"His first objection: if AI can truly do everything, then everyone can have everything they need, making the question of who owns the robots somewhat moot."

Ah, of course. Because a wealthy society is automatically an egalitarian society; as anyone who takes a quick look outside can clearly see.

If anything, the threat of utopian abundance rendering wealth nigh-irrelevant will probably encourage people who wish to retain the feeling of being wealth to double down, since the only way to know that you are ahead will be the option to look down on the huddled masses being kept in line by securibots.

I was watching a Twitch stream where Pokimane was addressing her recent visa renewal and some issues travelling back to the US, and she nailed it perfectly. The O1 visa is based upon how much money the US thinks you can make, and they can therefore tax. It's not about artistry or anything like that in the majority of cases, they just want to see you will make money they can collect taxes on. Like most things in the government (especially in this government) it has become entirely transactional.

The "monthly question volume has collapsed [to] about 300" appears to be an artifact of the last category being the current month, January 2026, even though we're only in the 5th day as of this posting. (Specifically, 321 as of Jan-5 @ 10:30 AM EDT). I expect the number will be in the 2,000+ range by the end of the month, matching both recent trends and a simple extrapolation from the first few days. (Which would still be the worst full month on record.)

I think it was because of Putin, at least with the timing. Importing drugs into the US? Fine. Working with Russia and China to undermine our interests? Not so fine. You can excuse doing it on the holidays to get the entire family and the strike was so perfect it must of been planed months in advance.

As for occupying the country....eehh... We have a really bad history of fucking that up. Its easier to support all the exiled politicians and let them cook. I do hope this is designed as a message to the powers that be that we will interfere if we want/need to. After all these years of Trump though, its more of a wish however.

I think its more because of the alliance Maduro signed with Putin and that the holiday's were the best time to capture the whole family. Hell, for all we know, the intelligence might of thought the whole family were going to Russia for "asylum". It would also take at least a month for planning something like this to have it work so perfectly.

  Oh I am 100% sure he also did it for the distraction, don't get me wrong. You can have your cake and eat it too and Trump is just woofing it down.

I think most Americans think capturing him is a good thing. I just think the reasons to do so NOW is the of the problem. I WANT to believe it was because Maduro singed up with an alliance with Russia 3 months prior that made it a step to far. A way to poke at the bear without making it suicidal. Even if the excuse was shallow (Drug running? Really?), you can't just say "We don't want an in for Russia" while walking that tightrope with Ukraine might end up bad. We want to show Putin that don't fuck with our interests.

I mean people argue about the timing, but really Christmas/New Years is the time to do it. I am sure they had intel on where all his family were going to be during the holidays since the got most of them. I get that people want an "American First" and rather ignore international politics, but we live in an International Society now. Some times you just have to poke a bear to let him know your carrying a rocket launcher.

For reference, I neither like or dislike AI tools for making content. At the end of the day, it just comes down to how lazy you are. The recent Coke/McDonalds ad's were just lazy. The tools are fine and they HAVE to have conventional video editing tools so they "could" of fixed many of the issues in post. If you ever played with LLM workflow you can control how content is generated and then generate a shit ton of sets to get what you want. Even if you get the odd 6 fingered Santa you COULD go in and touch it up with conventual tools. Especially in a simple 30 second advertisement. The reason its called "slop" isn't because the LLM is bad at its job, its because the people using it is bad at theirs. Then they blame the LLM because it can't fight back.

The whole thing translates to, "Stop using LLM's in half baked content with no thought or even basic proofreading! I don't want this bandwagon to stops but most of you idiots don't even bother to look at the output before you ship it! Even though the Zune was a market flop, ATLEAST it was competently deigned. For the love of god, when you type "Make an MP3 player" in Copilot, make sure it IS an MP3 player. Don't make the rest of the industry look like you!"

You know, it makes me wonder how well LLM's can translate corporate speak.

It's not like there's a history of microsoft interlinking technology being a festering security issue that should trouble us when they report on ChatOLE or GTPCOM.

"Deloitte report found that less than 6% of local government practitioners were prioritizing AI as a tool to deliver services."

Any word on whether that report had to be corrected after the embarrassing discovery of bot slop in it; as a number of other Deloitte gems recently have? They insisted that the case in Australia was on the up-and-up; though not so much as to refuse to refund some of the $290k they took for the job; not sure what the final outcome on their fine work in Canada ended up being.

The trouble with simplification isn't merely that it's a pain; but that there's only so much of it you can do without promptly wandering into the delightful world of undefined behavior; where the problem isn't merely that people don't understand what the law or the spec says; but that it doesn't actually address whatever the matter at hand is, even if you had an expert to interpret it.

When that happens you inevitably get moved to a more complex state: in jurisdictions that are serious about precedent, or markets where one implementation gains a commanding lead, whoever winged it most successfully at the time of ambiguity becomes(de-facto or de-jure) part of the new codification. In cases where it's more of a mixed result people might end up recognizing two dialects of a protocol or there will be a 'test' named after whatever judge pulled it out of nowhere because it sounded good that you then say you are applying in future cases to choose which of the uncodified behaviors to go with in a given instance. In some cases it remains more or less unsettled and the outcome is basically a surprise over and over and then the codification is basically that you just wing it; which is not ideal.

