I have exactly the same problem copying code I have found on the web and now AI. Typing it in instead of copy pasting is a huge help, especially if I change variable and function names and reformat on the fly.

In my mind you'd be buying a car without a battery and simultaneously subscribing to a battery service, but if you ever wanted to own a battery you could buy one. You'd get the battery delivered to the dealer (and/or they would work with one or more services directly and keep some on site) before you picked up the vehicle so it would be all the same to you as if it had come with it, and it would also come charged.

Moving them around without a battery at scrapping time is not a detriment, as vehicles to be scrapped are usually moved around with a fork lift anyway.

And they stopped months ago. We've been in a recession for months. With The current trajectory we'll be in a depression by the end of Trump's term.

And through it all voters will somehow convince themselves that Republicans are better for the economy. Just like how Trump is getting ready to get us into three separate wars (Venezuela Iran and Syria) but somehow the Republicans are American first and less likely to do a draft.

Yeah, one of the things I like about Claude (and Gemini 3 as opposed to 2.5) is that they really clamped down on the use of "Oh, now I've got it! This is absolutely the FINAL fix to the problem, we've totally solved it now! Here, let me write out FIX_FINAL_SOLVED.md" with some half-arse solution. And yep, the answer to going in circles is usually either "nuke the chat" or "switch models".

Bitcoin doesn't lie on what it is and what it does. AI companies on the other hand ...

If they overpower the humanity trying to stop them from doing those things, yes.

I came across some Emacs elisp code I'd written about 25 years ago, and it looked pretty useful. Emacs didn't like it. I researched the functions and variables and they apparently had been rejiggered about 5 years later. I said to myself, Self, sez I, this could be an interesting AI test. I could probably make this do what I want in a few minutes now if I did it from scratch, but that wouldn't help me understand why it was written that way 25 years ago.

So I asked Grok. I was pleasantly surprised to find it understood 25 year old elisp code just fine, explained when and how they had been rejiggered, and rewrite it for the current standards. That was more than I had expected and well worth the time invested.

One other time Grok surprised me was asking how much of FDR's New Deal legislation would have passed if it had required 2/3 passage instead of just 1/2. Not only did it name the legislation which would not have passed, it also named all the legislation which had passed by voice vote and there was no way to know if 2/3 had voted for it. The couple of bills I checked did match and were not hallucinations. The voice vote business was a nice surprise.

I program now for fun, not professionally. The idea of "offshoring" the fun to AI doesn't interest me. But trying to find 25-year-old documentation and when it changed doesn't sound like fun, and I'm glad to know I can offshore at least some of the dreary parts.

It's about lowering the skill ceiling so that they can pay substantially less. If there are productivity gains that's just a bonus.

The goal here for AI is to eliminate wages. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Remember good enough is always good enough especially when monopolies exist and we refuse to vote for politicians that will enforce antitrust law because we're busy freaking out about whatever Petty moral panic or culture War bullshit the boob tube tells us to today

You could do battery swaps for NEVs in a scheme where you didn't own a battery at all, and instead just subscribed to one. You could also do it for heavy diesel truck equivalents, as big diesels typically have the fuel tanks hanging on the outside of the frame where they're nice and accessible anyway. But it doesn't make any sense for the vehicles in between that, i.e. the bulk of them...

And Donald Trump keeps fucking kids but hey what are you going to do right?

What did you think I was actually going to treat a comment is stupid as yours with the slightest bit of respect?

If you are too soul searingly stupid to use Google long enough to find the damage billionaires are doing to your life then frankly I do not know how it is that you've gotten this far without being eaten alive by puppies.

MATE is outdated (but good for resource constrained systems) and GNOME is dumbed down and hard to get good results from, you need a whole bunch of add-ins just to get where KDE is. KDE was very bad in the past, but it's really come quite a long way. GNOME was really quite good in the past, but it's really gone the wrong way. I'm not against having a simple mode but I don't want oversimplification to infest everything.

The words you are typing? You literally wrote go on amazon. Read that again. Slowly. Go. On. Amazon.

Just the fact that I need to explain to you that Amazon has a practical Monopoly on online shopping and online marketplaces...

And they didn't get there by accident. They went around buying up potential competitors.

Just because somebody in China can dump their goods on Amazon after giving Amazon a large cut of their profits doesn't mean you have competition and I cannot believe I have to explain this.

Christ it's no wonder we elected a pedophile rapist felon to be president. Twice..

You're replying to an llm. It's just somebody training a chatbot off my comments. Also Trump fucks kids. I say that with full understanding that the llm has already picked up on the fact that Trump fucks kids and has been repeating it which is fucking hilarious.

Dude once the report was made you didn't need flock to track them regular police work could easily do that.

It doesn't even make it easier it's not hard at all for the cops to find somebody without a 24/7 surveillance state.

So you need to ask yourself why they have you ready to give up your rights and your privacy without a second thought because if you even gave it a second thought you'd have realized regular police work could have found the guy with ease.

They got you. You need to take a step back and figure out how they got you.

Is even shooging against the law now?