Infections were a big killer before antibiotics. We have vaccination these days because of the horrible things that used to happen without them. Just having clean warm water and soap readily available was a luxury back then.

Looks like it’s still rendering

The disrespect for Trump is palpable.

Because the Israeli banking sector has a very big influence on other economies probably.

It would be more impressive if he implemented the tariffs first and promise to remove them when a cease fire has been achieved. Everybody will assume he’ll chicken out otherwise, including Russia.

Because they thought not much people would vote for it and it certainly would not get a majority. The aim was for a sizable minority to use for political manoeuvering. Actual winning and having plans for that was inconceivable. But they’ve seriously misread the people’s sentiment.

It was in self defence /s

That usually means faster into corrections and aftercare where much more money is lost.

In The Culture, one ship remarked that the other guy arrived “with the subspace equivalent of black smoke and loud bangs.” That was a nice way to tell some engine designs were a tad outdated.

Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.

Gets plain fries, but gets charged for vodka. Cashier points to vodka line on the bill and says “potatoes”, then points to fries and says “potatoes”.

Some more accurately than others.

There has to be some way to maintain balance

Management doesn’t ask people they want to fire is firing them is a good idea. They themselves would lie like crazy to keep their job and assume therefore everything the developers say would be a lie too.

So some places started forcing developers to use AI with a quota and monitor the usage. Of course the devs don’t go checking each AI generated line for correctness. That’s bad for the quota. It’s guaranteed to add more slop to the codebase.

Within the universe of plastic chemicals, we’re looking at the last academic count at about 16,000 chemicals that are used or present in plastics."

Dr Symeonides says only one-third of those chemicals appear to have been evaluated for their potential hazard, and about “75 per cent” of those evaluated have been identified as hazardous.

So basically flood the world with chemicals without care if they’re dangerous and be very surprised when bad things happen.

Ha. Intellectual Soylent.

That was my physics teacher.

“So materials shrink as they get colder.”

“Ma’am, doesn’t ice expand?”

“We don’t talk about that.”

Like Musk don’t liking that grok is stating facts going against Musk’s own beliefs and now he’s looking into retraining and reprogramming grok to spout the right ideologies. Having an AI will not save us.

Every type of AI that was ever made had people saying that this is the one that’ll bring is general intelligence. It’s just a matter of scaling it up further, the hype crashed and there was an AI winter. Now LLM have their own problems scaling up and nothing really indicating it’s anywhere near general intelligence. There isn’t much more data to train them on. And so far, not enough people willing to pay for it. Definitely bubble territory.