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Firstly, if anyone could stop the planet for a minute that would be swell, I'd like to get off here. Tell me you don't do professional work without telling me you don't do professional work. I've tried to get the Photoshop people at work onto Krita, gimp, affinity, anything else. No dice...

Reporting doesn't seem to indicate what hit the plane, but based on the size of the explosion, I suspect that was a ballistic missile and not a drone. Still a good value proposition, the bm likely cost a few million to low tens of millions.

Cool thing is you can just not use it if it's there and you don't want it. Glad to hear you always have the lights blazing. Perhaps you're a vegetable in a greenhouse? It costs maybe a buck or two to include a few LEDs, absolutely bizarre thing to cheap out on.

These generative models would ideally be completely banned. Barring that, they absolutely should not be allowed to use copyrighted training data without express written permission.

No backlight on the keyboard is wild, I simply wouldn't consider a laptop without one. I actually didn't even realize they made them without anymore. Desktop keyboard, it's a nice to have, but I feel like on a laptop that's an absolute must.

That was bizarre and fascinating. Probably deserving of its own Ars article. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what the intention was, even. Very odd.

I think it's probably the best option short of spinning the indexing/crawling functionality off into a non-profit, which is obviously the actual best option.

Web crawling/indexing is a natural monopoly. Of course the market isn't working, it literally can't and shouldn't be expected to. It's pointless to have two+ companies spend the massive resources crawling and storing/indexing, it's a highly wasteful duplication of effort. Unfortunately...

It's not even ads. It's the specific way they do ads - micro-targeting based on user data. That needs to be banned. No collection of private data for anything not directly required for the user's request. No targeted ads based on anything but what's being shown on the page. No monetization of...

I found it odd that the article didn't mention a highly salient point about search indices: they are a natural monopoly. It is inefficient to have multiple search indices, it's a duplication of effort similar to having multiple sewers serving one house. You can't get an efficient result in a...

No, because they're more expensive and not better. If you need them, you need them, but for almost everything, you don't need them.

It seems weird to me that cards are still coming out with such skimpy amounts of RAM. I guess it's Nvidia trying to differentiate their otherwise-pointless Quadro cards? (edit: asked and answered above lol - answer is yes). There is no functional difference between the two for almost all...

Or from doing, you know, literally any comparison shopping from reputable retailers. I don't know how much all kinds of things cost until I check a couple sources.

It's long, long past time to ban all collection and monetization of personal data, micro targeting of ads, algorithmic content feeds, etc. by national laws and international agreements. Websites must be deterministic on user input. Personal information must be used only where absolutely...

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Sturgeon's Law applies to employees as well as art. 90% of them are crap, even at places you would expect to be pretty selective. And I'm willing to bet that DIA does not have very competitive salaries, and probably isn't getting the absolute best and brightest.

You have to vet them, but traditionally walk-ins have been very important sources. They're not just rejected out of hand.

I think that's exactly what happened, who else could have provided the email? I don't think there's any doubt that he was immediately ratted out by the people who he thought he was defecting to.

Yah I don't know if it's so much about reconciliation with these people specifically - they're probably too far gone. It's about solving the root causes of the despair, isolation, hopelessness, etc. etc. that creates the fertile ground for these kinds of ideologies. That starts with...

Yeah, that bugged me too. Making a cure is presumably going to be incredibly hard and take years of research. Chopping up your best clue to a cure immediately seems completely insane, and to me, in season one/the first game, made the fireflies seen more like mad scientists or cultists than...