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Great, now I’m thinking about the Trojan horse but with high explosives.

True, I’m very much looking at it in terms of work tooling. I don’t have much use for the ELIZA-with-delusions-of-grandeur models in my personal life.

80 bucks for a session could be a lot, but if it saves you 4 hours of work, I’d say it’s worth it.

OTOH, I’ve seen some articles claim that using AI tools actually slows you down. In that case, it’s a giant boondoggle.

Yes, and?

You might want to recheck your math.

.2 cents is $0.002

40000 * .002 = $80

Clipper chip all over again

Do you want more allies? Chasing away reluctant ones seems counterproductive to me TBH.

Glam doll! I haven’t been there in ages. I should pop over there this weekend.

I think I know the pizza shop you mentioned. I don’t remember its name, but it’s a little hole-in-the-wall place near the MIA.

Seward neighborhood? I used to work at Franklin & 22nd - near the Pizza Luce. That was before you lived here, though.

Now I live near Minnehaha Falls.

Did you live in Minneapolis or a suburb?

Winter of 2013-2014 was pretty brutal. I’m not sure about 16-17 though.

Eh, Minneapolis gets cold, but it doesn’t quite get that cold. The record low was -34 degrees F (-37C). We do regularly hit -20F, but we haven’t hit -30 since 1996.

Nitpicking aside, I agree that the winters can get brutal.

Hmm…a troll domain.

“httpscolonslashslashslashdotdotslash”

The list of people so dangerous they can’t be allowed to fly, but too innocent to arrest.

IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed.

Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me.

In the United States? They certainly can, and “fired for lying about credentials” gives the employer a reason to contest unemployment. But apparently there are enough employers that don’t cross-check that it can work as a strategy.

I’m not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I value honesty and want to see dishonesty deterred. OTOH…if you can do the job, what’s the point of having the degree as a checkbox on the job application? Bullshit metrics should be removed.

I stopped reading at “the Internet got going in 1995”. FFS, even the web dates back to 1991!

Alexander, is that you?

But in space its the only option you have

Hmm, this has me thinking about the stealth ships in The Expanse. The engineering needed to make it work makes me want to cry, but in principle you could run a Peltier cooler with a swappable heat sink.

To be clear, I don’t think this is a viable option, but it’s interesting to think about.

I lean towards discounting both rumors. I think the temptation to use said kill-switches would prove too great to resist, particularly for the authoritarian types involved.

We saw this a lot with provisions of the “PATRIOT Act”. It was championed as tools needed to combat terrorists and claimed to be reserved for such cases. In actuality, it was used to go after people running fan sites for sci-fi tv shows, among other things.

If such a kill switch existed in computer hardware, I’m sure it would have been used already. I’m less sure about a kill switch in the planes. On one hand, that’s a pretty situational tool, and you wouldn’t want to play that card until you really needed it.

OTOH, we didn’t hear about threats to throw the kill switch during the bluster over Greenland. If they had one, I think it would have been part of that bluster.