The UK has become so slow at developing infrastructure that it's now at the point where if you are in your late 30s you will NEVER benefit from anything they have not already put shovels in the ground for. They can literally talk about whatever they want - its takes so long you'll be on your way to the care home before it ever happens. I moved here 15 years ago when they were talking about 'making a decision on the third runway at Heathrow'. Today they announce that they are about to 'make a decision' on it again. There are things like the electrification of the Great Western line - which would benefit people for the next 100 years if they did it - and they still haven't done. The first electric trains on the underground happened nearly 130 years ago.

Sadly there's no reason to assume that it can exist.

Think of it this way; I learn a skill that enables me to produce a high value item. It earns me a lot of money. Then someone comes along and invents a way that allows the item to be produced at 1% of the previous cost. My hard earned skill is now worth vastly less. No 'new business plan' is going to maintain my income unless I move into a very different field, which I may not be equipped for (the 'teach the coal miners of West Virginia to code' joke).

The person who comes up with a plan that can indeed provide great jobs to theoe discarded victims of economic change deserves every possible praise. But sadly I don't think it is going to happen...

People have a very important source of knowledge which is totally missing from AI: experience.

A person knows what "hot" means, because it has touched a hot surface during its lifetime at least once and felt the pain. A person knows how a speed bump affects the car ride, and how lemon tastes. A person knows which shape fits into which hole, because as a child, it has played the game.

Persons learn all the time by formulating hypotheses about the world and then experience how it works out.

AI totally misses this feedback. Or as my father uses to say: AI talks about color like a blind person.

And therein lies the problem with their business model, at least as far as use by the general public goes. Most people aren't going to earn any money back making AI generated songs. Is it worth subscribing just to make a few silly meme songs every once in awhile? Probably not.

So, we're pretty much stuck with this stuff being used in the same way Coke used AI to make their holiday ad - they could've hired real artists, but they didn't.

The days when you could turn a silly idea into a silly song with a prompt for free are probably not long for this world. Of course, this is the situation with most AI tools, eventually the companies want to start seeing some black ink.

Is reserved for approximately 8,000 people worldwide out of 8 billion. This creates a lot of bizarre situations like the problem you're describing.

So basically we need lots of young people to work and drive the economy forward and generate economic activity in order to support the old people in their old age when they're physically incapable of work.

Basically line must go up. The economy has to grow because if it stops growing the people at the top take it out on us and we enter a permanent depression. It's like how you are running from the dragon hoping he eats The Hobbit. That's our economy.

On the other hand AI is taking jobs needed to make the whole system function. We need people to be working but we also need them to be constantly exchanging the value of their labor again in order to keep the economy driving forward and functional.

As the population of young people drops and there is less economic activity you will also have Ward drop offs in the number of available jobs due to automation. The entire economic system we have built will break down and we do not have any replacement for it.

Meanwhile we still have to take 70% of everything we do and use it to satisfy every single conceivable whim of those 8,000 people because they earned it and because clearly God wants them to have all that money and power or he wouldn't have given them all that money and power.

Also if you take away Elon musk's billions leaving him with only tens of millions then the next step is somebody's going to break into your house and steal your toothbrush in your car and probably fuck your wife. That's just logic.

Basically the systems we put in place are not capable of addressing either of the two problems you're describing and the two problems you're describing are going to put different pressures in different places on the system we live in. And we are not capable of reforming or changing that system because we are a nation of 12-year-olds and 12-year-olds don't like change.

Them: Why don't you act your age?
Me: Well, I've never been this age before.

Like buying booze, renting a car, purchasing a handgun, buying a lottery ticket, getting a tatoo?

(some of these vary by state)

I don't see how you're too immature to order a Chianti with your steak dinner but you're mature enough to go $200K in debt based on a sales pitch of returns after investment.

These aren't even reasonable equivalents from a neuroscience perspective.

A read is supposed to be fine. At read time the firmware *should* rewrite the cell if the read is weak.

The firmware also *should* go out and patrol the cells when idle and it has power.

you can dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=2M once a year if your firmware behaves.

If your drive is offline you could
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdX bs=2M iflag=fullblock conv=sync,noerror status=progress

to be sure, though write endurance is finite.

If you're running zfs you can 'zpool scrub poolname' to force validation of all the written data. This is most helpful when you can't trust the firmware to not be buggy crap. Which only applies to 90% of drive firmware out there.

Well 0-clicks and OTA attacks but yeah, to your point, device compromise lets you use apps on the device.

News at 11!

> I have found that streaming directly to my Plex home server over TLS is generally smoother without going through Wireguard. Not quite sure why.

I recently had to solve this.

Wireguard should work with a regular 1500byte MTU connection at 1440 or 1420 bytes (the default) --- however --- if your ISP is routing your IPv4 using 4-in-6 internally (like my major cable company) everything goes to hell.

Try dropping your wg MTU to 1360, MSS at 1320, and set up a mangle table to clamp MSS to PMTU (e.g. iptables rule).

I got a 10x bump in TLS over wireguard throughput.

Total pain in the ass and lightly documented.

The biggest pro for that ugly golf cart series was the large government subsidy on the car and on the charging it got early in the day when it was (PR-wise) the only one in the market. Now that's gone, and the "cheap electric car" isn't so cheap anymore, so demand has understandably shrunk.

Then there's the increase in competition, the impact of trump's anti-electrocart policies, and the general economic deterioration due to the new policies that disrupt the global system with the explicit goal to raise domestic prices. Price increase has never brought an increase in demand, ever.

The ozempic-gupling Nazi escapades are among the least significant factors in determining demand.

I meant more that we don't have our own affordable EV's in the market.

nor only, also bowing to "investor pressure" to achieve AI-compliance, which is now a requirement for any " tech company".

the "investor" now believes that without slop there is no future, so they require slop to invest into.

I dislike the idea of people leaving reviews while being to cowardly to sign their name (or pseudonym):
-When a reviewer's ID is attached to their review, their friends and family can see what they had to say: if you are foul-mothed or just rude, your grandma and your potential girlfriend can see it (not automatically, but it is there if they they care to look).
-It can also lend weight to a review. If BobSmith24 says they had a great time, and you personally know BobSmith24, you may actually trust the review.
-You can click on the reviewers ID and see the other reviews they have left and get a feel for what kind of things they had to say about various places. This tells you a lot about a person, and lets you judge their reliability -if you care.

As a small business owner, I do not generally reply to people's reviews -good or bad, what they have to say stands on its own merits. They are entitled to their opinions. The only replies I left were to people who were clearly confused or lying -complaining about physical features not present in my store.

All it's going to take is a subpoena and that's that. Writing reviews can be dangerous because businesses will cheerfully sue you if you write a bad review. Free speech is nice and all but you're still going to spend thousands of dollars depending yourself in court.