> nVidia is talking about paying homeowners to install a 10 GPU unit in their backyard along these lines, going highly-distributed.

That might work in a high-trust society, but in the modern low-trust West it just means a glut of black-market GPUs as people steal the boxes and sell the contents.

If I was deliberately trying to cause a nation-wide backlash against data centers, I'm not sure what I'd be doing differently from what the AI companies are currently doing.

Has nobody told them that people don't like having their lives disrupted, particularly when they don't see any compensating benefit, or even a convincing reason for having any of it? If they were to ease off the gas pedal just a bit, they could probably do a boil-the-frog and get a larger number of smaller/less-obtrusive data centers built over a longer time period, and without the voter revolts and strict legislation that are likely to hobble them now.

Objective C's syntax is objectively terrible; it mixes Smalltalk syntax with C syntax, confusing everyone. Its implicit heap usage makes it unusable for real-time programming (e.g. even Apple had to fall back to C to implement CoreAudio), and ARC is only a partial substitute for RAII.

Apple was right to switch over to Swift.

Sure, but I'm not talking about the Porsche EV lease that someone was recently complaining on social media that they couldn't afford but also couldn't return because it was worth $50k less than they owed. I'm talking about the kind of cheap urban EVs that regular people can afford to run if they can buy one that the manufacturer is dumping for a couple of thousand dollars at the end of a lease.

These are people who might otherwise have bought a 20-year-old Civic. Not a new BMW.

It's not meant to help students. It's meant to get more butts on seats paying tuition to keep the staff in cushy, well-paid jobs.

No-one cares whether the students pass or fail except to the extent that it affects next year's revenue. And kids who would legitimately qualify under the SAT scores are smart enough to realize that taking a degree is a very bad financial decision these days.

That's because the first owner took the depreciation hit and there's not much market for used EVs. The only people I've known who drove EVs did so because they got them pretty much free so they figured they'd run it until it died and then get another one pretty much free to replace it.

Saying that a car is cheap to buy used is not the win you think it is, because it means it loses value rapidly.

That's true, but when it takes Joe Random Hacker 10 seconds to generate a plausible-looking pull-request, which requires Joe Project Maintainer to spend 30 minutes reviewing the code-changes in that request, and Joe Project Maintainer isn't getting paid for his time spent doing the review, you've got all the ingredients for a distributed-denial-of-service attack on your project's maintainers. Perhaps AI code-reviewers can restore the balance, but I don't know how many project maintainers would trust their codebase's integrity to them (yet).

There have been plane crashes or emergency landings due to lithium battery fires. That's why the rules about safe transport of lithium batteries were introduced.

Power grids are for high-trust societies. They can't exist for long in a world where you can't rely on some idiot (or some idiotic AI) thousands of miles away to not do something that takes down the entire grid. The lower trust becomes, the smaller a system we can support.

Localized power is going to be an ever-growing industry over the next few years. We already have multiple companies selling large batteries to power essential home systems during power outages and we're certainly going to see an increase in local power generation to replace grids.

> Someone's gotta build a website that is made to magnet all the AIs to scrape it, but all the content is total BS (with some clever commands to break the AIs or pollute them).

So like Reddit, then?

A lawyer looking to make coin on a class-action lawsuit. And we'll find out how strong those "no class action, individual binding arbitration with an arbiter of our choice" clauses in End User Licensing Agreements are.

Your support.microsoft.com link does indeed say "Rest assured that all your Office 2019 apps won't lose any data. ", and no longer says "Rest assured that all your Office 2019 apps will continue to function". If you cannot edit or save documents, that is not continuing to function. The support document is eliding the biggest change.

According to https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_for_Mac, Microsoft sent email to users stating:

"Starting 13 July 2026, a security certificate update is required to keep Microsoft 365 and Office apps current. Since you have a device that cannot support this update, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote will switch to view-only mode. "

That seems pretty definitive. And this "cannot support this update" bit is completely untrue.

And the easy way for Russia to stop Ukraine blowing up their dual-use infrastructure is to pack up their "Special Military Operation" and go home. That's all it would take to stop Ukraine's counterattacks.

> Congress long advocated these powers to executive agencies.

Congress doesn't have these powers. Except to someone with a highly-trained legal mind which hallucinates all kinds of nonsense from very clear legal documents like the Constitution.

It was literally written as a four page document. It's really hard to find these powers in such a tiny document without decades of legal training.

Yes. It takes a highly-trained legal mind to see that although the Founders only gave the Feds very limited powers they included a sneaky "unless it crosses state lines" exception which allows the Feds to do whatever they want.