MI:2 was made for people who thought the original Mission: Impossible movie was too complex, needed a love interest, and needed more action sequences.

That being said, credit where credit is due: The original Mission: Impossible movie stands up really well even now. Complex storytelling with an engaging plot. The flashback where Ethan Hunt is trying to put together what happened while he is being told what happened is a great example of an unreliable narrator. But we need to figure that out. It's not spoon fed to the viewers.

Still my favorite movie in the franchise.

Which presumably mean they also didn't purchase the yearly subscribers from the previous company. I think a judge would be quite critical of a purchase of all customers except the ones that would be a long-term liability.

Parent here, with a son graduating high school. ChatGPT is used by everyone he knows in high school. He used it recently to write an essay for a highschool class. But it's not the essay he handed in. More like it wrote out an outline that he used to get started on his essay. Kinda like a first draft, but more just to give him inspiration for him to get started in writing something in his own voice.

I saw him do it, and told him that it was reasonable so long as he didn't try to submit something that was completely written by AI. He already knew that the AIs are not at all good enough to be trusted for that (yet). But it is a good way to get a start on a paper. Kinda like writing a paper on a topic and reading the Wikipedia page on it first.

AI is a tool. To be used or misused.

Teachers can have kids do short tests in person in class to test knowledge, while using projects that allow AI input to test understanding.

Are republicans actually buying Teslas in significant numbers?

Also, remember that rare earth elements aren't that rare. There actually were mines in the U.S. that mined for them. The U.S. mines closed down because it was cheaper to export the mining to China. We had the benefit of getting cheaper Rare Earth Elements while exporting all the harm of mining them to China.

Now we can mine them in the U.S. if we want to (at a cost significantly higher that getting them from China) and get to make more sick people in the U.S., bolstering the U.S. health care industry. And if the sick miners and their families don't have health insurance, they can just go to the hospitals and get treated for free (*).

(*) Well,l it's not free. They will be charged and just not pay the bill. Then the hospital eats the cost and raises the cost of other things so that it doesn't go bankrupt. It's the American way. :-)

They found a complete, pristine, 35mm film copy that remained intact since the release. Independent of the people that made Project 4k77.

Hope this original film gets transferred to a digital copy and used to improve the quality that the 4k77 people have (which is already quite beautiful, for the most part).

Oops. Totally wrong link. Here it is: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsystem76.com%2Fcosmic%2F%3Fs...

From my 30-second look, Cosmic seems to be a desktop environment that borrows a lot of elements from MacOS. Looks to be funded by System76.com (the Linux desktop and laptop seller).

Some more info about Cosmic: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt2...

Been looking to replace my System76 desktop (from ~2014). Never had a problem with System76. Will probably buy my next desktop from them. It's nice supporting a Linux supporter.

Every time I see one of these articles I remind myself how I splurged to get a combination laser printer/scanner/fax.

Got mine somewhere ~15 years ago. Bought three ink replacements since then. Printer and scanner still works perfectly. Never got around to using the fax capabilities. (lol) Still perfectly well supported in Linux.

Don't plan to replace it until part of it breaks.

I suppose he could find an old version of Firefox, but Firefox 1.0 came out in 2004 (!!!). And I'm not sure anyone would suggest using Mozilla from the 90s on the modern web.

Some machines just should be used stand-alone or with just network access to some soft of network file system.

Gotta say, it's fun reading stories like this to show how much things have advanced in the last 25+ years.

GIMP: What am I, garbage to you?

(I do agree that GIMP has a large learning curve. I can't image Krita and other open source programs are so difficult that they are out of the reach of casual users.)

Very true.

But I recently got interested in Samsung's Frame TV (a friend had it in their house and it looks amazing!), and having this run in a picture frame would be quire serene.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.samsung.com%2Fus%2Ftvs...

Investments are not known ahead of time if they will be optimal or not.

Universities have certain obligations that prevent them from going with the simple 80:20 TotalStockMarket:TotalBondMarket ratio that is reasonable for individual investors. Some of these obligations include money earmarked for certain funds, expenditures (known and unknown), and long term health of their endowment.

For a university which has been around for 400+ years, long term investing is different than for an individual who is looking for a 30 year retirement. The university will be looking further out on long tail black swan events that individuals wouldn't be concerned about. Reminds me of the story about how Oxford grew oaks to make sure they had the wood to replace the beams in their dining hall. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlasobscura.com%2Fp...

But, yeah. F--- the major U.S. elite universities that don't grow their student body to keep up with population growth. Only one that grew appropriately was the University of California system, which has a mandate to take a certain percentage of students who apply from their state.

If it requires cables, is it really quantum teleportation?

I'm pretty sure that word means something else...

And, I'm not really interested enough to either RTFA or RTFS

I'm really excited to see where this is headed.

Things that I am expecting in the next 30 years (my potential lifetime):
- "breaking" of the Gulf Stream. Will this mean Europe will freeze over? Sudden increased waterfall in Africa and a more temperate climate there?
- A major U.S. costal city (New Orleans?) will have to create water mitigation systems (dams, levees, sea walls, flood gates) that are permanently in place to prevent complete flooding. That system will break often enough that the city will be eventually abandoned (as it will be uninsurable).
- Pandemics (with death on the scale of Covid-19) will become more common, occurring every 5 years or less.
- Drinkable (potable) water in the U.S. will increase in price 5-fold (when indexed for inflation). Free water as restaurants will go away.

It's going to be interesting times for those of us left alive!