America is a democratic society, and its rich are just ordinary citizens. They may have more $$$, but they are otherwise equal to others, not a separate noble caste.

In other words, they're "just like us" ... but they should never have to mingle with the peasant caste when they travel! That would be un-American!

I feel like people who make comments like this have no concept of American history. Naked graft like this has happened, just as bad if not worse, many times in US history!

Now, should we be concerned that we're moving backwards instead of forwards on corruption? Absolutely!

But it's just flat out ignorant and counterproductive to pretend this level of government corruption has never occurred ... when US history is full of it. Please people, read some history, or else we really all are doomed to repeat it.

There's a fundamental difference you're missing: all the businesses you listed want to keep you as a customer. Broadcom *does not*.

For their model to work, customers just have to pay their (wildly) increased rates long enough for Broadcom to make back the $$$ they spent to acquire VMWare (they'd like to make a tidy profit too, but with all the VMWare assets they acquire that's guaranteed ... as long as they cover the acquisition cost).

Google, Amazon and Microsoft may all be shitty companies with shitty plans to keep their customers while doing a shitty job of serving them ... but their business model still fundamentally revolves around keeping customers, not screwing them over so badly they leave.

This made me laugh ... then cry.

Broardcom's entire business model with these acquisitions (they did the same thing with others before VMWare) is to acquire something everyone depends on AND can't easily switch off ... and then jack up the prices by an insane amount.

It doesn't matter if most customers eventually leave: they will stick with what they have, no matter the cost, long enough for Broadcom to cover the entire cost of acquisition. At the end of the day they have more money than they started with, a small fraction of customers still paying, and some significant IP.

They win all around, and everyone else (including the acquired company and its now-fired employees) loses.

/plan is not how you loop in Claude: you use /loop or /goal.

goal solves your concern: the model doesn't stop when the code compiles, it stops when a second (independent) Claude evaluates a condition you setup to be true.

e.g. /goal Ensure all unit tests in /tests pass, then verify the build exits with code 0. Stop only when there are zero failing tests.

I predict that this poster A) said the exact same thing about smartphones and B) now owns the latest, priciest iPhone.

What BS: just be born as rich as Musk and with a little work you too can be just like him!

I've heard a lot of people say good stuff about the RayNeo Air 4 Pro AR Glasses ... which cost a fraction of this: $300.

I understand that these have more "bells and whistles" ... but if you ignore those bells and whistles, I'm very curious how the core experience (comfort, readable screen, battery, etc.) compares between these two.

In short, I suspect the $300 glasses that focus on just being a monitor will be a better overall experience than this $2+k monstrosity because of all those bells and whistles ... but I'm curious to hear if that's true.

TFA says nothing whatsoever about that. What it says is:

So again, nothing about not posting cop abuse videos. If you have some other information beyond the article, share it ... but otherwise, why are you wasting your life spreading FUD, over something you clearly know nothing about?

AI output is not deterministic, nor is it 100% predictable ... but it absolutely is predictable, to a point.

You can give an LLM the same context and prompt, and (at least nine times out of ten) it will give you basically the same answer. Again, that's not deterministic, and the exact answer may vary ... but if you don't see (a lot of) predictability in your AI's output, you're not using a major/popular model.

"No such thing as bad press."

I use Claude Code on a daily basis. I don't care if Mythos makes it 150% smarter (and all indications are that it will be a much more incremental improvement): THIS AI IS NOT BECOMING TERMINATOR!

Claude is a great, powerful tool. It is also *miles* away from being good enough to build a complete, maintainable, bug-free application of significant size ... let alone from being to recreate even a poor version of itself.

Eh, they were the only frontier AI company to tell the US government "we won't let you use our models to mass surveil US citizens, or mass murder non-citizens" ... even at the cost of literally millions, if not billions of dollars in sales (they lost access to any US government customer).

I won't claim the're the perfect company, but the other (purely profit-driven) AI companies have demonstrated they will do both of those things. You have to give Anthropic some credit ... although it does raise the possibility that, post-IPO, they might become the same as those other companies.

If you haven't read The CIA's Greatest Hits (https://www.amazon.com/CIAs-Greatest-Hits-Real-Story/dp/1593764391), I can't recommend it enough. It's a very small/short book, written by a political cartoonist (so it's half-illustrations, and a really easy read) ... but it will teach you A TON about the history of what the CIA actually does.

Once you've read it, the fact that the CIA is giving its agents the ability to access millions of dollars in gold bars will not surprise you in the slightest.