randomfrogs
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1 month ago
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on: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
They decided that the 14th amendment prohibition on insurrectionists being able to hold Federal office did not apply to Trump because he is not an officer of the United States (despite the fact he holds the "Office of the Presidency"). If that isn't deliberately misreading the actual words of the statute to get the result you want, what is?
randomfrogs
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1 month ago
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on: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
The Republican majority on the SCOTUS announced that Trump is immune from all laws, which is insane and not supported by the Constitution in any way, but directly lead to what's happening. If you tell somebody they won't ever be held accountable for breaking laws, why follow them (except for your internal moral compass, and we've established that Trump doesn't have one).
randomfrogs
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1 month ago
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on: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
Should I get an M4 Max MacBook Pro, or an M4 Pro Macbook Pro? Or a Mac Pro? Or skip the computer altogether and get an iPhone Pro Max?
I mean, c'mon. They are deliberately trying to be confusing.
randomfrogs
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1 month ago
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on: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
Apple's not great, but Microsoft is worse.
randomfrogs
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2 months ago
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on: Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
It's a vacuum cleaner. All you want it to do is suck.
randomfrogs
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5 months ago
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on: Paper2Agent: Stanford Reimagining Research Papers as Interactive AI Agents
Scientific vocabulary is designed to be precise. The reason papers are written the way they are is to try to convey ideas with as little chance of misinterpretation as possible. It is maddeningly difficult to do that - I can't tell you how many times I've gotten paper and grant reviews where I cannot fathom how Reviewer 2 (and it's ALWAYS Reviewer 2) managed to twist what I wrote into what they thought I wrote. Almost every time you see something that seems needlessly precise and finicky, it's probably in response to a reviewer's comment, and the secret subtext is "There - now it's so over specified even a rabid wildebeest, or YOU, dear reviewer, couldn't misundertand it!" Unfortunately, a side effect of that is that a lot of the writing ends up seeming needlessly dense.
randomfrogs
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5 months ago
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on: Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC
Yeah, they are putting two facts together to heavily imply that they are part of a single story, but there is no evidence presented that they are. "UN leaders are gathering!" "There is a huge SIM farm that could disrupt communications!" Both true, but seemingly unrelated. All those car warranty texts have to come from somewhere - this is probably where.
randomfrogs
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1 year ago
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on: Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics
Don't anthropomorphize robots. They hate that.
randomfrogs
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1 year ago
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on: Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video]
One problem you might run into is that a lot of common plastics are opaque to NIR light, so you might find certain materials gave you strange results (water bottles that appear transparent to the eye would not actually pass the NIR light needed to make the mask layer).
randomfrogs
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1 year ago
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on: Unreal Engine 5 multi-threaded rendering in the browser with WASM
Chrome worked on the Mac, Safari didn't.
randomfrogs
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2 years ago
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on: Haier Europe Eases Off on Legal Threat and Seeks Dialogue
But if it's a LAN API, how exactly will the manufacturer harvest your usage information to sell to third parties? How will they get that sweet, sweet, post-sale monetization?
randomfrogs
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2 years ago
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on: Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather
Depends on the car. My Bolt battery takes a LONG time to get warm just from driving, even with the battery heater running. You can speed it up a bit with yoyo driving (speed up to use power, then regen brake to dump power back into the battery, repeat as necessary) for about a half hour.
