A workaround is to always shoot everyone the same. If a journalist or interviewer grows a reputation, they can show everyone "on level ground" by keeping the pose, lighting, etc... constant.

It's one reason that long-form YouTube interviewers like Lex Friedman are so popular with a more discerning crowd.

"But he's so bland, monotonous, and boring!" cry the haters.

"Yes! That's the point!"

Richard Feynman called it "normalization of deviance", but there's other names for it as well depending on the details.

I'm sure everyone has heard some variation of this before, especially in the work place.

I once got angrily shouted at by a customer because I turned up as a consultant and apparently I told them exactly what the last five consultants had said!

Well, yes, of course. It's the solution to their problem.

I regularly face variants of this at work.

"Yeah, yeah, backups are important, stop talking about it already."

"Yes, but they're still not happening and they still remain the top priority and it is madness to start a project to reformat the SAN array until backups are working!"

"That's what you said last week! You always say that!"

Etc...

There's a point where people lean into it and become purposefully contrary, making their refusal to change their opinion a permanent part of their identity as a person.

Ironically, drinking milk is a "modern" development in the human race, and we're still evolving the ability to digest lactose as adults to compensate for this "unnatural" behaviour!

But that's not the point!

The point is that the laws are written by the oligarchs, for the oligarchs.

Laws are made to protect wealth and power, so of course the wealthy and powerful haven't "broken" them.

Almost all Java benchmarks are for the "steady state" after half an hour of warm up time.

Both Vyr Cossont and Ngaroe QiRia are so bored with their meaningless existence that they have to go out of their way to invent “life tasks” and other challenges to immerse themselves in.

Not to mention the scene where a ship mind casually crushes the spirits of Vyr by perfectly playing a piece on its first attempt that she struggled with for years!

I ignore every official statement about “support” and simply look at the horse's mouth: Microsoft hasn’t bothered to fix this in IIS, and likely never will.

It’s a dead product, “supported” only in a contractual sense, not a practical one.

(If you called support right now demanding fix for this, they’d tell you that it’s broken by design, have you tried moving to a recurring revenue service offering?)

Solar and wind have been branded as unreliable by propogandists working for billionaire fossil fuel magnates, oil sheiks, and oligarchs.

The converse is true: distributed power generation and storage is incredibly robust and can easily meet the needs of our civilization even under active attack.

If you want long term thinking, if you want robustness over short term profits, then solar + wind + batteries are you answer.

No super power can blockade the sun and wind.

No super power can blow up every rooftop panel without also nuking entire cities.

Humanoids in the Culture are controlled at every level, even their thoughts as guided… sorry… “aligned” with the Minds through the adoption of the language Marain.

No humanoid ever overrules a ship Mind in the novels.

(Several characters in the novels comment on this, so it is entirely cannon.)

The Culture fought a war against the Idirans, who eschew the use of intelligent machines. The Idirans lost.

Similarly, the Gzilt civilisation in the novel The Hydrogen Sonata prefer to run their ships with a quorum of uploaded humanoid mind states running at highly accelerated speeds.

GPS is entirely passive (it is receive only), so leaving it on is harmless for your privacy on Apple devices. For Android... well, if you have an Android phone, you're not a privacy-conscious consumer by definition, so just leave it on for the convenience of not having to turn it on and off manually all the time!

WiFi, again, is not that big a deal with Apple because they rotate your unique MAC address to preserve your privacy. Android is a mixed bag, depends on the model of phone you purchased.

It's the equivalent of making pipe bombs at home.

The instructions are out in the public, but that's not a problem because the idiots that make pipe bombs blow themselves up more often than they succeed in doing terrorism.

Dario keeps saying in interviews that AI hacking is not a problem because "the good guys will protect themselves with AI", but then gate-keeps.

I submitted the form and it was rejected without reason.

Now what?

Concepts cars are cars.

What was shown on stage is closer to the Apollo lander training rigs than a vehicle that you could purchase and drive on a public road.

It can never, ever be sold as a production vehicle! The COPV gas storage is under enormous pressure, and would explode with the force of a decent sized bomb if damaged in an accident.

These things would be regularly turning their owners into pink mist, emulating Stockton Rush at a larger scale.

I regularly run "experiments" on Azure to figure out what it actually does.

Out of curiosity, I just tried Gemini 4 Argon and it seems to have nailed it, decoding even your "illegible" words!

See: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...

These modern languages have both easy-to-use "owning" string types and a "string slice" type that can be passed around efficiently. Unlike C, in these languages a string and a slice are largely interchangeable, which makes them easier to use throughout not just your own codebase, but third-party libraries too.

For example, the Rust `httparse` crate `Request` type returns parsed fields as string slices, not strings, which means it doesn't allocate anything on the heap: https://docs.rs/httparse/latest/httparse/struct.Request.html

Err... doesn't that completely invalidate the big-O analysis!?

I suspected that these Open AI "proofs" of sub-nlogn times were cheating somehow, by sweeping something under a rug. This seems to be it!