Millions of gallons don't last very long.

The US has a daily crude oil consumption of around 850 million gallons per day. The strategic reserve is around 17 billion gallons, lasting about three weeks. More than a third of that was authorised to be released last week.

> Abstraction may be coming for us all.

No. LLM programming is not a layer of abstraction, it's a layer of imprecision. The reason NLP hasn't taken off in 50 years of trying isn't just because it was too difficult to implement well, it's also simply the wrong tool for the job. As with all previous attempts, LLM coding is not abstracting, it's compromising. In many cases, the compromise is worth it. But it isn't where code actually needs to work, not just happen to work.

I think War and Peace starts right at the first digit. I just need to figure out the encoding.

The actual risk is secondary. People have many reasons for not wanting to travel to the US. For minorities, safety concerns are surely real. But for many, it's about principles. You don't voluntarily visit a country and support its economy, when its government is being openly hostile towards your country, and waging an iciotic trade war against it. Much of Europe is boycotting US brands for this reason, and the unwillingness to travel comes from the same place.

In the last year, the US government has almost completely burned down al the goodwill and soft power it built with its former allies over the last century. This is a consequence of that, much more than concrete safety issues.

It's in the article. A considerable number of their prize winners don't want to come if the ceremony is in the US. The oranizers are changing locations because they want people to attend.

You're trolling, right?

> But amateur level will cut it less and less.

That's an optimistic outlook. Here's another one: the software inustry will continue its rapid decline in output quality with ever greater speed, reaching new lows never before thought possible. Nobody wants to pay for quality or reliability anymore because everybody else is getting away with selling garbage as well.

Almost sure this is based on a LoC productivity metric. Few other reasons come to mind for not specifying what 'best' means. The heaviest users of LLMs also being the ones who produce the most verbose code isn't exactly a surprising result.

This is from PowerToys, which I don't think has much, if anything, to do with the Windows team. It's open-source, too, so it might even come from an independent contributor.

But my thought was: if this will be customisable enough to somewhat serve as a task bar replacement, maybe I could use this to finally get rid of the stupidly-stuck-to-the-bottom W11 task bar. I've used Explorer Patcher before to fix it, but since it's my work computer, that wasn't appreciated by the security guys (it patches system DLLs), whereas installing PowerToys is fine.

Whether you think it's worth it or not, AAA games are ridiculously cheap these days (without going into micropayments, which are another issue IMO).

I started gaming in the 90s. Many today have no idea how eye-wateringly expensive games used to be.

I think this is one of the problems with the industry economics. How are GBP 60 going to recoup investment in a game that 500 people worked on for 2 years, especially when a majority thinks even that is still too expensive and won't get it until it's at least 50% off? Games used to be 2-3 times as expensive, but the teams were also 10-20 times smaller.

I really liked The Crew. I also really enjoyed Watch Dogs, although I only played the first. And the Anno games are great.

I guess we're not going as far back as Beyond Good & Evil, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, XIII, and Rayman.

For me it's EA where I can't remember when they last made a game I didn't think was a complete waste of time. Must have been the early 00s.

I'm not so sure that's true anymore. Several pieces by economists recently were about how consumer spending is not relevant for the U.S. economy anymore. That's why despite cost of living being up, employment being down, debt being up, the stock market is still way up. It seems to me there are two almost completely separate economies.

Also, billionaires *already* have nothing to spend their money on. It doesn't look like it's making them question what they're doing or still always wanting to make more money.

This is what happens when you vibe code your crawler. I assume these AI bro companies are dogshitting, er, I mean dogfooding, so their internal tools are probably as poor as the rest of the output their LLM tools generate.

I have a static website. It hasn't been modified for years, and the headers indicate as much with their caching instructions. Yet I regularly have it that the same AI bot will be hammering the same static page tens of thousands of times in a day.

They are not competent people.

I thought Spotify didn't have any rules against GenAI music. It sounds like that person was breaking some other rules there.

Bandcamp is much closer to a curated site than the everything goes, dump it all places like Spotify, though. They can probably prevent a lot of it already because they don't subscribe to the firehouse of major distributors, but artists and small labels directly. I don't know if it's even technically feasible to spam Bandcamp in the same way as Spotify.

Also, this may be a financial necessity for Bandcamp, as well, as GenAI output will start outnumbering actual written music. They don't have the FU money Spotify has to host 99% music nobody will ever listen to.

You may not, but plenty of people do. Especially the kind of music fans who use Bandcamp.

To me, music isn't just about "this sounds nice, it doesn't bother me, can put that on in the background". I get *really* into the music and artists I like, and I care about what they have to say, where they come from, the life experiences they put into their music or lyrics. GenAI has, by definition, nothing to say.

It's not about whether one is able to tell the difference or not. It's possible that I could fall for a fake news article, but you better believe I'll feel betrayed and be dann pissed at whoever published that article. It's not, "oh well, as long as I couldn't tell the difference, it doesn't matter." I don't read the news just for the purpose of it sounding plausible, and in the same way I don't listen to music just for the purpose of it being pleasant on the ears. The truth matters. The artists behind the music matter.

Deezer recently published an interesting article on some of the ways they detect and flag GenAI music. There are currently some distinct artifacts you can look for, although of course that might turn into an arms race. But there are also statistical indicators. GenAI music is unnaturally bland and average, even compared to overproduced but human-made pop music.