Apparently you can get a mobo with switchable BIOS config (or was it just a switchable SSD?) so the OS didn't even know that there's a second OS around. If there's no connection of the other OS then MS can't break it [as easily]!

IMO it must be malicious, because otherwise it would be caught with remedial testing. I can't believe MS don't include dual boot setups in their testing.

I've checked it when giving funds to new charities.

Oxfam, for example, are quite inefficient - https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/ch...

Did you miss the pardoning of the Jan 6 people who hunted people down, set up a gallows, and those who tried to murder police?

Did you miss Trump sending USA troops into democrat cities to try and intimidate USA citizens, using his militia to murder people in cold blood?

Did you miss all the tariffs used to move the markets so Trump and his cronies could drain money from ordinary folks investments in the markets - he even boasted how rich he'd made his friends. From tariff front-running.

Hunter Biden broke the law, but his crimes look like schoolkid's high-jinks compared to Trump.

How about Trump's alt-coin to take overseas bribes?

Or using the instigation of war to win bets?

There're thousands more such crimes of corruption the Trump regime have done.

You can't be serious.

I'm guessing it's not compatible with Teams and that MS make sure it doesn't work properly with LO produced PPT files.

I'll have to watch it again, all I remember it as was a goofy movie. It didn't make me think "we have to kill all the stupid people".

Actually I'm inclined to think it's more like My Fair Lady and that much of what we call intelligence is down to opportunity and motivation.

Have they changed their advertising to un-hitch from being a part of the "American Dream"?

Whoever suggested that using Tariffs to provide a handle to move stocks that they could use to trade, I very much doubt it came from Trump. That was provided the means to keep all the greedy grubbers in the Republican party onside whilst they hid Trump's involvement with Epstein so the train could keep running.

Musk is evil. But he's clever, he knew to over pay for Twitter so he could use it to help swing elections and put himself in political power. He failed to get the response to his salute he expected, and knew enough to slink off into the background (or listen to his advisors telling him that). Amazingly he's still making money hand-over-fist from USA's regime. You'd think standing on a dais and thinking you're Hitler reincarnate would have been enough to make tax-payers rise up; clearly not.

They've absolutely destroyed USA, there is no Constitution now, there's not even lip service to war crime treaties. But there's a lot of intelligent people onboard that we underestimate at our peril.

It is curious that there's no reported disgenic effect though - that seems counter to evolutionary theory? Perhaps it's only limiting the rate of growth of IQ/intelligence.

There's a classic sci-fi story in which we rely on computers, the population gets dumber to the point noone knows how to make/fix the computers. I think in that there's a computer glitch that then wipes out humanity; but it's from the time when there were monolithic computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence - it says 'fertility' but I think it means fecundity/actual reproduction

https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money

I feel like much of my life is virtual, non-localised. Writing missives to the four corners of the wind here and elsewhere; gaming online; research/chats with LLMs or on the web, email with people.

My physical location is often not important - a continuing context from non-physical aspects of my existence matters more.

That said, one of the things that's hard for me about digital life is the lack of waymarks - I used to be quite "geographical" in my thinking. Like "oh the part I found interesting was on the left page after the RGB diagram", I'd find that and also find my train of thought and extend it. Now, information can be in any myriad of freeform places across at least 3 devices and in emails, notebooks, bookmarks, chat histories, and of course my brain. When some ready syncretism of those things happens it feels like we'll make better advances. Personal agents can be a part of that.

If you're going to share a local website on a global site like HN at least mention the locality!?

Evolution isn't a god, it has no steering hand, it is accidents that either provide advantage or don't.

LLMs are getting more human-like because that's how we're developing them. Arguably that's about market forces. LM owners see opportunity to exploit people's desire for emotional interactions (ie loneliness) in order to make money.

It would be interesting if you posted a couple of sessions to see what 'philosophical' things it's arriving at and what proceeds it.

Hopefully, you can see that at least my chosen sentences have an emotional aspect?

An LLM could add emotional values to my previous sentences that a TTS can use for tonal variation, for example.