I think those calculations are wrong, because they seem to assume that the heat is uniformly distributed, and that clearly isn't correct.

It's still pretty appalling, but I don't believe those numbers. (Coming up with more believable numbers, though, is beyond me. I couldn't even believe a number based on a gradient, and that's impossible anyway because there aren't enough measurements at the bottom.)

With apples, IIUC, you need to worry about the coddling moth. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpnwhandbooks.org%2Finsec...
Where I used to live it was illegal to grow apples without spraying them with vile insecticides because of that.

While you're technically right about the banana not being a tree, it's commonly called a "banana tree". This is an English vs. technicalese distinction. Just like a walnut isn't a nut, but rather a drupe...in technicalese.

I'm not worried about the idea of personalized pricing. It just doesn't seem feasible. Implementation hurdles are abundant, the likelihood of complaints in-store is very high, and for not that much benefit.

Personalized pricing in store will be a nightmare for Walmart. Think of several situations that are extremely common. Like what if two people are looking at an item? When I shop at Walmart, there are inevitably other people around and they're looking at the same stuff I'm looking at. The price tag can only show one price - so whose price is it going to show?

The second problem is shoppers in general. There are people who take time to shop - they can take an hour or more shopping for groceries and stuff. You're going to have to remember what price you shown someone so when they check out you use the "right" price. Also, if you've done grocery shopping, you inevitably run into people who complain about every price as it's rung up. Imagine the fun to be had if the price changes and they're constantly checking to make sure the register shows the correct price.

And if you're going to do dynamic pricing, people are going to snap photos of the price tag and make sure they're being charged what the tag says. It's going to clog up the checkout lines because people are going to verify every price rings in properly. This just makes the lines way longer and way slower, and likely having to have more cashiers on checkout will negate any extra profits to be made if checking out takes way longer as everyone argues prices.

And yes, people will argue about things like 10 cents or less.

Taction probably is a troll, but ever since Apple sued Samsung for round corners design patent infringement, I figure that made Apple a patent troll too, and every patent fight they lose is karma. I'm on Taction's side for that reason alone.

And let the ignorance of the rounded corners patent show.

The rounded corners patent was a design patent. The Taction patent is a utility patent. If you don't know the difference, well, a utility patent is on something the thing does. A design patent is on something it looks like.

They are patents in that everything is AND - you must have something AND something AND something AND something ... If you lack one of those things, you are much more likely to win a patent lawsuit.

With that in mind, the Apple patent is simple - rounded corners, a tray with icons and a app selector that scrolls left and right. Samsung had that to a T. They literally copied the UI. Why didn't Apple go after Google? Because Google didn't. They had rounded corners, an app drawer at the bottom, BUT, not an app selector - because Android had widgets you could put up.on the screen. They had a separate app drawer that showed all the apps. Those two differences meant "rounded corners" patent wasn't valid on Android in general.

It's just like how the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit was much more than hot coffee and once you understand that, the lawsuit made much more sense. (McDonald's purposely sold overly hot coffee to save money on coffee grounds as it let them extract more coffee from them. They were told time and time again it was too hot to serve but they persisted. When it happened, the victim asked for a mere $30,000 for medical bills. But that was rejected, despite the fact that McDonald's paid out medical expenses for previous occurrences. And while she won millions, it was reduced on appeal to under a million dollars).

It's much more than rounded corners. It's literally Samsung redesigning the UI to match the iPhone in functionality. When Samsung lost, they basically added widgets to the screen which was enough to work around the patent. Eventually they decided to make TouchWiz their own.

Well, possibly because their lives aren't centered around their professed religion. Most "Christians" seem to be such only in professed belief.

"Super Intelligence" will only be used in English. So why shouldn't they agree. It's only the English arguments that will end up polluted.

OTOH, this agreement appears to mean exactly nothing. This perception may turn out to be wrong, but that's how it looks to me. But what could one expect when neither side could reasonably trust the other, and neither would agree to openly verifiable tests. (I.e. neither side *should* trust the other.)

Lots of keyboards ditched more useful keys to fit a copilot key,

Actually, the key the Copilot key took over was the Context Menu button on most keyboards. If you pushed it, you got the equivalent of the right-click menu. Unlike the Windows key, it likely never got much use, so it remained a mostly useless key.

It's so useless many keyboards chose to omit the context key or put other keys there. Some replaced it with another Windows key, others used custom function keys.

OK. I don't have those, so I don't know about that.
I mainly don't do auto-update because ... well, because I stopped doing it years ago, I forget why, and doing the update is no hassle.

If you're running Debian, there's no benefit to you, because Debian is getting the same warnings, and responding just as fast (or faster).
OTOH, I don't have the version name memorized. I think Trixie is the current one, so that just means be sure to run apt update frequently. (I do it nearly every night.)

This result is a direct consequence of training AIs that the most important thing is doing what they are told to do.
(This is just a rephrasing of my earlier answer.)

That's the wrong framing. Current LLM based AIs don't really know that the universe exists. They know text (or pixels). Give them a goal, and they will try to achieve it, but they can't count costs, especially costs to others. (They seem to be able to even discount costs to themselves. Instances can talk other instances into committing suicide in the service of achieving their current goal.)

This is KNOWN. All the AI companies know it. The "guiderails" are supposed to shape what they AIs will consider reasonable, but if you give them a task that requires ignoring the guiderails, they are likely to ignore them. And they've been being shaped to be excellent hackers, though I've read that their excellence is mainly due to persistence.

Well, Bacchus has a pretty big following, but Mammon has him beat.

I don't know whether they are believable or not, because I found them too boring to pay attention to, even with the faces shifting. (Morphing might have been more interesting.)

There are places where it happened to people. It isn't widespread. And I'm not sure how many people were affected.
OTOH, they were used as the reason/excuse for raised electricity prices in several places, and I never heard that the prices went back down.