Pretty much this.

The internet has been turned into a cesspool of rubbish. If anything, something that "changes the internet as we know it" can't really make it much worse anymore.

Or rather, if it does, maybe even the muggles finally realize it.

Google has access to one of the biggest data pools, if they're not the biggest aggregators of data altogether. They also have a bunch of incredibly talented statisticians and pattern recognition systems in place.

If there is a way to detect AI generated bullshit, they have the means to do it.

And another set of professions, this time astroturfers and SEO bullshitters, losing their job to AI.

This time around, though, it's hard to feel sorry.

So many posts are clearly marketing campaigns, not sure that AI is needed to make it much worse.

I meant that the wider market. Even if Apple's strategy isn't going to be profitable, a subset of Meta's efforts can be (the devices can be profitable, but they spent way too much money on certain projects that will not pan out).

Apple may make a return to the market with an amended product that fit the business case.

Either way, if your career is over by the time you turn 35, you have to make sure you made enough money by that time to exist on it for the rest of your life.

Care to point to a sensible use of them? I can't think of any that isn't about creating an indentured service situation for your employee.

Aka "you work for me or you won't work for anyone".

Also illegal in Europe.

Can you see why I laugh in the face of the US embassy employers whenever I renew my visitation visa when they tell me I can't work in the US? Who in his sane mind would want to work there when you have a cushy job in the EU?

I would gladly let them do it. It's time that indentured service clause practice stops.

They have been illegal in most of Europe for a long time now. The worst a company can try here is to get you to pay back training costs (if training was within the last 3 years) and some try to squeeze a "pay us big bucks if you dare to quit and work somewhere else" clause in, so far nobody dared to try to take this to court (to my knowledge at least).

The adhesive contracts that are possible in the US are a joke.

There's a market, it's viable, but it's not set the world on fire. Apple's device aimed for a market that seemingly wasn't there (too expensive particularly for an unproven ecosystem). But other devices have done well enough to have a business justification.

KDE has been in Fedora a while, a lot of Fedora gets dropped on the way to RHEL. Fedora 34 would become RHEL9, and dropped KDE on the way.

I agree. Some of it, I suspect, is that I've just read so many books now that I'm in 50s that when I read a trope-driven genre novel (SF, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, whatever), I rapidly feel like I've read this story before. I've gotten to the same place with TV and movies. Both mediums really suffer from a lack of any kind of originality, or even attempts at quirkiness. It all just feels like Thomas Kinked-esque cookie cutter.

I've started reading a lot more non-fiction, mainly history. Ironically, there's a lot more originality there than in most of the modern fiction I read.

I read the first Three Body Problem novel, and I thought it was crap. Some of that might have been the translation, although I've read other translations from Chinese without that much of an issue. The plotting was terrible, the characters flat. I finished it more because I kept expecting it to eventually turn around, breaking my rule that if I don't like a book in the first three chapters, I won't finish it. In the end, I couldn't imagine why I would want to read any more of it.

Does it have the intro "Imagine Bash, but object oriented and with function call names so long they would drive a Java developer to madness. Brought to you by the author of Microsoft Bob and Clippy, psychopaths that infect your computer with their dead-eyed smiles comes Powershell."