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A hobby, apparently, and one she isn’t very serious about, since one local used book store is quite happy to put together 6-8 banker’s boxes of books for my family a couple of times a year and then hold them for pickup. (Needless to say, we don’t destroy them to feed to AI.) Even if you don’t keep an electronic invertory, finding the books should be as simple as following the authors’ names in alphabetical order along the appropriate genre shelf. Putting them in boxes isn’t difficult.

No, actually, that’s the one that’s going to be fought with sticks and rocks (per Einstein)—either because technology has crashed and burned, or because those will be the only weapons anyone can own.

If it were to become popular enough, AI would learn.

I’d guess that the 1945 report was sound, although I haven’t read it. Vannevar Bush was a bright guy who came within a hair of predicting the modern Web at around the same time. He almost certainly didn’t mention AI in his report, since even expert systems and such were science fiction back then.

The press release and the modern report? Both total garbage, I’m sure, regardless of whether they were written by an LLM or an overworked intern.

Yup, lost a battery to that (2019 Impreza). Pulled the fuse for the modem, and it’s been fine ever since. I never used (or wanted) any of those features anyway.

Well, if there are headlines about it, it isn’t actually all that quiet.

If you have a slam-dunk case, you can usually find a lawyer who’s willing to take their pay out of the winnings.

Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don’t know it’s there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn’t follow the terms of the license, and you’re set for life.

“American man” is all the explanation you need here. If you have to pay for doctors, of course people who can’t pay are going to turn to a free alternative that seems to offer some hope. That’s one of the reasons why you don’t have to pay to see a doctor in civilized countries.

But ya, the car the Edsel was a dud.

From what I understand, it was less of one than the Cybertruck, though. Lots of marketing issues, lots of QA issues, but the only serious design flaw seems to have been the weird transmission setup, whereas the Cybertruck . . . actually, let’s not go there.

Trump’s understanding of science is on a par with that of Flat Earth and Hollow Earth believers. It’s hard to foster what you don’t understand.

You’d have to indicate “I also support these optional bits” for this to really work, which would lead to truly massive headers.

I prefer the idea of slapping people who put up pages that cater to Chrome rather than reading and following the standards upside the head with a large dead fish. People who write faulty WYSIWYG web design software get smacked once for every bad site deployed with their help.