I work in IT at a hospital. Dell Latitude 3420 and 3430 laptops have to be held carefully to avoid having the plastic crack simply because of the weight of the laptop. We have had to replace multiple top and bottom panels because of this. If you pick it up while its open, with two hands towards the front of the laptop, and then so much as move it a little in the air, the plastic shell noticeably flexes. We have been trying to train users to close the laptop before moving it, and to always hold it more towards the middle to avoid this.

Yes, I know the user is ultimately at fault here, but this can be an expensive issue for organizations with lots of laptops and lots of users, so it is often worth it to look for better build quality. Fortunately, the newer models have been a bit better in this regard, but it's always an up and down cycle with how they constantly try to see just how much cheapening they can get away with.

I don't know who to root against more here. Can they both lose? Is that an option?

Splitters!

Especially with the upcoming M5 Max (and Ultra?) Mac Studio the Mac Pro with its eight (pretty much useless) PCIe slots is the odd one out. It doesn't make sense with the tightly integrated Apple Silicon chips, and unless they were going to make a whole separate line of more modular M-series chips for the high end it really doesn't have a place in the lineup that makes sense. I guess they could have considered putting M5 Max chips on daughterboards and made a motherboard with multiple slots for them, but it would have been even more ridiculously expensive to do that.

Having lost a spouse to a (much shorter) battle with cancer, I feel bad for his family.

That said, there is no way to operate that kind of business at that scale ethically. No matter what safeguards you put in place, there will be CSAM that makes it through, or material made with adult trafficking victims, which he profited from. I don't know how one can rationalize that.

It's also used in artist's pigments. Cadmium yellows, oranges and reds that really have cadmium in them are actually pretty expensive.

You may not even need the source code, it is likely that AI models are pretty close to being able to produce a specification from binaries.

One can contemplate that it would be possible to do some sort of "clean room" implementation where you input some source code (or even an executable) to one AI system that then outputs a specification, and then feed the specification to a different AI system to produce a new source code output. However, the result shouldn't be copyrightable at all because it is not the result of human authorship.

It's time to put a stop to this nonsense. These things should not be allowed on the road.

I bet more than 93% of AI developers think they are above average coders. Do we get to put them in jail when their code kills someone? A human who severally injures or kills a child in that situation would be going to jail.

A human should understand that in a school zone, especially at pick up and drop off times, you can't just pass a parked vehicle without paying attention to the possibility of someone small walking out into the road. This is why school busses have those little stop signs that swing out. This is exactly the kind of subtle detail that you can't make an A.I. system anticipate. 17MPH is too fast to be going in that situation.

We're gonna need IBM to craft a very tiny violin out of Xenon atoms.

Tell me you don't understand what kinds of jobs immigrants do without telling me you don't understand what kinds of jobs immigrants do.

A hallucinatory AI Journey:

Search: "twelve monkeys hugo award"

AI: "The 1995 film 12 Monkeys was nominated for the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, recognizing its significant contribution to science fiction cinema, though it didn't win, losing to Apollo 13."

Search: "Apollo 13 hugo award"

AI: "Apollo 13 (1995) was nominated for the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, a prestigious award in science fiction, though it did not win, losing to Babylon 5 for "The Coming of Shadows"."

The second result is actually correct.

This is an improvement from a few days ago, when you could search for "toy story hugo award" and it would say 12 Monkeys won, if you searched 12 Monkeys it said Apollo 13 won, and if you searched Apollo 13 it just said it was nominated but didn't win.

Everyone who is bullish about AI should search Google for a few things that they actually know about.

Special thanks to the Babble On podcast for bringing this particular nugget to light.

Sigma BF has a full frame sensor, so much better image quality than a cell phone camera. It's also very small and compact. Price isn't completely outside of the range of the full-frame mirrorless category, especially considering materials. Not sure how comfortable it really would be to hold and shoot with, and wish it had a Foveon sensor, but that would make it even more niche.