Exactly, scientists have been saying this forever but evil oversized bipedal crocs sell.

It honestly feels like a marketing issue more than anything. A non-zero amount of people think modern dinosaurs are “boring” because they don’t look like Jurassic Park.

Compared to big fluffy unicorn pigeons that eat each other.

Like people would happily be swooped by a magpie if given the chance.

A knee-high raptor who will happily leap up and bite chunks off of larger prey whilst they’re still alive and kicking seems like it would retain much of the terror.

Didn’t Google replace the normal Google Assistant with Gemini on newer phones?

YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.

“Drill, baby, drill!” has always been an immensely stupid rallying cry, even if you don’t care about the environment.

But a funny one, if it was in an Austin Powers movie.

Fun fact #2: Not all oil is equal. Refineries are designed to process certain grades of oil into specific products, and different parts of the world have different grades. Refineries also often blend oils from different parts of the world to get the characteristics they need for their process.

And the infrastructure to do that doesn’t currently exist. Even if they could drill overnight, they don’t have the pumps, platforms, and refineries set up.

How exactly does one suck a fuck?

With consent, of course.

for being violet

But what if it was chartreuse?

:x is also an alternative to save and quit.

Equally valid for the facial expression you’d make upon finding that out.

ChatGPT itself is also many text-generation models in a coat, since they will automatically switch between models depending on what options you choose, and whether you’ve passed your quota.

Roomba, the robot vacuum cleaner company, had to institute a policy where they would preserve the original machine as much as possible, because people were getting attached to their robot vacuum cleaner, and didn’t want it replaced outright, even when it was more economical to do so.

That isn’t an LLM though. That’s a different type of Machine Learning entirely.

Especially since it doesn’t push back when a reasonable person might do. There’s articles about how it sends people into a conspiratorial spiral.

Depending on how they do it, not having to deal with hydrogen infrastructure might be nice, if they keep along with the plan to use refillable cartridges. Hydrogen is a bit more fiddly.

Although this seems much more reliant on humidity compared to a hydrogen fuel cell, which seems like a huge hole if the thing just won’t work if it’s a dry day/environment.

Both, of course.

Cloudflare’s is a corporate solution from the company that man-in-the-middles half the internet and makes me click shit every fucking time. I see it whenever I make the mistake of following a stackoverflow link.

It is also not very useful if you don’t use a PC. Every time I look up a Cloudflare-gated site on my iPad, I usually have to jump through a few captchas before it will let me in, if it doesn’t decide to be a grump and decide to put you in a sisyphean cycle of captchas, constantly refreshing without end.

Or if you use some software. I have citation software that gets stuck in the loop because Elsevier puts their journals behind a Cloudflare wall, and when it pops up the prompt to prove you’re not a bot, just refreshes straight into another prompt.

I think a traditional “shuttle” wouldn’t be up to the task - you’d want a vessel with bunks and space to walk around, at the very least.

They can probably do it in a pinch. In Relics, Scotty is given a shuttle to roam around in, and it’s doubtful that the Enterprise would have given him one if it was something that would only be capable of short-range operation.

But normally, I’d imagine that you’d just rendezvous with a starship, who would take you the rest of the way, with or without the shuttle, which would get close enough, and then you’d either have another ship, or use another shuttle to get you the rest of the way.

Sort of like a car using a ferry.

EDIT: Is the Federation even adhering to the warp five speed limit anymore? I know it doesn’t get addressed after “Force of Nature”, but is there anything suggesting that the speed limit has been dropped completely by the 25th century?

Nothing explicit, though there’s behind-the-scenes materials. The nacelles on the Intrepid-class were designed to mitigate that for example, but that never made it on-screen.

On-screen, we just know that warp engines didn’t significantly change, and that the Enterprise was able to exceed those speeds after a bit, so it was presumably fixed behind the scenes.

Plus the fault with the multitronic computer wasn’t really the multitronic mechanism that operated it. It was that Daystrom stuffed his neural engrams into it to try and make it sapient, which caused everything to go wrong, probably because it was loaded with everything in his head, including his desperation to make the multitronic computer work, and paranoia about his peers. A multitronic unit loaded with LCARS might not be that revolutionary, but would not have gone homicidal.

Though we never saw it get advanced into a whole computer system on its own, they did seem to get used for some things that needed mind-like complexity. Holograms use multitronics as part of the matrix, for example. So Daystrom might have been onto something, but was too obsessed in creating something that could supersede duotronics to properly explore the thing.

The censorship only exists on the version they host, which is fair enough. If they’re running it themselves in China, they can’t just break the law.

If you run it yourself, the censorship isn’t there.

It’s also much easier to implement.

Not really. Why censor more than you have to? That takes time and effort, and it’s almost certainly easier to do it using something else. The law isn’t that particular, as long as you follow it.

You also don’t risk causing the model to go wrong, like trying to censor bits of the model has a habit of doing.