Aw, I'm disappointed there's no reply on Zuckerberg's origins.

Everything's an AI artifact. It's not like lazy people who slept through high school chemistry have been punching unit conversions into calculators for generations.

Common sense says if you have your staff prepare a document for court but you sign off on it, you are 100% responsible for everything in the same as if you did all the work yourself.

IANAL so I don't know if the actual law agrees with common sense. If it doesn't, change the law.

In the modern era, "AI" is the new "staff member."

Mine is black I think, I'm not even sure. Why ? Because I always have 10-20 windows on top of it and I *never* see it. When KDE opens, so do all my windows from the previous session, so I don't even see it on boot. What a stupid idea. Oh, it's Windows ?!? Okay, fine, sorry about that, carry on.

Tell that to the people who are suffering the effects of "long Covid", some of which last a LONG time and can be quite debilitating. Both my wife and I came down with fairly mild cases - even though we're vaccinated - and had mild-but-persistent tiredness and 'brain fog" for the following 18 months or so. And we're lucky - lots of people are way worse off.

I've never had long-term effects from the flu - even cases bad enough that I thought I might need to be hospitalized. So in response to your "Pfffftttt" I'll just say that you're being Pffffoolish.

Sorry, you've lost me. What's the connection between the distance that light travels in a millisecond, and TCP handshaking?

Maybe you just suck at it. Coding with AI assistance is a learned skill, and if you don't know how to do it you may very well get bad results.

It's possible, but the problem is the AI writes buggy code, and invents APIs which don't exist. Tose are fairly widely reported problems.

Take away the satellites, and you effectively take away the drones. Don't kid yourself. The destruction of comms satellites will cripple nations, as we've largely gotten rid of backup terrestrial navigation aids like LORAN in the West, while both Russian and China kept legacy nav and com systems as backups, and are even expanding them. The first day of the war, satellites will be the very first thing to go, because you go after your enemies communications first.

They will accept higher costs due to delays and the like with offshoring, if those costs are less than paying the visa fees.

They will abandon paying Americans to do some of the work, and outsource all of it.

The reason this kind of scheme doesn't work is because the costs are different for every company. Some will pay it, some will do more offshoring, and a small number will employ more Americans. The only question is what the proportions will be, and which option your employer chooses. Hope you are in the last group.

Note to CNN editors: You really should recognize that the figure of "186,000 miles" is approximate. Translating it to "299,337 kilometers" implies a degree of precision which in this case doesn't exist. Calling it "300,000 kilometers" would be much better.

It just occurred to me that the literality of the conversion may be an AI artifact, in which case we can expect a lot more of this crap.

Having used machine translation for years, I am well aware that it screws up. Even so, it's very useful and you get used to the mistakes it makes and learn to interpret them.

That said Google's English transcription is better than a human now, and IME is close to flawless. Meta's is probably a lot worse, but the potential is there.

Thanks - guess that teaches me to RTFA.

Drones don't need air superiority to operate, they rely on numbers to overwhelm. At a recent arms show there was a company offering cardboard drones. Cost in monetary and material terms is getting so low that the challenge becomes mass producing them fast enough to swarm the enemy. Low flying, disposable, and very difficult to stop.

The important part is that they are talking about dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), not the typical solar panels you put on your house.

DSSCs are attractive because they are very easy and cheap to manufacture, and flexible. But they degrade fast with UV light, and the expected gains in protecting them have not been made. If their life could be extended to a usable amount they would offer an even lower cost option than already extremely cheap conventional solar cells, and open up some new applications.

These days, though, the training part is outsourced to the education system. And that's just dumb in so many ways.

Never mind apprentices, even just normal on-the-job training. Personally, I've always been a fan, and if I can do it in a tiny startup, then bigger companies certainly can.