No, you were not clear, and I'm still confused by your response. If you were clear, then I would not be confused. It's really as simple as that.

Efficiency does sound good. I like efficiency. Hence I approve of the Energy Star program.

You claim that Energy Star was part of a scheme, and the scheme is not about increasing power supplies. I don't know if that's true. What's this scheme? And if you have such a problem with the "scheme", why are you ranting specifically about Energy Star instead of this "scheme"?

Look, basically, Energy Star is good. We need to inform people about how energy efficient their appliances are. We need a simple and easy system to do so. Energy Star fit the bill perfectly.

If you have a problem with the government not increasing power supply, then rant about that. Don't drag Energy Star into it.

I'm very confused by your comment.

From what I understand, the Energy Star program is supposed to make the American people more efficient with their use of energy.

So why are you ranting about the Energy Star program creating no new energy? Is this some kind of strawman argument? Why do you feel the need to mention Marxism?

Isn't educating people on the efficiency of their appliances are good thing? How did you actually manage to twist this into something negative?!

As far as I know, people aren't forced to buy energy efficient appliances. They're only informed about the efficiency of the products they're interested in. And yet, this is a highly deceitful scam? My mind is spinning with this spin.

The "current crisis" is manufactured and amplified externally. Nobody is doxxing Tesla owners with maps using Molotov cocktails as map cursors or burning lots full of vehicles in for service in some way that is a function of whether Musk is personally present on the factory floor vs doing something else he thinks is vital to our economic survival. All of it is ginned up hate based on the politics surrounding the pruning of vast left slush funds and debt-funded waste that has to go away. That's an entire industry with vested interests, and acting against it certainly brings out the coordinated hate, attacks on stock value, media smearing, and of course thousands of people who now say he's a nazi though they can't actually articulate why they think that.

No, him being "on the factory floor" or off it doesn't precipitate some "current crisis," except in the sense that entrenched interests currently having their oxen gored by drying up things like the NGO money laundering industry are doing their best to try to wreck the company to make a point.

So the people who made it should have been earning minimum wage, is that your point? Spread that dollar amount across five and half yeads and even modest team of people and their overhead, and they're making middle five figures after taxes. Is that a lot, to you?

It took five and a half years to make it. So, in perhaps over-simplified terms, that's ~$670k year working on it. Let's say you had six people working on the project, and had NO overhead at all beyond their personal income while making it. That's roughly $100k per person before they paid taxes, which is either pretty good or not very good at all, depending on where you live and how. But one supposes they also had some overhead. This wasn't done on their kids' laptops at night. There was music to compose, audio to record and design, and a lot more.

So, yeah. "Just" 3.7M is a fair characterization.

No, we just voted the tyrannical little statists out of office. And the people you're now laughably calling Fascists are busy exposing and tearing down the very tools that an actual Fascist government would (and did) use. Fascists don't cut off the cash supply to money-laundering NGOs that are making their pet politicians richer and more personally powerful. Fascists don't work to shut down the mechanisms by which the government can censor your social media use. Your case of projection is pretty impressive.

You know what Fascists do? They try to hide the money movement that keeps their circle of power functioning. Our little lefty statists are busy shrieking that the lead of the executive branch shouldn't be allowed to see the records showing where the executive branch has been writing checks. Gee, what would they be hiding? Their little circle of industrial-scale grift and waste and abuse is getting exposed, and they're furious about it. And here you are having their backs. Pretty ugly. Do you live off of dubious international grant kickbacks or something?

Yes, Twitter was much better when someone in the Biden administration could write an email to a partisan activist working there and get people perma-banned for expressing doubt that Biden was handling things well. The good ol' days, right? Or are you just mad that now there are Community Notes calling the lying left out on the propaganda BS they used to choke Twitter with, and had Twitter staff available to ban anyone who called them out on it? Yeah, that must be frustrating for you.

Every single bit of shrill shriekery I hear that comes anywhere close to that on my X feed comes from the wanna-be tyrants on the left who crave the power to silence other people rather than counter things they don't want to hear with better thoughts of their own. Your own absurd ad hominem right here in this post is a great example of the craven screaming. I'm sure you liked that the Democrats - who called people deplorable garbage - used to be able to silence anyone who pointed out their duplicity and corruption.

Yes, when prominent Democrats talk out loud about sending people away for reprogramming, it's nice indeed to be able to speak out loud about it. Obviously, you'd prefer that people talking about that and sharing videos of people like Clinton saying it were silenced, just the way those prominent Democrats like it. Someone pointed out their creepy policy wishes? Cancel them! Just they way YOU'D like it, right?

Yes, when the Biden family rakes in millions of dollars from China and Russia and spreads it around the in-laws and the kids and dodges taxes on it while visibly selling federal policy actions, or the DNC launders millions of dollars in foreign money through Act Blue to try to buy Harris a presidency, or Nancy Pelosi becomes worth untold millions through blatant insider trading, it's nice to be able to talk about it instead of being silenced. I know, you'd prefer such conversations were silences, like in the good ol' days when Twitter had federal agents with offices in their HQ, ready to Orwell for you.

