Silent Running. Bruce Dern scifi where he murders his shipmates to preserve a forest.

Andromeda Strain. Those townfolk turned to dust was pretty horrifying.

Dark Star- The Captain is a frozen corpse they talk to and everyone dies.

Sorry I misread the top comments on the linked thread.

The difference is that quote is from 20 years before he wrote the book QED. The book QED explains Quantum Electrodynamics from the standpoint of particles. Quantum Electro Dynamics, which Feynman was fond of reminding everyone was the most thoroughly test theory ever (QED theory matches experiments more so than even General Relativity), is based on treating light as a particle with a probability amplitude.

Whereas there is no way to explain experiments if you assume a photon is a wave because there is no continuous reduction in detection. Observations are ALWAYS discrete.

So on the one hand you can have a theory that treats photons as particles with a probability amplitude, and it explains every observation. On the other hand, you can treat a photon as a wave and then have to handwave away observation by claiming the photon is a wave until observed at which point it instantly transforms into a particle through an unobservable process.

The math works either way, but Occam’s Razor is a good principle where when you have two theories and one has extra unobservable processes, the simpler theory is more likely to be the correct theory.

An oscillating doormat sounds like a great invention. Step on it and it vibrates to rub dirt off your shoes.

Android Auto is a disgustingly black box. There is absolutely no control or feedback of any sort to the user. So when it fails like this, there’s no way to diagnose the problem.

I’m going to claim it’s fake because there is nothing resembling a generator in the photos.

I found it funny how so many people thought the GameStop bubble was going to come back and go to the moon.

I buy used stuff from it. It’s a great place to find old PCs for a home lab. I even got a new part for my 3d printer that wasn’t on Amazon and I’d otherwise have needed to wait weeks if I ordered it from Alibaba.

Prusa is the best but I’m loving my Snapmaker U1. 4 tool heads is better than 4 INDX and it’s completely open source.

It also has cloud access if you want the convenience of remote access without setting it up yourself.

What is this referencing?

Someone needs to sue every State/County/City of Utah website for not correctly detecting if a user is on a VPN.

Those building codes and property tax records are too sexy for minors.

It’s Australia, not the US. Gas prices are up and taxes are a percentage of gas sales.

So it’s costing Australians more but the government is taking in more sales tax.

The article confirms my statement:

“rather a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code”

People want to know if slop got snuck into their code or if they pull from a project that has slop.

It should be on by default if you are adding Copilot generated code.

You think Copilot is more powerful than my Vim?

? Claude can’t accept anything.

Did it find badly worded sentences that needed correction? Did it find prior work that the paper unknowingly duplicated?

This is a good thing. If someone is dumping AI code directly into their project without review, it needs to be labeled.

My Toyota has an emergency beep and displays “Warning Roads may be icy.” whenever the temp is below freezing. It never fails to startle me and take my eyes off the road.

This sound and warning pops up at a random time after you start driving in the winter. There is no way to disable it. You can disable the seatbelt warning.

and proves that photons are not “just” particles.

Not really. Treating photons as waves is a mathematical shortcut for calculating some problems.

The more accurate way is to treat photons as particles with a probability amplitude.

“I want to emphasize that light comes in this form-particles. It is very important to know that light behaves like particles, especially for those of you who have gone to school, where you were probably told something about light behaving like waves. I’m telling you the way it does behave- like particles.”

Feynman QED.

As an amateur (I haven’t coded pro in 30+ years), I’d say this is a job for malloc(). The memory dynamically allocated from user input can then be used as an array.

There’s a huge difference between adding AI to your workflow like lint and AGI.