Israel had one of the shittiest songs last year, it was universally agreed that it was crap.

Yet somehow it managed to be second, mainly through public votes - and it’s been contested a few times that Israel, against the rules of public voting, ran advert campaigns in European countries to push their public to vote for them (public can’t vote for their own country).

It’s not the navigation that requires the server but the processing of the mapping data.

Which in itself is BS because most of these vacuums come with hardware roughly equivalent of a top of the line smartphone from about 5-6 years ago. They can easily do the raw data to map conversion, even if it’s a bit slow and takes 20-30 seconds.

Also if you read the article it specifies that the damn thing is already running Google Cartographer which is a SLAM 3D map builder software - one of the better pro-grade mapping software suites, mind you. So the whole claim of cloud needed for processing is BS.

He needs drink in the morning,
He needs drink in the evening,
Every day of the we-ee-eek give him liquor
He don’t care if it’s rainin’, don’t care if it’s snowin’
Long as there’s a bottle standin’ there showin’
Oh he needs drink always, can’t go a single day
If he ain’t riding high, then honey, he just can’t stay,
He needs drink always, from the sunset to the dawn
If you ain’t got a big ole’ flask, boy, just move along

What leaks do you think he’s investigating?

The random ones that appear in his pants. He still hasn’t found the culprit tho.

Can’t blame her, got distracted by crush.

One of the last gems of the second golden age of sci-fi. Truly a great production, and tackles an issue that is becoming more and more relevant with every other day.

Literally nothing to do with the content of the article.

Good. More should. Even if we ignore the political/genocide issue, after the blatant cheating Israel did last year, they shouldn’t be fucking welcome. No, they can fuck the fuck off.

You “delete” or burn all that wealth, and you kill the poorest 50% of the planet practically overnight.

Sorry but burning just the wealth down without taking the system with it would result in chaos that would only hurt the most exposed. That’s why taxing the wealth is the right idea, with further steps taken to ensure such wealth discrepancy cannot exist in the future.

Source: I pulled it out of me unwashed arse

Rolling back anti-slavery laws would also be good for business.

In fact some new laws making anyone whose net worth isn’t at least 50 million USD, a property of a randomly assigned mega-corporation, would be amazingly good for business!

That’s not a good idea, mainly because how billionaires’ wealth works - it’s not in cash but split between various investments, including real estate and other property. Do you suggest we just burn their supercars, their villas, their stocks, their Rolexes?

It’s not a bank account you can set to 0. What they have as available cash is at most 10% of their wealth, but usually under 1%, since cash is riskier than other investments.

Hell, the reason we’re having trouble taxing the rich is because they use weird loopholes that aren’t available to anyone else - such as taking low interest large lump sum loans backed by their assets/investments, which is tax-free, then defaulting on said loan or writing it off, transferring the backing asset to the loan giver, also tax free… Meanwhile you or me? We’re stuck with cashing out our investments which is an immediately taxable event. Good luck convincing a bank to give you a 0.25% loan of £5000 against your £6000 investment portfolio.

And beyond range it would also improve network stability by reducing interference through the stronger signal.

But to be fair you could’ve moved the original dongle away from the host as well, with a simple USB-A extension cable - which was actually recommended for many as newer host devices would only come with USB3, and the 5GHz operation (as well as Intel’s weird obsession with 2.4GHz CPU clocks in the lower end range) would interfere with the signal, which was alleviated by the USB2 physical limitation + distancing from the interference source.

Cuz rockets are cool.

I propose we make some minor changes to the standard guillotine though, as potentially we will need to use it in a zero gravity environment when these fuckers try to escape to space.

I believe a pair of micro-rockets would give the blade assembly the appropriate near-gravity acceleration, but we do need to run the numbers to ensure we don’t end up with single use devices. That would be so wasteful.

Here’s an idea, 90% instant wealth tax on billionaires, and use the influx of money for UBI. Then they’re free to cut all the jobs for AI.

Rinse and repeat this every year until billionaires simply… don’t exist.

For good wireless you need a good antenna.

Sadly, unlike some other systems, in our universe you can’t have the laws of physics changed by throwing money at it.

Of course it ain’t real users.

Reddit has had a major bot problem a decade ago and little has been done to mitigate it - beyond banning legitimate users who dared to be too loud about it.

I’ve moderated a relatively small sub, and pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you’d get 6 to 10 bot posts literally pulling an older post verbatim word for word, or maybe introducing a typo just to make detection harder…

Reddit’s response to the issue? “Hey, why don’t you pay us ~$25 a month just so you can continue using that open source automatic bot detection system we refuse to build into the site itself?”.

If this was a unique instance of a potential Nazi dogwhistle I’d say let’s give them the benefit of the doubt, and consider it a mistake. After all, who of us has never ever fat-fingered some typing and accidentally pressed a letter twice?

But the thing is, this is like, the hundredth Nazi dogwhistle around the orange turdsack to happen “accidentally” in the past few years. From the MyPillow 14.88 pricing, Kegbreath’s very obvious negative space 88 tattoo, to multiple people close to the admin just randomly throwing Nazi salutes, etc., and that’s not even counting the literal Nazi marches waving Nazi and MAGA flags together…

You’ll also find that LLMs are actually quite useful in putting together scripts that will take all the photographed pages, and convert them to a proper EPUB format (using OCR, direct extraction of images, etc.), reducing the overall size and improving quality.

Visual models can even create custom CSS for you, and if there are graphs and such, LaTeX can be utilised as well.

All the tools exist separately and LLMs can write that binding glue easily.

Worth a try especially if the textbook is (regular) text heavy.