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  • In a pinch the drive can also double as a flywheel battery.

  • Yeah, the “!?” wasn't directed at Sinatra, seduction and adultery are completely in character for him, it was directed at the law making them an arrestable offence, sometimes I forget that the USA were founded by fundamentalist religious fanatics.

  • Well, reptiles seem to have split pretty early on between the ancestors of lizards and snakes (and the lonely tuatara), and the ancestors of turtles, crocodiles, and dinosaurs, the main differences seemingly being in the bones of the skull, and specifically for the group with the snakes and lizards in, the ability to self-amputate the tail (though that's lost in many of their descendants), and the keratinized scales; you won't see a turtle, crocodile, or dinosaur molting its whole skin in one go like lizards and snakes do, they'll molt their scales (or feathers, or scutes) one at a time.

  • True, (some) snakes have also evolved specialized fangs.

    Several times independently with significantly different designs, it seems.

  • Anyone who uses duckduckgo, since that's where it gets its results from.

  • That one I'm not entirely sure about, but it seems that, in the same way being a mammal (from a bone perspective) is all about the teeth and inner ear, being a dinosaur is all about the hips (dinosaurs have an upright stance, with the legs under their bodies; even with the quadruped ones you can see how they're really something evolved to walk on its hind legs walking on its hands and feet), and pterosaurs and their non-dinosaur ancestors just don't have the right kind of hip.

    It's a bit muddy, though. Once you get into archosaurs and before you get into more specialised things like crocodiles, dinosaurs, or pterosaurs it's mostly “this thing seems to be more closely related to this group than to this other group, so we'll throw it in with them even if it doesn't really look anything like them”.

    There's a small bipedal reptile, for instance, scleromuchlus, that's been bundled up with pterosaurs because it apparently seems more related to them, even though if you look at an artist's representation you'd assume it must be a dinosaur, but might in fact not fit in either group and be instead just a basal avemetatarsalian (or maybe even lower in the tree) with no other identified close relatives.

  • It's basically a gaming laptop.

    Taking out the screen, the windows license, and some of the margin since Valve will make it back with game sales, $1,000 was the minimum expectable price before RAM got pulled into the “AI” bubble.

  • Those are still quite lethal, when used with sufficient malice and / or incompetence.

  • The name (di metro don ≈ two teeth sizes) is a clue, as teeth specialization is very much a synapsid (i.e., mammal and proto-mammal) thing.

  • I mean that no one designed or built the model, it's just a compressed representation of (the shape of) the data it's trained on.

    If by artificial we mean something made by people, we could argue that this isn't (though by the same logic neither would a zip file).

  • Yeah, quite.

    Though, to be fair, the scammers and the LLMs themselves are pretty good at convincing their victims that the damn things are actually smart, to the point that some otherwise quite intelligent people have fallen for it.

    And come to think of it, given that most investors have fallen hook line and sinker for the scam, if you're publicly traded catering to their idiotic whims and writing off the losses caused by the LLM might actually be more profitable, if most of your customers aren't smart enough to take advantage of your silliness...

  • No... ’tis a silly place.

  • The “AI” isn't an idiot.

    It isn't even intelligence, nor, arguably, artificial (since LLM models are grown, not built).

    It's just a fancy autocomplete engine simulating a conversation based on statistical information about language, but without any trace of comprehension of the words and sentences it's producing.

    It's working as correctly as it possibly can, the business was simply scammed into using a tool (a toy, really) that by definition can't be suited for the job they intended it to do.

  • Trump wasn't a client, was he? He was a full blown accomplice, judging by the overwhelming amount of times he's mentioned...

  • Death flights have quite a long history, sadly, and were a favourite of far right South American dictatorships promoted by the USA...

  • That wouldn't work, too much latency, RAM needs to be as close to the CPU as possible.