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The article in the Register is more interesting:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/florida_man_sues_soci...

I guess that the hyphen is not the only problem that the author encounters with automated systems.

It's slightly worrying from a security perspective that their servers are written in JavaScript.

> This supernova, about 31 million light-years from Earth in the galaxy NGC2146, was detected three hours after the explosion happened.

Faster Than Light communication!

Those were great games. I especially liked the way that they used stereo sounds, it made it a lot more realistic.

Some more info from Brian Krebs:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/revil-ransomware-gang-st...

1984 is slowly becoming an optimistic book.

A direct confirmation from GitHub itself. This is problematic because Copilot sometimes outputs code that was present in its training set.

https://fossbytes.com/github-copilot-generating-functional-a...

> The software engineers of the future will, themselves, be software

And how does this AI know the requirements?

It is even worse than Stack Overflow, there at least you might get some explanation about an answer, AI systems are still horrible at explaining their results.

Many cryptographers are very reluctant about voting machines, because it is difficult to get details like these correct.

Certainly, especially given that building a distributed system already is a lot more difficult than building non-distributed one. I have the feeling that most people really underestimate this.

> there's genetic evidence covid-19 evolved in animals with intact immune systems, not in a lab

They had live animals in the lab.

Decent article about a "green" bitcoin.

I was a bit worried that there would be only two browsers left, but the data at [0] showed that Samsung Internet (I have never heard of this one) and Opera also have single digit percentages.

https://gs.statcounter.com/

What is your definition of absolute risk reduction?

No, I described externally observable behavior that would classify as ADHD. What is said is that that behavior could also be observed in an AI, and I see no reason why it could not.

If you claim that an AI cannot have ADHD, because it lacks a particular state of a nervous system, you might as well claim that AI cannot exist because it seems impossible to build a machine with a nervous system.

This is a very good article about intersex children. I am very disappointed that it did not get more positive attention here.

> Would you expect an AI to suffer from ADHD?

Yes, I would.

ADHD is the condition where there are many problems around and you cannot decide which ones are really worth solving, so you spend some effort on most of them but solve none. I really see no reason why an AI that is presented with multiple problems would not show the same behavior. It might even notice this problem by itself, but it already has so many other problems to solve.

> If you’ve watched as many David Attenborough-narrated nature documentaries as I have or follow Nature is Metal, you know that many non-human animals spend their entire existence merely surviving.

First a not so nice response:

Humans also spend their entire existence merely surviving. Once they stop doing that we generally don't consider them to be human.

Perhaps a somewhat nicer disagreement:

Lots of animals show some behavior that is not directly related to their immediate survival. Lots of young animals play, they can only do that because they do not have to be concerned with their immediate survival.

It is quite an interesting article.

Link:

https://link.medium.com/HNdhmXdFHhb

Overall it is a nice article about a group of species that deserve a lot more positive attention.

However this statement is definitely false:

> spiders are terrestrial, so you are not close to spiders when you are swimming!

Several land based spiders can actually walk on water, because they are very light and their feet are hydrophobic.

Even more amazing is that there are spiders that live underwater. They have hairs on their body that captures air. When you see them they look somewhat silvery, due to the reflection between water and air. They build nests under water. Because the young spiders also need air to breathe they continuously transport fresh air to their nests.

What is really amazing is that all current approved vaccines seem to reduce the risk of serious consequences (like dying) from COVID-19. The fact that some vaccines cannot protect against re-infections is worrying, but so far most reports seem to indicate that most of them have far less serious consequences than infections of non-vaccinated persons.

This is a good pragmatic article about using formal methods. You should not expect them to solve all of your problems, but they can certainly help.

My relation with Autoconf, eh, let's say it's complicated.

Once you get it running it generally does a solid job. It helps to run your code even on systems that you have never heard of.

On the other hand if you wanted to change your configuration, you sometimes ended up trying to figure out some M4 macro's that had no real documentation.

In a historical context, it was a very smart piece of technology when it was developed, but I am glad that I do not have to use it currently.

Some COVID-19 tests can be fooled. A good article with the scientific reasons behind this. It is also interesting for people who are not children, and definitely for people who are deciding whether these tests are useful.

You are right, of course.

Quitting smoking is already a big step for your health. Smoking requires all kind of complicated chemical reactions that result in things like free radicals and airborne particulates that certainly will damage your health.

Vaping is mainly a physical process that changes fluids to gases. It is very generally assumed that it is a lot safer than smoking. Apart from one exception my e-liquids are officially approved for human consumption. The one exception of course is nicotine, but that is pretty easily metabolized. So while you definitely should not consume to much of it, it either kills you very fast or it won't kill you at all.

This is really shocking news. He is a very well respected journalist.

The police have arrested three suspects, and it is believed that their car was caught on CCTV near the place of the murder.

There are multiple reports that indicate the 'Long Covid' is a very real phenomenon. Because COVID is still a pretty new decease, it is difficult to estimate what the really long-term (say 5 or 10 years) problems are.

One of the technical problems with researching this issue is that in many countries there is no national registration of the health problems of patients that were infected. For the health effects of the vaccines many countries do have some form of central registration.

Most users have never programmed their PC.