oh no, you don’t want to do that. The adhesive is an anti-nutrient, you see.

Completely neutralises the fibre. You’re better off snacking on some blotting paper.

I’d be curious if there might also be a cultural aspect at play.

Apparently in America, their portions tend to be quite large, since the expectation is to get as much for your money as possible. Anything you can’t stomach can then be taken home to finish another day.

Whereas many other places don’t tend to do that. Food served in the restaurant is to be eaten there, and wanting a take-away container to take your meal home means paying extra for the container.

They’re used for some trains now, though I think that a lot of them have since switched to rheostat or regenerative braking instead.

Slightly odd choice to use a motor instead of an eddy current brake or some such, when it’s supposed to be a drop-in replacement for existing braking systems.

Is it supposed to be a quick hybrid conversion system rather than just a brake?

EDIT: I’m not sure if it is. The article makes it unclear, but going by the manufacturer’s site, the electric motors are meant to replace the piston on the caliper, rather than using the motor itself as a brake.

It’s still a mostly conventional braking system.

We had a rather nice thing going with pure HTML. Sure, it wasn’t the prettiest thing, even with CSS, but almost every device could run and display it in its own way.

You didn’t need a custom thing, or a bunch of extra code adjusting the webpage for each type of device that opened the web page, since that job was all done by the browser.

That’s basically model routing, and has existed a while. Open AI’s GPT-5 and llama-swap do that, for example. If the task is simple, it uses a smaller, less intensive model, and only uses the slower, larger one of the task is more complex.

Though most tend to operate with models on the same device/service, rather than a model run elsewhere.

Back in my day, computer was a job, and all you had was an abacus. We liked it that way. None of this newfangled al-gebra nonsense.

It’s also cheaper, if they can offload a portion to the user’s computer.

Sidewalking

So what happens if the artist is dead?

Freddie Mercury would find it difficult to maintain an active social nedia presence to prove he’s human, being rather indisposed at the present.

This doesn’t seem like a totalitarianism issue, though. The High or Supreme courts (other courts are available) could rule that replacement with AI is not a valid reason for termination of employment, and the result would be much the same.

It’d be a different sort of exercise, but it would be interesting as a means of learning how to control a forklift.

It probably doesn’t help that they may have an outdated image of autism. Their child does not have high support needs, so it can’t be that. The doctor must be mistaken.

Who doesn’t like their phone charging them by the word?

To be fair, using react for it was just an odd decision to begin with.

I would be surprised if it was something that they trained themselves, and not an off the shelf model hooked up to a search.

Is this anything new at all?

Even back in the day, you had people wanting to live in the recent past, because the past usually gets romanticised.

So people in the 1960s might have a rosy view of the turn of the century, and want to go back to the 1930 days of art deco and balls, or those today, that might want to return what they believe to be glory days of 1960. Even if it isn’t actually realistic to how you might live in the past. The average citizen in 1930 was not attending balls at a swanky music lounge.

Give it a few decades, we might also have people from 2050 pining for the 2020s, believing it to be just like the advertisements, where we all live in the penthouse level of skyscrapers, overlooking a vast cityscape.

Tap water? If so, try filtered water, get a good, credible filter and filter the water. Depending on where you live there’s a fair amount of materials in the water that make it unpleasant.

In a pinch, boiling it, and letting it cool back down also helps some, if they can’t afford a filter.

making a sapient clone just to harvest their organs

A clone just makes a genetically identical baby, though, and they are shorter-lived. Dolly only lived half as long as the sheep she was a clone of, before she died of old age.

Unless you wanted to wait 15 - 20 years, for organs that might, on average, last 15, cloning isn’t practical.

They’re going when no-one has gone before, clearly.