A bunch of race fans, each of whom is a jerk who assumes he's a superior driver, get led onto a dirt road in the desert. This sounds like the plot from a bad movie.

I agree 100%. The GPT stuff in general (not just programming) has been met with a lot of denial and nitpicky criticism, but it's pretty amazing stuff, and the coders of the future had better be prepared to essentially just do code reviews and tweaks, because most of the code-cranking is going to be automated.

I've been putting off fixing a location-finding problem in my Android app, since Google keeps changing the code and permission structure and I'm seriously considering giving up and just ditching the app (I'm retired, this is a hobby). But after reading this /. article, I decided to ask ChatGPT 3.5 how to do it, and it gave me a detailed seven-step procedure, with code samples. And it worked. I might start doing this every time I have a new functionality to add.

They opened on September 29th and the quarter ended the next day. Even on that short run, they took in $6.7 million, so I suspect next quarter will be better.

Inflation is actually down, but the Republican party can't admit that, since they want to win the 2024 Presidential election. Paul Krugman explains it pretty well (non-paywalled link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...

Or the payment is in crypto, and you have to give them your wallet passphrase to collect.

You no longer need a third-party app.

Instead, you need a new system app, a USB driver update, and some complicated configuration changes. I think most people would opt for the third-party app.

Geocities only lasted 15 years.

This guarantees that nobody will accuse you of using a computer.

42 kilometers. It's not America.

If you had 38 million dollars in a "physical wallet", you'd probably have a hard time fitting it in your pocket.

Paul Krugman points out that having interest rates near zero is undesirable for the Federal Reserve, since that means they can't cut them to stimulate the economy.

My wife and I bought our first house in 1984, and got an 11.5% adjustable-rate mortgage (fixed-rate was higher). We were warned not to go the ARM route, since everybody was still suffering PTSD from the 15-20% rates of a few years earlier, but it's never been back to those heights since then.

Yep. It keeps serving up links to, essentially, soft-core porn sites. No thanks.

The SVB president, Greg Becker, lobbied Congress in 2015 to raise the size threshold for banks that would require "stress testing".

https://www.govinfo.gov/conten... - page 115

And in 2018, Trump relaxed the Dodd-Frank regulations, so here we are.