It's not really worth worrying about. Due to absorption, scattering and inverse square law, this stuff affects practically no one and very few organisms, except for those that directly cling to the containers, even with the lax standards from that time. People just don't understand nuclear decay products and how they interact with water, let alone air. This is of scientific interest perhaps, but not at all worrisome from an environmental perspective.

Ok sure, learn how to prompt AIs effectively. But without some grounding in a particular field, all you know how to do is tell AIs to do a bunch of stuff that you don't really understand all that well. This is akin to saying you don't need to know much about music to conduct an orchestra. Just swing your conductor's wand in a rhythmic fashion and the orchestra will play to the beat you set. Easy, right? Except no orchestra actually works like that because in reality a conductor often has decades of experience learning and playing instruments, has composed their own pieces, etc.

If everyone specializes in AI, then you have a bunch of neophytes running around without any expertise. The real value is when you have an expert driving the AI.

This. I am a shitty coder. I have vibe coded applications that are far more complex than I could create. But after a few rounds of added features and bugfixes, the LLM runs out of capacity to fix issues and get stuck in a loop. Then I'm largely helpless to troubleshoot or add features myself since as I didn't write the code in the first place and it's too complex for me to troubleshoot on my own. What then? If I'd learned to code properly in the first place, I could have helped the LLM get over the inevitable bumps in the road...

...which he absolutely hates. It's made with bottom of the barrel parts. Small screen with bad contrast, underpowered CPU, low RAM, bad keyboard. it's slow to browse the web, slow wracked by latency to do even basic things. Local apps are very limited.

I'm not saying it isn't possible to make these a lot better, but it seems schools buy them because Google created a cheap eocsystem with somewhat standardized parts like screens and chargers, centralized security controls which allows the school to sandbox devices easily and sufficient webified versions of basic desktop apps as to be workable in a school setting. Nothing about them is "good for students". It's all about being good for school boards pockets.

In case it isn't obvious, it's because you can't (and no one would want to) buy a mobile plan that only covers NJ.

Italy is also tiny compared to the US, plus you don't know how deep they've taken LTE/5G there in rural areas. For all you know, there's shit service in rural areas of Italy.

The dynamic island is a rectangular slot on the face where the sensor suite lies that has no screen pixels. Apple, magically turned an ugly cutout into a 'feature' by using it as a region where the surrounding pixels change to indicate different functions.

While we're offering anecdotes on Tesla reliability... My 8 year old Model S has had all four door handle motors replaced and the main screen computer flash chip replaced, but aside from that, no other warranty work in over 8 years. Clearly, YMMV, but I think after about 2014, the Model S became a lot more reliable than early examples.

What's more interesting to me is how they would calculate a percentage of human input in the first place. If I write a very detailed prompt that outputs the final song without additional tweaks, what percentage was I responsible for the song?

Eh, I don't blame em. I'll just navigate away from their app while I'm in the car though. Like hell I'm going to pay any attention to an ad. Then again, peak Uber for me was 2019. Now? Only when I really need one, which is quite rare these days.

Right, so we're going to coordinate a 300 million person boycott of practically all live entertainment for weeks or months until LiveNation lowers their prices? If they controlled say 10% of venues I could see this working, but they have exclusive contracts of practically all major venues in the country.

> All of that was about causing enough confusion to blunt resistance to awful features, preventing the public from even giving a name (like "Vista" or "8") to the problem.

Well maybe that's the intention, but if there's no name or number associated with any the version of the product, then the product itself takes on the ire of the user base.

Brain drain? If you're capable of contributing to the creation of a vaccine in a meaningful way, what are the chances that you're still living in the African country you grew up in? You probably already moved to Europe or the US.

How's that working out for Intel these days?

This was exactly my conclusion after thinking about it for all of 15 seconds. I've never heard of this film, I have no love or hate for the machine learning algorithms and have absolutely no skin in this game in any way. The fact that the originals are in no way harmed by the edits (and may actually act to preserve the originals, since the edits are *much* less interesting on their own without reference to the originals) seems to make the case that this is much ado about nothing. Case closed.

There we go. You never let me down Slashdot. Just when you'd think the topic is as positive and uncontroversial as it gets, someone has to rain fear and doubt on the parade based on armchair speculation without a shred of evidence or that they have a clue what they're talking about. Congrats on being 'that' guy!