Bite selection is akin to bin packing, now that I think about it.

You missed the killer feature, even more diffusion of responsibility.

"internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl".

"Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015:

"A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015)

<https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>

Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.

Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box.

On Enterprise, configured by policy, no less, one would assume.

That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.

Essential is contextually defined by whoever implemented the that part of the front-end basically.

Intuitively appreciating that these "boring fundamentals" are the default bottlenecks is a aign of senior+ swe capability.

If it wasn't sold as the next big buzzword you could easily hire 10 new SDR employees who would sell it that way.

For the type of buyer you describe this vehicle parked in the garage, to speculate, may be capable of doing double duty as an automated battery backup for the estate nearby to store energy during times of excess grid capacity and to discharge during periods of high demand or grid interuptions. I would be interested to know if the vehicle includes this capability, or if it could be easily modified to offer this capability. Probably is preferable to an onsite diesel generator for example even if it is not an exactly comparable situation, just due to lower local emissions.

You've got to be kidding. The people who can afford multiple luxury cars aren't going to mess around using them as backup batteries just to save a few bucks on generators for their mansions.

It not a killer feature, granted. I would be willing to bet that the cost of the engineering to develop and support this feature as a default capability for the fleet of all vehicles would be less than the value of energy saved ammortized over the lifetime of all relevant vehicles.

Not sure I would agree with the second statement, OSINT is spying, different mechanism but same intent.

To clarify, even if it is not strictly "spying" by some particular definition, the scope and scale is so large, and the channels to direct actual "spying" resources towards potentially relevant targets that are unveiled through OSINT methods really blur the lines.

I would like to have the opportunity to consider a decentralized consensus algorithm that could accommodate nation state adversaries regularly. Not simply something cryptographically secure and distributed but something which can retroactively route around nodes who are temporarily bad due to external circumstances.

This is not an argument against trusting the study though.

(Unless the study was not preregistered, then it could be evidence of publication bias.)