This is a spam blog. The real report is here:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

Approval voting is similar to this. Instead of voting for one candidate, you vote for every candidate who is acceptable to you. The winner is the candidate who is acceptable to the most voters.

The first Mac came out in 1984; NeXT didn’t have a product until 1988.

NeXT was later bought by Apple and their tech became the foundation of Mac OS X in 2001.

But I was referring to the original '80s Macintosh System, not OS X. :)

Eh, the difference between app bundles and resource forks isn’t the functionality itself, but rather how the filesystem interface cuts through the functionality.

An OSX bundle is a Unix directory, whereas a classic Mac application is a file in a filesystem that supports multiple forks within a single file. Either way, you have typed objects (files or resources) that get carried around with a master object (the application).

Xerox’s prototype desktop computer was called Alto, not X, and had some of these features in a very early form. It was never made into a product for the open market; it was used internally at Xerox and at some research universities.

Apple didn’t “steal” from the Alto; Xerox invested in Apple and allowed Steve Jobs and Apple engineers to tour their facilities for product ideas.

You might also be thinking of the X Window System for Unix, whose modern descendant most Linux systems are still using. It’s pretty different from the Mac approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

The document-centric model of desktop applications largely originates from the early Mac. How do you open a document in a desktop OS? You double-click on the document, and the OS finds the correct application to open it with. That was a Mac thing. On most other systems of the mid-1980s, you run your application program (from the command line) and then tell the program to load a file.

Applications as “bundles” of code and data was a Mac thing too, starting with the resource/code division in the classic Mac System. Rather than an application coming with a mess of directories of libraries and data files, it’s all bundled up into a single application file that can contain structured data (“resources”) for the GUI elements. On a classic Mac, you could load an application program up in ResEdit and modify the menus, add keyboard shortcuts, and so on, without recompiling anything.

The Apple Newton had data persistence of a sort that we now expect on cloud applications like Google Docs. Rather than “saving” and “loading” files, every change was automatically committed to storage. If you turn the device off (or it runs out of battery power), you don’t lose your work.

Hazy IPAs are no solution at all.

That’s a colloidal suspension, that is.

“My psychiatrist prefers to say that I have a ‘substance use disorder’ and cautions that the old ‘alcoholism’ model isn’t very scientific.”

The modern notion of “interchangeable parts” was developed for guns; they’re made to be maintained and repaired. Parts that wear out can be replaced. You can still get new replacement parts for guns made over a hundred years ago.

Nazi furries have been a thing for years. The regular furries don’t like them.

“this mine is mine”
vs
“this mine is mined”

Allies are important; haters know that; and so, haters will hate on allies too.

Just consider the history of the term “n—r-lover”.

According to Wikipedia the ratio for the October 7 attack was around that figure, yes:

• 859 civilians
• 282 soldiers
• 57 policemen
• 10 Shin Bet members

Plus the rapes, tortures, and abductions.

I think they’re still not entirely over the whole “Jordanian king visits Al-Aqsa and gets assassinated by Palestinian terrorist” business from way back in 1951.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_I_of_Jordan#Assassination

Hamas initiated a war with a horrific military/terrorist attack on Israeli civilians on October 7. Sometimes when a belligerent starts a war, it ends up losing territory.

Need an iron supplement, but the regular ones (iron sulfate) plug your bowels up? You want iron bisglycinate.

The Palestinian state is in the West Bank (about 16x the land area of Gaza).

It would be more accurate to say that the Palestinian state lost control of Gaza to Hamas, and Hamas is losing Gaza to Israel.

The Empire Strikes Back, from the back seat of my parents’ car, at a drive-in.

Apparently I kept asking “who’s that? who’s that?” whenever anyone new came on screen. To be fair, though, ① I hadn’t seen Star Wars, and ② I was maybe three years old.

It doesn’t have to have a copy of all copyrighted works it trained from in order to violate copyright law, just a single one.

Sure, which would create liability to that one work’s copyright owner; not to every author. Each violation has to be independently shown: it’s not enough to say “well, it recited Harry Potter so therefore it knows Star Wars too;” it has to be separately shown to recite Star Wars.

It’s not surprising that some works can be recited; just as it’s not surprising for a person to remember the full text of some poem they read in school. However, it would be very surprising if all works from the training data can be recited this way, just as it’s surprising if someone remembers every poem they ever read.

Fan wikis for specific bands, like https://tmbw.net/ for They Might Be Giants.