I'm not an engineer, but why would creating crumple zones in aluminum be difficult? Don't you just make the material thinner where you want it to crack, and isn't it a relatively straightforward process to iterate on this until you have something that behaves the way you like? Sincere question; I find the process interesting.

I can see that. In all things, you need room to make mistakes. Anonymity affords you the chance to give different ideas a real try, not only through the process of reading other peoples' opinions but also through the process of adopting them yourself, even if only for a time. When your real name is attached then you are more likely to be frozen in the mold you think others want you to be in. This is why I don't write anything on Facebook; not because I think it's a waste of time or anything like that, but rather because I'm too aware of the eyes of everyone else. There's no freedom in that.

Sadly, in the Dallas area Jerry Jones makes a killing off of paid parking and presumably lobbies to keep the local transit system (DART) away from the football stadium.

Time to start carrying two devices. One for casual use and one for banks and whatnot. A cottage industry will develop around circumventing this hostile stupidity.

When you're dealing with an individual developer I think it goes without saying that unforeseen circumstances (the API suddenly becoming pay-to-play) are going to null any kind of lifetime deal. Should the developer be clear about this upfront? Yes. But most developers probably won't have that foresight. And they almost certainly won't have the ability to pay it back. So I don't think it's even really worth much thought. We're not talking about Google or Walmart here.

A significant chunk of the internet successfully operates on ad revenue. This article puts Reddit's ad revenue at $424 million. Is that not covering costs?

A bigger issue is charging cars in apartment complexes. This will gradually become more common as regulations push against ICE cars.

As for finding a cheap electric car, prior to the pandemic it was already possible to find big discounts on non-Tesla cars like the Leaf and Bolt. Used prices will continue to drop as EV adoption rises, and buyers will get better at gauging the state of a used battery; the problem will take care of itself.

At some point in the not too distant future there will be a convergence of affordable used EVs and available home charging. There's too much business opportunity there for it not to happen.

It was safe and it did what fans wanted: it stuck pretty close to the source material. There's definitely room the improve on the humor; maybe Nintendo will lengthen the leash on the sequel.

Super Mario Run is actually a high-quality game. But it's veeery limited due to the touch controls. (There's basically one big button.) Nintendo is fine skipping mobile games altogether. Mobile games supplement other games; they don't supplant them. For a while there they probably wondered if traditional handhelds would go away, but the Switch and Steam Deck are evidence that that is not the case.

You make a good point, although rather than the AI "going rogue" I would think the more imminent threat would be people asking the AI to do bad stuff.

And to counterpoint someone who mentioned that the AI only responds to prompts, I say yes that's true, but those prompts will evolve from simple one-line requests into much larger-scale and high-detail requests. And people will even prompt the AI to come up with its own prompts.

False.

Sure if you compare only the salaries, you're paying less for a QA role. But if you're talking overall time investment in fixing a bug late in the game, not to mention the added programming investment required to work with such an inefficient workflow, QA finding all the bugs is far, far more expensive.

This is correct. More specifically, any company that thinks they can hire less intelligent or less accomplished developers are going to be having a bad time. AI will make existing roles more productive, but it will not remove the need for a programmer's most valuable skills, like troubleshooting, reasoning, and judgment.

Imagine tracking down and fixing an urgent production bug using the very AI that introduced the bug! And imagine doing it without the requisite skillset.

If you told me BuzzFeed was already doing this, I would believe you.

I don't know much about networking, but doesn't every URL request get logged at your ISP? So at the very least they have access to all your cams too.

Yes! And a less interesting company would prudently stop doing it the moment that likelihood became apparent. And that's how you become Walmart; tremendously sound, terminally boring, never furthering society. Be honest, would you rather Facebook spend that money on more algorithm tweaks?

Carmack has other gripes beyond the direction. But of course he's welcome to criticize the direction too. He certainly has better visibility into it than we do.