This is, of course, not to say that all complexity is created equal: the line between 'flabby' and 'parsimonious' is much more subjective than between 'internally consistent' and 'overdetermined'; but there usually is at least a gradient if not a bright line. What gets extra tricky, though, is that law codes (more than some other types of spec) are something that you need to write both for everyone and to cover everyone.

It's basically fine that AS15531or A478-95a(2019) are not really terribly accessible light reading. If you are dealing with now-aging military avionics or stainless steel cables those may well be you problems; but there's not a real sense of societal injustice in the fact that most people just want their aircraft flying and their wire ropes not snapping; so you have the luxury of nerding out however much your circle of professional specialists think is required by the problem and mandating accordingly. Something like probate law is going to end up happening to basically everybody, so the idea that it is impenetrable to the layman seems troublesome; but, because it happens to everybody, it's also not necessarily easy or simple to identify the equivalent of the 1040EZ case: maybe it's super boring and a guy in good health and generally agreed sound mind writes a straighforward will and then gets hit by a truck the next day. Or maybe some dementia patient's declining years see a fight between their children and hey, look at that, now we need a section on how forensic psychiatry will assess 'undue influence' in the context of whether you helped grandma with that will or whether you strong-armed a feeble old lady while she was in your care like your sibling you don't get on with well alleges. That sounds simple and accessible; and not at all like something that will either be completely impenetrable or fairly overtly allow a judge to just spitball it based on whether he hears the dispute before or after lunch and which of the potential heirs looks more punchable.

None of this is to say that Alaska's probate system is not a nightmare accretion, that seems most likely; but it's probably a nightmare accretion with more parts that are actually load bearing than it appears; and possibly one that doesn't have a structurally sound variant that is also simple(especially in potentially adversarial contexts, like probate law: where one of the fairly common instances is "it's as simple as what this will says" v. "actually, there's a complication"; and therefore rules for both what actual complications count and how they work in addition to 'here's how you read a low complexity uncontested will').

The details will differ; but it sounds like the critical distinction between people who can afford good counsel and those who cannot is being retained by this exciting new tool.

Wait. You just put a broken unit back on the shelf where the working spares go? In a story you tell to strangers on the internet about your superior efficiency of process? How do you think the correct supply of working spares come to exist at an organizational scale if people just quietly go and do that? Especially with things that can be broken in non-obvious ways that's basically the single most annoying thing you can do to whoever is responsible for ensuring that a specified supply of spares exists.

As hardware, replacing a phone is only about as hard as replacing a ballpoint pen; so anyone who thinks that the real problem is that an authorized phone technician wasn't on hand to re-seat the connector has a screw overtightened; but would you just silently put empty pens back in with the new ones as a fun eventual surprise who whoever reorders those?

I'd be...worried...about the viability of someone who couldn't learn to read an analog clock fairly readily if they had reason to; but it doesn't seem nearly as surprising that a fair number of people wouldn't know how to offhand. Not only are analog clocks a lot less common than they used to be; my experience has been that a lot of legacy clock installs stop getting cared about well ahead of actually getting removed.

Your basic battery powered wall clock isn't that accurate and needs its batteries replaced periodically; so somebody needs to care reasonably frequently for it to be active, not on the wrong side of a DST offset, and not far enough off correct time that it's not very useful for things like start or end of class(passing periods vary a bit by school size; but you'd really want skew solidly under 5 minutes, especially if you are using similarly dodgy clocks at both ends).

The fancier whole-building setups with wall clocks that get pulse-per-minute or per second from a central control module are more likely to not be skewed randomly; and tend not to get rearranged because they are built in to the wall; but also tend to be comparatively expensive maintenance items that are a facilities problem, because they are attached to the building and some oddball 90s-looking cage of cards you need a weird serial pinout and some garbage software to talk to; rather than a cheap office supply, so when they do fail they often just get left there and ignored.

I remember there being clocks in classrooms for basically the entire time I was going through schools, and the period I worked in one; but in high school things had clearly started to break down(the permanently installed clocks were explicitly non-authoritative; individual teachers did or didn't supply a wall clock depending on their taste; so those were in mixed supply but generally accurate if someone cared enough for them to be present); and in college the wall clocks were essentially entirely vestigial; presence, absence, and function mostly a byproduct of when a particular building had been built or renovated.

I'm honestly a bit surprised that the classrooms still have enough wall clocks with low skew to be able to assume that students are getting time from them.

Iâ(TM)m curious whether it will be viable to extract HBM. BGA packages are absolutely doable; but HBM seems potentially more challenging.

No disagreement here. Asus is a totally logical party to be raising retail prices because component prices are going up. I was specifically responding to the claim that 'they' would find 'some other convenient excuse to raise prices, just because they can'; for which Asus seems like a much poorer candidate.

As a basically commodity vendor I'd assume that Asus is very poorly suited to try to mask component prices, because their margins just aren't all that exciting; but as a basically commodity vendor they are in an equally poor position to 'because we can' any price increase that their competitors don't have basically the same reason for also making; since you can just buy from someone else unless ROG RGB LED compatibility is just that critical to you.