Is it really too much to ask that major companies be good at two things at once? Dual competence is essential for any long-term business survival. A company needs to master both its core discipline and financial operations. For example:

• Boeing should be skilled in both engineering and business. Strip away the engineering, and you get dangerous products, death(!) and broken trust.
• Warner-Discovery should be competent at entertainment and business. Put a dude-David Zazlov-and C-suite people in charge who only know how to churn out cheap reality slop and who shelves fantastic finished films such as Coyote Versus Acme just for tax write-offs, and you erode the delicate balance that built an industry giant.
• PlayStation and Xbox need to excel at game development and business. Instead, we see industry titans that swing between snapping up all the studios they can and abruptly shutting them down, funding auteur projects like Physint and pulling funding the moment a balance sheet looks the least bit precarious.

Somewhere along the way, corporate governance bought into the myth that financial management is the only skill that matters, while the actual substance of the business -- such as the engineering, the art, or the entertainment -- is just a minor variable hardly worth considering. If a company isn't good at the what they actually make, they aren't actually good at business.

What if both are real risks? Without proper alignment and whatnot, we risk getting something straight out of Philip K Dickâs "Autofac" short story or even worse. The more I see, the more I use AI, the more think that the common trope in media of the disastrous consequences of robots and AI misunderstanding things just slightly or doing exactly what they were programmed to do without further context or understanding are real risks.

It means Iran has severely limited the capacity of the Strait of Hormuz. It's a hostage situation. No one is winning, but the objective isn't to win in the sense of completely closing the Strait, the objective is to create a sufficiently long period of pain that eventually the US and its allies walk away. Christ almighty, force multiplication is hardly a new concept.

There are plenty of places in North America without coverage because there's so little to cover. The Los Vegas metropolitan area has about three million people. So yes, that would be a place with cell phone coverage. By the same token, coverage in states like Montana, particularly in mountainous areas is spotty because, well, there's not a lot of people.

Are you fucking stupid? Names actually are useful, which is why we propers nouns at all.

Jesus fuck the supporters of Trump really are a pack of morally compromised halfwits.

I suspect you were just asked to be nice, and through a combination of spectrum OCD and insufficient cognitive therapy, you decided somehow you were being asked to do something wrong.

So you helped elect an ignorant sociopath. Congrats on that. Maybe you should have attended more of those cognitive therapy sessions.

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.

Yes, sadly, they do not cure mental illness.

Truth Social I'm sure. As hard as it is to believe, there are still people who think Trump is a genius, and still want to "own the Libs".

How are these people not in prison?

you are dramatically underestimating the cost & processing needed to produce an model with actually useful weights.

40% of Canada's land area is covered in forests. It is simply impossible to "manage" that much forest, and it's utterly fucking absurd to suggest otherwise. And to try to take climate change out of the equation is just a way of misdirecting away from the actual fucking cause; GHG emissions raising surface temperatures.

When will humans stop buying the most trivially fucking moronic red herrings? What a disreputable idiotic species.

It's almost as if allowing emissions to ramp up with little meaningful effort to control them is having the inevitable consequences predicted decades ago. But let's not deal with that, because it's hard. Instead let's have the President of the United States demand Canada hold back the tides.

I don't actually use Apple Store all that often. A fair portion of the software I have installed, like LibreOffice and Firefox is just installed via DMG images. It kicks up a window about unrecognized source, but then just works. iOS devices are definitely more locked down, but the Macs are really no different as far as installing software than Windows or Linux.

I imagine the Mac Neo is the real source of their panic. Right now RAM prices are probably saving them from even more losses, but the hegemony is coming to an end. If a credible useful, at least for average users, non-Windows platform using smart device level hardware can sell as well as the Neo has, I'd say Microsoft's reckoning is finally upon them.