What are you talking about? Tens of thousands of deaths from fentanyl, crime, and human trafficking over the border deliberately opened wide by Biden's handlers? Untold thousands dead in wars that broke out only once his handlers signaled weakness and wars broke out on his watch? Yes, it's nice to be able to have open conversations about all of those lives lost, instead of such speech being muzzled by people like you, and those you obey.

What a ridiculous take on what he said. His point isn't that SpaceX faked anything, it's that China's quest for street cred in their scramble to catch up means making it look like they're hip, and honest, and open about their process (in, of course - it being China - the most controlled and dishonest way imaginable). Right up to and including faking R&D mishaps to show how hard they're working.

Anyone even remotely connected to contemporary image making can see that's obviously CGI. Looks like something straight out of DCS or the like. No chance that's real. Might be based on actual telemetry, but it's deep, deep down in the Uncanny Valley, and any reasonably worldly person can see that in an instant. Their motivation for showing the the challenges of developing such a program - including faking something like this to perhaps skew perceptions of how far along they actually are - are up for debate and academic. The footage is plainly fake.

What is truly smart about Canberra is that it nicely bundles all active federal politicians out of the way.

As for shonky NBN connections, well, that's something those federal politicians are to blame for. There could have been fibre to the home almost everywhere, replacing ageing copper infrastructure with something much more maintainable and reliable. But no, that was too good an idea.

The study can be found at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjamanetwork.com%2Fjourna... .
I can't access much of the linked NYT article, as it's paywalled, but I was able to extract out that much.

The study didn't rely just on self reported data. Participants were put through a cognitive test up to 3 times for every wave of of the study. There were three waves, each wave lasting 4 years.

Might be a problem with Beta carotene. It's been shown to be a pro oxidant in certain circumstances.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdpi.com%2F2076-3921...

It could be that cofactors, found in regular food, can be responsible for preventing damage by beta carotene.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fp...

The short take, make sure you eat your fruits and veggies. Try to eat well, in preference to relying on vitamin supplements. If you have a condition that needs supplements, that's all fine, but you should still try to eat fresh and eat a variety of things.

This is unfalsifiable rhetoric. ... It's always your being fooled it's a trick, an illusion...blah blah blah.

  Well, in a way, it is like you're being fooled. It's certainly an illusion. Chatting with AI is uncanny in how natural the responses are.

  But in the end, it's all just statistical analysis on a large dataset. Still damn impressive, and still very very useful. As long as you're aware that it's not bringing anything new to our collective knowledge.

What image or art has anyone generated other than random noise that is not just bits and pieces borrowed from other sources?

  Surely you jest. I think you're trying to say that there's nothing new under the sun. It seems unnecessarily cynical to claim all art is just bits and pieces borrowed from other sources. Yes, a lot of art is borrowed, though a lot is also creatively novel. For AI art, it's all borrowed.

  Kind of reminds me of the idea that there are only seven basic plot types for all stories. So, who created the original plot types? Is that not creativity?

  Creativity gives birth to something from nothing. AI, given nothing, can only return nothing.

  Now those are phrases that AI wouldn't be able to come up with.

I've seen both LLMs and diffusion models do creative things with my own eyes.

Ah, but that's the magic of being able to call on an extremely large dataset. The results appear to be entirely novel. In actuality, it isn't. It's almost like sleight of hand, but probably better described as sleight of data.

That AI generated picture you see, it's all just bits and pieces borrowed from other sources. Perhaps you can argue that it has been creatively assembled, but even that is algorithmically deduced through training.

That conversation you've had with AI. It's all been had before. It seems like it's really responding in a considered manner, but it's really just borrowing words that have been used already.

It may all seem new and creative, but that's because you're not aware of where the responses come from. You can't. It's impossible for a person to be aware and call on that much data. Machines have to process that data for us. That's all that current AI is; an algorithm that can process and use data on a level we haven't attempted before.

If you ask current AI to give you something that is completely new, never before seen (not just a new amalgamation of existing things), then it wouldn't be able to do it, because it has no creativity.

And since Rust code can largely if not totally avoid such problems when properly implemented, memory safety now looks a lot like a national security issue.

  This confuses me. Surely _any_ language, when properly implemented, will totally avoid memory security bugs.

  I'm not a Rust programmer, and probably don't appreciate it. I'm guessing that it's just harder for other languages to properly implement avoidance of these bugs.

PS5 sales are pretty much tracking exactly what PS4 sales were, so it's been selling well enough. Not sure what you mean by production screw-ups. Initially, Sony couldn't get enough parts to create enough PS5 units. Supply chain issue, not production issue.

I have a PSVR headset, but not PSVR2. Why? Because Sony pissed me off by not making it backward compatible. I have a library of PSVR titles, and I would have certainly bought the PSVR2 had I been able to play them.

Perhaps if Sony reduced the price of the PSVR2, I might be convinced to snap it up. Until then, I have plenty of regular games to keep me occupied.