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Restricting the distribution of any material on content-based criteria by persons other than sender or intended receiver is censorship.
Whether it is desirable censorship or not is generally a separate issue from whether or not it is censorship, unless, for example, you have previously adopted a rule that the particular actor committing the censorship shall not engage in censorship at all, in which case they are, of course, inherently the same question. (Where this gets hairy is when one likes to pretend that one has such a rule for a particular actor, but actually really would prefer that actor to censor certain things, which sometimes occurs with modern liberal democratic regimes, and especially frequently occurs with a particular North American one which has what superficially looks like a very strong restriction in that area in its Constitution.)
> Grammar checkers can, but at least the ones that I have used also like to change the tone of my writing to sterile corporate PC speak.
Most grammar checker packages also include style checking, and the default options tend toward that style (because that’s the big market for them.) Most of them are also configurable, so you can disable style checking entirely while still checking grammar, or tweak which style rules are applied.
This article is bullshit. It downplays the real, valid concerns people have about data centers themselves as more "ahh, poor uniformed populace" BS:
1. Electricity costs in Maryland jumped 89% over the past year, much more than anywhere else, largely due to an AWS data center expansion: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-electricity-pr...
2. At their heart, data centers are extractive. Their boosters always overstate the jobs they will create, but they basically take land and resources from one place and create the vast majority of the wealth somewhere else. They are giant windowless boxes, they don't support their community in any way, and in fact with AI they basically add to more job destruction in their communities.
While I agree that some downsides of AI are overstated (like water usage), this whole article smacks of paternalistic "the peons just don't understand what's really going on" nonsense. The same thing happened in the 80s, 90s and early 00s when many economists painted those who lost their jobs due to globalization as Luddites who just didn't understand economics. Only decades later did many economists readily admit many of the huge downsides to many populations from globalization and that reskilling rarely works.
The reason pension funds include index funds in their mix of investments is because those funds have two features that are exactly what pension funds are aiming for: (1) broad diversification, and (2) conservative inclusion rules that avoid undue exposure to highly volatile firms.
Changing one of those features undermines the reasons for including the index. Doing it specifically for the purpose of including a firm where large pension funds have also been extraordinarily critical of the governance structure as a particular source of risk [0] even moreso.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/new-york-california...
> No space em dash = a real person who has been bulldozed by LLMs using it with spaces.
Setting an em-dash used for parentheticals closed (with no space)—or sometimes with thin spaces—is the common American literary/academic style (Chicago Manual, APA, and MLA all prefer closed); setting it open—with full word spaces—is the common American practice in journalism (reflected in the AP style guide). Not using em-dash at all for that use, but instead using an en-dash set open is the common British practice.
"You just put numbers aligned with the titles."
That is not a fair summarization of their point because that is not the grammar. There's commas, slashes, asterisks, combinations, and then if you want randomization you need to put it in the command itself because cron can't do it. (Some crons can, but it's not a general capability of cron.) Writing a non-trivial cron spec is not easy.
The tabs are fine. Tabs in "cmd" are also good.
The window handles, on the other hand .. this was correct in Windows 3.0 and there's basically no good reason to have changed it. There should be a title bar. Active window should have visibly contrasting title bar. There should be sufficient grab space all round a window to get hold of it.
Bonus points: move your mouse pointer very slowly around a bottom curved corner window handle on Windows 11. Ask yourself: how well does "place I am pointing at" line up with "where the curve is"?
I have seen the same thing in a local slack I frequent. Not weekly, but once a month or so.
It doesn't last long, but it sure is annoying. Sometimes they even join and then spam DM rather than post in a public channel.
It must pay off often enough to make it it worth it, but I can't imagine hiring someone I found through a spam message.
There are a lot of places that are more interested in rejecting people than they are in accepting people and the act of getting a headhunter involved a commitment device that helps get them out of the rejection mindset.
n=1, I have been in tech for 25+ years, and a recruiter has always been my preferred entry into an org when I don't have a network connection. Our incentives are aligned; I want the work, they get paid if I get hired and stay. Their sales commission depends on me succeeding. Without a recruiter, a company is trying to hire the best candidate at the lowest comp offered possible. The greater rate at which workers change jobs for better comp, the more likely comp is to go up (this is why companies pulled remote work and are trying to create geographic stickiness for jobs in the US, to slow wage gains and reduce labor mobility). I would suggest reconsidering your view on recruiters. Some suck, some are worth their weight in gold. If the job turns out to be suboptimal, do your best to find out before you take the role, or live your life in a way you can bail for the next job without much hassle.
