Downvoted because it didn’t end with /s.

Physicists:

This is just Occam’s razor again: a hypothetical particle that can’t interact with anything, and therefore can’t be detected, doesn’t exist.

Also Physicists: 85% of the universe’ mass is missing!!!

At this rate, they’re going to need 18-year-olds to do national service as Tory MPs.

“All female shark tank” is my new band name.

Partially. The summary isn’t quite in line with the detail:

Android is the only operating system that fully immunizes VPN apps from the attack because it doesn’t implement option 121. For all other OSes, there are no complete fixes. When apps run on Linux there’s a setting that minimizes the effects, but even then TunnelVision can be used to exploit a side channel that can be used to de-anonymize destination traffic and perform targeted denial-of-service attacks.

Just archive it and take up farming.

Let me say… I work in healthcare. I clean human waste. I’m not easily grossed out.

Come on Jo, we’ve talked about this. You’re supposed to call them patients.

I can still hear the penny dropping in my mind when I went from ‘How can anyone fall for that—it’s so obviously a scam…’ to ‘Oh, right…’ It sounded too Machiavellian to be true. I wonder if it was so carefully designed from the start, or a process of natural selection?

Yes, thanks. I’d seen that and it seemed very much ‘this is how it is’ as opposed to ‘this is how it’s taught’. The rule as I understood was that ‘of’ should be used in combination with adjectives that denote an ‘amount’ of something (eg ‘much’, ‘many’, etc.) whereas adjectives that denote a ‘characteristic’ of something (eg ‘big’, ‘great’, etc.) should not be used with of.

The latter are far more numerous and so use with ‘of’ is rare. But is seems to be used with almost every adjective in US sources.

See here too: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/01/not-that-big-of-a-deal.html

I’m genuinely fascinated by this language pattern: “great of a guy”. In, er, classic? traditional? British? English, the “of” just isn’t used. I see it so often as “big of a problem”.

A great guy -> How great a guy I was. A big problem -> How big a problem is it?

Is this just colloquialism, or is it how grammar is taught?

Technology replacing people has been a pretty consistent theme of the last hundred years or so—how many actual people does it take to build a car? What about all those skilled engineers? Humans have been building tools in order to put in less effort since the stone age. I don’t think we’re going to argue our way out of this one…

Except models trained on medical images are actually pretty good at diagnosing some disorders. Models trained on random samples of the internet, not so much.

John McCarthy was right—AI is a terrible term.

What makes you think that?

It’s funny you getting downvoted for quoting the linked article :/

Do you work for Boeing?

Just started running Arch + KDE on a Kingston Traveller to experiment with setup. Installed from live usb iso and then ran archinstall to the same device.

Runs nicely on my dell xps laptop and my desktop with 3 monitors connected to an Nvidia 1070Ti.

Looks like it’s time for a little refresher: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AKx5xDVMpW0

No, silly, the left half.

If you’re imprecise enough, anything is about half the size of an adult giraffe.

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