Millennials have finally started buying houses and plan on living somewhere long enough to buy a wire-in-the-ground annual cable subscription.
 
Not me though, I'm ad-free streaming till I die at this point.

Yep I also have a kagi subscription too. It's great; I'll never go back to Google search as my primary. Between it and the various ChatGPT flavors of the week I pretty much never use Google products anymore outside of Gmail, and very rarely Google maps.

ChatGPT is a better search product than google, traffic decline to SEO-optimized clickbait websites proves this; they're absolutely 100% going to monetize free tier chatgpt with ads, why would they not? Advertising is 70-90% of Google's stable revenue, they would be insane to leave that money on the table. The question is, given they already have paid-tier products, will they offer ad-free products still? Google always offered their products for free in favor of getting more eyeballs to drive ad revenue, because nobody was willing to pay for a search engine. In this instance, the paid product was offered up front, so hopefully paid products continue to offer an ad-free tier (which I'm happy to pay for, fuck ads).
 
Interestingly, Facebook just started offering a paid tier in... I think the UK? Hopefully that takes off and we see that across other advertising-funded , previously "free only" tier services. We got Youtube Premium during the pandemic and that's been a tremendous value for money.

The whole planet has been wired up with fiber since the late 1990s, even the island of St Helena (google it) has fiber now.

Does mother russia pay by the post or pay by the hour, commarade?

Your overuse of apostrophes is not how I wanted to start my Monday.

Somebody clearly hasn't been paying attention since about April 2025. Things have changed dramatically.

I am seeing the same languages focused on over and over for LLMs: rust, golang, python, c++, bash, typescript, java
 
if these are the languages LLMs are universally best at, that's probably what people will continue to write things in, as LLMs work best at those. Claude and GPT5 are phenomenal at writing rust, python, golang, even terraform

Not using Android means you don't have to put everything in a java wrapper first, and you're not limited to whatever "it seemed like the right decision" decisions Google made to support phones fifteen years ago when they couldn't/wouldn't fund the team better. You can join an android phone to a network using bluetooth (PAN-U), but that feature is missing from android because it was too much work and not enough people used it. Android was useful 15 years ago because it had a convenient touch UI/UIX/API but if you're not planning on letting users run games on your system, it doesn't really matter. Unity runs just as fine on Linux as Android these days with both being platinum level platforms for support.

With 85" tv getting under $1000, 65 inch tvs are the norm, not the exception. They have terrible color, but a lot of people are willing to trade color/brightness for size.

7b gemma nano models are... not terrible. I can see having a 30b model that uses 15gb on a phone that outperforms early (1H 2024 era) GPT 4 models by the end of the decade. Maybe in a year or two. Things are moving pretty fast. GPT4o mini was good enough for almost anyone already.

Agree, coral dying off is scary and makes big headlines, but coral will establish itself via polyps in cooler, or otherwise more appropriate waters, new species will form. Every 2 years or so there's a big media scare about the coral reefs bleaching but that's not actually a die-off, they run in low power mode until conditions change, then recolor

Also they enforced drink driving laws starting in the late 1950s. I don't know what alcohol consumption per capita was back then but I'm pretty sure it was more than double what it is today

This is the correct take; coastal cities from georgia to virginia largely exist due to inertia at this point; they aren't growing, and if they are it's largely due to people fleeing rural areas, or HCOL situations. The central/south coast is largely unproductive which is one of the reasons it's so easy to buy huge plots of land for cheap and fill factories there with labor. That entire coastline is low-lying swamp already, anyone who visits the area understands the long term trajectory of the region. Land owners screamed bloody murder when FEMA finally corrected their half century old flood maps made with critically flawed methodology claiming the area was much drier than it actually was.
 
There's a reason why I-95 sits ~150 miles inland from the atlantic coast for most of it's length, and why so few coastal cities exist in that stretch. It's not an accident.

>death rate has declined since 1950
 
I mean, I've seen british rural roads in modern times, 1.25 lanes total, lined closely with 400 year old stone wall or hedges. I can only imagine how bad it was before this. Most of england's road network reflects their past, an impoverished rural island community surrounding metropolitan london, with proportional road funding. Roads built for horse and buggy, later driven on by motor vehicles with no upgrades was definitely going to be dicey. The bar to improve their roads was set very, very low.