WAPO offers "a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation."
Translation: stop worrying about the power bill you can no longer afford and go buy a car you can no longer afford so that we can improve AI enough to make literally everything "something you can't afford". Now *that's* innovation.

Anybody remember where we put those damned pitchforks? Democracy Dies in Darkness; who knew it was a mission statement?

Also ...
- Battery drain (maybe you can turn it off?),
- Expense (it's a Mac; it doesn't need to be *more* expensive),
- Screen replacement gets somehow even more costly,
And finally,
- Remember Windows 8? Metro UI? Remember when a major OS maker tried to converge on touch last time?

While it's easy to see Dell has chasing Apple here, I think there's a larger sense in which both companies are chasing our emerging K-shaped economy. Apple has a 17e iPhone line that is really quite surprisingly good for the price point, while at the same time introducing a foldable phone that'll likely come in at about 2K. Their laptops likewise are now split into high and low end. It's an effective way to draw a broad swath of folks at the growing lower SES tier to cover their bread-and-butter basic subscriptions revenue, while still capturing the whales.

You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Water is wet, and goes down-hill. Trump founded a business riddled with incompetence.
Life's riddled with invariants like these.

Man, I remember when Selfish Gene made its way into my hands, in the late 70's. A real "Chapman's Homer" moment for me. Led me later into a thesis on genetic algorithms. But along with that comes ... a rather mechanistic point of view, consistent with his later writings on religion.
While I'm not on board with Claude being in a class with humans, or cats for that matter, I think critics here might be missing a point, not about how Dawkins views LLMs so much as how he views humans. P-zombies is likely an overstatement, but don't expect him to require a 'ghost in the machine' to call Claude "conscious".
IMO, he isn't just inflating LLMs' abilities. He's coming in from a POV that humans aren't all that.

My Erdos number was something I felt put me in a very exclusive club (my field is CS, btw)! Only a select few ... wait a second. The whole thing about Erdos numbers is that they're the expression of how common those interconnections are :-)
Like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, the net is huge!

It's like there's 10 of me, well rested and in distraction free speed typing mode, and I'm a seasoned and experienced senior webdev who still loves his job.

I've had a similar experience! It's like there's a dozen SWEs working shoulder to shoulder.

• Nine are just brilliant.
• One's badly hung over and has just rejiggered the tests specifically to 'solve' an error in the code.
• One has apparently just had his first hit of X, and wants to tell me how great he thinks I am and that all my stupid ideas are genius.
• The last one occasionally just fucks off somewhere and all the work stops until he's 'up' for it again.

Genuinely, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I have on a rather massive personal project I'm working on without AI, but I've also spent a stunning time backing out some ... idiosyncratic? ... rust code.

Back in my day, we just told the damned thing to calculate all the digits of pi; good enough for us. Whippersnappers ...

https://xkcd.com/416/

:-) I was certain that was what the post was about until I switched from skim-mode to actual reading. Best movie I've seen in ages.

Given the place of the magnificent seven in the US economy, as well as the massive sucking up of the tech bros to the current administration, a bailout is all but assured.
Those poor fellows *need* my money; who am I to say no?

This is why I print everything with a solid yellow background :-) (ed. no he doesn't, that'd be fiendishly expensive)

Funny, I'm seeing that a lot in the comments; I'm on 26.1; perhaps a fix awaits in 26.2 :-)

I find the behavior inconsistent on 26.1. With the window *definitely* in focus, I still can move the cursor from outside the window slowly through the corner into the window with no change. The misbehavior seems more consistent outside->in rather than vv.

I mostly did user interface work prior to retirement ... weird behavior is par for the course!

What chaps me is the mouse cursor, which does not change, not one iota, over about 90% of that grippable area. If we got a 'resize' cursor image over the territory that could be grabbed, all of this would be a non-issue. Instead, the cursor flips over 1/n the width of the human hair, with n=the number of people bloody sick of interface changes for no damned reason.

Look at the terrific increases in individual productivity we've gotten so far from computers. Speaking from a US perspective here, but clearly that productivity boost has *already* resulted in a halving of our work week, right? How could this not happen?