No. Tap to pay only requires a PIN for large purchases ($100 or so), or if you turn on the setting to ask for a PIN for small purchases too.
I’ve only needed to enter my PIN for small purchases when inserting and using debit/EFT@POS functions.
Those pattern buffer filters aren’t getting any better over the decades, are they?
To be fair, they are designed to work with all kinds of species, and samples and things. You don’t want it to delete someone’s liver just because they haven’t been on a starship before, or the new plant sample taken from a new planet.
Humans are full of necessary bacteria, and deleting all of that would be quite bad for you. But at the same time, them being in some place they’re not supposed to be is also going to cause problems.
You know, they should not even let the doors on shuttle craft open in dock, and just beam people in and out of them. That’d solve an entire other vector of infection.
What’s more surprising is that they don’t employ the sterilisation/quarantine fields that the older model transporters used to have, where they’d wall off the transport pad, blast them, and then open it up. That doesn’t seem unreasonable to apply to a shuttle before landing.
Your LLMs are furries. That is their fursona.
Eh, I think their current products are fine (except Cybertruck, that’s ridiculous). Every company has recalls, and Tesla’s are generally pretty mild (again, except Cybertruck).
Don’t they famously have an issues with QC? It wasn’t all that long that their other cars had problems with panel gaps, or manufacturing material left inside, etc.
The Polyfill incident is bad (that seems to be how the hackers got into the internet archive), and the OpenSSH one could have been really nasty, if it wasn’t caught both early, and by chance (a performance engineer at a major software company noticed).
At minimum, it might also have it for the “turning on” noise.
It might also just be the default beeper for the motherboard, and it’s just been reconfigured to make a particular noise instead of the usual beep.
A considerable number of the articles written in Scots weren’t written in Scots. The most prolific writer of the Scots articles was an American teen with no knowledge of Scots, and was more or less just writing them in a Scottish accent.
I have to wonder if intentionally shitting on LLMs with plausible nonsense is effective.
I don’t think so. The volume of data is too large for it to make much of a difference, and a scraper can just mimic a human user agent and work that way.
You’d have to change so much data consistently across so many different places that it would be near-impossible for a single human effort.
Nonsense. Such decadence could never be successful.
Hopefully they tightened things up after the Scots incident.
TOS was very progressive for the '60s, but TNG, VOY, and ENT were significantly less progressive for their time.
It’e also been a trend that’s unfortunately carried over into the newer treks. They barely push the boundaries at all.
DS9 probably only got away with as much as they did because Voyager was commanding most of the attention at the time.
For example, Roddenberry wanted an LGBT character as far back as TOS, but it got vetoed by Berman. That would have been incredible for 1960.
I think he also did it when Frakes wanted the non-binary alien he flirted with in one episode to have a male actor instead of a female one, but that also got vetoed.
But not that much more.
A consumer mobile connection is about $30 a month. A car company could get it cheaper, not just by buying in bulk, but also because by not needing that much bandwidth for their connection.
Can’t wait for the inevitable “You don’t actually own the car, you just have a lifetime licence/lease to use the car”
It probably does, like Cortana after they deactivated the servers.
You couldn’t remove it for a good while, so there was a gap where it would be stuck there.
It’s been a heck of an unproductive day. Been trying to make myself do paperwork things, and none of that is getting done with any sort of functional progress at all. It is a little frustrating in its own way, since it’s something that I’ve been struggling with for ages with, but also can’t seem to be able to get any help with at all, which makes it particularly bothersome, since it does feel like being stuck in the gap between being able to get help because you’re obviously and clearly struggling, or not need help at all.
Anyone got a tip to try and help with things, or at least, a pet to try and distract myself with?
I actually don’t mind the space-magic aspects, but I’m also more of a fan of TOS, which leaned into the whole mysticism and space magic more than a lot of the later shows. Not everything has to have a scientific explanation, or at least, not one known to the Federation/viewer. We don’t know how Q abilities work, for example.
Honestly, I’m not sure that the Borg would really take advantage of their abilities. For all their claims about collective technological and biological distinctiveness, we’ve yet to see the Borg actually make use of any of it, besides some vague lip service about suitability of purpose.
We don’t see Borg drones from telepathic species use their telepathic abilities as communication, or weaponise those abilities, for example. They mostly just use their tech and brute force.
It is equally possible that there might be a metaphysical aspect to the abilities of the Vau N’Akat that the Borg are unable to tap, similar to the abilities of the travellers, which also don’t have a replicable technological basis. If the Borg could do that, they would have expanded well outside of Earth in First Contact, given that Wesley once created and created access points to and from a whole universe.
I was having that problem, and eventually realised I need to take my glasses *off to be able to see close up now. I’m now both short sighted and long sighted, making finding a point at which I can actually see clearaly quite tricky.
Design flaw that having both doesn’t cause them to cancel out, really.
Would a mask help?
You half-expect them to pull out the old card-roller and carbon paper at that point.