Loved it! Thanks.

The media keeps calling that vending machine stupid, but in reality is is an experiment and not expected to work perfectly. Anthropic keeps updating and refining it, and they learned a lot in the process.

Anybody remeber this?

DOGE To Rewrite SSA Codebase In 'Months'
[posted on slashdot 2025-03-29]
https://developers.slashdot.or...

They must have finished it by now. So how did it go? Thought so.

So maybe a single donor's sperm should also only be used a few times?
(I admit I have no idea how difficult it is to get donors, so maybe there are so few that their sperm must be used a lot.)

Also: 200 is the number of babies that were born from it. Given that artificial insemination isn't 100% successful, his sperm was probably used much more often than that.

Let's hope his sperm has now been removed from the pool.

Higher turnover can also simply mean higher inflation.

(But I forgot: The greatest president^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdictator of all times said that there is no inflation.)

... so if the police of these countries gets their hand on this data they could sanction people with phone numbers from these countries.

So, this is not "just phone numbers and pictures" but could result in serious consequences for some people.

Also they found some drug dealers advertising their portfolio in their account description. This is a case where the police should actually try to "hack" Meta.

How reliable is this data? China is also known for embellishing official data, not only for the international community but also for its own government.

You are confusing Saudi Arabia with Russia. The latter is the one famous for people falling out of windows after they have already fallen out of favor. In Saudi Arabia people just get shot, stabbed or poisoned like everywhere else in the world.

We already live in a society where theft is normal. I'm not talking bout shoplifting here though.

On the other hand: If you buy their subsidized solar panels you get them to partly pay for your panels. So: Chinese tax payers subsidizing American solar installations. Isn't that a big win for 'murica?

"that it will continue to be voluntary for the tech giants to search for child sexual abuse material"

All they want to do is continue allowing the "voluntary scanning" by the "tech giants" (meaning mostly Google and Microsoft) for CSAM. This arrangement expires in spring 2026, so they want to extend it. Once this is done, they will immediately resume their efforts to introduce Chat Control.

Note that "voluntary" here means it's voluntary for the "tech giants" not voluntary for the users of their products.

But maybe we should stop ruining the planet first, otherwise it won't matter much whether we have asteroid defense or not.

It's not the either or you describe. It's either we get rid of ICE cars as soon as possible or the future of humanity is in peril. But also either the car manufacturers get it, that ICE cars have no future, and start producing cheaper electric cars, or the Chinese car manufacturers will take over the market. Both "or" scenarios mean that the car industry in Germany is done for.

Apparently Google's customers haven't yet figured out that advertising on the web no longer works (if it ever did).

That's not true. It's more pronounced in the US, yes, but not unique to it. There was a time in the 1960s and 70s where maybe not whole cities but new developments were designed around the car in other countries too. And even nowadays this happens way too often.