When you have success with recruiters, connect and keep in touch with them. A career is long, and its good to have options, as you never know when you'll need them. Optimize for optionality in this context.
They started Glasswing before they struck that $1.25B/month deal with xAI/SpaceX for their (notoriously dirty) Memphis data centers.
So they have a whole lot more compute now than they did last month.
It will be like offshoring, with the difference this time around there is no team on the other side of the planet getting the jobs.
The few lucky ones to stay employed, get to be promoted to technical architects, and everyone else whose passion was equivalent to brick layers has to find something else where humans haven't yet been replaced by robots or self service machines.
When each team member gets more productive we're not doing e.g. 5x more output, we're doing more with less (team size).
It's what we used to call AI back in the 1970s and 1980s which has advanced a whole lot with little awareness. That is, people thought 10,000 rules was a lot of rules in 1998 and now you can work with 10,000,000 rules. And theorem provers, SAT and SMT all got vastly better.
Why does an early win matter? Isn't it random?
Human copy editors are less than perfect too. I hired one copy editor who I could not trust to be the last person who touched a document before it went out.
I had a friend who wrote an article for the New York Times: the article made a lot of sense before she submitted it, but it was edited for length and style and it definitely read like a New York Times piece but didn't completely make sense.
"He’ll do anything to move the goalposts and turn his failures into successes. There is no norm he won’t violate, no boundary he won’t cross."
Unfortunately, if you really start digging in to what is going on in the financial world, you will find he has violated no norms here. This is not a defense of Elon; this is a condemnation of the entire financial industry.
The whole thing scares me, honestly. It has never been a clean happy market where lots of honest people get together and are just honestly trying to make a better world for each other, there is no golden past where people were just nice or anything, but damn if computers don't let people build some structures that the robber barons of old could only have dreamt of. I'm really concerned that "index and chill" doesn't just have a "best by" date but that the best-by date could be in the past; I've heard of an awful lot of ways of exploiting it and other retirements schemes we have, this is just one. I find it implausible that these ideas exist but nobody is doing them.
You can filter a few of these by asking that they include some specific word in the subject. These spammers won't, and you can just delete those.
.. if you're trying to parse the assemblies by hand for some reason. If you're just trying to handle them with reflection none of this is an issue.
I think it was hyperbole, and that the GP does not literally believe this was written by GPT-1, which did not produce coherent sentences.
I don't think they are talking about a UX problem but rather a social problem. The main thing that they say they are being tough about is vetting and onboarding.
Just so. You hit the nail on the head. Your second paragraph summed it up perfectly.
>This is what happens when you run an OS controlled by some random big corporation
You get a channel for installing apps, where someone vetoes random apps that want to have access to control your whole computer and potentially steal sensitive data?
>Install some GNU/Linux distro and you can do whatever you want.
And any random app can get total control and steal your data, unless you know how to enable restrictions. I'd rather have restrictions as the default, and for the most naive users who'd follow every app prompt, and then cry about their lost work/private documents/money, no way to bypass them.
This is great, and I love it, and I hate to be saying this, but it's not literally the size of a credit card, it's 0.2mm thicker.
> and are really easy to write.
And, sometimes, all you want is to output text.
The bootloader boot/process however is not related to driver support.
Not that I know what's nightmarish about it in the Pi.
Links to MIT source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504
I guess that means the patent has expired. Which is a common fate for these things: patenting a technology means that nobody else is going to develop it if the patentor doesn't.
Zippers are in general a miracle of engineering tolerances, like LEGO. There's articles around about why YKK are considered to be the only decent manufacturer of them.
They have a few more if you turn showdead on. All about y’all.
> There are some AI-driven autorouters out there now. Placement is probably the big issue that needs to be solved now.
Interesting that within an IC this is basically "solved", or at least properly automated with classical numeric techniques such as simulated annealing.
I would have thought there's a big opportunity in a mixed-technique approach, where you use AI to extract unstructured data from datasheets and then feed it into more deterministic tools.
I also note that it's very easy to waste more than $100 in electronics once you start actually manufacturing bad PCBs.
