And that's not meaningful growth. It doesn't make more stuff or more services or make life better for anyone it just replaces jobs.

Watts aren't the key to good cleaning. Japanese brands make 300W cleaners that do a better job than 3000W European ones.

You need something to lift the dust off the surface and into the air stream. Basic vacs have little brushes, but you really want moving ones that sweep and beat, lifting dust away from the surface.

It's interesting that the is news. I don't recall it being a big deal when the Chinese space station had to dodge a SpaceX satellite.

Yes, until he finally gets canceled. Nobody is doing more harm. AI is just hype now; the damage it's going to cause hasn't really started yet.

AMZN should have got them so they can waste more of their money; that would be just.

This IS the better outcome for consumers. nobody should buy their pet shit spreader.

Tariffs create uncertainty and hesitation to invest....especially since they're applied unpredictably. Nearly all programming jobs are investments in future growth. When the economy is in the shitter and the president of the world's largest economy is unreliable and unpredictable, it makes businesses and investors hold off on major investments. Even if you love the guy, if you can't predict the cost of materials for a 2 year project, it makes it very hard to find financing. The same with software...if you need 50 professionals and you don't know if 20 of them are going to get their green card revoked, it makes you nervous. Even without Trump's chaos, we have a LOT of economic headwinds: deglobalization, COVID aftermath, wars in Europe/Middle-East....as well as no real growth opportunity in the tech sector.

We got really lucky in the past. As soon as one technology was introduced, another arrived shortly afterwards to give the illusion that endless growth is possible with innovation. However, we created multiple new markets back-to-back: In the late 90s, everyone had to get connected to the internet. In the early 2000s, all business process had to be moved from client/server to web-based applications. Then the iPhone was introduced and now every business needed a mobile presence. Afterwards, we had economic expansion from the big data craze as well as some crypto jackassery....then we had ML and AI. OK...well now we don't have anything new and exciting for businesses to spend money on beyond LLMs which aren't really providing the return on investment promised. Once we find the next useful business innovation, we'll see more familiar growth patterns. However, now...everything is on the web, architecture is largely web-scale, if a mobile app is needed, it's written already, if ML is useful, it has been applied...big data systems are now in production.

I've said it here many times before, but historically, no business wants to do just do the same amount of volume at slightly less cost. Nearly all of them want to crush their rivals and expand their market share. Wall Street loves growth MUCH more than cost savings. It's just bullshit to say we've stopped hiring because of AI. If AI was really helping, they'd keep the headcount the same and increase workload/volume....and lay everyone off much later after they've grown as much as they can.

Look the economy is shitty, it's harder to predict costs than it has been in modern history.largely due to the stupidity going on in the US gov right now. A CEO can either say "we overestimated our demand and need in previous years and need to correct our headcount"....or "hey, we're going all in on the future...AI, baby!!!!!"

Trump is going to be like Brexit. You can make some calculations, and the numbers are eye watering, but the true cost is much higher. The decline of a nation, the loss of soft power, the social problems and the lives permanently blighted by it.

Which is still useful. I was trying to fix an issue with a web app I made (I'm not a web developer, this is just a hobby project) and a bit of googling didn't turn up the answer. ChatGPT knew what the solution was from my description. So as a glorified search engine, it did better than Google and DDG.

Wind and solar don't suddenly stop producing. It's extremely predictable.

And despite government at all levels opposing renewable technology. In the end, economics win out. People wanting energy independence, seeing one of the best investments they can make.

The point of S230 is that platforms like twitter don't have to pre-approve comments before publication. It would be impossible for them to do at that scale, even in the Musk era, without a very inaccurate automated system.

Responding to reports of another thing and not protected.

Are the kind of people who are upset that they can't use the n-word in public and who knowingly voted for Trump the rapist because they think it should be legal to fuck kids. So really I don't pay much mind to those people because they're weird little fuckers and best case scenario they will become irrelevant and worst case scenario we're all going to die in a global Firestorm of nuclear fire caused by those idiots handing the launch codes to religious lunatics because they're upset somebody said happy holidays...

It's not a product it's there to replace wages. The potential payoff is in the trillions so a little bit of short-term expenditure is fine, most of which you will pay for it because there are only a handful of companies left after decades of mega mergers and illegal antitrust violations that were not enforced.

The billionaires have had it with capitalism. Mark my words. They are done with capitalism and they are done with consumers and they are done with us.

I get it you want to say the n word and you want to do it without getting banned or modded down. And you know the way things are going if your side wins you'll get the Say the n-word as much as you want.

But they're going to take your house and the pills to keep you alive. They're not just going to let you be a racist piece of shit on the internet they're going to take your property away from you. And they're going to do worse to your kids and your grandkids not that you care...

I'm not telling you this because I think it'll change your mind. You are too poisoned in the brain to do anything but be an asshole anymore.

I'm telling you this because I want to put it in your head like a worm that's going to eat your brain alive like a certain Health and human services head. You know what you're doing and you know it's eventually going to backfire and you know that unless you're at least 65 years old you're not going to drop dead before it does.

So you know damn well that the internet is nothing like a mother fucking newspaper. But your troll and a racist so this is all about you getting to be your worst possible person as much as possible. And I'm telling you you're not going to get away with that. The billionaires will take all your property just to take it. Good luck dying before that happens because that's literally the only thing that can save your fat stinking ass

Also could you please stop putting rapists in the White House? Thanks

And the rest of the world follows. If the United States does the way with free speech on the Internet by killing section 230 then Europe will follow. And it's Europe that you're talking about because China does not have free speech on the internet and in many African countries they will literally kill you if you're gay.. although in their defense Americans went over there and lobbied for the laws that give death penalties for being gay...

The United States falling to fascism is going to take the rest of the world with it. Eventually we will hand nuclear launch codes to the religious lunatics and Chisto fascists and then that's game over for the human race...