The trick will be in getting a charge to last long enough that it doesn’t need more frequent pit stops.

That would indeed be quite a trick. The batteries would need to get more energy-dense by more than an order of magnitude compared to the best that are available today. EVs are great for commuting and transportation where vehicle weight isn’t as important and you’re not constantly trying to go as fast as possible, but they’re a very long way from being competitive in that type of racing.

That’ll depend on how it happens I guess. They could completely rewrite the rules of NASCAR to nerf the petrol-based competition, invent a totally new way of storing electrical energy, or completely rewrite the rules of physics.

I wonder how Cloudflare estimates the increased rate of false positives they’re getting after they made their bot detector even more oversensitive in recent weeks. It no longer likes my default javascript-enabled browser profile and I don’t always bother to load another one when I get cloudflared, so >50% of visits from me are “bots”.

I was assuming that most scenarios where you’re asked to spot the worm farmer are bogus.

You can probably get to 99.9% accuracy by just saying “none of those guys run a worm farm” every time.

Inequality is bad for quality.

Most likely they are pointing out that you lack a certain subtlety of understanding and have made a mistake.

Based on everything I learned about history from watching Blackadder, probably not.

Maybe it’s not counting memory that can’t be tested because it’s needed for the kernel and device drivers. For example according to its man page free reports total memory “minus a few reserved bits and kernel binary code” and on my desktop here that’s about 15.2 out of 16GB.

I don’t know though, most of a gigabyte does seem like a suspiciously large amount of memory for that, never mind 2.4 gigs. I guess it’s i/o buffers, page tables, and things like that.

Technically they might not even need to become carnivores to learn the habit of chasing people down and punching them to death to defend their territory.

Imagine how malevolent the next generation of AI will be, when it’s trained on today’s Internet text.

True, there aren’t many old drivers who are honking the horn and giving everyone the finger — most of those people die young I guess.

rational used to just mean "possible to express as a ratio before it got co-opted by the academic-industrial complex- "

Hmmm… when you say “academic” do you mean the Academy of ancient Greece? Because I’m guessing that’s around when that mix-up first happened.

Right, I’m aware of this and see nothing wrong with it.

If you feel that it’s unfortunate, why take their side? I’ve found that no confusion is caused by using it the correct way. If any might be, it is at least in service of a noble cause.

I may be a little amused by it, but not verily surprised.

The word you’re looking for is “literally.”

Probably. All modern web browsers continue to be a disaster for security. It remains the case that if someone gets access to your user account through a browser rce or any other route you have to assume they can probably install a rootkit as well.

That is exactly wrong. It has always relatively much easier to get root if you have local user access, compared to getting local user access when you’re not meant to have it. Not just on Linux, but on most systems in general.

If you’re running a water treatment control system, now might be a good time to check if its UI is exposed to the Internet with nothing but the secret password 11111 protecting it.