Who needs school when we have TikTok?

Now that they've gotten rid of this woke DEI nonsense, they can spend 10x as much on some more wholesome and less-indoctrinating educational materials! /s

This really isn't any different than requiring advertisements to disclose the use of paid actors. I can see it running into a few problems with internet advertisements though. I'm not sure it really matters though. Some people will buy stupid crap regardless of what kind of labels or warnings are put on something.

I dunno. They make decent enough output for shitposting on social media. While there is a certain amount of delight to be had in coming up with a clever limerick about someone's mother, some people really aren't worth the effort. The AI can do it well enough in a few seconds though.

I'm not sure I'd use it for any productive work though. Of course not everything has to be for work though either.

The ideal number of hallucinations is zero unless they are specifically requested for whatever reason. If someone told you they were going to kick you in the nuts 38% fewer times this week, you're still getting kicked in the nuts.

I'm not sure a person who's hallucinating could be convinced by another person that what they observe isn't really happening. I think a person has to come to that realization themselves in order to be able to not lose their shit.

Not really. Gambling (legal or otherwise) has been around for a long time.

What's changed is the ease of access. Today making a bet is a few taps away on a phone, whereas in the past you had to go to a bookie at the very least.

I'm not sure to what extent this can be fixed. I have a sneaking suspicion that even if all of these students were made to take a course that shows them how badly a casino, etc. will screw them out of their money that a few would just want to gamble even more because they think they can spot the tricks now.

Making it illegal won't really work either. Organized crime will just fill in for legal businesses. The internet makes it virtually impossible to stop unless a country is willing to implement levels of control similar to China and most people will not put up with that even if it would stop the gambling problem.

I don't think it's possible to make a less nuanced and less coherent argument than this. At best, you're telling on yourself.

Really there's nothing outside of the ISA being open and freely extensible for anyone who wants to do so. The ISA itself is similar to ARM, MIPS, or other RISC ISAs. If you wanted to build a custom microcontroller for some purpose it would be cheaper to use RISC-V since it doesn't have licensing costs. Most companies aren't doing this though and just by OTS components that work with their codebase. If you wanted to create some dedicated hardware paths for computationally expensive operations, the RISC-V ISA lets you add those in. You'd need your own compilers to generate those instructions or to write the assembly code yourself, but it gives users that flexibility.

Otherwise there's nothing inherently magical about RISC-V that would make it better than ARM in some performance metrics.

I don't follow the NFL that much, but don't they have some kind of subscription service where you can watch all of the games without having cable or satellite? MLB has had that for a while and if you just want to watch one team it may not be the best value, but it's great for anyone that wants to watch a variety of games on demand.

If there's a football game I really want to watch I can just go to a friend's place or a sports bar. Both are arguably better viewing experiences as well.

That's nice Adobe, but why do I need any of your products at all if I can just use a LLM to generate the image I want or make the requested modifications to my existing image directly?

If AI manages to kill this shitty company and their shitty business model, I wouldn't shed a tear. GIMP has gotten surprisingly good over the years while Photoshop has tread water or regressed for completely bullshit reasons.

As opposed to the open corruption on display with the President personally involving himself in making sure the deal resolves in favor of a major financial backer.

I suppose you have nothing to say about that.

If they're being honest (fat chance of that) about it being random then the only input is repeated refreshing until you get a lower price.

If it's tied to anything external all you can do is try to hide your identity or pretend to be whatever gets the lowest prices. Really good tracking or detailed profiles might be hard to get around, but I suspect most approaches are still rather naive. This isn't anything new. Some years ago there was a big story about airfare prices being different depending on what browser someone was using and even before that I recall reading about how customers using a iPhone were charged more than Android users on some website under the presumption that they were more wealthy on average because they had bought a more expensive phone.

I doubt that the companies doing this would allow you to identify as Filipino for the purpose of getting eggs for $.07 cheaper. That rather defeats the point of what they're trying to do. Even if companies could implement this perfectly it's still pointless as any significant price disparity just creates room for a middleman to engage in arbitrage. The store will only sell bread to the blind Cuban woman with gout who gets the best price and then resells all of the bread she buys to everyone else at a rate lower than what the store would have charged those other customers. So even if there were money to be made using this kind of technology, the store won't be the ones making any of the money once other people catch on to what they're doing.

Just rip the bandage off and move the family to LibreOffice. My mom has been using it for over a decade now and it's honestly one of the things that requires the least amount of tech support. I don't think LibreOffice has any bullshit AI crap to worry about either. Most people don't need MS Office for what they're doing.

That's even worse for them. None of the studios that they bought are making games that anyone really loves or will fondly remember twenty years from now. They paid a shit ton of money for studios cashing in on past successes are the ones who will be left holding the bag. Some might still manage to sell titles in the millions, but they really on exist until something better comes along and disrupts the market. Halo, GoW, or other Xbox mainstays haven't been relevant in years and none of the studios they bought have done anything on the level of their historical achievements in the last several years either.

Infinite money machines are trivially easy. There's nothing stopping an issuing agency from printing even more money. Zimbabwe's 100 Trillion dollar note is but one such example. Of course that bill wasn't worth the paper used to print it shortly after it was printed due to the well over billion-percent monthly inflation, but infinite money machines do exist. Incidentally they seem to themselves be infinite pain machines judging by the historical effects of running the printing press or infinite money machine.

What doesn't exist is an infinite wealth machine. Well that sort of exists, but it only gets there by a few percent per year on average and no cajoling will make it get there faster. Most of the time that just slows it down or even causes it to work backwards. It's a funny machine like that. It's reliable enough for your retirement account at least.