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If I want to use it plugged in, that's my own damn business.

Sometimes when you "think different" you invent relativity, and sometimes you invent Time Cube.

Every mouse on the market has a battery life of months. Every mouse on the market will tell the user when the battery runs down. Apple is not special. The thing is just built wrong. And they haven't fixed it after all these years.

That is the smallest fatal flaw with that mouse. The bigger flaw is ergonomics. Selling something that likely to cause injury should be illegal.

It sure is nice to look at, though.

We already have publicly-available models that are good enough for spam and scams. When running on CPU they are already faster than most people can type.

The cat is out of the bag. While the "AI alignment" jackasses were writing their Terminator fanfiction and wringing their hands about paperclips, they had already destroyed the world wide web as we know it.

This will catch only the laziest and stupidest cheaters. Crafting an argument is the hard part of an essay. A student can rewrite an essay, leaving not a single word in place, but still be guilty of plagiarism because the argument is the same. This is hard to prove even with the two documents side by side. It is harder still when the source could be any of a million documents.

Of course, many cheaters are that stupid and lazy. People still just copy and paste essays they found online.

The quality of the story is a matter of opinion, but the linearity of the story is objective fact. Just look at the chart you posted: there is one linear story to follow, with just occasional branches to alternate endings or splits that immediately merge back together.

Most VNs are structured as routes. The reader does not choose how the story will unfold, but rather chooses one of several linear stories to follow. I would classify that as a fundamentally linear story. The fact that the route is chosen by a choice in the middle is not really different from choosing the route from a menu at the start. In fact, most people use guides to get on the desired route.

SubaHibi is even more linear than that, because the playing order of the routes is enforced. Each route is unlocked only after the previous one is completed. There is one "True" ending, which is required to be completed last. The mysteries are only fully resolved by reaching the True ending.

(I don't think the True ending actually adds anything. In fact, all the mysteries were resolved to my satisfaction less than halfway through the story. But that's a matter of opinion once again.)

How is the affair "linked" to Epstein? As far as I can tell, Epstein merely learned of it and tried to use it as leverage.

Besides, how could Epstein use his own crimes to blackmail someone? If he did somehow procure this woman for Gates, he couldn't reveal that fact without revealing himself as a sex trafficker. That would be a suicide bombing at best.

It's unfortunate that VNs are both a medium and a genre. For reasons I don't quite understand, I adore the medium. Yet there are genre conventions that I dislike and that new readers generally can't tolerate.

SubaHibi is linear. It has the classic fake freedom: there is only one true ending and only one path to it. Any choices you make are either right or wrong, and the wrong ones are promptly punished.

(And, in my opinion, it's one of the worst things ever written.)

For reasons I do not understand, I find actually playing a visual novel more immersive than just seeing video of one. Visual novels may seem like a passive experience, but the tiny bit of interaction (literally just pressing a button to continue dialogue) makes a huge difference to me.

So yes, it's piracy, but it also isn't a perfect reproduction.

One might think that the fact that choices are flattened into a purely linear story would ruin the experience, but most choices are so vestigial that removing them is an improvement in my book.

I don't think it's obviously solvable. All current approaches are plainly incapable of introspection. These GPTs don't understand their own "minds" half as well as we understand them, and we don't understand them very well.

That scene is ridiculous, but the de-aging was worse than ridiculous. At the beginning of the movie I thought De Niro was supposed to be about fifty years old. I knew he had been digitally de-aged but it never crossed my mind he was supposed to be in his twenties. For a good chunk of the movie I didn't understand why the gangsters were so interested in recruiting a middle-aged truck driver.

The de-aging prevented me from understanding the story.

Effective Java 2nd Edition is 15 years old now. Is the Java information at all accurate?

> A degree from a university that has gotten rid of grades will not be worth much compared to one that hasn't.

You may be surprised to learn that quite a few well-regarded universities adopted this sort of policy years ago. In particular, grading freshmen pass/fail is not uncommon.

>The idea of someone not getting accreditation in a course because they already knew the material beforehand and so didn't learn anything is completely wrongheaded and abhorrent.

Whoa, Nelly! No one is talking about refusing degrees to students who read too much. I don't know where you got that idea. It definitely wasn't from Jody Greene.

Right now, attending university is both an education and a credential. These two goals are in tension, and both are compromised as a result. Students should be able to pursue an education without fear that trying something challenging will permanently affect their career. Employers looking for proof of knowledge shouldn't care where or how that knowledge was learned.

>To "tell whether you are graduating people with skills", you need a test of those skills.

Right.

>That's a grade.

Wrong. Traditional letter grades are one way of measuring mastery, but the interviewees in this article describe a few alternatives.

Sadly they don't describe these alternatives in detail. I wish this article were a bit more nuts-and-bolts. It leaves more questions than it answers.