Well American political leaders bullshit and none of it is the truth, so I for one welcome our AI overlords.

Well, one but it could just be a crazy since "Antifa" isn't an actual organization... A Portland shooting in August 2020.

Literally anyone would be more ethical than any of those bozos. They are to a person unqualified sycophants choosen based on what they looked like on TV and willingness to support whatever stupid thing he said 10 minutes ago that contradicts what he said an hour ago.

The vast majority of those cards are not being used as video cards. AMD and Intel still make those.

The AI datacenter buildout is being done almost exclusively with private equity. The federal government isn't funding it. Besides unless it ends up in Trump's pocket, the federal budget is being gutted.

THE HOBBIT at 48 hz looked like a shitty BBC production. It looked better at 24.

Yet again Trump tries to change a law that is actually under control of Congress. No corporate lawyer/CFO is going to base their compensation rules on TACO meaningless pronouncements.

I realize Trump heralds the "post-fact" world, but the majority were renewals and transfers. They are also expecting the current white-nationalist administration to reject applications more than in the past.

By TDS you mean they aren't idiots just covering for Dear Leader and his parade of stupid, selfish, and corrupt actions.

Why not?

The problem with LLMs is I've NEVER seen it say "I don't know". At best it says "I'm not allowed to give you an answer."

I've generally preferred to pay people a salary, when reasonable to do so.

I hire(d) people (I still employ some people directly) to do a job. So long as the job was done properly, I'm not a big stickler when it comes to spending time at work. If the job can be done in 4 days, so be it. My concern is that the work is done on time and properly. It's also not important to me how they did the work, so long as it was done right.

I'm all for a 4 hour work week, so long as their wages match what they'd make for a 40 hour work week. Yes, minimum wage is too low. Then again, I'd never consider paying someone the least amount I could pay them by law. That's just a kick in the proverbial nuts and pretty damned degrading. "I'd pay you less, but the law won't allow it."

My house was built before CAT6 came out. It should be easy to upgrade as everything runs through in-wall conduit. I figured I'd do that for future-proofing.

I've not really seen a need to upgrade. It works well enough and there are jacks in most rooms. I also don't have the bandwidth to make it matter much, though fiber will be here before too long. Upgrading then may matter. (Fiber wasn't going to come up my road, but I contacted the company and a couple of neighbors and I will pay for the fiber to be run.)

Cat5e should still be fine. I'm not going to bother paying for full GB service, as I don't need that much bandwidth. I'll be fine with half of that and CAT5e should be viable.

This is about the 'inadequate' comment you made.

I could see it being inadequate for some people. As for me, it's still holding up and still fit for purpose. I've lived in a bandwidth-impoverished area for going on two decades. So, my needs, perhaps better said expectations, are different. I don't even see a reason to go full boar on the GB speeds. As I am technically a business, they say I can request even higher speeds. I'm simply not interested in that.

Then again... We'll see how I feel after a few months. I may end up wanting to splurge and increase my speeds. It could happen.

You'd think so, but you won't feel a thing. You won't have to adjust your diet because you'll naturally lose weight. Then, well, you won't even suffer a headache, a toothache, a stubbed toe, or any of those other painful things.

Hmm... This needs a pithy statement that can be summed up enough to fit on a bumper sticker.

I dunno... I'm a doctor and if you're dead then you're in perfect health. You no longer have any ailments of any kind. You're not going to catch any diseases.

Just to be clear, I'm not a medical doctor. I don't even play a medical doctor on TV. But, I am a doctor - though I don't tend to use the honorary, for a variety of reasons.