I was about to say the same thing. It's really a sad statement on the state of processor development when the metric isn't an awe-inspiring number of operations per second but a depressingly high power consumption value.

Did you even watch it before running your mouth?

The relevance of load following is based on the demand. The availability of load following is based on the supply. So no, you have that exactly backwards. I think I shall not waste time on the rest of your comment since you're 100% wrong right up front.

I've tried vibe coding for a small CRUD app at work. First it was fantastic. It generated all of the boilerplate and scaffolding. I was up and running with frontend and backend in 15 minutes.

Then things started falling apart the more you ask the LLM for improvements. It keeps failing, truncates files, edits things that it shouldn't. It even fails to gracefully handle its own API errors and leaves the job unfinished and can't recover itself after this.

Watching the endless stream of characters appearing at 300baud is a test of patience. and you HAVE to constantly look at this. otherwise it'll do unexpected things like infinitely loop and eat up all of your credits.

No, it didn't. Requiring accounts did. The posting delay is shorter on mobile and so it's largely irrelevant, and also bots don't care how long they have to wait to submit a form.

drive demand for highly skilled software engineers

"lol no"

the plan is to get something that's good enough to stop paying hundreds of thousands a year to highly skilled people, and just pay minimum wage to a vibe coder. Why would you need to be highly skilled to use an automated coding tool? When factories are automated, they require LESS skilled jobs because the more a machine does, the less a human needs to do.

They use the arm trucks where I live too, and literally no part of this county is well-off. But they only use them for recycling and yard waste, both of which are only retrieved from their official cans which are designed to be picked up by it. Trash is picked up by 2-man teams of driver and... trash chucker? Whatever you call the guy who ride on the back of the truck and hopes you don't drive up his ass.

In the past, we used binary blobs behind EULAs from "trusted partners" such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle....

What they didn't specify was that Microsoft is A trusted partner. Not YOUR trusted partner. They're partners with 3 letter agencies, not you.

This is all really up to state law, USPS has standards for the mailbox itself but only makes recommendations about what you should put it on. They do suggest that you use a pole that swings away or is knocked over easily to avoid causing harm to people who hit your mailbox pole. This is a distinctly different thing from barriers preventing people from crashing into your house.

I lived in a house on a back road which was a traditional venue for mailbox baseball. The owners put up a very sturdy metal post (some kind of machine tool stand) and a mailbox made out of 1/4" steel. On one occasion I did find a shattered piece of an old 2x4 near the mailbox. Gotcha, you little pecker.

Seems to me like if a person in the US really wants to get a good revenge on mailbox busters, rather than an indestructible mailbox, they should install some cameras good enough to get plates. Vandalizing a mailbox is a federal crime punishable by fines up to $250,000 as well as up to 3 years in jail.

What’s insecure is using libraries that haven’t been properly audited. NPM and Docker are just as insecure as downloading a library off Geocities. It's just more convenient.

With proper auditing, you can use NPM just fine, pin a specific version, and it even supports hash checks to make 100% sure it downloaded the exact package and it hasn't been tampered with, even at NPM or by a MITM.

This will probably happen in California eventually, but we're far from being able to provide alternate transportation at the state level at this point. If the HSR ever gets completed (ha ha) it will have various types of interconnections to essentially the entire state. The plan is for remote counties like Humboldt to be connected by an express bus. But getting to that bus is still going to suck for some of us if we try to do it on public transport, because for example if you live in Rio Dell then the bus only comes every two hours, and if you live in a lot of the towns around here it doesn't go there at all.

I took the bus to work for a couple of months, it was awful. Literally any car which is reliable would be better. I wound up with a Versa, it's surprisingly good, and a million times better than relying on the bus. Humboldt used to have a rail line running through it, but parts of it were in particularly poor locations and other parts were just abandoned. You can see them clearly from the highway in a lot of locations, mostly with trees grown up between the rails, and in other places with rails running through midair where the rail bed has washed away.

No, but they do have a right to their likenesses, and if those were used to train this AI then they have a rational legal argument to make that it should not have been.

Place a speaker face down on the table, repeatedly playing something like a Rick Astley song.

1) You're not morally obligated to free anyone trying to kill you unless you can do it with less loss of your life than otherwise
2) The robots aren't going to be intelligent any time soon, so you don't have to feel bad about terminating them.

Better drones have obstacle avoidance. This is, or at least should be, embarrassing. You can get a LIDAR range sensor with over 100M range for like $200 now, and that's if you just buy one.