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Instant, wide-range (mesh) private comms are rather different than a couple of people out in a field at night talking.

That was Australia. In China, they welded the doors to their housing units shut.

An EV with a degraded battery and miles per charge is still very useful for retired people who are tired of traveling long distance and can plug in at home. There should be a good market for them.

I tend to keep my cars over 200,000 miles. Today's cars last a long time. Still, looking back over the past three year's expenses between 150,000 and 200,000 miles, almost all of them relate to engine peripherals - like a new exhaust system, work on emission controls, and a new gas tank, which an EV doesn't have - or brakes, which on an EV last much longer.

By Antonio Gulli, Google

Forward by Marco Argenti, CIO, Goldman Sachs

...explore a diverse range of design patterns, from foundational concepts like structuring sequential operations (Prompt Chaining) and external interaction (Tool Use) to more advanced topics like collaborative work (Multi-Agent Collaboration) and self-improvement (Self-Correction).

https://x.com/DBVolkov/status/2004598132076937248

The author of Starlark, a language covered by one of these books on software, discovers that the book is full of hallucinations and incorrect information. He remarks that a beginner might not be able to readily determine that. The other books from HiTeX seem to have the same issues.

It looked like it was going to be a real downer to the end, but.... and then it was.

Perhaps flag the account and switch out the AI instance for Boring-BobGPT and further monitoring?

My town votes 50/50 Republican/Democrat, yet our newly rebuilt library is filled with lib/women oriented non-fiction and contemporary women’s pulp fiction. They no longer even have paper sets of encyclopedias. It’s not possible to learn much about science or technology there anymore - they weeded much of that out during the remodeling.

LOL, read the one star reviews [0]. The problem with the mechanical ones is they are shoddy these days and can't be depended on. It seems no one knows how to make a high quality mechanical timer any more.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B07H59ZL1L/ref=acr_se...

Yes. Think of it as a CAPTCHA. There’s a reason.

He did

And yet the ranks of proofreaders and editors never blinked.

IMO, a most useful thing is Lynx in DIRED mode. A great read-only directory browser - just enter a local url when you start it. For example, <lynx .> or <lynx /> .

Constitution, yes - but following it, not so much. I would really like the Federal government to improve in that regard.

From TFA, ...the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster than Python

Yeah, and who is doing the killing?

I have one I paid $150 for. But bubble sextants are usually only used on aircraft.

They didn’t wear lab coats. That’s for chemists and biologists.

This. The ISPs can go back to prioritizing and pricing traffic based on their own commercial preferences. Thankfully, I have Starlink as my ISP.

29 mi for me, and I'm in a 10,000 person town in New England. I'm not sure your directory is complete - I thought there was one in Concord NH.

When I look at the email addresses in the various communities I belong to, it’s at least 80% gmail, and the rest are mostly defunct services are just barely hanging on. Yes, I run my own email server, have for years.

“He was speeding.” Love English!

In this context, “savings” includes all liquid assets.

Look up “bagging” a jacket. Many are constructed with the right sides of the lining and the outer cloth together, then turned inside out. It works if the jacket is fully lined.

Go ahead and remove the lining, but look carefully how the construction is done - you may well want to put it back in.