Comment It's China and India's planet, too. (Score 1) 333
Paper straws aren't going to help when the two most populous countries are burning tires for heat, but it makes a nice virtue signal.
Comment "Because I hate you, Trebek." (Score 1) 95
Never underestimate the power of weaponizing decades of spite.
Comment Playground power dynamics (Score 1) 124
Bullies of old: "Gimmie your lunch money!"
Bullies in the new era: "Gimmie your SpaceX share."
Comment It's been noted before by others but (Score 1) 72
The Future is stupid .
Actually, stupider than imaginable.
Actually, stupider than imaginable.
Comment American taxpayers' dollars at work. (Score 1, Troll) 223
Things, like money, being set on fire IS doing work. You literally get joules out of it.
Comment Re:sounds like the right way to do it (Score 1) 65
Sounds like AI is making MORE jobs for programmers.
"Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism " my ASS!
"Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism " my ASS!
99 little bugs in the code,
99 little bugs.
Take one down, patch it around,
107 little bugs in the code!
Comment Permanent ST means dawn breaks at ~3AM... (Score 1) 282
And that's besides asking people who mostly live around and beyond the polar circle to make decisions for the rest of us.
Same goes for those living near the equator.
Have fun living with winter depression (and depressives driving around you) for half a year.
Or getting ZERO sleep in the summer. It's gonna be great.
But hey... As long as you don't have to suffer the tyranny of setting the clock twice a year. That's what really matters.
Razor blades are cheap. So is rope and simply swerving into oncoming traffic.
Comment Re:Magnetic USB-C charging! (Score 1) 94
-I wonder if that charger would work with other USB-C-powered devices.
MOAR POWAH = faster magic smoke production! Efficiency!1!!
Comment wait'll RFK jr hears about THIS (Score 1) 196
Word up, freakin' Wolfman Jack and GOAT GLANDS! Public service, indeed.
Comment contrapoint: (Score 5, Funny) 165
The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening to Sam Altman to avoid the downsides of AI.
Eh, I'm sure it'll be fine. No need to be alarmist, like they were about Trump.
Submission + - Put Multiple Values in One Cell with Lists and Arrays in Excel 1
theodp writes: Folks in Finance and other power Excel users were no doubt all atwitter over Microsoft's Thursday announcement of support for in-cell lists and arrays in Excel, including four new functions — FLATTEN, HAS, HASANY, HASALL — to manipulate them. From the home office in Redmond:
"Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with the release of lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays, initially to Microsoft Excel for Windows and Mac Beta Channels. Many workbooks already try to pack multiple values into one cell. A project might list 'Carlos, Henrietta, Jacob' as three owners, or a Forms survey might return '2:00 PM; 2:30 PM; 3:00 PM' as one response. With lists, you can keep those values in one cell, while also keeping them separate for filtering, calculation and more."
If you haven't been keeping abreast of What's New in Excel, Microsoft has added a number of new features over the past years that enable Excel users to do things one might formerly have turned to programming languages and other computing environments to accomplish, including support for regular expressions, the LET and LAMDA functions, Python in Excel, and, of course, the obligatory AI support.
Which raises an interesting question: Is an Excel formula worth a thousand lines of AI-generated Python code? (especially if the latter is run in an overengineered infrastructure, such as an AI-generated complex CI/CD pipeline combined with cloud pipeline execution!)
"Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with the release of lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays, initially to Microsoft Excel for Windows and Mac Beta Channels. Many workbooks already try to pack multiple values into one cell. A project might list 'Carlos, Henrietta, Jacob' as three owners, or a Forms survey might return '2:00 PM; 2:30 PM; 3:00 PM' as one response. With lists, you can keep those values in one cell, while also keeping them separate for filtering, calculation and more."
If you haven't been keeping abreast of What's New in Excel, Microsoft has added a number of new features over the past years that enable Excel users to do things one might formerly have turned to programming languages and other computing environments to accomplish, including support for regular expressions, the LET and LAMDA functions, Python in Excel, and, of course, the obligatory AI support.
Which raises an interesting question: Is an Excel formula worth a thousand lines of AI-generated Python code? (especially if the latter is run in an overengineered infrastructure, such as an AI-generated complex CI/CD pipeline combined with cloud pipeline execution!)
Submission + - The brain is actually two completely separate organs (stanford.edu)
Beeftopia writes: From Stanford Medicine:
"For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years."
The adult brain has three main regions: the forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain. Scientists could never create hindbrain neurons.
"Previous attempts to make hindbrain neurons likely tried to coax forebrain and midbrain progenitors into hindbrain cells, which our study shows is not possible,” said researcher Rayyan Jokhai.
"The researchers’ breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to — rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain."
With this knowledge, researchers were able to create hindbrain neurons.
"For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years."
The adult brain has three main regions: the forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain. Scientists could never create hindbrain neurons.
"Previous attempts to make hindbrain neurons likely tried to coax forebrain and midbrain progenitors into hindbrain cells, which our study shows is not possible,” said researcher Rayyan Jokhai.
"The researchers’ breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to — rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain."
With this knowledge, researchers were able to create hindbrain neurons.
Comment Re: You're shitting me! (Score 4, Insightful) 172
There should be a required WARRENT ID field and it should be checked against valid active warrents. Otherwise, access denied.
Comment I have no proboscis and I must scream (Score 2) 51
Man, Nicholas Tesla was right when he wrote
"You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension."
Actually, I think I've got this one, other than whether this was really necessary.
Comment FaaS - Fascism as a Service (Score 0) 60
(alt subject : "Oops, all data breaches!")
Nothing to see here, just normal day-to-day government work circumventing the 4th amendment by outsourcing data collection to the private sector. This kind of thing happens all the time.
Move along, Citizen!
Nothing to see here, just normal day-to-day government work circumventing the 4th amendment by outsourcing data collection to the private sector. This kind of thing happens all the time.
Move along, Citizen!