>Rightfully blaming bad parents is reactionary
So? Not all reactionary (if you mean "conservative") takes are bad. Sometimes they're better than the alternative: accepting bad parenting as some default and working around it with technological restrictions.
And dealing with COM and Powershell leaves a bit to be desired versus datatypes and ARexx, oh well.
Plenty of languages fit that scenario, how many actually take off is another matter.
Of course not, this is pure speculation just like in past cycles, until it goes bum.
As anyone working in a large corporation can immediately tell you, "dead but breathing" is much more common than one might guess.
I still have one. Sadly, not really useful anymore.
I would love if the screen could take up more space, even at the expense of a little extra thickness.
That what apps have permission to access/record what at what times they use it, shouldn't be hidden or scaterred across several Settings panels.
The other day I was considering the adoption of a POWER7+ box. Sadly, Linux hasn't supported POWER7 in quite some time. The machine looked pretty nice, with 4 CPUs with 8 cores each, a total of 128 threads and 512 GB of RAM. I'm not sure it'd run AIX without a license though, which is unfortunate - it's a gorgeous box.
The absolute peak of that was, of course, during WW2 when vast amounts of stolen or looted money, gold, and other valuables ended up being laundered through Switzerland and kept in anonymous accounts. Mostly by Nazis, although not exclusively. There was a long campaign of litigation by the descendants of Holocaust victims to get some of it back.
In the 21st century the US eventually pressured them into not being a tax haven for anonymous money hidden by US nationals.
The twin questions of tax and terrorism remain as pressure against money laundering.
>Display technology has seen so much progress in the past decades. Apple marketing has taught us about "Retina" displays with pixels so small that you can't tell them apart without a microscope. We get these very rich and colorful desktop environments but we actively decide to not use any of that.
Bypassing all that crap is the main benefit. I don't want any of that superfluous, and ever-changing stuff, when the terminal and, if needed, a TUI, is enough. As a bonus, it works everywhere I can ssh to.
>If all we work in are these super-lean TUIs maybe we don't even need so powerful computers or such high-DPI displays anymore?
For a lot of stuff, you never needed it. For others, like an IDE, DTP, gaming, 3D modelling, video editing, photo editing, they're amazing.
Yes, and it won't change anything sadly, most autocratic governments also hold elections.
> local Microsoft Store
The backrooms version of an Apple Store… I’ve been to precisely one and it was, indeed, a sad experience.
You’d also need to pay me a lot to use Windows. I even have an assigned Windows virtual desktop at work, but I also have a MacBook for actual work - the VDI is only used for the stuff that doesn’t quite work right on Macs.
Wait, is AWS just reselling access to some AI company's servers, or is AWS running the models on their own hardware?
Company policies, a bit like having teams.
The power user market was never that big for Apple since Mac Classic came to be, that was the target market, the "idiots".
Desktop power users were on the Acorn, Amiga, Atari and PC.
As NeXT "acquired" Apple, Linux users thought OS X was the UNIX experience they were looking for, and since they were never part of Apple culture, keep getting their expectations wrong.
Is this the hardware you have? [1]
That's some kind of encryption box. It has a "zeroize" button, to clear the keys in an emergency. It might have something that forces uniform latency to make traffic analysis more difficult. Some cryptosystems are totally synchronous, and send random bits at a constant rate when there's no data.
[1] https://www.artisantg.com/TestMeasurement/89462-1/Cyberchron...
The latency is what is getting me though. 0.4 round trip every time. Tested from multiple machines including a phone on LTE to get the same response time.
It's 3 cycles for float multiplication (and 1 for shift right):
3x faster
In throughput it's even less of a difference: 2 per cycle vs 3 per cycle.
50% faster
> What has actually gotten better in practical terms for the average American?
Starlink has made connectivity cheaper and more available. Earth imaging has made various food production processes more efficient. Weather forecasts have become more accurate.
If you’ve genuinely missed the massive economy that LEO has become, it will be a fun thing to catch up on.
I mean, the device code grant was codified by the IETF in 2019[0]. That is no guarantee that it is 100% secure, but folks have spent time working to make it as safe as possible. There's also a Best Current Practice (BCP) doc[1] and if you have suggestions to improve the flow, they'd be welcomed.
0: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8628
1: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-cross-devi...
