I bet Kegsbreath is playing “hide the missile” with his high-testosterone friends…

My understanding, though, is they have their own chip specs, for custom die nobody else uses , and they integrate that into their chiplets or whatever it is they are using. So it’s not like those vendors can just sell those die to other customers. Whoever is making Apple’s RAM is making it specifically for them.

Unless their contracts with Apple have some sort of escalation clause, I would figure Apple would be pretty insulated from all this price nonsense. Heck, they have enough cash on hand that I bet they can buy a smaller RAM vendor if they had to. It mainly depends on how much of that custom RAM tech they own vs. licensing from any particular vendor. If they are using patents from their vendor, then that makes it harder to just switch.

Wait, don’t new iPhones and Macs have that unified memory? Maybe I’m missing something, but shouldn’t Apple be in the best position with regards to memory prices in their products?

I wonder if they are calling it the “drone deal” just to get under Trump’s skin. After all, he views the world as a zero-sum game, and the US as competing with Europe. So, any deal thar Europe “gets” is one less deal for the US.

Ukraine’s territorial integrity shouldn’t be subject to “deals”, but here we are.

Researchers aren’t interested in our individual data, but companies sure are interested in selling it…

I could be. But where do they get the data?

University of Minnesota researchers analyzed 120 million vehicle trips across the United States from four Wednesdays in 2021 using driving data on national road networks, speed limits and U.S. Geological Survey elevation data. The analysis included roads with speed limits of 45 mph (72 kph) and higher.

Where did they get the data? Did the drivers of all 120 million trips consent to being part of their study?

“Driving data on national road networks” sounds innocuous, but hides a lot of questions. Was it part of information gathered by the governments for toll roads, or for other reasons? Or was it telemetry gathered from the cars themselves? Do the drivers know that their data on their individual trips is being distributed to researchers?

This is a giant red flag to me. Our information is being distributed everywhere, and there’s fuck-all we can do about it…

If I am reading the article correctly, the point of the lawsuit is not that they used AI to make their staffing decisions. It’s that the criteria they asked the AI to use to make those decisions directly disadvantaged people who were on approved leave for medical reasons, and whose jobs were supposed to be protected by law.

It’s an important distinction. These decision makers delegated their staffing decisions to a bot. But bots are not people. If the instructions given to those bots resulted in actions that violated the law, the decision makers need to be held accountable, I the same manner they would if they made those decisions without AI assistance.

Since it’s a Republican doing it, I guess not.

It’s always dangerous when we try to apply technical solutions to what are essentially social problems. Because then the task isn’t necessarily “how can I improve my behavior”, but it’s “how can I get around this tech”.

I have long believed that this interlock nonsense is really just a way to punish poor people for DUIs while making sure that rich people can still continue to not face consequences for them by paying to get out of jail. After all, it would be cheaper for all involved to just suspend someone’s license entirely (and impound their car), even after they get out of jail. But then there is no opportunity for rich people to use their connections and wealth to get around the rules.

Just wait until it gets integrated into that database ICE is using that can tell them who is a citizen and who isn’t, just by looking. Then it will shut the car off if the driver looks drowsy, drunk, or the wrong shade of brown.

Football doesn’t start until September. Go Bills!

Like Elon has ever built anything in his life, he has people to do that for him

This shouldnt surprise us. This is how Oligarchs like Musk intend to turn the US into an oligarchy like Russia. They don’t need to hack the vote counts if they can hack voters’ minds and do their thinking for them…

Looks like Trump’s speech tonight will have a receptive audience

the make-up of the supreme court of the united states would be 5-4 the other way.

One of those five would have been Merrick Garland, though, who wasn’t exactly the bees’ knees as AG. He probably would have ended up as an extreme disappointment as a SC justice. Better than Gorsuch, but not by much.

The Governor vetoed that bill, saying it goes against the State Constitution. So, there is every possibility the Governor might ignore the bill, and appoint someone anyway, and let the courts sort it out.

Although I think it’s more likely that the Governor simply says that it’s too close to November to hold a special election. That seat is up for grabs in that election anyway, there are already candidates and everything. Beshear could just say that is also the special election, and leave the seat vacant for a few months. That would mean whoever wins that election takes the seat right away, so if Democrats pull off an upset it would have an immediate effect.

Nothing happened to it. It’s there in some fonts, and not in others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif

I am all for the proliferation of (Weird) Al in everything, particularly when using sans-serif fonts.