I was hoping to find out whether this is a viable business model for new startups, but they only ruled that it took too long for Musk to bring the lawsuit.

I seem to have had a very similar progression. I still tend to think in "/." replacement operators, but it's been perhaps 15 years since I've really used Wolfram Language.

Do you really say "lol"?

Yup I bet you the system prompt for the AI instructs it to stroke the ego of users. Probably an an attempt to get them to pay for subscriptions to AI-related services.

We have laws against gambling because it exploits human behavior for profit. I won't be surprised if we see laws banning or restricting this sort of behavior in AIs for the same reason, eventually.

"Opt out of all FOG DATA SCIENCE data sets"

What -- exactly -- does that do, how quickly, and what are some of the side-effects?\

Underneath, it says "You will be removed from all our data sets." And yet I doubt that very much. Surely there will be an entry in a database somewhere saying "Device identifier ________-____-_____-_____-_____ requested removed date-and-time _____ from IP address _____", etc.
And does that only retroactively remove data? Suppose they snarf up another dataset, bought from someone else or collected by themselves. Is that data also removed from their datasets, or does another removal request have to be made?

"Science is about a specific process: you make a hypothesis, you set up a test of your hypothesis, you test it, find it true or not and based on that your hypothesis becomes a scientific theory or a rejected hypothesis."

That's the junior-high version of science. The one done poorly on cardboard. It's sad that people still trot out the whole "it's a process" trope.

And yet that one sentence makes more sense than the rest of the post.

I think it's the opposite... Star Trek tried to modernize and got rid of some of its strengths. Strange New Worlds returned to the classic formula and did well because of it. Shorter seasons, movie-budget episodes, and favoring season-long story arcs and abandoning individual episodic storytelling all caused problems. Strange New World did enough of a course correction by bringing back episodic storytelling to be good. It also strikes a good balance with original stories vs notalgis bait (we get a couple episodes, like the Lower Decks crossover and the Balance of Terror retelling, and they lean a lot into Pike knowing his own fate which we see in TOS,,, though that plot thread was started in Discovery).

I do think every modern Trek series has individual good moments but on a whole the abandoning episodic storytelling and shorter seasons (which feeds back into hurting episodic storytelling if you want an overarching story too), really hurt them I think.

Betterbird doesn't solve all of Thunderbird's problems, but it *does* act a little more sanely in many respects, and the search works a bit better on my machines.

I think Microsoft in general does a great job considering they test numerous software packages going back decades, as I understand it.

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The real question is, each time this happens, do they sit down and have a meeting and discuss why the problem happened, what they can do to keep it from happening again, and then implement a solution in their testing? If so then it's fine. It's only if they fail to learn from each emergency that we have a problem.

Same should apply to Oracle.

Also not sure why we're discussing these specific Microsoft and Oracle bugs. The bugs are not similar at all. Microsoft's isn't even a security issue like Oracle's is.

Why would you presume *that* from what was written?

What?

Before emissions controls, they'd try to disperse soot and ash over wide area to minimize the impact to individuals, but natural gas burns a lot cleaner than coal, and doesn't really produce soot or ash, so it's not really a concern.

The only thing that article says about it is that the local government did a study and concluded that it wasn't an environmental hazard.

Think about it this way: why would a gas turbine mounted on a trailer emit more pollution than a fixed facility? It's burning the same fuel, with the same emissions controls.

Ok, but we should still be able to add that to the grid. In reality, it is much easier and cheaper to build a 1GW power plant than it is to build a 1GW datacenter.

2GW is basically nothing. The entire grid is something like 1,200GW so you'd need to add a fraction of a percent to cover a very large data center. The fact that people claim this is beyond our capability is preposterous.