*sigh*

FP haste makes waste.

s/they I admit/though I admit/

Kind of a sincere question they I admit that I have a lot of theories about the answers...

Tease my biggest? Inability of the police to understand what's going on? Or maybe something about innovator's advantage to the crooks?

Related reading: How about Nexus by Harari?

Sounds like you're feeding a troll, but I don't even know what kind of food "gammon" is. But does it come in kosher and halal versions?

File "feeding troll" under "That trick never works".

Not saying you don't deserve your Funny mod, but there were lots of unmodded funnies in the discussion...

And I say please don't feed the brand. The YOB doesn't believe there is such a thing as bad publicity, but the only kind he deserves is as the butt of bad jokes.

On the substance of the story, I think one big advantage of renewable energy is for training AI when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. One solution for the storage problem is variable demand, and AI training is something that can be done opportunistically.

Bridging those paragraphs are the results of my latest AI noddy:

Now I have to go back to comparing the answers of five different AIs regarding a new smartphone's configuration... Early lead to Microsoft's pet, much as I dislike that corporate cancer.

Going for the Funny that the rich-target story didn't get any of...

But let me see... The story is already obsolete. I just got a new phone and just now checked and found no USB cable.

I already knew the new phone (an Oppo) had no lanyard anchor nor does it come with a case with a lanyard anchor. Things are so bad the laughing guy at the store couldn't even suggest where to buy a case. Part of the reason for his excessive laughter?

She has a number of special firsts that will keep her secure in the history books, but I think you are mostly just "complaining" about timing issues.

In Japan the story got lots of enthusiastic coverage, though it was kind of funny listening to a reporter asking an actual expert about the significance of their work. Mostly it was clear that the reporter had no idea what questions to ask, but the expert was also unprepared to explain to a broad audience. NHK was mostly scurrying about for the coming new conference with the winner, but I didn't bother to watch it. However I'm sure the highlights will be on today's news. (It was a late-breaking story as the time zones work.) I did see some first response videos from the winner in which he appeared to speak English quite well... (Though my own weak connections are mostly with Todai, I've always had a high regard for Kyodai, where the second winner is based. The first winner this year was from Handai. Stodgy, innovative, and commercial schools?)

The Japanese treat it as a big national pride thing, and they were already sort of ecstatic about winning two years in a row before they got two winners in the same year. I think that's what made me wonder about the original country of the third winner for this chemistry prize... Are they rejoicing, too?

By the way, before the announcements, they were even speculating on likely candidates. They mostly focused on a scientist who didn't win, if I recall correctly. Also I didn't see Murakami mentioned in this year's speculations around the literature prize. I like his stuff, but maybe they've given up hoping he will ever get it?

Well, back when I was a kid, 'autistic' meant, 'screaming and flapping your arms when somebody turned on the light wrong.'

"Rain Man" was a movie about what was, at the time, considered a high-functioning autistic.

Most of what we would nowadays call 'ASD' was just 'quirky' or 'weird' or 'shy.'

Go find a copy of the 1980s nuclear war film Testament. Watch the scenes with the sons. One son, the youngest, has several scenes with things like 'running the TV, a radio, and a record player at the same time,' 'being told that he can't only eat bananas,' 'wearing ear muffs at the dinner table' and so on.

Nowadays, that's clearly stimming, sensory restrictions and ARFID, and probably ADHD, and he's be labelled 'AuDHD'.

Back then? He was just being a kid.

But nowadays, 'doesn't look people in the eye "enough"' means you're ASD, and 'looks people in the eye *too much"' means you're ASD.

Given that we don't even know what 'Autism' is, we ascribe way too much to it.

One of the biggest advantages is that it drives support for standards:

If you sell a phone wihtout a USB cable. or supply USB cables without knowing which brand it will be used with,

You bloody well better comply with standards!

A way to sell your soul to the devil without having to use Google Maps to find a crossroad?

And yet some moderators said it was "Insightful"? Slashdot has become part of the precipitate. Definitely not part of the solution.

Mod parent Funny rather than Insightful.

You were going for Funny, right? If you have a working crystal ball then the future is even bleaker than I think, and I think it looks quite bleak.

Let me check with my latest AI-generated noddie:

FTFY