The fact that they know this proves what we already knew: chats are saved and mined for information. Probably even temporary chats, whatever they say.

Of course, there are a lot of people out there who are disturbed or lonely. ChatGPT&Co make for someone to talk to - and someone is better than no one. That said, I hope that a serious discussion of suicide leads immediately to a suggestion to call a help-line.

Meanwhile, the kids just screwing around can be told to fob off - only the AIs are way to sycophantic to actually do that.

basic flaws like buffer overflows, command injections, and SQL injections

I teach students how to avoid these kinds of flaws in my basic programming courses. Most students don't understand the importance, or don't care, or are actually incapable of avoiding these issues in their programs.

It's yet another aspect of a well-known issue: We have a massive demand for software, but very few programmers are actually competent. I've taught in high-quality degree programs: maybe 10% of the students are really good, and another 30%-40% could contribute competently - as long as they are supervised by someone good. Those are self-selected students in high-quality degree programs.

In less technical degree programs, where I also teach some programming courses, I feel fortunate to have 1 or 2 students who have any real potential. The other learn to copy-and-paste (or, now, use AI), without any real understanding of what they are doing. These make up the vast majority of programmers out there, and they are the reason why injection attacks are still a thing.

FWIW: This is especially true in Asian software sweat-shops: rooms full of people pasting in code with no clue what they are doing, while their boss walks around looking over their shoulders, telling each person what their next task is. Push out code, fast and cheap, that's all that matters.

Wow, 100 years ago, Texas looked different. Amazing.

Let me guess, you know all this because Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and the ladies on the view said it was true?

For example, Reagan in the late 80s recorded a radio speech explaining why he was imposing high tariffs on Japan, a Canadian province took that speech, cut out the parts they didn't like, and tried to sway public and political opinion on trade discussions between Canada and the US with a $75M ad buy on US television. (Remember when Democrats were all upset about "deep fakes", "selectively-edited" and clips "taken out of context"?) President Trump called "Bullshit" on that and ended trade talks with Canada. That's a leader taking a stand and putting America first. Democrats can cry about our "bestie to the north", but that was a bullshit move, period. Imagine if Trump took a tariff speech from a Canadian leader (Pierre Trudeau?) selectively edited it, and spent $75 M on an TV ad buy to influence Canadian public and political opinions... would the left be OK with that?

Your link is about anti-renewable bills dying in Texas gov't - how does that support the statement "The Texas legislature and governor are rabidly anti-renewables"?

By killing "anti-renewable" legislation, doesn't that mean they are, you know, if not pro-renewables at least not "rabidly" anti-renewable?

You can be against subsidies for something and still be pro the thing others want to subsidize. You can support the idea of EVs, but be against giving car buyers $7,500 of taxpayer money to buy one. You can be pro green energy, but think it's wrong for taxpayers to subsidize installing them on private residences.

I'm sorry, what was the villainous act T Boone Pickins did? Simply identifying the value of water and trying to control it doesn't make one a villain...

You mean like Norway, which is sitting on what may be the largest oil reserves in the world, yet their (heavily subsidized) EV sales account for like 99%+ of new car sales?

No, it "shared the load" and did so by supplying just over one-third of the needs of the state.

If you and I shared a project and I did 36% of the work and you did 64%, would you say that I "carried the load"? I think not.

It's great that Texas is shifting its generation sources, folding ever more solar, wind, and storage into the mix, but let's not heap false praise on wind, solar, and storage...

First, if you're in the office, the boss can see you. Assuming, of course, that the boss is in the office.

second, who spends all their time in Teams? No work gets done there - if I'm not actively using it, it is closed.

Not the weather? Wasn't the issue at Fukushima that they built the reactor on the shoreline and an earthquake and tsunami surge flooded the facility?

But no, you think it was a failure to perform regular maintenance? Really?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fworld-nuclear.org%2Finfo...

Jaguar had three hits:

1. They had an absolutely idiotic ad campaign featuring weird people in colored clothing prancing around. Had nothing to do with cars, and alienated their core audience.
2. They completely stopped producing cars during the transition to EVs. That transition did not go smoothly, so they had literally nothing to sell for months.
3. They outsourced their IT security to an Indian company, apparently chosen because it belongs to the same Indian holding company as Jaguar. Surprise: they got hacked.

Was the third point really what hurt them? Or is it just an excuse, because the first two were the real causes?

Seriously, if you want to push forward on a research topic, you don't want a team of thousands. A team of 600 is already far too big. If they had 600 extra people, well, that's a research team that is going nowhere...

A core group of 10-15 researchers and engineers. Maybe a few such groups, to chase different ideas. Supporting staff, maybe an equal number. If they had 100 really good people, that would be the max. Add to that the staff required to keep their public offerings up and running - how many is that, maybe another 100?

Yeah, if they can drop 600, their unit is still bloated.

Great, can I set it to zero?

At least I finally realized that "YouTube Movies" is actually a channel, so it can be blocked from recommendations!

How exactly what I describe here is a Troll, when I am actually sharing my experience as a user of a technology? I luterally feel nauseous (wanting to vomit) when riding as a passenger in a Tesla. Rarely happens in an ICE vehicle, happens in electric vehicles, especially Teslas. No matter how much I get moderated as a Troll, doesn't change what I end up feeling as an EV passenger. There is something about the way these things ride, it makes me want to vomit.

I already hate getting Teslas for my Uber drives and I do quite a bit of Ubering, so to speak. If the number of these Tesla vehicles goes up significantly and I feel like throwing up during *EVERY* Uber drive, I will no longer use this method of transportation. Teslas make me absolutely nauseous, especially when going up or down the hill.