Not to mention, did this "hack" ever really work? When the original post went viral showing the Chipotle chatbot reversing a linked list, I (among others who posted their results online) immediately tried it and didn't get the same results, so I always assumed it was just a faked screenshot.
> Equity bubbles don't have to crash. Prices can just stagnate while profits catch up and multiples compress.
Is there is historical evidence for that? As someone who used to follow Jeremy Grantham a lot (he considered himself a "bubble historian"), IIRC every bubble he studied always mean reverted, and it usually (maybe always, can't remember) overshot on the downside during the correction.
Lockfiles serve multiple purposes. For example, some include hashes so you aren't served altered packages from the package registry. I agree with you otherwise, though.
So, to post something in 2027:
- You have to have an approved browser.
- It has to be installed on an approved platform, Google or Apple, for which you have a valid account.
- You have to have an account on the posting platform.
- You have to get past moderation on the posting platform.
That's without age verification.
https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/strait-of-hormuz-clos...
If Wood Mackenzie is not your cup of tea, lots of other resources with a search of “recession strait of Hormuz” keywords. The only reason we’re not in a global recession yet was because China paused oil imports, due to their >1B barrel strategic reserves.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Chinas-Oil-Buying-Paus...
https://www.kpler.com/blog/why-the-real-oil-shock-may-only-b...
Many people genuinely want to find a solution that is better for the children, and telling them "if you are open to age verification you are either a fascist or a moron" is not constructive.
We know they'll take a mile if you give them an inch. Ditto with "trusted" computing and the rest of that wormcan. That's why the opposition has to be absolute.
Well, yeah. Starting from absolute scratch is a lot harder than adapting something that already exists to new conditions.
I know it feels snarky but I didn't ever expect to read that Microsoft was pairing with MediaTek to make an ARM cpu to run Windows. So many years of the WinTel hegemony I guess :-).
I've had several Surface devices over the years, the original SurfaceBook, and a Surface Pro 4 and Surface Pro 6. The Pro 4 was the most reliable and the Pro 6 was prone to overheat. But execution in the mechanical build was quite good.
That said the battery in my SurfaceBook went all Spicy Pillow on me, the Pro 4's power slot ended up dying, and the Pro 6 just stopped responding one day (it was a work laptop so I just gave it back but still). I'm still waiting to see how folks with Macbooks experience the end of life.
If MediaTek would partner with Framework to make a motherboard I'd totally try it out :-).
I fear that all the 'leet jobs in tech are gonna be QA. "Top dollar paid to person who can write a test suite that keeps our AI in check!"
First-order, yes.
In practice there's a lot of issues with asymmetric information. The company knows its own operations and financial position better than random traders on Wall Street. It is rational for it to buy back stock when the market value is lower than the true intrinsic value of the company, and to sell stock when the market value is higher than the true intrinsic value of the company. Therefore, traders often treat buybacks as a signal that the company is "cheap" (at least in the company's own view) and pump up the price accordingly, and treat stock issuances as a sign that company management believes that the stock is "expensive" and push it down accordingly. Company management has more inside information than market participants do, but is usually prohibited from trading on it. Stock issuances and stock buybacks are one of the few cases where insider-initiated trading is legal, because the benefits accrue to the company as a whole rather than a few individuals.
It’s dirty and weird, but it works
It's not the dystopia we were sold, but it'll have to do
Well, I mean, you'd expect this move to mechanically push share prices down.
A Spark-like machine in a laptop form factor is certainly exciting and interesting competition for Apple. I wonder about Linux compatibility, given NVidia's history with proprietary drives. I am absolutely not willing to go back to Windows, though.
The interesting thing about living in a big city in Texas (and now basically all the big cities in TX lean left, not just Austin) is that the tension between city governments and the state, while frustrating at times and definitely dangerous for certain populations (I know folks with transgender kids who have moved out of TX solely for that reason), actually provides something of a decent balance that is appealing to a lot of educated professionals. I feel like a lot of the worst impulses of Dem-run cities get moderated in TX compared to west coast, Dem-run states.
For example, you can look at the housing crises in most CA cities brought on by NIMBY liberal policies, and while Austin is still very expensive, they (IMO) took the only sane approach to skyrocketing housing costs by actually building a shit ton of housing over the past few years. Austin passed a plastic bag ban a while back that was eventually overturned by the state legislature, but in the meantime a lot of people still bring their own reusable bags (stores can still charge for bags) and I've noticed much less bag pollution in creaks and streams compared to 15 years ago.
