But mod parent Funny anyway.

On one hand I want to say "Just so" but on the other hand I'm not sure if "designed" is too strong a term for a solution that can't seem to find its best problems... The third hand and higher hands are for the surprises that are coming?

One thing I've realized about that book is that his glasses are way rosy. But I've had to back burn it for Regime Change by Haberman and Swan. A light read about our current dark mess... (No extensions for books with active requests.)

This should be the standard for all grade schools, really. When you're in grade school, you're being taught fundamentals. You're literally learning how to use and write the language that you'd eventually use to form queries for AIs.

There's just no good that will come of introducing kids to using AI in a school setting at this age. What you'd get instead are kids who learn how to leverage it to cheat and avoid the work they're asked to do so they learn and memorize the materials in class, and kids who don't grasp the fact the AI isn't something you can treat just like a human friend.

No liberal 15 years ago was saying they wish London was more white.

It was just more or less assumed years back.....as that it was more the norm for the homogeneity that was found then.

No one has quoted them as saying anything "bad"?

Best joke of the day, but I was hoping for something about the misnomer. Floss refers to the stringy stuff and there's no string in this story?

But I might have asked my dentist about this if I'd seen the story before my last visit. Pert' shure I'll have forgotten all about it by the next time...

Very productive opening joke. Thanks.

Last paragraph.

We can only hope, but I predict it ain't gonna happen. Sadly.

Currently reading How AI Thinks by Nigel Toon. Some interesting bits and it's going quickly, but not seeing anything much to recommend in it. The intersection of "experts on AI" and "people who write well" remains small, though it may become more difficult to tell if they use AI to help write? I think it's only the deepest experts who can really explain things clearly, whereas AI is mostly focused on sounding deep with hallucinatory seasonings as convenient.

Like many other people, I dumped the Sonos ecosystem when they started killing support for their hardware I owned and still actively used. Even with their "trade in offers" to upgrade? It made no sense, when the new speaker or interface wasn't going to sound any better than the one I already owned.

I felt like the brand was nearly irrelevant in today's world where practically every audio device supports Bluetooth connections and everything has mobile apps.

But Sonos is right about this idea/realization: They're really not a "speaker company" (at least, not one of any consequence). What they really have to offer really is an "audio operating system". How well that works out for them depends on how well they design it. But at least there's some potential buy-in for me here.

If you can make it co-exist on top of everything else i use, like streaming audio from a Mac's Music library via AirPlay or my wife wanting to send music from her phone or tablet to either the soundbar on our living room TV or alternately to her little Sony bluetooth speaker? It starts to make some sense. It's great if it makes any and all Sonos branded hardware super easy to configure and use, but should also allow managing everything else under the same roof.

Lots of posts here bashing this product while I bet exactly none of them have tried using one yet.

No argument Dyson makes a lot of high-dollar products that just attempt to be a little better/different than the norm -- and won't impress people who are always looking only for the lowest cost solution.

But I have yet to really use anything Dyson branded I thought was a bad/dysfunctional product. I owned the orange Dyson ball vacuum cleaner, many years ago, when it had only existed for a short time. It was 4x-5x more expensive than a typical Hoover or Eureka upright vacuum from a discount or department store. But I got a good 12-13 years or so of use out of it, before selling it to someone else. I remember when I first got it, thinking it felt "too plastic-y" with plastic hoses and attachments and levers. Wasn't confident it wouldn't just crack/break on me. But it never did, and my only real complaint with it was the ball design prevented getting the vacuum under the coffee table. (Obviously, switching to one of the suction attachments let you get around that.)

I feel like at $500, I don't want to be the first guy trying one of these out. But if early adopters decide it really works, and isn't too slow at sensing where gaps are between your teeth while brushing with it - I would consider buying one on sale and giving it a shot.

Among the many features that could improve Slashdot... You got me to try to figure out if it's a parody account or a sincere moron.

However with that many digits it must be a fresh identity. I think age should be one of the main features of that imaginary MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation) system I used to daydream about. I still feel like there should be a measurable symmetry between reactions to comments and the reputation of the identity that wrote the comment, so that a history of reactions would clarify whether an identity is deliberately or accidentally being funny.

On the one hand I can't even figure out which dimensions of MEPR would assess "sanity", though it does seem clear to me that anyone who is still defending the YOB has at least one loose screw rattling around upstairs. Time to take a break from Claude games and see if any of the AIs know of a website with MEPR?

The angle I was looking for on this story was about the Chinese side, and yours was the "most significant" comment in that direction. (But the Chinese are not limited to batteries and electric cars for priority technologies...) Now about the funny side...

I'm expecting the #YOB to respond by signing a decree banning solar panels. Mostly because he hates California, but his official zero dark thirty excuse will be "Made in China". Or maybe a special economic emergency "justifying" a million percent tariff? (Xi will not be amused, which is likely to have repercussions in Iran and Taiwan, but who's looking forward these days?)

Joke of the week is still under development. Something in the chicken and egg genre. Did the sick YOB make America unwell? But how did the YOB ever become so YUGE, so Orange, and such a Buffoon? America's worst product and not suitable for export, even to such friendly places as Russia or North Korea or Epstein's island.

Sad I could justify dropping $20k on a Mac Studio if one was available north of 128gb these days (check the site all above 96gb are gone)

I believe they are advertising the 512's gbs are coming in a few months.....

The reality is Apple very much positioned their product line as fashion items,

Having an Apple product hasn't been a "status' symbol of any sort for decades now....

They're just commodity products, nice ones....but commodity products and no one buys them or sees them as a fashion or status symbol purchase...

That's been a thing of the past for quite awhile now...