To be fair, Musk seems to go out of his way to provoke that hatred. If heâ(TM)d just stick to his engineering and leave the anti-semitism to the professional bigots, heâ(TM)d generate a lot less blowback.

Gratuitous sexism aside, youâ(TM)re exactly correct with your comment.

We donâ(TM)t need machines that generate pro forma bullshit that mimics all the genuine bullshit weâ(TM)re already drowning in. We need machines that can reliably perform menial but important real-world tasks, like food preparation.

A bad developer is often worse than no developer, as the workload introduced by the bugs and maintenance load they add to the project outweighs the benefit of their coding effort.

Iâ(TM)d be very surprised if that doesnâ(TM)t turn out to be the case with Devin. At least with a badhuman programmer you can hold out hope that they will become better with time and experience; I donâ(TM)t think that is the case with AIs as they anre currently implemented.

Companies would rather hire young people because inexperienced people are cheap. Hence also the huge numbers of H-1B and TFW visas - despite the hype, people knew damned well that the only reason Microsoft built their facility in Vancouver was so they could hire temporary foreign workers once they had exhausted their H-1B quota in Seattle. Cheap, do as they're told, work 70 hours a week.

When my current employers show me the door (or I walk) I know I'll be unemployable in tech at 62. So be it; I've had a good run and have a huge backlog of other things I want to do.

...laura

All these sites have been shadow-banned by the usual search engines. I'd love to see one so I know what to watch for.

...laura

The lead wasnâ(TM)t evenly distributed, it was proportional to the amount of auto exhaust being emitted nearby.

Those who didnâ(TM)t live near lots of traffic were exposed to less lead than those who did.

Aerodynamics is a high priority only when efficiency is a concern. The other approach is to just ignore aerodynamics and add more battery to compensate for the resulting inefficiency, as seen in behemoths like the CyberTruck and Hummer EV.

A planet whose oceans are filled with a liquid that is almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.

What technology did you have in mind?

We have far better control systems and radios and things, but making rockets that don't blow themselves to kingdom come if you look at them the wrong way is as hard in 2024 as it was in 1977. Or for that matter, 1969.

...laura

A civilization capable of interstellar travel is very likely also capable of growing as much cultured human-meat in a vat as they want. Itâ(TM)s much cheaper to just capture a few biopsy samples and send them back to Betelgeuse then to slaughter, freeze-pack, and ship every human trillions of miles.

Yes, that content. Those same users got value in exchange for their content, in the form of access to a well-designed site full of content that was/is useful to them.

Who is complaining? I'm not complaining, and StackExchange isn't complaining. The only people complaining are the people who think StackExchange shouldn't be allowed to charge LLM companies for access to StackExchange content.

Since we're on the subject, has anybody calculated how much energy a worm has to expend to move aside/through that much sand at that speed? It seems like it must be rather a lot :)

I think itâ(TM)s fair for them to charge LLM developers â" something has to pay the bills, and it wonâ(TM)t be StackOverflowâ(TM)s users since they are used to getting free content.

I prefer this model to getting spammed to death by pop up ads, anyway.

... or some other mechanism that doesn't require the expenditure of arbitrarily large amounts of valuable energy to solve pointless make-work problems?

Other cryptocurrencies have done it, why hasn't Bitcoin?

Sounds a bit impractical, given that they can update the imagery on Google maps faster and cheaper than you can terraform the countryside :)