It’s a big part of the plot and motivation of the main characters in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy (Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars). Basically, should we leave Mars (or any planet) as it is naturally, especially if we find life already there even at only microscopic levels? Or should we spread our own version of life from Earth (us along with other creatures and plants) and terraform where we can to maximize our own survival?

And unmonitored? Don’t trust anything from Google anymore.

What makes this better than Ollama?

That’s even more why it feels like someone new in the company stepping in and questioning why there isn’t something in play officially if there’s interest in freeware/open source. Someone who talked to the lawyers first to make sure no right were signed away yet. That may be very pessimistic and conspiratorial, but if there isn’t any reason to stop someone else’s work on something, why would they send one? I don’t know a lot about copyrights and trademarks, but I do think there is a point where if you aren’t using an asset and others are interested, you shouldn’t be able to just hold it under lock and key and do nothing with it. I think patents are like that, you have like 20 years or something protected to do something, and then it’s open(?) Again, I’m not sure.

Any reason given? Not that they have to give one, it’s still their property to do what they want with it. I would keep an eye on them and if they somehow in the future come out with something very similar, I hope there are good records of the past years of work and discussion. Since it was going to be free and not for profit, not really a case for lost income, but there must be some laws to protect people working in good faith with a trademark knowingly who get their ideas stolen FOR profit. If that happens.

Time travel sucks. No accurate time travel story ends happily, even if the resolution overall is good. Looper is a great example of a good one. I think Primer too, but I still have trouble with it, even with all the aids and charts. Oh, and 12 Monkeys, an easier one to follow.

There would have been mention of some of the paragliders shot.

That seems to suggest that the American style is a preservation of the older English format, much like we kept spelling of some words like the original English at colonization while the UK gradually changed with other influences around them.

“If there’s anything I can’t stand, it’s a smart owl.”

It would be. Dust (Mars and the Moon) is a huge problem that we might struggle with for a long time. Any form of terraforming, well…we’re very good at accidentally doing that, but a purposeful change towards a goal of making it nearer to Earth-like, that’s a complex thing. And there is the Red/Green Mars argument to have if we ever did.

What would be even easier is to just bring materials to a spot and build lots of huge habitats. We’ve had blueprints that are still reasonably valid since the 70s and even before, it’s just getting the small percentage of materials we can’t find out there already into space that’s difficult. The plus over a natural body is that you don’t retrap yourself in a new gravity well to fight, and you can locate anywhere with whatever environment you can maintain. The plus over the captured asteroid is you know what you have from the beginning since you’re build it, and you don’t have to use a lot of effort to capture it, derotate it, mine it without ruining its ability to hold atmosphere.

My opinion is that we still could do this type of thing technically, but the window has shut on the will to try. We can’t even stop damaging this planet.

It was war, conflict and invasion that turned people to Yahweh to be the major god, since he was the god of war. Before then he was a minor figure. The odd part is why previous references weren’t eventually changed or edited out to reflect this turn to monotheism.

Not designed, but trained. Training involves rewarding finding answers, so they WILL give you something. “I don’t know” is not going to fare well in the training development, so it naturally gets filtered out, while very creative (but wrong) LLMs do well.

Designed so they wouldn’t become another HDMI fiasco, where you have to search for aftermarket clips so your plug stays in. Now, do Displayports need it, probably not. They feel about as secure as a USB. But there is that fear going back to even VGA, where most worked fine without screwing them in, but just to make sure… (I can’t recall, did EGA have screws?)

Free will is something where people talk about it as a binary thing, but it can be both the ability to make choices, yet very deterministic at the core. If someone asks you to think of your favorite color, in your mind you visualize what that is, and it’s your preference and choice for whatever reason you like it best. But the deterministic part begins when you wonder when you made that decision. Can you even narrow down the instant when it popped into your mind as the preferred choice, or what occurred before it was made? At some point there was a triggering of thought and memories from the question asked that resulted in you thinking of your color, but when did it go from predictable neuron firings to a choice? There is a gray area there.

For what it’s worth, while I enjoyed some of the later Terminator movies for themselves, the saga ended with T2 in my mind. Where that future led could be just as dark, as someone else could come up with their version of Skynet eventually, like any other technology, but we are left to ponder that on our own. The actual previous future is gone thanks to the efforts made, and we’re allowed to try again.

This is exactly what a President, an elected service worker sworn to protect the rights of the public, should be doing.

Not.

Crusade (Babylon 5 spinoff)

looks at Ohio

Okay.

I can understand that, it’s why we have standardization. But the fault also lays on assuming everything is exactly as expected. Otherwise we wouldn’t need stud finders at all, we’d be sure where every last 2x4 is. A depth measuring stud finder would tell you there’s an unusual mass and give you warning that all isn’t like you’d expect.

Many people here have posted the link to Climate Town’s video on expiration dates, but your comment also brings into focus a video of theirs about consumer waste. Actually he’s probably made a few on that subject, but the one that came to mind was about the circle of buying and returning products (eg. Amazon returns), and what really happens. Good lord, the waste.

What is the optimum angle to secure such a device for the maximum result? Asking for science.

Also, I wouldn’t ever glue/tie/epoxy one of these. I’d do four in various places.

Oh, so nastier than being asked by a reporter to tell the scared American public something encouraging during a pandemic? So Presidential, this guy.