A very important distinction that is clearly not just splitting hairs.

Unlike the Soviets and Kaliningrad. Wait…

Send them a random dick pic back.

It was in the same weight range as what Ferrari was putting out at the time. Those stainless steel panels are very thin sheets over fiberglass. They don’t add as much weight as you’d think.

Most of the other issues were fixed by VIN 3000, but their reputation was set by then. Getting framed by the FBI in a drug sting didn’t help, either. It has a lot of very thoughtful features, like a gull wing door design that only comes out 11" and won’t hit the car parked next to you.

It got caught up in a bunch of regulatory changes that were happening the late 70s/early 80s. Just a bad time to start a new car company, or to make a sports car at all. There aren’t many memorable cars from the time period for anything other than looks.

Last time I checked, if you had bought an Edsel new, its value would have kept up with inflation. Some of the higher end trims do a little better than inflation. Which isn’t a particularly good investment either way, especially one that needs to be maintained with more money and effort. Tossing it in t-bonds would do just as well or better with almost zero effort.

Do you mean the Edsel? Studebaker was a successful car manufacturer for decades, and is still beloved by many.

It’s worth noting that some data reporting issues mean OS X and macOS are sometimes split, even though macOS is the newer branding for OS X. When combined, Apple’s desktop presence is around 24%

I think [email protected] has it right in another subthread. Star Trek: TNG doesn’t quite reach the level of competence porn. Scotty does, though. Guy who is delighted to be sent to his room so he can catch up on his technical journals? Yeah, he’s hyper competent.

Grand Admiral Thrawn of Star Wars is full out competence porn. Most of Timothy Zahn’s novels are.

Or they just think if they see tits it makes them horny so women MUST be the same way?

This one. The problem is that by the time 90% of the hetro cis male population of one generation has figured this out, a new generation of teen hetro cis males are right behind them. A better sex education class would cover this.

If there’s higher redundancy, then they are already giving up on density.

We’ve pretty much covered the likely ways to calculate parity.

Not necessarily.

The trouble with spinning platters this big is that if a drive fails, it will take a long time to rebuild the array after shoving a new one in there. Sysadmins will be nervous about another failure taking out the whole array until that process is complete, and that can take days. There was some debate a while back on if the industry even wanted spinning platters >20TB. Some are willing to give up density if it means less worry.

I guess Seagate decided to go ahead, anyway, but the industry may be reluctant to buy this.

That’s the stick where if you line it up with the sun at noon on the day of the summer solstice on the desert moon of Endor, you can line it up with the exact location where Rey picked her nose and left a booger on the Death Star debris.

If burning oil and coal can be considered weather modification and geoengineering, then yes.

They’re usually put on highways where pedestrian and bike traffic wouldn’t be, anyway. OP is an exception because of the ditch right next to the sidewalk.

You mean Samson? Autocorrect is a bitch.

Probably sooner than that. The “Pope” as we know it is an office that evolved later, though the Catholic church claims the line goes back to the Apostle Peter.

The stories in the gospels are a collection of stories that had been circulating orally among the first century Christians, and got written down mostly in the late second half of that century. Mary likely never claimed a virgin birth at all; that was invented by the oral tradition. Pretty much everything about Jesus childhood is made up to push certain religious narratives.

Which itself is sometimes interesting to follow. The whole census story behind Jesus birth, for instance, is almost certainly made up. Why would Rome require everyone to go back to their birth city to register? That’s hugely disruptive to everyday life if people have to travel days or weeks just to fill out some paperwork. But why did they stick that in there? One good answer is that the particular group who wrote that section of the gospels–it doesn’t appear in all of them–really wanted to connect Jesus to King David and Bethlehem, but everyone knows Jesus is from Nazareth. So they stick this convoluted census story in there to have a reason for Jesus to be born in Bethlehem instead of Nazareth.

Oh, those were cassette tapes of My Book of Bible Stories. Barr had a very grandfatherly voice, so they had him narrate.

Let’s clear some terms. Intelligence and consciousness are separate things that our language tends to conflate. Consciousness is the interpretation of sensory input. Hallucinations are what happen when your consciousness is misinterpreting that data.

You actually hallucinate to a minor degree all the time. For instance, pareidolia often takes the form of seeing human faces in rocks and clouds. Our consciousness is really tuned to patterns that look like human faces, and it sometimes gets it wrong.

We can actually do this to image recognition models. A model was tuned to finding dogs in movies. It could then modify the movie to show what it thought was there. It was then deliberately overtrained, and it output a movie with dogs all over the place.

The models definitely have some level of consciousness. Maybe not a lot, but some.

This is what I like about AI research. We learn about our own minds while studying it. But capitalism isn’t using it in ways that are net helpful to humanity.