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When I'm using BlueCruise, I can't look at a sign beside the road without beeping warning me to keep my eyes on the road. There are few roads where BlueCruise even remains active for long without reverting to "hands-free" mode, so that if my hands aren't positioned properly on the wheel, or if my hands even rest too passively on the wheel during turns, there's an alarm.

I honestly don't know how people lose track of the road using BlueCruise. Wearing glasses with eyes painted on them, with rubber hands hooked onto the wheel?

Both Ra and There Is No Antimemetics Department by the same author are absolutely top-tier works.

I don't follow the last point in your argument.

Isn't 4 equivalent to, 'no civilization will invent casual interstellar travel/spread to the stars'?

And isn't that hypothesis extremely likely, given what we now know about the costs of _interplanetary_ travel and its relative ease compared to interstellar travel?

That's another assumption, that it's _possible_ to colonize a galaxy from a planetary base. We don't even know that it's possible to colonize a nearby planet. If we were confident that we could, we'd be filling up Siberia, Ellesmere Island, and Greenland first.

There's also another assumption missing from your list- that technological civilizations can last long enough to colonize the galaxy. I'm also surprised that there isn't any discussion on the site or here of Great Filters. If the average technological civilization wipes itself out within a few hundred years of developing technologies that enable space travel or even radio, then all discussion of "filling the galaxy" is castles in the air.

Absolutely right-- the warning is only necessary if they're not hashing the password before templating the string prior to storage.

Don't hash the password on the client. That just changes the password to the hash of the password.

Parameterize the SQL on the server instead of concatenating strings.

1. _Material_ licensing fees for use of protected content. NYT will have grounds for punitive damages (over 100K per work per infringing use), enough money to make OpenAI and even Microsoft come to the negotiating table.

2. Open door for everyone else whose content has been copied to demand payment.

3. Japan aside*, I'm not sure how a decisive victory for NYT fails to affect companies in other countries. Other countries will certainly take a US opinion into account. Furthermore, nothing whatsoever would prevent NYT from suing for infringement in France, Germany, etc.

A number of European countries are _much_ more comfortable with compulsory licensing than the US is.** I will not be surprised at all if Germany, Denmark, Sweden etc impose an AI-training license that companies have to pay to train or even use AI models. Could be based on employees, users, revenue, etc. They've been doing this for decades for other forms of mechanical reproduction, so it seems a reasonable path forward.

* I've seen reports that Japan has declared that it will not enforce copyright against organizations for training models on copyright-protected works. I don't know whether this means that _everything_ is fair game in Japan-- it could mean that training won't be enforced, but commercial use of models trained on protected works could be. I think it's somewhat harder to argue against training a model than it is against leveraging a trained model for commercial purposes.

** AFAIK, the only use for compulsory licensing in the US is musical performance.

4. "Surely one can't get licenses"... collective licensing would be a path forward for which there's a little more history in the US than there is for compulsory licensing. In a collective licensing model, OpenAI/Microsoft/Company X would be able to purchase a license priced by revenue/employees/users etc, and funds would be distributed to participating copyright holders.

For that to work, you need some kind of agency that has a ton of significant copyright holders. If some agency were able to get to a critical mass , that could happen without Congressional action.

Congress could also step into the problem in a couple of ways. They could wave a wand and make the problem go away for OpenAI/Microsoft/everyone else, or they could explicitly require some kind of license. I'd be shocked if Congress handled this productively _at all_; these issues are incredibly fraught in the best of times, Congress has been terrible for years at any kind of precise technical work, and the current Congress is uniquely incompetent.

I expect that if Congress accomplishes anything on this topic in the next couple of years, it will turn out to be awful for everyone.

Oddly enough, I _was_ serious about this, and it _does_ work. Doesn't have to be too obvious, either, with practice.

It's also an established-company problem, for reals. Some of that stuff you didn't fix when you were small and could still pick your priorities will still be a problem other people will work around for decade or two. That OS you're giving yourself another year to upgrade will go out of support in a few more than that. That dev you can't stand who's the only one who can maintain that service one service you always meant to replace? In a few years, that service will be around, and so will that dev, and you won't be any fonder of them by then, either.

Not thinking about tech debt is a not-sticking-around-after-the-champagne problem.

Vary your steps using waltz tempo, so you're staying a little longer on alternate feet.

Think about how she navigates her house and ways to help her with that. Would she feel more comfortable with additional rails on stairs, bars in the bathroom?

Things like more compartments in her kitchen dresser drawers to help with sorting?

The parts that we certainly didn't get wrong were that it did not accomplish any of the technical goals it set for itself, that many of the most admired and successful practitioners were not just criminal but mortifyingly bad at it, and that the most or only successful business proposition it has enabled is ransomware.

But please accept a small tip paid in funny-dog fake money for whatever is left over after that.

Compared to virtually every other link that comes up in any product review search, Wirecutter stories still do stand out for having clearly been written by actual human beings with experience and interest in the reviewed product, and for their lack of content-mill filler language like 'There are many factors to consider in your choice of ____. One of these factors is price." This is August 23, 2023, to start a count of days until that's no longer true.

Is it as good as it used to be? I dunno.

"...The world is older than it was. Even the weather isn't as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time we remember." ---John Crowley, "Little, Big"

There used to be a Microsoft store in the big mall near me. It turned into a babysitting service for parents who dropped their kids off to play with the Xbox.

At this point, I hope that Apple says absolutely nothing about a headset, not even a word, at WWDC and answers every question with the same "We don't comment on unreleased products."

If not, "Headset? What headset? You can't believe everything you read in the gossip blogs."