I remember an old DOS utility called Ram Doubler. Sadly it also halved the speed.

RIP ParaBros… how the fuck did they do a merger and end up with the name of what I thought used to be a third studio… Did one of them scarf that studio up years ago?

The AV industry euphemism for software cracks, hacking tools, etc.

Yann LeCun Cook… where my 80’s kids at?

Okay, I’ll just go ahead and show myself out then… just kidding I’ll be here all week, don’t forget to waitresses!

Swing and a miss… Canuckeystan 😌

On my iPhone? Okay… actually read the article, the tech is also available for Star Wars phones too.

Bleep-boop…

Let me guess… with some shit an Israeli firm sells?

Awesome 😎 And this is why I need to disable “PUPS” every time I install a new copy of Winblows™

Thanks Micro$oft

“Hey you kids! Get off my lawn!”

Slowly uploading my media collection from a slowly dying TrūNAS box up to B2… slowly 😬

Microsoft responds… “Meh, we basically don’t care…”

That would look hideous but I love the idea 😎

I still have to read the article, but the last time I saw this a few months ago it was just a bunch of stuff that looked like fragments of QR codes… more of a wishful thinking art project than anything proven.

How so? Is the hardware that special? One computer is much like the next you just have to be creative in repurposing them. Linux runs on millions of devices that a great deal of the population would consider highly obsolete. Just an example, I’m not saying that that’s the actual answer to this question. It might be, I’m just kind of completely ignorant as to what kind of hardware these companies are installing… It sounds like a lot of memory and a lot of GPU power.

I think you explained it well… My father got let go from GE when their nuclear power plant business collapsed.

I call us a nuclear family as a bit of dry humor. That said I still hold out some hope for it as a viable means of energy production. The two key meltdowns that took it off the game board were preventable human error.

Chernobyl is an environmental nightmare… but largely caused by combination of ignorance and hubris. Three Mile Island could have gone much worse… nobody died, no significant contamination. More recently Fukushima… but again, had the backup generators been properly elevated above historical flood levels it would not have been a meltdown.

Solar has some environmental concerns that are currently being largely ignored. The panels currently used some nasty stuff that stays hidden in china where the bulk of them are produced… but there are advances in new panel chemistry on a regular basis, hopefully a few of those will scale.

Hydro can be done well, it generally isn’t, but there’s some notable exceptions, Niagara Falls comes to mind.

But ultimately all that would be a complete waste on Ai… I don’t think the reliability will ever quite get there. It has its applications, always has… but general intelligence isn’t really one of them, IMHO. That said I know scores of people that are not even 92% accurate, so who knows? ;-) I certainly wouldn’t mind a robot slave to do my chores… but Ai isn’t really the issue there. You don’t need a “thinking machine” to do laundry and vacuum. Thought I suppose you didn’t need an Android either…

Robot vacuums seem to work quite well, and once someone makes an affordable automatic washing machine capable of being loaded with a hopper and spitting nicely folded clothes out the other end you don’t need an anthropomorphic robot. The value there is only in adapting to a world of appliances built for bipeds.

But as humans (in the royal sense) we do a lot of dumb things that could more easily be handled with a phone call/email/video chat.

Basing anything on a finite resource like natural gas is ultimately the wrong idea… Hopefully, we perfect something better, I really don’t care what it is as long as it’s better :-)

There’s probably going to be a large data center or 10 for sale in a few years 🤞🏻

Nice! 😊

Oh, I think this was just TSA going “Wires and switches, OH MY!”

I had packed all this stuff up days ago… IIRC they were the little Parallax Beatles too, so we’re not talking about something crazy with saw blades and all that jazz… just two little 8x8x8 robots that looked like a Barbie Steam Roller with a cute little breadboard on to.

What’s odd is it’s only at PDX, which kinda indicates that they have their own list of suspected Mad Bombers “What bombs at midnight, baby!”

I have not flown through there for years, but literally every Christmas for 4 years, and then like 8 years later!

The swab always turns purple/pink… and they always run it through some kind of chemical analyzer… not sure exactly what it is, but ancient enough to have an amber phosphorus CRT built into the front. It always shows the same 2 peeks… sadly it’s to far away to actually read the scale at the bottom of the graph.

Probably whatever is on the “human detector,” I’m assuming alcohol by the smell… and something that turns purple. Total smoke show 🤣

“The whole thing is tailor-made for the AfD,” he said, according to Correctiv. The investigative platform dug into Alternita’s source code and found that, at its heart, the AfD software suite draws on Google Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic Claude – three leading AI engines.

Did you vibe code this turd in one afternoon?

Neiiiiiiiiiiiine!

Just don’t travel without putting it in checked baggage… that’s just TSA bate. I traveled with a pair of battlebot kits once and they still swab my wrists every time I go through PDX 🤓

That’s it gents! Wax up those mustaches, load the cannon with grape, storm the White House! We’ll give those bastards a day of reckoning that won’t soon be forgot.

Also kilts and face paint 🤣