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That would have to be addressed on an application-specific basis. Debating the issue "in general" doesn't make much sense.

Definitely humans provide care in a way an algorithm cannot. On the other hand, when the summary does get around to mentioning what Kaiser is actually doing, it's monitoring sensors. Computers are pretty damn good at maintaining vigilance in sensor monitoring, in a way people are not. That's why we have fire alarms even though humans can also feel heat and smell smoke.

The OLED screen jumps out at me as a useful upgrade. An iPad is mainly a screen.

Although, they make some nice non-OLED screens too.

I think perplexity.ai is in a honeymoon phase of not having been sued yet. GPT4 has become very cautious about analyzing or quoting copyright material including papers, whereas perplexity will still go ahead and access them and do the work for you. It's great, but I wonder if it will last.

I'd just be hearing the same shit as regular radio but now in HD.

Actually, HD Radio has stations that don't exist on analog radio because broadcasters can pile multiple streams (sub-channels) onto the same frequency basically for free. In my area, the only full-time classical music station is on HD radio.

People want to see their 401k's go up, and whoever's in charge of making sure $BIGNUM goes up this quarter at google wants their bonus. There is no single individual who personally owns the $110B google has lying around.

This is like sending coals from eastern Newcastle to western Newcastle.

They most certain do have offices in those locations

https://about.google/locations...

Not sure offshoring is an appropriate term for a global company hiring globally.

If you're hiring somewhere you don't sell anything, that's definitely offshoring.

Before any of us even imagined we'd have a computer or a course on it, we "programmed" in text books. The language was mostly GOTO, but might even have the occasional conditional as in, "If you like cheese turn to page 56 otherwise 103". Typical applications were insulting the teacher's appearance, as in "for a picture of the teacher, turn to page 45", where there was a picture of a gorilla.

This was of course, not permitted which made us low-key black hat "hackers". In private school the penalty for this was far too steep. I don't know if public school kids learned how to diagram sentences or not; but we did. I later realized we had been taught parse trees by another name.

Yes, BASIC was my first programming language on an actual computer.

You have serial ports? We had to sort the electrons by hand and push them down the wire one at a time!

If they had called it Windows 10.2 instead of Windows 11 would it have changed anything? It says "Update Now, Or Else!!" and you click OK an it does it. Nobody is camping out at Best Buy for a boxed version of a new major release any more.

But the crooks only got $22M out of the $1B in damage they caused, thus destroying $978M in value. It's like when somebody smashes your car window to steal $2 from the coin tray.

If everybody owes everybody then it all cancels out, right?

The problem is that debt diverts a large share of actual economic output (goods and services) into passive income (interest paid). Disconnecting productivity from consumption is bad. Communism goes all in on it but runaway capitalism does it too.

Timestamps and high score leaderboards make layoff planning so much easier.