Volume estimation is hard for some people, isn't it?

When people just start leaving dollar bills in their drawers and not bothering to pick one up off the floor, it may be time just like the penny is now. But not until then. I hope it's not in my lifetime.

I hope your school taxes were cut to match. oh, they weren't?

Math teaches logic and problem solving. If you want to get anywhere in life you might need to be able to do that. To stay on topic though the real problem is that AI is to learning what a calculator is to math; it takes out understanding.

AI laptops are a scam, either all they can really do is text to speech or they are really just thin clients to the AI server. Want to know how much AI is actually done locally on a device? disable the network connection and watch it all fail.

This is the supercomputer phase of AI; it needs huge amounts of space, resources, and expensive equipment. When an eventual successor is developed that reduces all those resources down to a small box that sits in someone's home or pocket and does the same thing faster and almost infinitely cheaper - all this debt will be worse than just throwing money in the fireplace.

Until then this idea of just making an AI database bigger will never be profitable. The only hope is that new developments quickly render this waste of resources obsolete before our world collapses under the weight of data center and infrastructure debt.

Many don't even know what a terminal is. We are now trained through 2-factor authorization techniques that it is OK to have to prove yourself through a second method outside the browser page. It's not a far leap from email or text messages to entering a code into an app window.

Some start-up debt to get established? sure knock yourself out. But putting the entire planet's financials and infrastructure into heavy debt is JUST PLAIN STUPID.

Using browsers to deliver apps needs to die. as such even 4GiB is plenty and if I had a vote in-browser apps would be limited to 2, no 1, er make that 0.

Sidewalks are not built in the middle of nowhere so that pedestrians don't land on other buildings and people. Airports for the most part are, then the inevitable build-up around the airport happens over a few decades. Mostly it's too late for existing airports.

My Walmart has two main entrances (like most?), on one each end of the front. The entrance doorway appears to always be on the outer-most side of the building. This is designed so that those leaving the checkouts in the middle of the store follow a path that doesn't run into those entering the store.

It's all about the traffic flow.

Then I have local grocery store (Giant) that changed from an enter+exit door to a single door where someone is always waiting for the door to clear from the opposing direction (wtf is that).

A lot of that price is Licensing to use the trademark or IP or whatever, it's not like AI where you can copy anything then lawyer your way out of it.

Many AI prompts won't even have a problem ifyoumiss a few spaces. Maybe Collins isallin on AI.

Our county is huge, why don't we require huge buffer zones around an airport? Most of the dead were on the ground. Yes I realize it probably took decades for all those warehouses and neighborhoods to develop around the airport and it would now be hard to relocate - air travel is very safe right up until it isn't.

That's why it has become more popular. Computers used to only be used by, erm, a slightly smarter segment of people. Now it's a necessity for everyone and the interface reflects that.

Anyway back to the bashing:
-Do their mice have two buttons yet?