AI can craft a small routine or single command customized to my parameters faster than I can write it myself even if I have it committed to memory.

AI can do slightly more complex things, and so long as I keep it tightly compartmentalized so it's easier to debug, it's fine.

You cannot sit down and ask an AI to write you anything long and complex and expect it to do so successfully without requiring more debugging than writing it yourself.

At least, that's been my experience. I rarely code and never anything particularly complex by the standards of a working pro... and I still hit those limits of AI regardless.

There are 'easy' places to build a base at the equator, in partially collapsed lava tubes that provide free shielding you could build a city inside.

There's a problem; the best science locations are at the southern pole. At the south pole you can build on the side of a crater rim and have permanent sun above the lip for solar power and heat, and permanent darkness below the rim for cold to keep your telescopes happy.

You're probably digging through 8m of regolith to anchor your base and dealing with the risk of lunar avalanche and that nasty lunar dust.

I'd just send a MIRV-like rocket to fire low-ex penetrators into the crater wall at the desired location to deliberately shift the regolith clear of my construction site, then send up boring equipment to dig into the crater wall... but so far as I am aware, nobody's done even a cursory feasibility study on anything like that and it's certain nobody could get it done in 2 years even if they had and decided it would work.

We make things worse, more of us die, the issue is blunted. Make it bad enough, civilization fails, lots of people die, and the surviving population will be environmentally worse individually but few enough in number it won't be a major climate factor.

Then the Sun expands, bakes the planet sterile, and possibly burns it into a puff of plasma.

Long term it's a losing game, but short term we could play to win if we didn't lack the required strategic thinking as a species.

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

Funny thing is, enshittification is actually more of a longer term strategy. Sell your product/service at a loss (or give it away) today, and tomorrow once you have grown a user base that's locked in and/or you've driven your competitors out of business, start the monetization (aka the enshittification) phase.

Though nowadays people use enshittification as more of a general things-got-worse thing.

It's a professional near-necessity for me to have a presence on LinkedIn. ...The number of people posting AI crap is disturbingly high - if it's not AI slop, it's fellating AI slop.

It's that the AI guys respect people's right to say "no" about as much as your average rapist.

The easiest workaround that seems the most difficult to defeat is to run the AI agent's actions from your preferred browser on your phone or computer, and still extract whatever data they want from the response to be relayed back to them for ingestion into their data centers.

They'll be every bit as respectful of websites saying 'no' to them as they were to writers, performers, and artists who told them not to use their work to train AI.

In Philly, delivery robots are considered pedestrians for the purposes of permitting them to use public pedestrian pathways, with the restriction that they must give way to humans.

The obvious intent of the law is to have robots legally permitted to use the sidewalks autonomously, but the letter of the law seems to clearly say they are universally subordinate to humans.

My guess is the cops don't care, decided she was a troublemaker, and then got pissed when she wouldn't simply submit to them and obey their commands to desist what was probably a legal activity (because legislators somehow didn't anticipate this event) and found a charge to apply.

They wouldn't be talking about this stuff if they weren't trying to scare people into giving them regulatory capture.

Instead, the people running the AI need to be charged for any crime it commits and go to federal prison. Then these random little "rogue AI" incidents would stop instantly.

I understand when Microsoft tries to adopt something from the Linux community. I do not understand how they imagine the typical Linux proponent (corporate or individual) would be interested in the reverse.

Kind of. The show isn't Jamie's version, it's Jamie's compromised version. He did the compromising because he knew he couldn't draw and keep a broad audience on his own. Which is likely true and absolutely disappointing.

I don't think he's even particularly interested in being on camera - there's probably a reason Adam is all over YouTube and Jamie isn't. Which is also a bit of a shame from my perspective - I would prefer more info than infotainment, as much as I did enjoy watching the Mythbusters blow stuff up.

MythBusters is unwatchable in its original form.

Do yourself a favor and find a copy of SMythBusters. It's a streamlined edit that removes the ridiculous constant recaps that make up a disturbingly large percentage of the show.

It's a show for people who are curious about experimental discovery (and blowing things up). Those are people who usually can pay attention for five minutes at a time without being reminded of what they're watching so they don't lose track.

And while I recognize Adam is talented in addition to being an entertainer... somewhere out there in the multiverse is Jamie's version of the show where you get more into the design, build, and results analysis and there's less time taken up by Adam being goofy for the camera to keep the low-quality viewers watching. I would love to see that show.

GTA IV is a great game - in some ways better than GTV V - but it could really do with GTA V's driving physics.

Let's Encrypt's mission was to get everyone to use SSL... OK. Nice. Thank you.

But now it's "We're reducing the validity window to force you to use automation by making manual updating more frequent than people will tolerate". What the hell is so bad about manual updates?

There's a whole world of people out there who are too small to set up a nice automated system but who still should be using SSL, and this is Let's Encrypt telling us they don't really believe in their mission statement.