Comment cyberpunk dystopia? (Score 1) 40
You're soaking in it.
(Madge?)
You're soaking in it.
(Madge?)
Red Bull is at least $3/can.
A trailer full of Red Bull is about 70,000 cans. That's around $200K.
Sell for 1/3rd value and you have a good year's tax-free salary from one truckload.
They're $3/can retail. The store pays at most $2 each. Most likely $1.50 from Red Bull but there are many variables. So a trailer full of cans is around $140k if it's $2/can.
Grocery store margins are thin - the $1 margin is used to pay for transport, storage, store operations (utilities/etectricity, staff wages, etc), so the actual profit per can will fall down to 25 cents or so.
Logically only 60 or so years remain before AI can take over 100% of jobs. Assuming that we're all replaceable cogs where every job and every worker are equivalent.
The other factor, a constant rate of growth in AI's capabilities, is probably less of a hand-wave than you might think because we're going to be constrained on the sizes of the models, computational power of the servers, and of course electricity to run it all. We'll probably see a very brief exponential growth of AI then a slow as physical constraints kick in, we're already see exponential money burned on the problem with a likely linear pay off. Jensen's "The more you buy, the more you save." will probably work out as "The more you buy, your more you spent." for most AI bets.
/bin/bash is still installed, so people's typical shell scripts like command-line installers and whatnot still work.
I think the default being zsh is that it's less buggy and has some nice interface features.
The real question we should ask is not why Apple includes zsh by default, but why Ubuntu makes you install it before you can use it.
Check TFS. LLMs aren't in there. Engineers were using AI to find better shapes for rocket nozzles years before anyone had ever heard of ChatGPT. Hell, I toyed with using genetic algorithms to make extruded parts better nearly twenty years ago.
Don't fall for the marketing; there's more to AI than LLMs. Most of it actually works.
In 2025 it's hard to consider Africa more corrupt than the USA.
Ha, I guess it you've never been there! The corruption is endemic at every level, not just the presidential palace.
But I take your point. Trevor Noah was comparing Trump to an African dictator seven years ago.
He's probably like one of those people who knows that Africa has been fucked over by other nations as long as there have been other nations to fuck them over. Everyone's had a turn abusing Africa.
That not even close to true, that Africa is somehow more a "victim" than anywhere else.
It is a rationalisation, or as the kids say these days, "cope", where observed reality does not match up with ideology.
Like anywhere else in the world, historically most of the "fucking over" was by your own rulers and neighbours, not distant nations until very recently.
Sure, living on the coast might get you raided by Arabs in East Africa, or Viking in Europe. But perhaps the most unique aspect of sub-Saharan Africa's collective (pre)history has been its isolation from the bulk of humanity, who lived in North Africa, Europe and Asia - all connected.
Sub-Saharan Africa, like Australia or the Pacific Islands, remained primitive because of lack of connection, quite the opposite to your assertion.
Daughter of Julie Hotdog and Andrew Hoagie.
That is just Slashdot bug. It cannot handle even common Unicode characters. Posts from phones frequently get those character substitutions.
Just iPhones with smart quotes turned on. I assume iPads are the same, but macOS doesn't use them in text fields like this one.
'Negative effects? Quite limited'
Source please. There's a lot to suggest it's doing long term damage
Go and tidy your room
Yes, I know there are strange teenagers that have tidy rooms...
Starting your career as a barely literate dumb ass isn't going to be stacking the deck in your favor.
I managed to get pretty far in life that way, but I have spent years playing catch-up and reading like a fiend because everyone around me is better educated, more knowledgeable, and often smarter than me.
Claude is much better for coding.
Apple has a handful of GPL programs and publishes their modifications. Bash being the most obvious example.
ref: https://opensource.apple.com/r...
The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic light table for cutting and pasting documents.