Oh yeah. I didn’t even spot that the cop was a bear

Is there a layer missing? The joke seems to revolve around a shadow which isn’t there

Because billboards are giant adverts offering to sell it

In geology, a “fault” is a place where rock has broken apart and the parts have moved, so the two faces don’t match up any more.

This would actually be “jointing”, where it’s broken but there was no movement

Should be, yeah

Not fossils. See my other comment, but the headline is these are cracks filled with something

What’s happened here is that when the pebble was part of the bedrock, it got shattered (probably by tectonic forces, bending the bedrock of the whole area). That left cracks all through it, at all sorts of angles.

Those cracks became spaces where water could get in, and it carried something which crystallised over the course of many years and filled the cracks.

Later the pebble broke out of the bedrock, and got eroded round. The white rings are actually flat (or at least, flattish) layers of white which cut all the way through the pebble

Now you have to opt-in (in theory, according to Microsoft, who historically aren’t terribly trustworthy about such things).

When the feature was first created, and released to a group of end-users who have opted into the “insider program” to get new features earlier than most people, it wasn’t opt-in

I imagine he means things like Chromebook, rather than Chromebook itself. Mass-market consumer hardware which comes with Linux by default

The safety designed into Rust is suddenly foreign to the C family that I’m honestly not sure you can do that. Even “unsafe” Rust doesn’t completely switch off the enforced safety

Those two things aren’t being claimed by the same people.

There are people with functioning brains, who are aware that AI is shit at programming, and there are managers who have been sold a sales pitch and believe that they can replace half of their software engineers.

AI doesn’t actually need to be effective to cost a bunch of jobs, it just needs to have good salespeople. Those jobs will come back when the businesses which decided to rely on AI discover the hole they’ve dug for themselves. That might not be quick though, because there’s no rule saying that major businesses will have competent leaders with good foresight.

I don’t know what names are typical, but they certainly aren’t using actual norse gods. All the characters, gods included, have german-sounding names, but they’re mostly long enough that I doubt people use them routinely in real life

“where applicable, DNA”?

I’d be fascinated to know under what circumstances DNA wouldn’t be applicable. Are they anticipating golems coming through passport control?

Take anything vetitasium says with a significant pinch of salt, I’m afraid. Several times, when he’s discussed something I’m knowledgeable in, he’s exaggerated or dramatised to the point of outright untruth

Jesus Christ, when did choosing not to throw away a perfectly good device become “device hoarding”?

snag bites of the apex predators

I don’t think the author knows what “apex predator” means

Be cautious about trusting the AI-detection tools, they’re not much better than the AI they’re trying to detect, because they’re just as prone to false positives and false negatives as the agents they claim to detect.

It’s also inherently an arms race, because if a tool exists which can easily and reliably detect AI generated content then they’d just be using that tool for their training instead of what they already use, and the AI would quickly learn to defeat it. They also wouldn’t be worrying about their training data being contaminated by the output of existing AI, Which is becoming a genuine problem right now

You were asking for definitions, and I responded by pointing out that they definitely exist. The fact that you or I don’t personally come from a background which values those definitions doesn’t mean they don’t exist, or that other people don’t use them.

I didn’t actually downvote, but I do object to your characterisation of this as misleading. People aren’t labelling their products with the intent that the people buying it believe they’re eating meat.

Those labels are designed to communicate what sort of thing you can do with it. If you label something “burger”, for example, everyone will understand at a glance what they’re looking at, and that you might like to put it between two buns with some lettuce. It will also catch the attention of people who are looking to make burgers, but might not have considered non-meat options.

Also, common usage of words like “burger” aren’t limited to anything specific. People talk about “chicken burger” or “turkey burger” all the time, for example, and nobody accuses them of trying to trick people into eating chicken. Why not a “lentil burger” as well?

Various holy books, I believe. See also pescetarianism, which stems from the same place