It's overpriced Apple slop which has virtually no application - mostly due to Apple's inability to sell the consumer a device that just does what they want. If Apple can't subsequently nickel and dime you to death, they have no interest in the product.

Consequently, it's a device for spendthrift morons, not the average consumer. It's a measure of Apple's arrogance that they actually thought they could get away with it.

Patrick Boyle's channel is home to one of the most wonderfully snarky analysts of economic nonsense I've ever seen. Soundbites from this one include:

"Why have a company that does something, when you could just have a company that buys something and pumps its price up".

"Elon Musk - who spent billions of dollars on AI so he could have a cartoon girlfriend - says that..."

"He explained at a US-Saudi investment forum that this can all happen as long as we build an AI that cares about truth and beauty - and you're not gonna find a group that cares more about truth and beauty than the people attending an Elon Musk speech at a US-Saudi investment forum."

I thoroughly recommend him.

Much as I enjoy this activity, we need to go beyond simple defense. We should be attacking Mastercard and Visa via both legislative activity and the courts.

This cartel is a duopoly that is exerting monopoly power over issues which are none of their goddamned business. Payment processing is an infrastructure-level requirement for every single legitimate business in existence. As such, the MasterVisa cartel represents a threat to every legitimate business on the planet.

Their exclusive domination of payment processing should be destroyed via legislation which establishes payment processing as a public service available to all. Credit cards are a massively profitable business model which should not be in the hands of monopolists.

It's time for establishment of a credit card system which operates completely independently of the MasterVisa cartel and returns profits to the public. Given the profitability of the business model, this is a potential source of untold tax dollars being left on the table.

AmeriCard - Because fuck those guys.

You had zeroes?

Luxury!

In my day we programmed through prayer and fasting.

Debugging was a nightmare!

The problem is bigger than that. Training LLM's on the internet guarantees garbage.

Essentially, all you've got with an LLM is a context-tracking pattern matcher. It has no discrimination whatsoever and you can't create "rules" for it, because the amount of "rules" you would need is ever-growing and unsustainable.

The only way around this is to train it on authoritative fact. And the internet.... well, they don't call it "the net of a million lies" for nothing.

Too expensive.

No games.

No VR porn.

Who would buy this?

(Almost no-one is the answer).

Suicide Squad is rubbish and nobody cares what the hell happens to it. Warner Bros deserves this failure and the RockSteady we knew is dead.

Follow the founders: Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker's new studio is Hundred Star Games and they're hiring all the Rocksteady talent they can.

This is a well-worn path. Cash out by selling your studio to a big publisher who has no fucking idea how to develop games at all. Watch as your current studio crashes and burns due to the publisher's utter incompetence. Start a new studio elsewhere. Rinse and repeat.

Now you can have malware injected while your iPhone is being transported!

It's not like Apple's low-quality software would contain vulnerabilities which would allow you to end up with an unopened iPhone that's been completely owned or anything!

No, that would never happen!

Honestly, does Apple specifically hire for 'stupid' or something?

The irony here is that on most things DeSantis is a complete asshat, but on this he's 100% right.

Social media is a dopamine hit machine and like any dopamine hit machine given to teenagers between the ages of 11-6, addiction is an almost inevitable result. This is why people become addicted to social media, video games, cigarettes and alcohol. A dopamine hit loop established at the right age is the key to creating a lifetime customer - something the cigarette companies have known for decades (yes, they really were marketing to adolescents all this time).

The negative effects of social media on the life skills and self-image of teenagers is just starting to become evident. The full impact probably won't be accepted by the average Joe for a decade or two, but the writing is on the wall for anyone paying attention.

The logistics of enforcing this are a technical problem and one that is amenable to solutions. Yes, you can't stop everything, but just because a solution isn't perfect doesn't mean it shouldn't be implemented. If you can hit 80% of the problem, that's good enough.

Gee, what are the odds that smart educated people are right more often than uneducated hillbillies?

Are you professionally stupid or is this just how you spend your leisure time?

What kind of moron buys a safe made in China?

> It is mind boggling to me that Boeing has no records of this maintenance action being performed.

Boeing had a whistleblower murdered. Do you seriously think anything they say can be trusted right now? This company is run by criminals.

> No one died in the "door plug" incident.

346 people died in two separate 737 Max crashes because of Boeing's shitty management. Those deaths are a direct result of executive decisions. It was pure dumb luck that nobody died in the Air Alaska incident.

The 787-9 flight which suddenly lost all control and all instrumentation for 30 seconds is a human tragedy waiting to happen. Again, due to Boeing's slipshod approach to safety.

Those executives should be charged and imprisoned. Anything less, is enabling ongoing, risky behaviour which will lead to further deaths.

Boeing executives should be charged with manslaughter and imprisoned for their crimes in a federal pound-em-in-the-ass facility. That'll put the fear or of God into the next bunch of money-worshipping pencil necks who're tempted to swap safety for profit.

> We humans are made of "materials", and we hold patterns, so WTF are you talking about? When you grant special status to biological pattern-holders over and above silicon pattern-holders, is that just intuition and wishful thinking? Or do you have a credible reference? Citation, please.

You'll be one of those complete lunatics who, in coming years, will advocate against "AI underrepresentation in all walks of life including judicial and legislative." - in short, you're a waste of meat.