Only that Putin has done a long string of wars like that before. The difference is that Ukraine has been able to fight back quite efficiently. I guess Putin got used to winning and lost contact to reality along the way.
So, no, this claim that Russia was provoked or had no choice is Russian propaganda. It cannot hold water on closer inspection. They just want some of that victim bonus, so they twist reality beyond all recognition to convince some useful idiots.
Probably old training data that implies Slashdot is important. Also probably very cheap to do this type of propaganda, so they just push the mind-rot everywhere they can.
Yes. But the more support Ukraine gets and the less some really evil people with power sabotage Ukraine, the better for everybody. This war has to end. Obviously with Ukraine getting back all of its territory and Russia getting a deal bad enough that they will not try this crap again for a long long time, ideally forever.
Will the stupid and disconnected claims that LLMs are somehow intelligent, have agency and are a bit like people ever stop? Well, probably not before the now inevitable crash.
These LLMs were given tasks and tokens. They did not "play".
Banking regulation is for the banks to comply with. These here are technical regulations, so how much money the customer has does not play a role. Financial regulation is a different area.
Most of the cost is from digging, not from the fiber. If you coordinate that well with other things that need digging the cost goes down. If not, it goes up. If done well, you end up with something like $1000 per home or below in a city.
Your replacement costs are off. Fiber basically lasts forever (Wikipedia says 60-100 years), you typically replace it if you need a different fiber type. That will probably not happen with modern fiber. What you need to replace regularly (every 5 years or so) is the optical components and the switches, but that is a lot cheaper than laying fiber because everything is readily accessible.
Note: If you cannot do it at that price, but several of your competitors can, there is a problem on _your_ side.
Comcast is not entirely wrong, in that some ISPs are trying to gain customer scale by using low introductory prices. The same as Comcast does (low introductory rate). While much of the industry agrees that low introductory pricing can result in excessive churn and lower profits, no one has been willing to stop doing so. If Comcast believes what they say, let them be first to offer one prices per speed tier to everyone in a region. No discounts.
You know, there could be something to this, if an ISP calculated out rates, found a "one price, without hikes after introduction" pricing, and advertised it as to what you'd save vs. the competition in a five year period or something. Granted, the whole "this quarter" mentality has penetrated the collective psyche enough that people may not go for it anyway. Hey, I think I finally get what trickle down economics is. All the horrible ideas of the bigger movers slowly trickled down to the rest of us.
This is on him. His grandchildren will pay for his gross stupidity.
Trump didn't help, but we can hardly lay the entire blame for this on his shoulders. We've been headed down this path for generations. Probably since before grandpappy Drumph (The actual family name) was a toddler. Trump's turned himself into the posterboy for the issue, but he's good at turning himself into the posterboy for nearly every issue, including human trafficking and sexual enslavement.
So they are just going to raise our power bills until we are forced to take this "deal" And we're going to let them do it because we are dumb as a bag of hammers. Hey just out of curiosity what did you trade for reliable access to electricity? Answer in the comments! For me I wasn't asked. County level election officials made sure that it was difficult enough to vote that my voice was diluted to the point of irrelevance. But if your voice still matters let us know! For example if you're freaking out about trans girls you matter. If you oppose common and well tested vaccines your voice matters! If you think somebody who smokes a joint should do 5 years in the pokey your voice matters! Let us know in the comments below!
My local area is trying some end-runs around the issue right now. Power company is sending us notices of all sorts of "services" meant to "reduce your ongoing bill during peak times." What it amounts to is giving them control over when you're allowed to run AC during the summer and heat during the winter, and control over your food storage refrigerators and freezers, so that they can de-prioritize our power usage and funnel it to the datacenters we repeatedly screamed at the city and county admins that we didn't want. I imagine we're only a year or two away from it just being taken by force because nobody is signing up for these "let the power company yoink your power to pretend to be saving you money." Oh, BTW, our energy bills have already started rising fairly dramatically once the construction on the new datacenters started.
You've not seen bacteria in a petri dish shit themselves to death?
Indeed. Most people are not educated enough to get that comparison though.
There is no absolute protection against user stupidity. Incidentally, banks here will refuse that login. They require machines to be registered for online banking. And they have time-outs.
Bind has gotten better, but 10 years ago and longer it was utter crap with regards to security.
What the AI does is not impressive. Finding use-after-free requires you to be competent and wanting to find them. Approaches for finding and avoiding them are well established, the current slop-coders (with or without AI) just do not know or use them. AI is not needed in any way. AI is just the ElCheapo approach when you do not care about finding all of them (due to LLM unreliability).
"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." -- Robert Orben
