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Joke's on them, those "boomer" comments are all bots anyway. "a bot typing a comment on facebook" mage.space bing

I meant exactly what it means, where the regulating bodies become dominated by the interests of the industry they oversee.

Sorry that was phrased very badly. Yes, it's currently against HIPAA/GINA With enough regulatory capture that might not always be true.

Almost no chance of that given how fucked the IRS's staffing and funding situation is. I declared a (real) six-figure capital loss from private stock last year with literally no verification and they didn't even blink.

My wife works in health care AI, we're about 10 minutes away from this being a reality. The actual impediments are a) scale and b) the uncertain legality of discrimination based on genetics. Everyone's already got your medical records (allegedly anonymized at the endpoint but definitely not...

ChatGPT makes up enough shit that more of a time sink than than google + stackoverflow, at least for the R coding I do. It gives very pretty results that 50% of the time call functions/libraries that don't exist, have subtle syntax errors, or just flat refuses to actually address the weird edge...

Raise your insurance rates if it turns out you have a genetic predisposition for something.

Some serious power for a flyweight there.

My wife did this recently and ended up reconnecting with a great aunt who had been lost to the family when they all fled China in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Nice outcome, but I'm still not going to put my DNA out there. Plus my grandmother was a genealogist so I've got a pretty...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

Wow, if that's true you're definitely a better person because of it.

Dern's accent is real, she just lost her English via brain damage from being choked too many times in her jiu jitsu carreer. Or something.

I'm opting for battens for that exact reason - I know I have upcoming electrical/data wiring projects that will undoubtedly compact loose fiber.

I wouldn't leave my house unattended for four weeks, never mind a vehicle on a public street.

That sounds about right. They were asking $3200 (ROFL). I'll DIY it if I get inspired.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/judge-sides-with-openai-dismisses-bulk-of-book-authors-copyright-claims/

I'm in the process of collecting quotes to re-insulate my attic. All the contractors are pitching me a radiant barrier retrofit, and my research is returning tons of conflicting information. Anyone have experience with this? I'm leaning towards, "Not exactly a scam, but not worth the money." I'm...

Instead of Peter Thiel's all-drug Olympics, I want to see any possible technique used (or maybe both at the same time). Spinning javelin throw is pretty badass.

It's not necessarily a total fraud, but many view it as a waste of time because it doesn't produce predictions that are testable with an attainable level of human technology. There have been some interesting developments in pure mathematics that come out of string theory, though. (This is...

Owing them money isn't a problem if you can manage your own cash flows correctly. I try to owe them as much as possible because I don't believe in free loans to the government. The only issue is if you end up with an underpayment penalty, but even then most of the time you can avoid that by...

My problem is at this point I see straight through games to their mechanics and gameplay loops, and if there's something off it drives me bonkers. I just don't have time in my life anymore to power through broken/boring parts of games even if they are otherwise good. Production values matter...

Net gravity 0 because you're being pulled essentially equally in all directions. Ignoring the fact you'll get crushed (pressure 52M PSI) and immolated (temp 9.4k F), of course.

You guys don't understand academia at all if you think physicists wouldn't literally murder each other for an opportunity to prove the Standard Model and big bang theory wrong. They'd win all the Nobel prizes for the next century and be immortally famous. The problem is, warts and all that shit...

Vanguard's web UI was designed by someone whose primary concerns were compliance and data engineering. It could be SOOO much better. I still use it though.

In this case it's the politicians. They just can't get off their assess enough to tell NASA how much money they do or don't have to work with.

My brother-in-law just got laid off from JPL because Congress is so deadlocked that they haven't made appropriations for NASA's 2024 budget yet. Lack of guidance is basically shitcanning the entire Mars sample return mission.

Every book ever written. It'll take you five seconds. Avast.

I think it's an accurate characterization given that the question was framed around energy starting at the back of the PSU. Are we going to say a resistance heater consuming solar power is 30% efficient because of the originating PV cells? It's also a fair number relative to heat pumps, which...

Yes. All the energy entering the PSU has to go somewhere, and it's eventually heat.

Resistance heating is 100% efficient. You're still using electricity instead of gas so there's an economic penalty out the gate per BTU delivered (unless you've got solar), but efficiency isn't an issue.

You can definitely tell it was written by Glover. The dialogue, pacing, and transitions feel a lot like Atlanta (just less crazy/surreal).

If you image search that chart the backstory appears to be that his router had a reporting error on the bandwidth. Not that exciting. That said, I can't think of a compelling reason why I would ever let my washer connect to the internet.

I just started reading these. Fun so far.

I made it one.

Anything from a qualified medical practitioner, as opposed to that quackery.

Meh, builder grade bullshit was still builder grade bullshit in '98.

Giving you RoFR would preclude a potential bidding war.