> Everything about nuclear energy is expensive.

Only if the cost of oil wars are presumed to be zero and light water reactors are the only data point.

Solar probably still has the advantage for electrical usage in suitable climates.

Also, the Globalists seem to be destroying the hydrocarbon system across the planet right now. Some day the CoVID depopulation plan failed. A billion might die in Africa from lack of fuel and fertilizer in the coming years.

When I was at Dartmouth we had a very strict Honor Code. Students were required to report cheating too, or face complicity charges.

Cheating like this would lead to expulsion except in rare circumstances. Not saying if Daddy buying a building would qualify.

Those kids are taking up seats of kids who want an education but didn't get in. The filter is thirsty.

At a minimum the cheaters devalue the market demand for an institution's degree. If these kids get a diploma we shouldn't hire from that school.

It's worth noting that Princeton just abolished its Honor Code due to rampant cheating of this type. After 130 years. This isn't the Second Industrial Revolution, it's much worse.

Also, that professor is a legend for pointing out the Emperor's lack of clothing.

> You're there for an education. Cheating on it is only leaving you uneducated.

Unfortunately, no.

Now that High Schools are handing diplomas to "graduates" who in some schools have a sub-ten percent literacy rate, the Bachelor's Degree is the new minimum certification for employment.

With this AI nonsense expect it to be a Master's Degree soon.

This is a huge part of the reason College is so expensive - demand has spiked considerably because of the failed primary education system.

The NEA is a major cause of the student debt crisis. That'll bake your noodle if the old fashioned view of them caring about the kids is a goal (their lead attorney generously told the truth on that a decade ago).

One of their partners wants a comprehensive biometrics database, perhaps.

Flock, perhaps.

A certain foreign military, perhaps.

They could make this all local in their app with cryptographic attestation but for 'some reason' they want the data on their servers for 30 days.

Ten percent of the population will be highly skeptical.

A high trust society is quite valuable but it trains people to not look out for parasites.

I mostly do heavy multi-disciplinary engineering problems (these I also use for checking an AI, as they're typically not good at these sorts of problems), complex coding, OS analysis, stuff like that. However, sometimes I do throw the occasional odd-ball - I've used ChatGPT to propose a workable quantum mechanics that will cope with Doctor Who canon, for example, and to produce an outline for a story in which symphonic metal appears in 1964 that is compliant with current sociological and psychological models of behaviour.

Claude Opus 4.6 was coping surprisingly well with just about everything I threw at it (but ran out of credits fast), but Opus 5 is churning out incoherent babblings to the point I'm worried I may have accidentally summoned Cthulhu.

But Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek got hopelessly confused on just about everything past a very low level of complexity. They can handle large problems, yes - Gemini has a huge context window - but complex interactions baffle them.

ChatGPT is able to identify issues correctly, but can only outline solutions, it's just not good at depth. 5.6 is a lot better, but still not good at deep answers. ChatGPT is also prone to agreeing for the sake of it, which makes me nervous about trustworthiness.

> SpaceX always intended to discard this Super Heavy booster in the ocean.

How long will it be before a Chinese science vessel recovers the craft?

Speaking of which, can anybody day where the sections of the K-129 they recovered in 1974 is housed? The tower bell was returned to the Russians as a gesture of good will so they have it somewhere.

It would be an interesting museum piece. They say government can't keep any secrets but darned if I can find where this Indiana Jones warehouse is located.

That is fair enough. I've been trying out Kimi on the free model, and have subscriptions to Claude and ChatGPT. If Kimi is actually as good or better than ChatGPT, at the pro level, then it might be worth my while moving over as ChatGPT has become very disk-hungry of late and I'm pushing right to the very limits on what it can reliably process.

I've seen his stuff going back to PC Magazine or Byte or one of those in the mid-80's.

Most of the columns I read made me think "well, that's obviously wrong, and why is he being such a dick about it?"

I guess some people like that style. Never my cup of tea.

Once I realized I was almost always right when I thought "well that's obviously wrong" I learned to just skip his columns. In my teens I thought it was wise to give everybody a fair shake repeatedly, but then I learned about opportunity cost.

To be fair, he somehow got paid for decades despite his track record, so he must have been quite skilled at the hustle.

"Don't speak ill of the dead" and all, but he seemed to enjoy people being acerbic, so here we are.

Oh, it's not just that, they claim 100 miles from any border now.

Since I'm in New Hampshire and there's no part of the state further than 100 miles from a border, I've had to inform my friends that we've been kicked out of the United States.

Our ratification of the Constitution by the Legislature is what makes New Hampshire part of the United States. If the Constitution doesn't apply, well then the ratification has been nullified by DC. Unfortunate, but not our choosing.

This would apply to any of the Thirteen Colonies that joined and are in this situation (Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware) but likely not so for the States that were never independent. There's a real territorial integrity conundrum for the rest of the Thirteen Colonies. Only a tiny sliver of Vermont, Maryland, and Massachusetts have Constitutional Law under DC's theory. Texas was independent and is in this half-in, half-out situation as well.

Of course the Constitution is what authorizes the Federal Government so if it doesn't exist then they have no legal authority. It's *almost like* they're an outlaw gang at this point with no basis in law. Might be better for everybody if they followed the law.

Although the Chinese models are all considerably smaller, it's not obvious to me that they're as good or better. They could be, but I'm not convinced the benchmarks that currently exist are stressing the models enough to establish where models actually are any good.

You use the can of grue repellant in the lake to get past those.

That humans have sufficiently directional hearing is perhaps the most impressive part. Once you have that, then the rest really just follows,

However, this continues the unexpected senses in humans, one of the first discovered was that humans have a weak magnetic sense.

The potential, both in fact (if you can "see" walls and gaps by clicking then you can presumably navigate a cave even if your light source goes out) and in fiction (this one should really be obvious), is considerable.

I saw a wall-sized TV at Walmart tonight for $698. Like foot traffic might damage it in a normal house.

There has to be some additional revenue source.

Not sure you quite get how dopamine works.

I /suspect/ it's so when you have to upload a file to a website as a PDF but you have several and it doesn't handle that well you can multi-select a group of files and it will upload a single PDF.

No idea if that's what they mean but it might actually be useful.