We’d be living in a different world if Trotsky had succeeded Lenin.

I’m a dog person, but most cats are lower maintenance than most dogs.

High ROI though

Does your cat welcome you every day when you come home like you're the most awesome person in the world? Doubtful! Dogs - hell yeah

Not illegal, but much harder to find than the sliced, cured belly meat (often from the side of the belly) usually meant when we just say “bacon” without qualification. One can get Canadian bacon, cured side bacon, cured back bacon, uncured pork belly, uncured side meat, uncured back meat, turkey bacon, beef bacon, and several other things in bacon-like categories. If you just say “bacon”, though, you’re probably going to get pork belly meat cured with salt and/or some form of sugar, and possibly smoked.

All I have to show for direct monetary damages is a drop in conversions if I’m using that site to sell or inform people about a product or a service.

If they’re changing the content of my website before showing it to viewers without my permission that also gets into copyright, tortious interference, possibly trademark, and maybe even CFAA causes.

I imagine this would be an opt-in service. Either the user uses a special browser that’s clearly marketed to do exactly this as opposed to the original content or the website operator opts in to having their content updated on the fly for users like this.

This needs to be opt-in. If Google’s changing what a user sees when visiting a website, that raises all sorts of legal concerns unless the site’s owner has opted in. From copyright infringement to tortious interference with someone’s business, this idea that the patent just automatically means people can’t open a browser and see your website is just a nonstarter.

I’m sure Google understands this, but the author of the article over at Forbes seems oblivious to a company’s own interest in delivering their content to their audience.

You don’t want your page rank to suffer active WebMCP on your website otherwise we really can’t show your website in the top results.

OTOH in this post-reality dystopia we live in, it's quite fitting!

From the spec sheets I’m looking at, it is not. I’m seeing models of the Dell Pro Max with 128 GB of DDR5-6400 as CAMM2, then a separate memory of up to 24 GB on the GPU. CAMM2 does not make the memory unified.

There are also SO-DIMM options.

You're not looking at the right thing. Dell's naming is horrible. Dell Pro Max with GB10 (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/dell-pro-max-fcm...). It's a very different computer than what you're looking at and has 128GB LPDDR5X unified memory.

Thanks for pointing that out. I found a more informative article about that model at https://www.mcpgov.com/dell-pro-max-gb10

There’s no way to build domain knowledge like working in the field you want to target. This could be a reusable model for people looking to serve a well-targeted vertical with one’s own software company for that vertical.

Yes, and the other way around is increasing now. Industry insiders building their own tools to solve specific problems.

Honestly, I read that passage as Carol realizing as she spoke that she had been underwatering that spot semi-consciously the whole time. That’s one of the things about expertise gained by doing. We don’t always realize exactly what we’re doing well enough to communicate it until we reflect on it later.

Reading it, I get the feeling the author worked the story the way Tom Hartmann works those agricultural machines. The AI gave input, but the author was tweaking it with human knowledge and wisdom.

Me too, and I think that's a really cool metalinguistic aspect of it!

A bot, sure, but also an extra terrestrial intelligence. Unless we’re talking a Stargate or The Magicians type of scenario where humans exist on a lot of different worlds. After all, they tend to ask you to prove you’re a human.

If they ask you to prove you’re not a robot, then we get into discussing sentient robots from other worlds.

What we’d be really interested in proving if we found proof of other intelligent life is personhood.