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There’s different species with different lifecycles and behaviour. We have the ones that use thermal imaging to jump off of trees onto unsuspecting heat sources. In other areas they hide on grasses and climb onto any animal that brushes past. These ones tend to stick around longer IIRC.

The ones that drop from trees usually take around half an hour to migrate to a feeding location; then once they drill in, you’ve got about 2 hours before they become a health hazard by vomiting some of their own fluids into the wound. Before that stage, they’re just a nuisance.

They’re active on the west coast from April through the first part of June — usually die off when it starts to get hot around the start of summer (June 21).

Is that minimum wage for federal employees? Because the Federal government doesn’t get to set minimum wage for private companies at the state level.

Well they’re in luck; the US already has working quantum computers, and quantum-resistant encryption.

Sure; you can do all sorts of things. What happens as a result depends on the agreements in place between the countries involved.

The US, for example, has all sorts of Russians who have already had their day in court that they failed to show up for on international watch lists. They’ve been indicted for crimes at trial, had representation, but have never physically been in the country. But if they step foot in a country with an extradition agreement with the US, they’ll be arrested and sent to the US for sentencing.

On the other hand, Sweden requires you to be physically present and able to acknowledge the charges against you before any proceedings can occur.

This is the Florida Man we want, not the one we deserve.

LLMs are also stuck in the past. Always ask an LLM what the date is before starting a session that has any expectation of current results. Usually you’ll find the information it prioritizes is from a few years ago.

LLMs also often incorrectly weight information.

If you have a popular website that has outdated information with a note at the top that the information is outdated, the LLM will see it’s a well respected site, ignore the disclaimer at the top that falls out of it’s context window, and happily tell you the annotatedly incorrect information is the baseline truth.

It’s possible to get good results out of an LLM, but it’s a skill, just like engineering a good Google search string or using Wikipedia to find the primary source information you need.

Wikipedia: it’s an encyclopedia. Fine for a general overview of a topic, but you need to follow it to primary sources if you want to make an authoritative argument.

Google: it’s got an AI summary at the top and a bunch of SEO’d results on the first pages.

LLMs: really good at translating a lot of content down into something that’s easy to read. Not necessarily easy to understand, not necessarily accurate, not citing it’s sources accurately, but easy to read.

So: where do people’s attitudes come from towards them?

We now have 25 years of Wikipedia. That means that for 25 years, anyone in school from K through university has had it drilled i to them “you can’t use Wikipedia as a primary source!” Which is often interpreted by kids (now adults) as “don’t trust Wikipedia!”

Google has been around for 28 years. When it started, the other search engines always missed things, had a bunch of ads, and were slow. Google was this fast clean interface that could instantly find whatever you were looking for on the world wide web, and the exact human created content you wanted would almost always be featured on the first page of results. People who grew up with that might be slow to catch on to the fact that Google today doesn’t do that. So they trust the results and assume the information they’re looking for must be there somewhere on the first page.

LLMs are new. They hold the promise of early Google in that they crawled all the source material for you and present a summary so you don’t even have to decide which link has the right answer. They haven’t been around long enough for a generation to be trained to distrust the messages they provide.

Centrists? In most of the world they’d be considered strongly right-leaning.

According to a summary of proceeding released Thursday by the federal agency, RBC violated a consumer provision by failing “to transfer credits from deactivated credit card accounts to customers’ new accounts.”

“As a result, these customers received inaccurate monthly credit card statements, and some customers incurred additional charges,” the Financial Consumer Agency (FCAC) said. 

The FCAC said the violation occurred when RBC deactivated and migrated customer’s credit card accounts to a new one when fraud was reported. 

Between 2001 to 2024, a total of 227,947 accounts were impacted by the violation, the federal agency said.

Oh yes… the party of States Rights.

Sorry, my kid already whipped up pretty much what you described. I use it because he’s my kid, but I also run a NextCloud server, which ALSO provides the same services and much more.

That said, the more options the better— but don’t expect lots of sales once you start charging. The target audience generally has the chops to stand up something like this on their own.