You can just tell the AI not to do that. I gave Gemini standing orders not to flatter me so much, and not sugar coat things. It works well.

JPEG XL is more efficient in terms of CPU time needed to encode and decode than AVIF, but still not nearly as good as JPEG.

For web it's a trade off between the server saving bandwidth and the device using more energy to display the page.

It was also because there is now a Rust JPEG XL decoder, which is reasonably safe. The C decoder seems to have been abandoned and still has some serious issues with performance. It hasn't had a proper security audit either.

Firefox and Chrome are both using the Rust decoder.

Not just kids and adults, they screwed up our democracy. Helped delivery Brexit and until amounts of Russian interference.

That's still very bad. I recently preserved a book about the Z80 and building a system around it. Cost me about 0.5 Euro, but it wasn't preserved on the Internet Archive and to me it has great value.

What the summary fails to mention is that the other two factors were passive smoking and night work. Smoking was allowed until 2000, and apparently there is some evidence that working at night increases women's risk of getting cancer.

I would have thought that rather than altering the uniforms, the best way to protect staff would be to add shielding to the aircraft. Since the radiation is coming from above, and they rarely go near the windows, it only needs to be in the ceiling. According to this paper, aluminium and lithium hydride work well, and both are fairly light.

That added music was annoying though.

In relative terms, they're marking it up more. But ask yourself which hurts people's pocketbooks more: the $110 that the cheap Android tablet maker takes as profit or the $400 that Apple takes? Consumers don't care about percents. They care about dollars. And Apple's profit margin on their tablets is almost 4x that of their cheapest competition.

Alternatively that's three spare tablets for when the first one breaks. As soon as you're more than 2x the price of the cheapest competition, unless users absolutely have to have the capabilities of the expensive one, a lot of stuff like build quality ceases to matter, etc.

It was a rare book dealer. What's probably happening here is there's a group of researchers who did the same thing that the rare book dealer did. Again both things can be true at the same time.

If you would bother to Google The articles involved you would know that. But like a lot of people around here I'm sure you're Google is broken. Either that or you're using AI to Google instead when which case yeah you don't know what you're getting...

I mentioned this to the other guy but yeah they were destroying rare books. A rare book seller caught them by sneaking an Apple Air tag into one of his books that he shipped to them. That's the only reason we know about this.

Both things can be true. There can be a ton of books that nobody wants and to get thrown out and Amazon can be buying those books in addition to Amazon buying rare books to destroy for their AI model. Because of course they're going to want rare books if they have rare books in their model and they're competitors don't that is a competitive advantage.

And I guarantee you they're not going to stop destroying rare books they're just going to be quieter about it. And they will check the books for Apple Air tags

So they want as much data as they can get and they were actively seeking out rare books. They had gone to a rare book seller and they were buying them to destroy them. Because of course they want rare books if they have rare books in their model their model will be better than somebody who doesn't have rare books.

The way we found out they were destroying rare books is that the rare books seller got a huge order and he got suspicious so he snuck an Apple Air tag into one of the books and monitored where it went. That little bit of citizen journalism is the only reason we knew.

I haven't looked into it but I wouldn't be surprised to find that Amazon is going to keep doing this they're just going to be using shell companies and freight forwarders.

Rare book sellers aren't going to want to sell to people who they know are going to destroy rare books. Especially for such a stupid fucking reason.

I am a little surprised there are this many Americans upset about it though. It could just be I know a lot of idiots but a lot of the people I know would cheerfully show up to a book burning party if there wasn't social stigma still associated with that. And frankly I'm surprised at stigma still exists after the last 16 years.

Craving intimacy is an evolved emotional weakness brought about by a species naturally selected drive to reproduce. Consider that carefully before responding including every answer driven by emotion (which when un-mastered is a self-control flaw). Species can have no other reason to exist but perpetuating the group. The individual exists for that and cannot exist for anything else or different for evolution is not a choice.

Craving intimacy results in a wide variety of psychological problems many of which result in toxic, often violent conduct including sexual assault (and often, homicide to conceal same).

Not everyone will get conventional intimacy and so pretending is a lie. Not everyone has the option to become desirable. Efforts to do so include damaging surgery for "looksmaxing".

That demonstrates the desire for intimacy is now a bug not a feature, as the grotesquely large global population also demonstrates by driving high poverty rates. Quality of life does not scale but the opposite.

Alternate options which produce the same result are useful and to the degree they succeed, effective.
They are harmless to others and pleasing to those so satisfied and sated. Sentimental objections should be seen for what they are, silly.

BTW I was (I'm now ancient and out of that game) conventionally attractive to both sexes and had a long, loving marriage until death did us part so none of this comment is motivated by butthurt at exclusion for I was not excluded.

Most of "humanity" is a collection of traits which do not benefit the individual and are often toxic (including drive to deny they're toxic). Redirecting drive for intimacy in those who would be silly to pretend it's an option is a kindness. I don't need it but my personal needs are irrelevant. I do not pretend others are me for projection is lazy thinking.

Society would be better served by contented, happy humans when that state can be easily afforded. Harmless technology could replace toxic, socially destructive gratification techniques like prostitution. Cravings exist and will continue to exist as they're not a matter of choice. Sating them in modern, less socially toxic ways WHICH DO NOT INVOLVE COMPETITION is the logical choice. Competition has many beneficial uses, but winners outnumber losers so best if the second can opt out. It really is that simple however intensely naive idealists object.

I don't know if Aegis if available for iPhone. It lets to backup and export to the destination of your choice, so you can use your own cloud or just do it offline.

Muskrat wants to build data centers because that's what gets all the investors excited and he's not going to be able to do that in Texas. Remember he mixes his various business arms in ways that are normally illegal.

If he says he's going to bring a spaceport then everyone will welcome him but if he came bearing data centers they would tell him to go fuck himself.

You can't do it in Texas because they have simply overrun their electricity capacity and they are in danger of shutting down hospitals. Also Texas is much closer to becoming a blue State than Louisiana and so there are political considerations with letting a trillionaire bring in extremely unpopular businesses.

Give it a few months or maybe a year and you'll be hearing about how they're building a data center where they said they were going to build the spaceport.

References I could find say they want to build a 10GW solar panel factory, which if accurate wouldn't even make the top 10 world wide. Most of the larger ones are in China, but the Canadian Solar one is also larger than that.

Couldn't find data for the PCB factory, but I'd be very surprised if it was anything like the scale of the Chinese ones.

Speaking of, they are launching from barges off-shore, due to geography. Has the additional benefit of not destroying the launch complex when the rocket explodes.