Yet another reason why patents on software shouldn't exist.

It's not enough that they're cross. They want you to be cross too!

The Science VS podcast did a show on diets and nutrition a while back and they said that the only emulsifier showing evidence of potential harmful effects (e.g. gut bacteria problems) at the time was soy lecithin.

If you go into any grocery store in the US and look at the ingredients for stuff in the bakery soy lecithin is in everything! It's actually kind of ridiculous, actually.

It's also hard to find ice cream that doesn't have soy lecithin. It's not even brand-based where you can just choose one brand over another to avoid it. For example, most Haagen Dazs ice cream has soy lecithin but not the chocolate peanut butter flavor 🤷

Just need the Stable Diffusion benchmarks.

This is crap. TikTok is just a video hosting platform with a powerful, China-controlled algorithm that keeps people addicted. If TikTok were to disappear today a new platform would rise to take it's place within milliseconds. Seriously: Do you honestly think that everyone would just put down their phones and do something else because TikTok doesn't work anymore‽

It's not even being banned! Which is another reason why this article is total bullshit. ByteDance just needs to comply with the law that is meant to prevent the Chinese government from interfering in US politics (yes, that's the real reason why that law was passed). That means they need to break ties with China or just outright sell the platform to some other company. If they let it die in the US they'd be throwing away billions of dollars which just isn't going to happen.

Furthermore, China has absolutely no ground to stand on by complaining about TikTok bans. They ban all sorts of foreign-owned apps in China for more dubious reasons.

Amateurs! They should've charged $4000 and handed you some terrible "medical food" on the way out.

You're supposed to use a lighter

The base assumption is that you can tell anything reliable at all about a person from their body language, speech patterns, or appearance. So many people think they have an intuition for such things but pretty much every study of such things comes to the same conclusion: You can't.

The reason why it doesn't work is because the world is full of a diverse set of cultures, genetics, and subtle medical conditions. You may be able to attain something like 60% accuracy for certain personality traits from an interview if the person being interviewed was born and raised in the same type of environment/culture (and is the same sex) as you. Anything else is pretty much a guarantee that you're going to get it wrong.

That's why you should only ask interviewees empirical questions that can identify whether or not they have the requisite knowledge to do the job. For example, if you're hiring an electrical engineer ask them how they would lay out a circuit board. Or if hiring a sales person ask them questions about how they would try to sell your specific product. Or if you're hiring a union-busting expert person ask them how they sleep at night.

The tower on the left is home to the Tea Wizard who uses parts of the lower floors for the nation's biscuit reserves. The one on the right is host to a princess that's been waiting for rescue by a prince for a very long time now.

Linux never ran on the Commodore 64 (1984). That was way before Linux was released by Linus Torvalds (1991).

I'd also like to point out that we do all rely on non-proprietary protocols. Examples you used today: TCP and HTTP.

If we didn't have free and open source protocols we'd all still be using Prodigy and AOL. "Smart" devices couldn't talk to each other, and the world of software would be 100-10,000x more expensive and we'd probably have about 1/1,000,000th of what we have available today.

Every little thing we rely on every day from computers to the Internet to cars to planes only works because they're not relying on exclusive, proprietary protocols. Weird shit like HDMI is the exception, not the rule.

History demonstrates that proprietary protocols and connectors like HDMI only stick around as long as they're convenient, easy, and cheap. As soon as they lose one of those properties a competitor will spring up and eventually it will replace the proprietary nonsense. It's only a matter of time. This news about HDMI being rejected is just another shove, moving the world away from that protocol.

There actually is a way for proprietary bullshit to persist even when it's the worst: When it's mandated by government.

This article is misleading: The cards are already "AI accelerators" they just come in monstrous sizes and coolers that aren't suitable for cramming more than one into a computer (server) case.

What the Chinese chop shops are doing is removing the components and resoldering them on to smaller PCBs and putting on smaller (but more powerful and jet-engine loud) exhaust-style coolers.

Basically it's just old fashioned harvesting and re-using of PCB components. A common thing during the shortages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LGBTQ people and drag queens.