They want to know if you're a CEO or commercial real estate broker, who is likely to come back here 10 times in the next two years on the company dime, or if you're a mom of five getting a 10th anniversary dinner from her husband who can barely afford to do this once a year. It's not rocket science. If you're a software engineer taking your wife or friend out for their birthday you also fall into the second group. A possible third group would be someone like city council member, federal level congress/senators, executive level employees at the pentagon etc. If your D.C. restaurant is known as the place to take Boeing's CEO for dinner by the Pentagon, you want to make sure everyone in the DoD leadership is getting well taken care of, for example.

What do you mean by that? They both work out to the same thing just with a different syntax.

TIOBE basically searches a bunch of search engines and other things for "$LANGUAGE programming", applies some magical fudge factor and calls that a result.

It's absolute nonsense. It's highly manipulable if you can convince people to use the " programming" wording. It's going to be highly affected by the appearance and disappearance of documentation websites. It will of course still pick up ancient archives of stuff that nobody is actually using today.

I have an extreme skepticism of that VB is anywhere near the top 10. The original VB died long, long ago. VB.NET wasn't backwards compatible in the slightest and I don't think it ever had much adoption, because what's even the point? You might as well use C# instead. In fact long ago I had a VB project I considered transitioning to VB.NET and quickly decided it wasn't worth it, and went with C#. That was somewhere in the early 2000s, and I don't think it's gotten any more appealing since.

TIOBE is still nonsense of the highest order, not sure why anyone bothers using it.

It's some search engine counts based voodoo. Maybe not the most terrible metric possible, but I have no idea why it's the one always being discussed when there's better things one could measure at this point. Like say, GitHub.

If we want to know what's currently most popular, what we should want is measuring the actual usage. That might be projects, or commits, depending.

On a scale of 1-10 what's your confidence level the following countries don't have this capability today? USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, France, German, Australia y? The US is allied with Israel. If Israel has capability that would imply to me our other allies do, as do we.

Israel and Iran both shut down their internet during the ongoing conflict for multiple days. It's standard operating procedure to flip the "internet kill switch" as soon as a foreign bomb explodes on your soil. In a major city like Tehran, Tel Aviv, NYC, SF, London etc where you have 10,000+ people per square mile, you could easily have 20-30,000 people on a network like this with moderately low latency during a bombing situation.
 
But yeah if you live in the Houston suburbs where each house sits on a half acre of land and houses are 150' apart, ti would be useless, you're right. Very few people outside of the US actually live like that, though. So yeah it's useful for about 55% of the global population.
 
I dunno how you cache and forward messages for more than maybe a thousand people or so, encrypted data by definition doesn't compress hardly at all, that app might use a gb or more of storage if you're at the edge of two networks.

Toyota calls them "LBMs", or large behavior model. Same general concept but with different training data https://pressroom.toyota.com/t...

Imagining China is only using LLM for chat bots is pretty limited imagination; toyota has already (2+ years ago now) demonstrated LLM is extremely useful for training robots to walk more naturally, and learn normal tasks like folding clothes and flipping burgers in hours rather than months or years.

I guess you were born after 1990 or so. There was still a guy with a cart delivering inter-office memos when I did "take your kid to work day" at boeing in 1991 or so. Personal computers effectively eliminated the secretary by 1995 as executives learned to type messages themselves. Spreadsheets changed accounting and forecasting forever; "computer" used to be a job. "IT was supposed to usher in this great new world of productivity and it never manifested." What the heck are you talking about buddy? The office landscape of today looks nothing like the office of 1970. Microsoft Office replaced the cost center(s) of the company, a two very average analysts can do in a week what a team of 30 used to do in a month. Instead of forecasting two years out at coarse resolution you can forecast out 10 years highly granularly. Change one variable out of curiosity, and do it again instantly. Before you'd have a series of meetings to decide on the one projection you'd do, and then the whole team would work on that for an entire month to produce the single result.

If you RTFA it says amazon has as many robots as human workers. Amazon is the 2nd largest employer in the US; that number may shrink as robot use increases

I never understood Mozilla's foray into AI.

There's just nothing about Mozilla that suggests to me they are experts on the subject matter and have much to contribute in the area. I could be wrong, but Mozilla is so tightly associated to the web that it just was a hard sell to me that their AI efforts were going to go anywhere from the start.

In every car except Teslas. In a Tesla, the lane assist will not allow deviations from its chosen path. If you try to correct it, it will fight you until you do it strongly enough, at which point it will turn off entirely.

There is no "encourage" in a Tesla.

I pay $20/mo for chat access to an llm and $20/mo for a private search engine. $40/mo to escape the googleverse is well worth the price in my opinion.

Steeeve has been spouting nonsense, blaming the pilots without having any concrete evidence. Then his next video suddenly comes up with "oh, new evidence, the RAT deployed" even though there had been reports of this within hours of the crash.

He has zero credibility at this point.

Also agree. It's rare i need to boot into Windows for a game particularly for indie stuff