Once you put a cork in the neck of the bottle, it is no longer a disc and can contain other objects.

Nostalgia.

LLMs are AI as much as the enemies in a game are AI. It’s not General AI though, which companies really seem to want people to believe it is.

Because it’s beneficial for the software company’s reputation. People are more likely to buy the software when they know that it’s not going to get a permanently unpatched zero-day the moment the next version comes out.

Not even close to all software. There was a broad mix of stuff that used 2-digit years that would have had problems with it, stuff that used 2-digit years where it wouldn’t really impact anything, and stuff that used 4-digit years and so wasn’t a problem.

However, if it drove any sort of critical infrastructure, it had to be audited just in case it fit in the first category.

That depends on if they’re reporting LESS money than they actually made, or are reporting MORE money than the shop itself actually took in.

If everything is in cash, you can inflate it pretty easily without raising eyebrows.

1. grow a beard
2. fix the cowlick in the front
3. show the sides, you coward, it might be a competent fade cut you’re just not showing it from the right angle

Her.

edit: Ah, I see you’ve already been called out for this. Admittedly that’s why I tend to default to ‘they’ on the interwebs.

I mean… it wasn’t.

Communism means all things held in common. Theft wouldn’t be a thing because everyone owns all property together. Ownership is meaningless.

Every one of those societies only paid lip service to communism - partly because it only works when everyone in the commune knows everyone else and holds each other responsible. It doesn’t work at scale. What those societies really were was “The state owns everything and if you complain about it you get disappeared.”

Nah, dissidents are just going to get disappeared to El Salvador. That way they can still be used for slave labor!

Honestly, it’s old tech. There were guide-by-wire missiles for a long time before this.

Yup! Totally plausible - just more expensive and less repeatable. And harder to use against moving targets.

Although you are correct, this destroys the engine.

A good, efficient fusion engine just needs to point the exhaust end towards the enemy and the hyper-accelerated particles will punch a hole through the target for you. And then you point at the next target, etc. etc.

Also, it’s a butchered quote from Larry Niven’s Known Space books, referred to as the “Kzinti Lesson” - because the Kzinti thought humanity was unarmed and helpless until they discovered that humans are really good at improvising weapons.

The usefulness of a fusion engine as a weapon is directly correlated to its efficiency.

Well, then the problem would be solved anyways!

I’m pretty sure astronauts are trained on the usage of garbage receptacles.

The air filters would capture it eventually. It’s not like the ISS has dead air.

I mean, the same goes for a login. People share Steam accounts too.

That implementation of NFTs was a total scam, yes. There are some cool potential applications for NFTs … but mostly it was a solution looking for a problem. Even situations where it could be useful - like tracking ownership of things like concert tickets - weren’t going to fly, because the companies don’t want to relinquish control of the second-hand marketplace. They don’t get their cut that way.

Give a man an LLM that can churn out poor-quality fish day after day for free until he gets used to not having to think for himself, then start charging for the privilege, and you’ll make money for a lifetime.