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"Actual" athletes only sprint for a few minutes at a time, not really comparable with the hydration needs of a cyberathlete on their hundred and third consecutive two week sprint.

I honestly don't think it's pessimistic to predict war. We live in a world where various cultures have incompatible values at a fundamental level that include valuing the extinction of other cultures. If they never go to war it means that one or the other side wins and the values of the other side are effectively suppressed. To me the possibility of war is less bad than permanent oppression or extinction. It would mean the end of the evolution of human values that are worth dying for. That version of humanity is nerfed beyond the ability of ability to persist across the changes the future will bring.

War is as evil as death, but death was necessary to our creation, and ending death would cripple human adaptation and doom the species. Without a willingness to fight for our beliefs we would be evolutionary cannon fodder.

What is it that the space aliens don't want us to see? The obvious conclusion is that they are hiding their invasion fleet arrivals inside of hurricanes. The proof will be when the system comes back online and only permits us to see ordinary weather.

  AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. - Linus Torvolds

The part about

  we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running.

At the other end they recently doubled the cost of the Starlink Mini standby plan, from $60 to $120 per year.

This was passed in 1974, then repealed a few months later by popular demand.

https://www.joshbarro.com/p/this-week-in-the-mayonnaise-clin...

If you zoom in you can see them moving. Click on them to see their tracks. I'm surprised how random the orbits seem. It's too cloudy at the moment but maybe on a clear night I can check the accuracy by looking up.

18 cents here in New Mexico. You must be getting premium government services for paying all of that in California.

You're worried that they will over-fit on killing enemy invaders, at the expense of something more important? Like what?

The solution was a market and "currency" for units to buy equipment and supplies. Brigade-level units purchase drones directly from the manufacturers using the "Brave" marketplace. The currency in the marketplace is points that units earn from video-confirmed kills of Russians. Drones flow to the most effective units, those units work closely with the manufacturers, and they can choose from a range of options depending on their current mission and Russian tactics.

Get out of the way, Pentagon, and let the best field grunts do procurement. How does the US military industrial complex react to that idea?

Why is it inherently bad that university faculty lean left?

For one thing it loses the support of the other half of the country to fund and support higher education. People tend not to donate to or vote for institutions that they see as in opposition to their values. And they tend to discount the value of their degrees when hiring.

A baccalaureate is an academic degree, which is not what trade employers are looking for. They want certifications and licenses.

TrumpU was never eligible for federal funds of any kind, including students loans, as it never sought accreditation.

There is a huge unspoken blind spot for a terminal hospice patient. The medicine cabinet just opens up. My dad asked the doctor exactly how much of what he shouldn't take if he didn't want a quick easy death, and the doctor just told him. He didn't end up using it but it was a comfort to him.

  Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts. -- https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950

Disco or death? It's not an easy choice. Which Bee Gees song is optimal? Does it help if I wear a leisure suit? Is the coke optional?

Twenty four years later I'm still looking for ways to evade the spider drones deployed by PreCrime in Minority Report.

A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant

So like a political, military or religious machine does. We're already bred for it. We're Konrad Lorenz's geese, desperate to be led. It's the path of least resistance.

It’s not a claim that one person built the company alone.

Keeping a camera focused on the lips could get awkward. A hands free throat patch may be more ergonomic.

The numbers come from the tryai.dev link:

  How much does Grok 4.5 cost on TryAI?
  Grok 4.5 is Input: $0.02 / 1M tokens, Output: $0.06 / 1M tokens. There is no subscription — you pay only for what you use.

Nope, they're that cheap. E.g. Grok 4.5 is $.02 to $.06 per million tokens. A 400 token reply costs ~.002¢

https://www.tryai.dev/models/grok-4.5

Update: kibae above and below is correct and I'm not. They have fixed their blog post.

I don’t know what the solution is.

Interstellar diaspora. Interplanetary diaspora isn't far enough apart.

But the difference is that you didn’t do anything. And in so much as there is a you, it isn’t steering. Now I realize that the non steering you is everywhere.

  Jesse: I was thinking about that thing you said about the universe. Going where the universe takes you? Right on. It's a cool philosophy.
  Jane: I was being metaphorical, it's a terrible philosophy. I've gone where the universe takes me my whole life. It's better to make those decisions for yourself.
  El Camino, 2019

We need a regulatory body that can fine people for making analogies this bad

We need a communal agreement to apply social opprobrium upon people who reflexively propose to solve trivial problems by imposing their will on other people.

Tsk-tsk.

A Yoda skill, is there?

Yes and your new one will be paying much closer attention to you.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/608372/if-a-jet-...

It would have to be rockets. My napkin says 2B starship boosters and 250K tons of propellant per second should give us around 1 second per year.

Hear me out. We can just mount jet engines along the equator and rotate them 180 to gain or lose time. And then connect them to my snooze button.