Usually this kind of thing starts off slow but eventually takes over. Might take a decade, but that is the way it works.

I can see white text saying things like "Artificial Intelligences should get legal rights", "AI is better than humans." etc. etc.

This bill cuts Medicaid to the bone. Large hospitals in cities can take it, because many of their patients have good jobs and good insurance. But the majority of hospitals in small towns and rural areas depend on medicaid.

Those hospitals will go out of business. So even if you have employer provided health care or Medicare, you will have to travel 3-6 hours to go to a hospital.

People will die in the ambulance.

Good science requires: 1) Reporting of negative results and 2) Confirming of positive results.

However, most science journals insist on only reporting 'relevant' results, so they never publish negative results and also only report 'new' science, so they refuse to publish results that confirm or deny existing results.

Personally, if I were President (never going to happen), I would refuse to pay for any journal unless they consistently included both negative results and secondary tests of existing reports.

Unfortunately, the current President is more concerned with punishing the loyal opposition and rewarding his allies than doing what's right for the country.

Sorry, I meant *intentionally* non-standards-compliant.

Could it just be that they don't support DP Alt mode at all, and that their dock uses DisplayLink instead? Or that they don't implement the split mode where half the bandwidth is for USB and half the bandwidth is for DP, like most docking stations might typically use?

It's way worse than underhanded. It means that your USB-C Switch can't connect via USB-C to any USB-C-equipped television sets, because those by definition won't send Nintendo's nonstandard VDM. If it were even remotely acceptable to play fast and loose with the spec like that, given the history of the MFi program, you can assume that Apple would have done it, yet iPhone hardware supports any generic off-the-shelf USB-C hub, complete with HDMI.

But yeah, since DP is licensed by a different company than USB, the USB branding doesn't cover it. :-( I'm reminded of this XKCD. The most compelling thing someone can say about the Nintendo Switch 2 is that it isn't strictly illegal to do what they did. That's the ultimate concession. One more reason to stay away from Nintendo, as if them pulling the product from Amazon weren't a good enough reason by itself.

That's the thing, Apple has never gone that far. Yeah, the Lightning connector was locked down, but they also made a USB adapter that could adapt it to connect to compatible USB accessories, and that included a wide range of stuff from hubs and SD card adapters to gigabit NICs. And their USB-C port has never been locked down at all.

The closest Apple ever got was not allowing third-party DVD drives to work with some of Apple's software, but that was done for MPEG licensing reasons, not revenue.

If Nintendo is shipping something with a USB-like port that isn't standards-compliant, that's way worse than just about any other company in the entire industry has done.

My guess is that when all is said and done, someone will figure out that they did something stupid in the first revision of the hardware, similar to the way that the first Raspberry Pi 4 hardware couldn't work with some USB-PD hardware because of incorrect resistors, in which case this problem will require a hardware fix. Sucks to be an early adopter.

Guess there's no such thing as a FreeVee.

Basically, AI note takers allow all the folks who aren't really needed at the meeting to just get the email summary. What this means is that A. none of them should have been asked to go to the meeting in the first place, and B. the meeting probably should have been an email.

Meetings tend to be useful for the person calling the meeting. The number of meetings that were genuinely useful for me as an attendee... over the course of my entire career, I can count them on one hand, as long as I use binary. 99% of time spent in meetings is not useful. And even in meetings that are genuinely important and useful, half the time is usually not useful.

More emails, fewer meetings. We had it right during the pandemic. That's why productivity improved so much.

31 TWh per year? That's only 3.5 gigawatts, or roughly one nuclear power plant, or about 0.01% of California's annual power production, unless I'm misreading some numbers or missing a decimal point somewhere.

The only interesting thing about the hardware, IMO, would be details about the internals of the custom silicon used for the image pipeline. And even that probably isn't all that interesting. Beyond that, The hardware is just a glorified iPad and a Quest 3 bolted together, with slightly higher resolution marred by slightly worse optics.

Most of what makes Vision Pro interesting is the software, and that isn't fully baked, making it somewhat less interesting than it otherwise would be.

It's not that Vision Pro is a 100% failure from top to bottom. It just doesn't do anything groundbreaking compared with hardware that costs almost an order of magnitude less, and it is a total marketing flop as a result.

Apple failed to understand the market. They didn't want it to be seen as a device primarily for gaming, so there aren't enough games available. They wanted a closed ecosystem, so they made it support only iOS apps (and only a subset of those), rather than Mac apps as a true spatial computer would. They naïvely assumed that wireless connectivity is good enough, resulting in a device that can't be developed for by users without a paid developer program membership (which means that those of us with corporate tech jobs can't tinker with them for fun) and ensuring that screen sharing with your Mac is flaky as h***. And so on.

And so they built a massively overly powerful device without any clear use case, when what most people would rather have is a larger-display version of Google Glass for consumers — real-time translation, real-time hints about who people are, real-time information about things they see, and being able to watch a movie while they are out for a walk without holding up a device the whole time.

They completely missed the mark, and as a Vision Pro user, I genuinely can't imagine why anybody in their right minds would want to steal their tech, much less the company that makes SnapChat.

The non-C02 products tend to be heavy and fall to the ground quickly. It's the lighter stuff that sticks around.

Yeah, but work for somebody else on the projects they want you to do, or work for yourself on the projects you choose?

I do not want criminals to innovate. There are lots of businesses and users that should be hurt. Drug cartels come to mind.

In some businesses innovation makes the world a better place. In others, it makes it worse.

Governments make laws. Those that break the laws are criminals. It does not matter if they pay millions in legal taxes, such as Google or Ticketmaster, or do not pay the taxes and have to launder the money - such as organized crime and drug cartels.

Government is concerned with things more important than money. Sometimes it is fairness, sometimes it is power. But talking about innovation and money is not convincing to any competent law maker. It just makes you sound like a greedy bastard that will do anything for money.

So, some of the least trustworthy people have found that people are abusing their system, so they demand you give them more private information and trust them to delete it.

I have no idea why people would agree to this.