For some reason its very popular in Asia, according to my partner who is Thai and 23 years old.

Facebook subsidized mobile internet access specifically to facebook properties for a decade or so in many parts of the world. If you went to Google.com you’d get charged for mobile data. if you went to any Facebook company sites, it was free data. This is also why Whatapp is so embedded in many parts of the world. Text messages were charged, while Whatapp messages were free.

Its nice to see attire featured suitable for both a wedding, job interview, or court appearance.

“Frodo, the wedding ring I’ll be wearing is a family heirloom. It belonged to my ancestor Isildur and I have to thank you for finding it after it was lost so long ago.”

Ultra low power is an accurate description:

NRD claims the battery can deliver power outputs ranging from 5 nanowatts to 500 nanowatts. The device operates within a voltage range of 1.0 V to 20.0 V and a nominal current between 7.5 nA and 33 nA, all within a compact 20 mm by 20 mm by 12 mm form factor.

I don’t know much about him but it looks like he was a whistleblower on the corruption of his former party and took firm legal action against it and those that were perpetuating the corruption.

Blowing up rockets gets people really upset when they think it’s their tax dollars.

I love spaceflight and what the Artemis II accomplished, but it came with an absolutely staggering price tag. It cost a bit more than $50 Billion to design including both the rocket and the Orion capsule. It costs $1Billion each time it launches too. We only bought enough parts for 4 flights of the rocket, and we’ve now used 2 of those.

artemis (boeing)

Just for the clarity of the record:

• the 1st stage tank of the SLS rocket is Boeing
• the 2nd stage is ULA (a joint Boeing/Lockheed company)
• the 1st and 2nd stage engines are Aerojet Rockdyne (which is now a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies)
• the solid rocket boosters on the side are Northrop Grumman
• the service module is Airbus Defense and Space along with Thales
• the capsule is Lockheed

So you’ve got four giant American defense contractors, and two European defense contractors owned by French, German, Spain, and Italy.

Maybe the communal part is the community of western defense contractors.

Even India assassinated a Canadian on Canadian soil. .

For ARM Linux comparison, I ran the Speedometer 3.0 benchmark the author uses on my daily driver Macbook Air M2 (24GB RAM) running Asahi Linux Fedora Remix 42 (KDE). I used FF 149 which is just what I had installed. It scored 22.0 which apparently was better than this Zenbook and even beat out several Ryzen 7 and Core i7 offerings:

A used M2 Air with my spec mine (24GB RAM 2TB SSD) is $800-$900, which is a fraction of the $1600 Asus wants for their slower unit new, but the Asus does have more RAM.

I like seeing more ARM based Linux laptops.

I’m a product of the cursive handwriting system in school. It didn’t do anything to improve my handwriting in script or print.

They are shitting out what you feed them. If you feed them garbage, you get garbage in return.

This is the missing conceptual understanding that probably 90% of LLM users lack. They really don’t know how LLMs work, and treat them like AGI. Sadly this includes adult policy makers in our society too. Efforts like those of these these researchers act to educate the public. I’m hopeful this will spark some critical thinking on the part of regular, otherwise ignorant, LLM users.

That’s a serious breach of ethics and morals. Feeding false information to an LLM is no different that a magazine.

Hang on. Are you suggesting its unethical/immoral to lie to a machine?

Additionally, the authors didn’t submit the article to a magazine as factual. They posted the articles on a preprint server which can be very questionable anyway as there is no peer review. The machine chose to ignore rigor and treat them as fact.

I give you… “The Grant Money Printing machine!”

Need a grant? Create a disease and submit a paper. Then write a grant asking for money to solve your invented disease.

Is the logic that a Yale grad/Wharton student couldn’t possibly be mentally ill or on drugs?

“Couldn’t” no. Less likely? Yes.

If so, I present the last two republican presidents as counter-evidence.

The Republican presidents have been a disaster for the USA (and the world for that matter), but you’re proving my point that (so far) we haven’t had one literally running down the street naked with a shotgun.

“This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue,”

Yes, its overdue. I support the aim of the EFF mission and also financially, and knowing that some of that goes to supporting the musk platform has always rubbed me wrong.

It’s not a bad question, though. There are strategies to protect your portfolio from economic downturns.

It could be a bad question (from the client). If they are invested for higher growth, that comes with risk. If they’re looking at the their portfolio, seeing a 3% drop in value, and then asking for change it tells me they don’t have the right risk tolerance for the investments they have. This may mean either the broker didn’t listen to the client when the client told them their risk tolerance, or the client lied with how much risk tolerance they had.

Under changes in the tax law, private jet buyers can deduct the full cost of the aircraft from their taxes in the year it is purchased if it is used at least half of the time for business.

So if you buy the jet in December and take a single business trip (and no personal trips), you would have 100% of the jet flights for business in the year you purchased the jet? It looks like you would then get a tax deductible jet for whatever use you want going forward?

“We, along with the whole industry, definitely saw a pretty significant uptick in demand in the back half last year, which we’re attributing to the 100% bonus depreciation,” Shevlin said. “We expect the same thing to happen at the end of this year.”

This looks like it confirms my suspicion.

Also, don’t pretend that the Democrats oppose this war on moral grounds.

They generally oppose it on economic grounds at least. I’ll take the outcome of “no war” even if I disagree with the reason we get there.

I’m assuming Kennedy’s brain worm wants to delay/suppress this report because it is factual evidence against the brain worm narrative that vaccines are bad.