Of course, it remains to be seen what happens in the near future. The Republican party in TX is now fully showing their complete moral bankruptcy by nominating the criminal Ken Paxton for Senate, so we'll see if they fall further down the personality cult or if they eventually break.
It is simple, Android NDK has all the same APIs for 3D rendering and audio, as do all major middleware engines.
The failure of business, only reinforces Windows as the platform most studios reach for.
Buy Windows, buy Visual Studio, pay game engines licenses, let Valve do the work.
This ignoring that current Valve's management doesn't live forever, so who knows what happens afterwards.
It used to be, just like Virginia used to be solidly red. But Trump won Florida by more than Harris won New York.
I spent some time on a Pacific island. After a couple weeks, I ran out of things to do and places to go, and was bored stiff.
Advice for anyone on mobile: read in landscape mode if you want to be able to see the division by 256 version code example at the start.
The HTML/CSS is bad that lets it completely overflow the right edge of the page instead of wrapping.
I re-read this post three times in total confusion before I figured out the most important piece was off-screen entirely.
Hard to say if AI with true agency is so ‘easy’. We had a breakthrough with language but not necessarily other things.
It's amusing to read people in the past writing about the prospect of superhuman intelligence. The real problems have turned out to be different. Sycophancy and hallucinations, which are part of being confidently wrong, remains a big problem. Needing square miles of data centers was an issue in 1950s science fiction, and disappeared by the 1980s. Yet now they're being built, with private funding and the prospect of profit. The need for way too much training data indicates something is still wrong with the current approach.
None of that was predicted.
It's orders of magnitude more expensive to make a movie than it is to make a track.
Security 101 when changing the email of an account for any reason: email the old account and let it know the change happened.
The weird thing is I know the Instagram security team, and they are top notch. I have a feeling this was vibe coded by someone outside of security and security wasn't looped in.
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> All the Telegram groups have quieted down as Meta seems to have patched it already, but it appears this particular method was active for weeks, if not months.
Is that for real? I find it hard to believe that an exploit THIS simple and easy to abuse managed to stay live for weeks or months.
Apparently the rule change also affects CRSP, which is the index behind Vanguard's Total Stock Market (VTI) index funds.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-ipo...
VTI in turn is the primary holding of most of Vanguard's Target Date retirement funds, which are widely held in 401ks.
> The majority of open source devs aren't giving away the source without a license.
100% of open source devs aren’t giving away the source without a license, since a licence—the grant of permissions for what is otherwise exclusive to author under the law—is what makes something open source.
> That license is how they specify what they want in return.
No, the license is how they legally give away permission to use material that is legally subjejct to their exclusive rights by virtue of creation. The license may be a contract license that, as you suggest, involves mutual exchange of value, but for many (especially permissive) open source licenses it is a gratuitous bounded grant of permission which has limits but does not involve giving something of value back to the creator.
"Below it you are doing high-school physics. Above it you are running a small particle accelerator with a missile attached." is where I clocked out.
(Also "honest" assessments; the word "honest" has gone the way of "delve".)
Use LLMs to proofread and critique structure. Don't take a single word they generate and put it in your copy, not even simple vocabulary suggestions. The more work you put into a piece, the more important this rule is.
The staccato style is often effective for emphasis, but the paragraphing is wrong on this article. It should've been:
> The headlines say yes.
> Patriot crews shot down a Kinzhal over Kyiv on the night of May 4, 2023. Arrow-3 batteries killed Iranian ballistic missiles over Tel Aviv in April and October 2024. A pair of THAAD batteries in Israel emptied something close to a quarter of the US national inventory across twelve days of war in June 2025. The headline word in every one of those engagements was hypersonic.
> The headline is wrong.
> No maneuvering boost-glide hypersonic vehicle has ever been fired in combat against a defended target. Every “hypersonic intercept” the press has reported in the last three years was a different class of weapon: an air-launched aeroballistic missile, a quasi-ballistic short-range ballistic missile with a maneuvering reentry vehicle, or in one case a MIRV bus on an intermediate-range ballistic missile that the press could not stop calling hypersonic. The Avangard, the only Russian vehicle that meets the strict definition, has sat in silos in Orenburg since 2019 without being touched. The Chinese DF-17 has never been used. The American Dark Eagle has not yet been ordered to fire.
