Corporations are not independently thinking and acting entities. They are made of people making decisions, and using pooled resources to act.

It's still people.

Chargers are $600 or so.

Installation is going to be whatever it takes to install a high amperage 240V appliance, where there probably isn't a high amperage 240V outlet. This is highly dependent upon the home - if you have to run a new conduit 100 feet because your panel is as far away from the garage as possible, that's a problem with the home, not EVs.

None of this should be surprising, and you should get multiiple quotes from electricians if you aren't just doing the work yourself. Anyone that can wire up a clothes dryer or electric oven can install an EV charger.

None of what you are saying is true if you actually do due diligence for home contracting work.

Having put about 500 miles on an EV this weekend driving out-of-town visitors around, I'd love to hear more about "the pain I go through just to go on a trip"

Care to expand on that?

Hard to personalize feeds for an account that never logs in to read those feeds.

I hope they spend lots of money to do this for lots of dead accounts.

Mod parent up!

Whenever (less and less, a few times a year nowadays) I get a call that my Windows machine is having a problem, I go: "yeah, right, I noticed, I'm happy you're contacting me to help - you know, I have to order flowers for my mom,... Do you get your parents something when you visit? And do they know what you do for the money to afford that?"

It's at that point that they either start shouting or hang up. Either way, it's mission accomplished for me.

...well, the first half hour of it or so.

My only question is will Moneypenny turn into a woman with style, class and character or will she forever remain a snotty little bitch in workout clothes?

Jeez, I got some autocorrect failures in there, sorry.

See, in my experience those kinds of numbers are not realistic even on the face of it. I posit that it's not humanly, cognitively possible to read, properly think about, review, and really deeply understand that amount of code.

When I wrote code manually, I'm not just slower because I type slower than an LLM (barely -- I go fast when I know what to type) or I need to look stuff up. During that time, my brain is also super busy looking for and analysing edge cases, data flow, performance, potential security issues, etc.

If I go too fast, those are the kind of issues I'll find with that code days, months, or years later. If I do, the stuff lasts and saves so much time down the line. Even the best, latest, biggest models cannot write code with that amount of oversight by someone who knows the requirements, context, environments, and codebase. Even the LLM coffee I feel I reviewed carefully will have those kinds of issues, because my mindset when "orchestrating" and reviewing agent cover is fundamentally different than when I'm in the designer, architect, and builder mindset. This is also a direct consequence of the amount of code that is passing over my desk.

I'd say that for any productivity gain that exceeds 30%, maybe 50%, on production code, you're inherently going to have that kind of quality loss. It just doesn't scale that way.

I'm flabbergasted that a trade group consisting 100% of organizations that publish closed-source software would be worried about having to comply with other people's licenses that require opening any changes / modifications / reuse made.

Which they were all told, very loudly, at the time they were making their purchases.

It's almost like people that don't know what the hell they're doing, might also not listen to people who actually do know what they're doing. Everyone except these idiots knew this was a play to turn government balance sheets into bagholders for well-assetted individuals.

Sounds like Musk bought a shitload of GPUs that he doesn't need, because nobody is using Grok besides idiots on Twitter to make "sick memes."

If they have all those GPUs energized and can afford to lease them to their competition, that just tells us nobody is using them.

My completely unfounded theory is that the Security Response Center is now fully "agentic" and no human ever even looked at their reports, or knew they were banned.

I tried posting a technical question about a Graph API feature to Microsoft's user forums one day. After about twenty times of my post being automatically deleted for violating the community guidelines, I gave up trying to figure out which part of my question tripped up the absolutely inane, useless Microslop moderation bot.

"DDG is worse than Google" used to be my opinion forever. But this has been completely flipped over the past 12-18 months. And I don't think it has anything to do with Bing having gotten better, just with how absolutely abysmal Google results are now.

There was one key moment where an "authoritative" source on some topic was no longer in my Google results. I added the exact name of the website, and it ended up being somewhere on page 3. WTF?

I then did one of my occasinal quick comparisons with DDG/Bing. First result. I've switched to DDG/Bing that day and stayed.

Now, it's exactly the other way around. After some DDG search, I will sometimes curiously do the same search on Google and confirm that the first useful result tends to be way beyond the first page, if found at all.

Google Search is dead.

It wasn't an Internet bubble, it was a "dotcom" bubble. People didn't stop using the Internet because it's very useful technology. The various dotcoms imploded because they were overvalued garbage with no plan on how to reach profitability.

LLMs have their uses, which will survive, but these billions are largely about overvalued garbage with no possible way to profitability.

Read Ed Zitron. He has the numbers. This crash will be absolutely devastating.

The PR guy was already replaced, it seems. That statement is so offensively LLM-generated, it might as well have been satire.

I'm sure their revolutionary new operating model will allow them to not just disrupt new markets, but delve into a symphony of synergies.