Nope. DuckDuckGo or nothing nowadays. Shopping is now google's search front end. I'm not shopping, I'm looking for information.
Search engines don't need AI. They just need to index documents and provide a good text match + fuzzy match.
If I wanted an AI assistant, that would be different. I don't need "AI generated search results" when I'm looking for documents/sites/pages/ etc
They could run IBM on the patents alone for decades if they weren't being asshats. They've been selling off divisions for decades. They had 433k workers in 2012, now they've got half that.
There are only a few libraries that it makes sense to share in the first place. Containerized apps can use shared libraries if they want. I'd rather have apps isolated and containerized because I don't f-ing trust them not to step all over each other's memory. Most package managers suck entirely due to shared library dependency hell.
It's a bizarre information and money circle. People using social media hand their data over to corporations, who sell it to 3rd party brokers, who sell it to the NSA, which is paid for by the some of the taxpayers its spying on, with the data they gave the corporations for free.
Hang on, this is just another windmill to shift public money into private hands. Shoot, we've been duped again!
But wait, there's more - the NSA is (ostensibly) using this data to keep Americans (and allied countries and interests) safe from cyberattacks.
So the net benefit is to the taxpayer. Again, assuming in the most generous way the positive intents of the NSA.
But really though, the factories are going into red states because ass-backwards dirt-poor Alabamans will make batteries at federal minimum wage and be thankful, because God told them they need to send money to the church of prosperity in order to be happy. The worshipers of the Holy Trinity - God, Guns, Football ie the drinking class won't stand for mention of Labor Unions, Workers Rights or anything them Godless Yankee commies are trying to mandate on them.
PEVs are great for some people, PHEVs great for others, HEVs great for others than them. Most of the hybrids Toyota makes get 50+mpg. I don't know why they aren't selling FlexFuel hybrids in the US, or maybe they are and I don't know it.
How many times have you heard the same BS script from a CEO - After 3 months of working together, it turns out we can fire some of you to save money! Please continue to do more work with less people, we know you're passionate and dedicated to your jobs!
Companies think they can run their own "internal" instances without building a multi-million dollar supercomputer. They're looking at "AI enabled" workstations thinking that the AI part is actually running on that hardware.
good luck morans
Yep, you can't hypnotize people into consuming less energy, food, water, etc. The right-wing has co-opted consumerism and the idea that pollution is vital to our economy and the bedrock of the country. There are lots of people who believe they have a right to burn as much gasoline as they can afford, and that telling them otherwise is tyranny. People still think of coal romantically because they have coal-mining ancestors.
I say regulate industry first. Nationalize the industries that profit on pollution. Give people jobs that build sustainable economies and ecosystems like the New Deal did.
I get AI generated cold calls all the time. Not from google, but from
It's really hard to master music for vinyl. Most of the mastering is done actively while the lathe is cutting the record, making it sound good without overheating the cutter. As an engineer you can help the vinyl master by sticking to a few basic rules, and they can only work with what you give them, so they can't make shit sound like gold.
My issue with records is the transients/pops. Transients are annoying and records are full of them. Most vinyl people either tune them out mentally or just put up with them to get to the 'good' part of the record. You can clean vinyl religiously, and keep everything in a clean room to avoid dust I guess.
Some people can A/B two record players on the same record and tell you which one is good and which is just OK. They may also be able to blind A/B speaker wires and tell the difference. In the end, if it doesn't make your hair stand on end and tears come to your eyes, it's not a good hobby. You have to be absolutely in love with music in that way.
Ethernet cable is pretty good for analog audio. Just don't tell the audiophile people the voice they're listening to went over CAT5 to the breakout box in the studio.
I think in the Twilight Zone we'd find out at the end that he was deaf all along.
Good question. Many of them don't actually have an income like the rest of us. But the top 1% in the US have an income of 330,000 or more. There's a WIDE distribution in that bracket. The average income tax in that bracket in the US is 26% in 2020. But 26% is the most anyone will pay in the US. Anyone in the lower 50th percentile is paying an avg of 3.1%. Our graduated tax system is a lot better/more fair than say Russia's flat tax (12% I think). I think we need another bracket for the 0.1% that is 50%.
We could charge the ultra-wealthy a carbon tax. They convert $$ into CO2 at a rate that most individuals never "achieve".
Luxury taxes - sales and TRANSFER of luxury goods: The luxury asset flippers are not taxed anywhere near enough.
Get rid of the taxes on the lower income people: tips should not be taxed, all interest paid to institutions should be deductible like it was before Reagan's trickle down economics plan took effect.
Spot on. All of the extremely wealthy spend none of their own money, instead borrowing from banks to pay daily expenses of fueling their yachts and jets. They turn cash into CO2. Borrowing allows them to stay at an effective tax rate of ~3%. Instead of paying their fair share of taxes they're handing money to banks, who are also experts in avoiding taxation.
Raising the taxes on this bracket's wealth wouldn't put a dent in their lifestyles, just in the numbers they're accumulating. But they've invested so much money in "conservative" politics that rolling back to pre-Reagan era tax rates and rules would be REALLY hard. The major democracies need to reform their rules for electing lawmakers. We all know what the needs are, but the conservatives would never allow such a shift in power.
Hopefully 2024 continues to be lackluster for investment bankers scooping up and mashing companies together. Only the CEO's and bankers benefit from consolidation, and probably only in the short term.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
