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For anyone wondering the obvious:

Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.

He died because of an incidental fall, not anything meaningful to do with the chat bot.

Solomon Peña was sentenced to 960 months in prison for orchestrating a politically motivated shooting spree and plotting to murder witnesses to obstruct justice.

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Peña recruited Jose Trujillo and Demetrio Trujillo to carry out a series of shootings at the homes of several public officials. Peña provided cash, instructions, and addresses, and personally participated in one of the attacks. One of the shootings involved a fully automatic machine gun. Multiple rounds struck areas of the homes where children had recently been or were sleeping.

Following his arrest, Peña attempted to have Jose and Demetrio Trujillo murdered to prevent them from testifying, offering fellow inmates money and a vehicle in exchange for their deaths.

On March 23, 2025, a federal jury found Peña guilty of all counts of the indictment, including conspiracy, being a felon in possession of a firearm, four counts of intimidation and interference with federally protected activities, four counts of using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and three counts of solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

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80 years seems pretty reasonable for everything. I would argue there should've been charges for terrorism, but I know that's more complicated than it should be.

If the only penalty is a fine, it just means that's how much it (sometimes) costs to do the action.

Manhattan Special Espresso Soda. Diet option is available.

They want my name and email, and someone will get back to me to find a retailer? Hard pass.

TIL that was part of it as well

I did this back in the days of Smoothwall, ~20 years ago. I used an old, dedicated PC, with 2 PCI NICs.

It was complicated, and took a long time to setup properly. It was loud and used a lot of power, and didn't give me much beyond the standard $50 routers of the day (and is easily eclipsed by the standard $80 routers of today). But it ran reliably for a number of years without any interaction.

I also didn't learn anything useful that I could ever apply to something else, so ended up just being a waste of time. 2/10, spend your time on something more useful.

Related: JC Penney very publicly stopped pretending everything was always on sale, and just set everything to the "sale" price.

Despite the publicity of the move, sales tanked. Just a few months later, everyone involved was sacked, and they went back to pretending everything was always on sale.

This is the correct parsing. Honda has never successfully released a BEV of their own (only rebranded one), but they did launch some major efforts to get there. So far, none have worked out, and it sounds like they're abandoning the goal.

It is a bit strange that all of the Japanese automakers are making such a poor effort. Is there something about Japan that makes BEVs unviable? Honda and Subaru have none, Toyota only has 1, while Mazda and Nissan only have 2.

Watts (and gigawatts) are not a unit of energy. They are a unit of power, or you can think of it as a rate.

900 watts for an hour is 900 watt-hours, or 0.9 kWh. For 24 minutes (3 minutes x8) is 360 Wh, or 0.36kWh.

All of the major public LLM and diffusion models (ChatGPT, copilot, Grok, etc) are absolutely using more than a gigawatt. And I mean constantly. They are trying to create nuclear power plants exclusively to power an AI Datacenter. You could math out how much that is per query (not per person), but it's absolutely insane.

I'm assuming you're in the US and looking at Dell Latitude, HP EliteBook, or Lenovo Thinkpad, possibly on eBay from a recycling company.

Many large corporations buy these with a 3 year warranty, and stretch those to 4 or 5 years unless they break. Once the devices are too old, they go through a decom process. This usually includes sanitizing the data. Depending on the corporation, this could mean a secure erase, or it could mean physical destruction with a grinder. Then they send it to a recycler or refurbisher, who pays them a pittance for the remaining value. It's also why they are frequently missing the hard drive caddy - the difference in value is minimal, so they remove it the fastest way possible.

Power bricks and docks are usually usable on other models/generations, so those aren't sent to recycling until they are useless. That's why you often see laptops listed without bricks.

7th gen is from 2017. Most corporations are on a 4-year cycle, so have already been replaced twice since then. Very few are motivated by the Win11 requirements.

Hit shift+f10 to open CMD. Run diskpart, then List disk

If you don't see your drive, you need a driver. Is your drive SATA or NVMe? I see that MSI offers ASmedia drivers for SATA, which are probably not included with Windows.