They’re called ladybird, ladybird beatles, and lady beatles outside North America, and I think by entomologists in general.

She was the head of my class, if you know what I mean…

Ah, it sounded like you were saying the opposite.

Versus who? The Conservatives?

Yeah, this is all over tech news for the past month. The entire Adobe creative suite got reverse engineered. Someone reverse engineered Skate and combined it with Call of Duty or something.

The big companies are suddenly talking about how bad AI is…

https://github.com/songshikang0111/awesome-REA-cases

Don’t worry, I got fooled too. Came to the comments because I was surprised Jucika didn’t star in the comic all the way to the end. This thread made me look closer at the face/eyes.

If you care, if you made the r a little thinner and the right side of the r a little lower, it would come off more clearly as an r. I think it’s cool though.

Trying to make sure they don’t say something stupid, like what’s really on their minds?

I rate this 4 🔑

The idea of Xbox being sold or spun off has been around at least since Satya took over. He’s very business focused. I’m guessing “play” isn’t a big part of his life.

I’m sure behind the scenes Phil convinced Satya that he could make Xbox a viable business on par with Windows, and was given a deadline to make it happen. He was partially successful but never got it to the line item necessary, partly because Windows kept growing too, and faster. And, unfortunately for Phil, Xbox Series failed to sell. I’m guessing there won’t be another console generation.

Satya sees it as a failed experiment, I’d bet, and now it’s time to get it properly wrapped up and shoveled off. I think it’s too big to just shutter it, but it will be hard to find a buyer too.

I didn’t replace a light bulb rhat went out and it started working again a few days later.

You could always let provider voicemail take over. Or, you know, miss a call.

Lots of people don’t even think twice. I logged in to see what info they had for me and it was all blank except my name and the custom email address I have for them. However, it did say that a birth date must be provided to change any info.

I could see a phone number being given here though, because these cards have been around a while, and it used to be common to give your phone number to look up your account at the cash.

Well, don’t take it personal. Like, it’s downvote, who cares.

I think people are wary of potential paid shilling. They’re pushing a specific brand unprompted. The title is click-baity. The statements sound like they were pulled from ad-copy (“signing up was super easy”). People likely aren’t getting to the MicroG part, but even that felt like a “hey, psst, if you don’t like Google, MicroG works.” I.e. it’s a downside that really isn’t a downside…

Honestly, even reading OP’s responses it’s tough to tell if this isn’t going to result in someone saying, “looks cool, how do I sign up?” and then OP swooping in with a “here’s a link that gives us both $10 back when you make your first cross-currency transaction!”

Just to note, I didn’t downvote, I’m just answering why alarm bells might be getting triggered. It could very well be that OP really just liked their Wise experience and wanted people to know, and has no ulterior motive in posting this. Unfortunately, that’s often not the case, and now we’re all skittish.

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Sorry. From your question, I didn’t know you were an expert on CS/AI history. I defer to your wondrous knowledge on the subject to nitpick at what you baited me into talking about in detail.

AI was coined in the 50’s and was broadly meant to be “a computer that can behave like a human” in terms of reasoning, and self-improvement. It kind of put a name to what Alan Turing was working on with the Imitation Game/Turing Test, which he hinted would require a “learning” aspect.

In Sci-Fi, and generally in computer science, that was what was meant by AI for a long time, maybe with Sci-Fi taking it further into the super intelligence realm (e.g. in Neuromancer), until people started applying the term to smaller research items like math problem solvers, expert systems, machine learning, computer speech and recognition. Once that became more prevalent, AGI was coined.

I think you’re referring to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and super intelligence (SI) or artificial super intelligence (ASI). Both were coined many years ago (~30) to differentiate from AI, which was already being used for much more than the original definition (which was meant to be AGI, or even ASI.)

For all three, GIF, hacker, AI, you just have to accept that language is fluid. Words are co-opted from other places all the time to describe new things. And to be honest, all of those terms have been used for meanings outside their original one for almost as long as they’ve existed, especially on the scale of human language.

I used to lament the term “drone” being used for remote control quadcopters… But the world won, so I have to stop being a nerd about it, and accept that it has a broader meaning now.

And just to note, people don’t just mean genAI when they say AI now. They use AI for everything. You wrote a program to track workouts in a database? Better call it… “AI!”

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Bombs away is your punishment.
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Fuck GWB. He’s no saint.