Comment asking for a friend (Score 2) 107
Comment first commercial application - (Score 2) 30
Comment quick, somebody name it (Score 1) 74
Comment Re:The word 'China' should have made some impact (Score 1) 65
Comment Only if they name it - (Score 1) 36
Comment Re:Let's do the math (Score 5, Funny) 330
Let's say you work 50 years.
unless everyone starts doing it. this could start a, well, not an arms race... but i'm pretty sure this is how the Irkans ended up led by the Tallest.
Comment Re:Quickly now (Score 1) 83
Comment Re:Can't find the price (Score 1) 30
Which makes me wonder . . . will car battery electricity theft become a new crime problem . . . ?
Comment alternatively (Score 5, Insightful) 75
"We wanted to know if the sharks went extinct, or if they just became less prominent."
or if they moved away from that one point in the ocean where the sample was taken.
Comment Re:App your way out of any problem (Score 1) 117
Except to target that merry prankster with fake qr code stickers
I suspect it was less a merry prankster in motley with bells on the points of his caps, capering down the road to the tune of "The Whistler", and more a sullen, embittered shut-in who believes his ideas deserve more attention than they're getting and who didn't want to go through the hassle of getting a gun license.
Comment or he'll copyright it (Score 2) 123
Nobody tell Anish Kapoor.
Comment Re:Still cheaper (Score 1) 215
Really, the cost of the roads should come form weight / miles. A heavy vehicle tears up the roads more than a light one does. Or maybe tax tires?
I really need to work on my Namronic anti-gravity drive. That'll show them.
That'll show them all.
Comment Re:GPT-3-omancy (Score 1) 43
AI text generation is fun if you use it like a divination/fortune cookie generator or verbal surrealism game.
It's bloody annoying if one of your friends starts using it to make posts on, say, Mastodon, and you have to read a couple of sentences before you realise it's content-free gibberish.
Comment Another one. (Score 1) 64
Angry DBZA Vegeta voice: "Do I hear THIRTY-SEVEN?"