I have to assume they've been told to ignore anything the customer says and treat everyone like a company / business. If you're not a business, they no longer want you as a customer, you're not made of money.

Their service has been good, it's a shame they don't want to do business with us anymore. Who's a good alternative for "the common man"? I'm looking for 2-3 email addresses, with capabiity of handling hundreds of aliases. (used for controlling spam and tracking places I sign up for / sources of spam and marketing emails for easy disconnection)

We don't know enough about how the brain works (at a higher level) so we can't make something that WORKS like the brain. The best we can do is make something that BEHAVES like a brain.

LLMs and other AI implementations can be thought of as "brain emulators". They're trying to achieve similar behaviors any way they can. Our current technology could be looked at as "serial", where as brains work almost exclusively in parallel. It's still possible to build a neural network that works like a brain at a low level, but it's hideously inefficient and has absolutely no organized higher functions, so there are almost no practical applications for that approach.

The brain is the result of millions of years of random mutations being selected for what produces the best results. There was never any plan, no design, no intent. And we're trying to plan and design for specific intent. That approach will never produce a working brain. We'll continue to get better at emulating a brain, but we're never going to design one, because it can't BE designed.

Buying at $23.28
It's currently $36.68
That's $2.8B in profit already.

In some ways China has much better consumer-protection laws than the USA. Big business over there doesn't have nearly as much control over legislation and government operations.

It's rather ironic that our basis of government, originally intended for personal freedom, has been so heavily leveraged by big business that it can block the majority of common-sense limitations on market control.

DoorDash, DeliverEasy and Uber are guilty of it too

A deal for "Free Delivery" through a delivery provider, gets you all the way to "checkout", then adds on service charges, a delivery fee, the credits back the delivery fee.

"Free delivery" is free. Not an arbitrary percentage of the delivery cost they've decided to split between delivery fee and service charge. They're both delivery fees. It's a delivery service. All their fees are delivery fees.

What shocks me here is how long it took to become such a popular thing? Parking domains isn't that expensive, but certainly isn't free, especially in large numbers. The people doing the parking are basically squatting on property they speculate will have value down the road. They may as well collect a little "rent" on them while they squat?

I can remember when "domain tasting" first became a thing, I looked at it and thought, "This is a TERRIBLE idea, it's going to make it more expensive for people to start up their own web site and 'interesting' domains are going to be unobtainable by the average person just because some squatter thinks they're parked on gold." No random person is going to pay thousands of dollars for a domain name they fancy just for a hobby, so it's just going to stifle small private sites.

I don't know how it currently works, but back when it started you could "taste" a domain for months almost for free, and there was nothing stopping you from "tasting" it again the instant your current taste expired, So you could squat domains for an unlimited time almost for free. "gee, nobody would ever abuse that!"

Though now with the explosion of TLDs, it's widened the market so far that the squatters are finding it hard to cover all the bases. Raise their rent! (and make the price go up exponentially to KEEP it parked) Watch the squatters scurry away like the cockroaches they are!

Within days of the trade-secret-protected algorithm being leaked in 1994, a researcher demonstrated a cryptographic attack

ah yes, that. Don't DO that.

Anything that can be destroyed by public review deserves to be destroyed by public review.

So if you're afraid of releasing your security code, your code is probably TRASH.

"We generated mountains of AI slop, and then spent countless hours turd-polishing and searching for clips that weren't completely terrible to bring you the best slop we could manage!"

Say no, and get sued by your shareholders?
Sounds like a dumb choice.

I think it can be summed up as "Mr. Dollar Ton is a grumpy old boomer that doesn't understand something, so berates anyone who dares challenge his world view"