They are already in a bubble and it’s extremely hard to pull them out. Their influence is spreading, so clearly current efforts to deprogram them are less effective than their recruitment efforts. At that point containment is the best option we have, even if it’s not the one I’d like we had.
If you can’t neutralize a toxic spill you contain it instead.
Fines are usually severely reduced as a part of a settlement, but they do happen. As for prison… for a white collar crime in US? LOL
The neck of the finance woods my employer is in is highly regulated.
Just failing to notify a regulator on time you blocked a transaction attempt involving a sanctioned individual means hundreds of thousands in fines per transaction (not up to, flat 6-digit fine) + potential prison time (can’t remember if it was up to 15 or 20 years)
The major difference is that payment processors and money transfer agents are heavily regulated and require a government issued license to operate. At least KYC is not yet handled by ai…
Bad & meh engineers get praised because they “waste” less time directing ai and reviewing output - barely working is good enough in the race to market.
I’ve seen things as serious as a privileged user for one customer having admin access to all customers being discovered during the last minute pentest literally days before the planned product launch. That product is supposed(and likely will) to move 250M USD for customers in the second half of this year. Under the current policy at my day job, coming all the way from the top, reviewing ai generated code at all should be an exception reserved for 0.1% most critical code. Yes, in finance.
Per gb price of ram is now almost 50% higher than during the peak of COVID price spike that lasted just 3 months. I’m comparing the current gen at the time - ddr4 during COVID vs ddr5 now
Much longer than that. There was a spike in 2021 that brought high end 2x8gb ddr4 kits to about $180-200 but that’s still significantly less than what you pay for decent ddr5 now. I think you’d have to look to back to early DDR3 or even further to DDR2 prices to get higher per gb amounts.
SSD prices were this high briefly (2-3 months) mid-2021. Before that you’d have to look all the way back to times where 1tb was the largest consumer grade SSD you could buy
While they do incinerate small amounts on-site they can’t handle this much - the whole 10 tons will have to be transferred to a company specializing in that kind of thing
For now all 20 tons will be stored as evidence
Weaponized autism mode: that’s an Odo detector, Odo meter would have 1 on the display
full time job + garden + restoring the house I live in… there aren’t enough hours in the day
Let’s just say local laws are unreasonably strict about that kind of thing. To the point it’s not worth the risk given how widely available it is should I need some.
It’s a process and every year you see an improvement over the previous one.
5 years ago I’ve had a meadow that was slowly overgrowing with trees and some old, mostly dead fruit trees that look like from a horror movie around the house.
With just me an my wife working on it we got to half an acre of a garden, a greenhouse, tiny vineyard (if you can call 20 plants that), 50-60 fruit trees and bushes. I intend to add beehives and a chicken coop before summer.
The property came with a dozen or so enormous (>6m / 20ft) apple and cherry trees planted about a century ago and all but 3 of them are barely alive, so this spring I’ve cleared some space and added:
Assuming most of them survive I’ll be set as far as fruit I can grow in my zone are concerned. Well, I could use 2-3 asian/american hybrid persimmons to have a full set, but they are very hard to find and expensive - I’d have to pay more for 2 than I’ve paid for the 40+ listed above…
~2000m^2 / half an acre.
It was a meadow slowly overgrowing with random trees 5 years ago, so it took quite a bit of effort to get there
That’s going to be very location dependent - e.g. I can’t reliably get regular habaneros even in large grocery stores where I live…
With tomatoes as primary ingredient we make:
and they are added to a bunch of other things - e.g. some of the pickles
Nadapenos. I have those too - brain fart mixed it up
This is already an improvement over the previous policy of shooting Nazis.