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Oh, yeah. You’re right. They were concerned more with securing his boat first than pulling him out of the water, and then once aboard their boat didn’t even tell him why he was being detained. That’s much better.

Heat index is more commonly used and more frequently now in media (hmmm, wonder why?) but I think this is just some intern or AI that ran across a local midwest slang and ran with it to embellish their news story about the current heat wave to fill it out to a larger word count. I’m not from the midwest, so I’ve never heard that before.

Even though heat index is often used, temperature is still the main one talked about, which is fine under normal conditions. But it doesn’t take a very high temperature with high humidity to become very dangerous. Any time I think about this my mind goes back to the first chapter of “Ministry of the Future” and how horrible now already can be for some places, and the future will just expand where that happens.

The act of “trying to push him into US waters” sounds like typical cop behavior. Pulled you over and can’t find anything wrong enough to arrest you, so they push you around verbally or physically until you give them something to work with. Let me guess, they capsized the boat in their efforts, pulled him out of the water, and then said because he was on their boat now he’s on American soil and therefore under arrest.

It’s been worse and worse over time for whatever reasons, but the AI summary at the top now can be way off. I had a result the other day where a quick glance (all that I give it as I scroll down to any results) I laughed because I could tell it was totally wrong, and couldn’t even figure out where it got that result from. It wasn’t in the results I found.

Giraffe In Giraffe Out

Even the best models fine tuned for coding still have training that was based on both good and bad examples of programming from humans. And since it’s not AGI but using probability to generate the code, you’re going to get crap programming logic dependent on how often such things were used and suggested by humans to other humans. Googling for an answer on how to code something pulls up all sorts of answers from many sources, but reading through them, many are terrible. An LLM doesn’t know that, it just knows that humans liked some answers better than others, so GIGO.

They won’t fire them. Trump will just ignore any satire that they throw his… lol, no, he won’t. I don;t know how this will go. That’s a lot to write off by firing. This could get ugly and go beyond just political and business dealings. “Will someone rid me of these cartoon guys?”

Concerning C-64 (and maybe other types), I’ve seen places online that will take donated manuals and such in decent condition for preservation purposes. You know, back when you actually bought a box that had the disk as well as maps and books to go along with the game.

As far as old electronics itself, best bet is to try to give it away via Craigslist or local posting, but it’s hit or miss on if someone is going to happen to need that stick of RAM at the same time. It should be recycled if you can’t get rid of it, as there are toxic things in circuit boards (small amounts, but still).

It’s a race to the bottom. So far The Onion is doing a great job, but reality is so much better at this.

I’m convinced the AI models ran across the “best place to test is in production” joke in training and thought it was a valid process.

I mean, it is a valid process. You will get far faster results that way than on a test server.

Agreed, and actually I’m fine with some ideas not being everyone’s favorite. As the Vulcan philosophy says, infinite diversity in infinite combinations (IDIC).

What I was mainly referring to was the VERY long standing attitude from Paramount to viciously come after anyone who does anything remotely resembling Star Trek assets. Non-profit fan based stuff included. If they aren’t getting a cut, then you WILL NOT do it. Learned that in the 80s, wondering why programs made n BASIC were obviously modeled off of Star Trek stuff, but used other names for everything.

Funded by public money through taxes, now have to be funded directly through donations from the public. While the public still gets taxed. Hmmm.

Your value is your money and what money you bring in for your employer and taxes. That’s it. If they can’t have access to your money in some way, you are a non-person to them.

Those driving simulators where you can adjust the reaction time to show how someone impaired would react are scary. And that’s just reaction time, a drunk/exhausted person may not even realize how off they are so everything is fine to them.

Seems like it works fine for a meme purpose, which it was obviously for. The framing and focus is actually spot on for giving all the info a viewer needs.

but they’ve (Paramount) also been going downhill for a while.

lots of long time Star Trek fans’ eyes twitch

Indeed.

Good news is that it won’t be from Starlink unless they decide to start moving them higher. LEO has atmospheric drag that slowly decays orbits that aren’t actively maintained.

Anything is possible in a simulation.

“More satellites!”

Maybe the overall idea isn’t a great one.

They definitely are other places as well to varying degrees. Some of it is just human nature and how our brains are wired to feed the ego when we believe we’re “right”, otherwise we wouldn’t have a history of constant disagreement, war, etc. over stupid stuff. The fundamentals of street epistemology is useful for any topic, from politics to religion to pseudosciences. It’s even helpful as self-validation, which will show how hard is can be to question your own beliefs, and maybe help understand how others can get caught up in thinking a certain way without actually thinking about it.