Anyone who knows 3d printers would recognize the sheer absurdity of suggesting a printer infer it is making a part for a gun. By the time a model reaches a printer it has been sliced and turned into GCODE from hundreds of parameters and there is NO WAY that any printer could tell what the hell it is printing. Nor could the software which does the slicing, since parts could be oriented any way making it extremely hard to recognize a part. And even if there was a database to search against matching shapes in 3d space is hard. And even if there was some code which attempted to align and check a part it could be easily circumvented - wipe the DB, alter the source code, negate the test, alter the part etc.

If states want to ban ghost guns then make the penalties for doing it so severe that it discourages people doing it. And start improving ways that ghost guns can be forensically matched back to the printers that made them so that if someone was suspected of making parts, that it could be proven in court.

I also suspect that "interacting" with this AI is a surefire way for an employee to get flagged for a follow-up conversation with their manager or HR.

Metaverse was such a predictable failure that there is no way anyone with a creative or gaming head on their body would have shat out what Meta produced. It is the product of market studies, and demographics, and committees with final say by Zuckerberg. Something so boring, and without reason to exist, that people who Horizons rarely ever went back. They didn't even need to spend billions to know it was a terrible idea because Sony had already proven the point with Playstation Home which was arguably better than Horizons but still boring and pointless.

If Meta had instead chosen to make a fantasy RPG where people can make interesting characters and go out into the world and progress, explore etc then it would have had way more success. Or a Battle Royale style game. Or a bunch of well formed leisure pursuits - tennis, chess, sailing, arcade shooters, racing, pinball etc. Or all of the above over time. But they didn't. It was complete intellectual bankruptcy and lack of imagination.

Even if everything had gone "well" by their own intentions who on earth would enjoy that? It's bad enough when a company does a day long team building event but being trapped on an island with coworkers doing this shit, is an ordeal.

You could just look it up if you want - "hydrogen global warming potential"

It'll leak all over the place. Hydrogen under pressure is too bulky to use in aircraft. It would have to be liquid cooled and it would leak all the way from the plant to the plane. Because as hydrogen warms up it evaporates and that gas has to be vented. Now perhaps we could vent / burn it safely, or perhaps we can't.

But the real question is why chase hydrogen at all when more viable alternatives exist - battery and synthetic fuel. Hydrogen is a precursor to making synthetic fuel and it requires more energy but at least it can be captured in a single place and not bleed out continuously.

It's merely 12x over 100 years, 37x over 20 years.

And "basic logic" is doing some heavy lifting here. To carry the amount of hydrogen necessary to power a flight of any length would mean liquid cooling it. Which in turn means off gassing as it evaporates. Not just in the aircraft but where it refuels. Not to mention leakage. Or the need to dump hydrogen in certain circumstances where it instantly heads into the atmosphere - as opposed to fuel vapour which is heavier than air.

If people are desperate to replace fossil fuels in aviation then synthetic fuels would be a safer alternative, where the fuel is carbon neutral to produce and stays mostly in liquid form. Or use batteries where possible. Or eliminate flights entirely where viable alternatives like rail could be used (like France does).

Off gassed hydrogen has ~ 37x the warming potential of CO2 on the climate. Not because hydrogen causes warming itself, but because its presence in the atmosphere extends the lifespan of methane by bonding with radicals that would otherwise break down methane sooner. It's not something we want to see any country or industry adopting.

How about we tax the hell out of OpenAI and other companies who have ingested and profited from IP and disburse it via a compensation fund. Artists, academics, scientists, journalists, authors, photographers, philosophers, theologians, statisticians, bloggers, movie makers, forum posters etc. etc. Anyone who has produced content that is hosted on a website or physically available that was used to train AIs should be able to claim compensation. And require these companies to disclose every single public source of information they've scraped, with what frequency and how they store the information so we know exactly who they've been ripping off.

Do you work for Samsung or are you just performatively being a contrarian?

You're right that PCs are just as bad but at least you can uninstall that garbage and even reformat the entire PC if you like. This is like Lenovo, Dell etc baking actual malware into the firmware that you cannot get rid of, only disable.

I had to set up a Samsung A56 recently, and 90% of the setup was removing shit Samsung put on there that NOBODY asked for or wants - Samsung browser, their app store, their fitness tracker, their payment system, their assistant Bixby, malware called "AppCloud", a bunch of placeholders for Microsoft Office, Onedrive, Facebook, X, LinkedIn etc. Just absolute garbage that has to be removed to make the phone usable and fit for purpose. Some apps can't be uninstalled, only disabled. Some of the Samsung backend services can't even be disabled either despite serving no purpose.

The worst app is "AppCloud" which is a trojan/malware that automatically installs "curated" software on devices without consent. It slips into the setup sequence asking for consent when people are already habituated to clicking through screens to make their phone work. Did I mention it was made by an Israeli company called ironSource? It's one of those bits of software that cannot be removed so it's always there and I believe many people do not know how to turn it off. God knows what data it is harvesting, or the risk especially for people using Samsung devices in countries that are not friendly to Israel.

Get Claude to read the Claude source code and produce a non copyright infringing functional equivalent to it.

I think these days I'd even shy away from MFC unless there was a reason that something like QT or even wxWidgets couldn't fulfill my needs due to licensing or some API (e.g. COM) it needs to use.

I've programmed Win32 for decades and while it was fine for the time, much of the user facing APIs are obsolete for modern GUI development and some of the non-user facing stuff too. But Microsoft really hasn't produced a credible replacement for it and has shat out a succession of technologies one after the other that devs are supposed to use before Microsoft abandons them for the next - Win32 (and layers on top like MFC), WinForms, WPF (and Silverlight), UWP, Windows App SDK / WinUI.

Some of these technologies are overlapping, but each was intended to coral devs into making Metro apps or Windows Store apps and burn their bridges in the process. It went down like a lead balloon. Now they're dialing back trying to make WinUI somewhat platform agnostic to the version of Windows its running on but who knows if it will stick. It's not the only pain point because Microsoft even extended the C++ language to deal with these APIs with new types like "ref", "partial" and hat notation to deal with garbage collected objects, auto generated classes and other things that also impedes portability.

So it's no wonder that app developers have gone for web apps (and QT) because it's makes it easier to write portable apps and acts as insulation from Microsoft's mercurial view of the world.