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Comment Re:Hey, Sammy! (Score 1) 75

Their vacuum does suck, it's so bad they have to talk about what it does using the name of a competing vacuum company. FTFS: "uses AI to better detect what surface its on to more effectively hoover up dirt and debris." Hoover is a vacuum company, not a verb (unless this is a Samsung-branded Hoover). That's like someone from Bing saying "Our search engine uses AI to Google things faster than ever!"

Comment Re: Oh, well good (Score 1) 348

I don't like Trump and the MAGAts nor what they have done to politics, but the left is hardly immune from committing political violence. How about the Congresional Baseball Shooting?

Wake me up when someone from the "far left", someone who volunteered for Sanders say, even an armchair Twitter Sanders supporter, shoots a Republican or CEO.

From the above page:

Hodgkinson had participated in the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign

On May 22, 2017, Hodgkinson wrote "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co."

Comment Re: Asbestos is Toxic? (Score 1) 176

Most EVs use Regenerative Braking, which uses the electric motor as a generator to slow down the car and put electricity back into the batteries. Different manufacturers implement it differently, some may have significant regen when you let off the gas pedal where others might actuate it in the top portion of the brake pedal but it works the same either way.

Comment Re:The only surprise ... (Score 2) 29

They didn't buy .bs. Their real site was sometaxbullshit.bs.ch but they accidentally published the flyer with just the sometaxbullshit.bs URL so they bought a registration for that domain from the Bahamas. Their site says $500 per domain, no idea why the Swiss had to pay $1000. You could resell your first domain (if you registered chargers.bs) but the second one would require a second registration.

Comment Re:Can't help but wonder... (Score 1) 77

Companies do not own a number of their shares unless they've created a share pool for things like employee stock purchase plans. And, no, they cannot use shares in their company as loan collateral. Sometimes companies can issue "convertible notes" which are basically loans that convert into shares automatically if the company gets into financial trouble. They are popular with banks that have to maintain certain capital cushions. NVidia didn't lose anything today. The owners of NVidia shares lost phantom wealth today. If, however, there is a genuine now AI model in town that will significantly reduce demand for chips (and electricity, and all of the other related infrastructure), the future cash flows of many companies have just been reduced and hence why the shares are trading for a lower price.

Companies can also acquire and hold their own stock in a number of different ways, the most common is through a share buyback. This is called "Treasury Stock" on the balance sheet and it's fairly common. The linked article goes into greater detail.

Comment Re: Sure, they redefined what AGI means.. (Score 1) 125

So, you're saying that defining new tokens is beyond the ability of LLMs?(and it *seems* right to me) Therefore AGI is beyond the ability of LLMs. That sounds like a good insight to me.

In 2017 Facebook had a couple of chatbots that they were testing against each other develop their own language so it seems that AI can create new tokens just fine.

Comment Re: Profit (Score 1) 373

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done. They poison — mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America. Not just the three or four countries that we think about. But all over the world they’re coming into our country — from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. They’re pouring into our country.” — Dec. 16, 2023, New Hampshire rally

“The Democrats say, ‘Please don’t call them animals. They’re humans.’ I said, ‘No, they’re not humans, they’re not humans, they’re animals’ Nancy Pelosi told me that. She said, ‘Please don’t use the word animals when you’re talking about these people.’ I said, ‘I’ll use the word animal because that’s what they are.’” — April 2, 2024, Grand Rapids, Michigan, campaign event.

“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.” [9/10/24]

Comment Re:No new car for me (Score 1) 279

If the tailgate has to be down then it's not fitting a sheet of plywood and you're required to have a flag on it because the tailgate is sticking out past the tail lights. Statistically nobody is doing that, of course, unless the lumber sticks out WAY past the bed.

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Not in my state:

If a load on a vehicle extends to the rear four feet or more beyond the bed or body of the vehicle, the operator shall display lamps, reflectors, or flags at the extreme rear end of the load in accordance with this section.

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