> So when we ask “can you stop a hypersonic,” we are partly asking “what would happen if anyone fired one.”
There are assorted other issues with the article as well, like excessive use of passive voice, lack of parallelism, and too much meta-talk.
When calorie dense food and gas powered vehicles came on the scene, humans (generally) got fat and out of shape. "Why eat that salad and go for a run?" one might say, "This cheesecake tastes much better and I can just drive wherever I want to go."
Getting fat is one thing, but getting stupid is another, and I really fear for the future of humanity when it becomes so easy to sidestep the processes that let us actually learn and grow because stuff like "using agent ai coding is trivial".
Hah, I like that these are presented as a CLAUDE.md.
(They have the same content duplicated in an AGENTS.md as well - I really wish Anthropic would hurry up and teach Claude Code to check for that file too.)
I manage customer identity and access management ("CIAM") for a financial services firm. Passkeys are primary, recovery can be performed by providing a government credential remotely (which costs us ~$2-3 per recovery). I do not think it is hard, based on what we have built and spent to enable these capabilities. NIST Special Publication NIST SP 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines is a helpful resource on this topic.
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/
I think Meta just does not care if they're enabling AI attack surface and vulnerabilities into these customer journeys. It's...certainly a choice, versus deterministic journeys with hard guardrails. They could make different choices.
"Wait, we're getting an influx of new users, and they actively don't want us to run the most expensive part of our search results page?"
Where can I find such accommodating customers myself?
"He's out of line, but he's right": while Iran are an extremely bad actor, before Trump the situation was stable. And the start of conventional hostilities was clearly from the US+Israel side.
(open question as to how much the October 2023 attack is the fault of Iran, specifically?)
Those have always offered career progression, though. Whether the industry is growing is a different variable to whether someone is growing in competence.
Some environments require progression as a sort of anti-stasis measure. Famously including army officers, not exactly a growth industry either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out
If your math does not involve multiplying 20 digit numbers, modern LLMs can "do" math even without a Python tool despite the counterintuition of next token prediction.
Indeed, but justice requires that we recursively continue all the way to the base case, until all 32-bit integers are products of 16-bit integers, all 16-bit integers are products of 8-bit integers, all 8-bit integers are products of 4-bit integers, all 4-bit integers are products of 2-bit integers, and all 2-bit integers are products of 1-bit integers. Only when we have reach all the way down that list to the very, very smallest of the numbers around us and brought justice to them will the future be able to arrive. I literally can not wait for that day.
You rely on the security companies scanning the packages.
... or just considering the even numbers almost all of them are 2 x N where N>2^32 and that gets you to within a hair of "most" and if you add in the odd thirds for which the same is true you get a bound of 2/3 - epsilon.
There is something deeply stupid about assuming that naming your bluetooth device "bomb" is a real threat, let alone that it's going to be a real bomb. Reminds me of all those post Columbine "zero tolerance" policies where kids were punished for marginal doodles of guns. Or the "twitter joke trial". It's as is people are string matching for threat shaped words, not the semantics of a threat.
Mind you, this gets harder when powerful people have got in the habit of making mostly-joking threats on social media themselves.
>Physical evident strongly supports the 13-ish billion year age. Radioactive decay shows that a young earth could not exist, as there would be lots of short-lived primordial radioactive isotopes.
Well, if one ascribes to this God thing, of course Earth could just as well be created 6000 years ago, with exactly the shape and vintage material properties to appear to us as it does now.
If you can create a baby Earth from nothing, you can also just create a middle-aged Earth from nothing.
That's some primo-grade flamebait even by The Register's standards; wrapping a fairly common, perhaps mundane at this point, observation about how what answers the AI favors will affect what answers people tend to be given if AI use increases around the religion flame flash point is definitely going to get some views.
Look for the followup article where they wrap the mundane observation around the politics drumbeat (people who use AIs may be exposed to political beliefs you don't believe in) once they notice the article's view count.
>Otherwise it would be like Intel and Microsoft had decided in the year 2000 that computers are "good enough" now and we would have explored what's possible with that hardware ever since.
That would be the dream... no fucking Electron! No lockdown modules.
Now that we have AI, can we go back to real apps and native tech stacks? And revert the browser to a text-display interface?
https://archive.ph/drRgk