The funny thing is that that wouldn't take much energy - less than a hundred (kilo)calories according to my very rough estimate. The silicon would boil.

I view the author list of industry papers more as a sales-and-marketing thing than as a real list of contributors, but shouldn't that be "Neuralink and E. Musk" anyway? The equivalent of the P. I. putting his name first like that is unorthodox.

This is why my programs don't come with documentation. If you want to use them, the best I can do is a messy script that "works for me".

The hacker known as Four Chan would never lie to us!

Just drape your coat over your arm in front of you like an elegant gentleman. No one will ever suspect.

For journalists, it raises a question: Should a public official’s family be held to the same standards as that official themselves?

Bullshit. It raises the question: Should a Supreme Court Justice be believed unconditionally when he offers an excuse for what really looks like inappropriate bias? The discovery that another flag associated with the January 6 attack flew in front of Alito's beach house has shown that the NYT was correct not to accept his story about his wife. I'm honestly surprised by the discussion of how a judge's family is expected to behave - it's as if a dead body was found in Alito's house, he said that he had no idea how it got there, and the press started talking about whether or not he had a responsibility to monitor access to his property more closely.

Sometimes when I open my mouth really wide, I somehow spray a little stream of saliva, like from a squirt gun. It makes me feel like the dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park, but so far I haven't been able to do it on purpose.

Hah, my grandfather had heart problems and very high cholesterol so we gave him such a hard time for eating unhealthy food. But now I have been a vegetarian for almost twenty years (I try to avoid eggs and dairy too) and my cholesterol is just as high as his was, unless I take medications. So we should have just let him eat whatever he wanted to...

Edison was apparently quite successful, to the point where some languages other than English have a word that sounds like "hello" (for example, Russian "allo") which is used only when answering the phone.

At least you don't have my "sky-high cholesterol no matter what you eat" gene.

Also artificial sweeteners have an unpleasant chemical aftertaste that lingers for a long time. Apparently that's generic too...

I had a lot of fun watching Edge of Tomorrow.

Their problem:

So apparently NetHack has a mechanic that slightly changes how the game plays every time it's full moon according to your system clock

The model wasn't trained on a full moon. They had a system to set up the environment for replicable results but it didn't include modifying the system time.

It reminds me of another bug with the system time, which a friend of mine encountered. He was working on hardware and he was getting a lot of units that worked fine at the factory, immediately failed at the client's location, and then worked again when they were returned to the factory. It turned out that when these machines were turned on, their embedded OS automatically queried some server to update the current time. The client's internet connection had such high latency that the server's response only came back after the machine was already in use. This generated a huge delta-t value that triggered the sanity checks and shut the machine down. The factory had a much lower-latency connection and so the race condition could never be replicated there.

As for the weirdest bug I ever encountered myself: a compiler generating bad machine code. I have often said that the worst part of programming is that the computer always does exactly what you tell it to, but that was the one and only time in twenty years that the computer actually didn't.

This reminds me of how in 2004 I was a college student in New Hampshire and I got a pamphlet that had a warning that it was illegal for college students from out-of-state to vote there (which isn't true) on one side and an ad for G. W. Bush on the other.

It reminds me of this more recent fashion trend:

"Over 10 years away" is not distant IMO, but rather oh so close.

Mufasa survived the fall - that's why the wildebeest stampede was necessary. Even then he probably would have lived (according to comic book logic) if Simba just ran away instead of coming back and finding his body.

I think Gaston would have been a good main character for a hypothetical Beauty and the Beast sequel (or a good D&D PC). He's the inverse of the standard hero - rather than starting out weak but pure of heart, he starts out strong, clever, brave, and charismatic, but also a rotten person. However, he just crossed several lines in a row (literally stabbing someone in the back is pretty bad even by his own standards), nearly died (Disney characters routinely survive falling off of cliffs), and can't go home to a town where everyone knows he's a villain. Can he turn his life around after hitting rock bottom (both literally and figuratively)?

I'd play him as a paladin, for that strength/charisma combination. Maybe he was saved through divine intervention? That could be enough to make him change his ways. A combat-oriented bard might work too; he does sing...

When I was in California, I saw perfectly peeled lemons lying under a friend's lemon tree. He told me the rats did it - they ate the peel but were very careful not to bite into the sour inside.

I'd say they did a rather good job...

This whole time I was pronouncing it "vodzhak" rather than "voyak". (Analogous to Russian воин?)