The man lacks any real common sense, and he's further much to enamoured of his own ideas. All of his type of tech bros speak of "AI" like it's actually intelligent, as we (generally) understand intelligence, and it's not anything like that or anywhere near that. The machine learning algorithms that make all this run simply can't separate fact from fiction/opinions, lack any empathy/caring, are biased, etc. AI is basically garbage at the moment and if he doesn't recognize why more people aren't impressed he needs to get out of the boardroom and his own rarified thinking and actually look at all this from the average person's point of view. But he's above that now. He hasn't felt "average" or understands "average" for decades.

You mean those long ago days when you could afford an actual home on one salary? When CEOs made only 20x what the average worker made and not, oh, say 300x? When you got paid for improving a companies productivity instead of increasing it 400% over the past few decades with no increased pay? When you made enough money to cover the costs of inflation instead of .. wait for it .. not making any more money versus the rate of inflation since 1970? Those long ago days? The only people who have better wages since the 1970s have been CEOs. If the average wage had increased for workers at the same rate as CEOs the average US worker would be earning $160,000/year. But then again, those folks have been busting unions since the 70s. Coincidence? Yeah, sure. Try again. With facts this time.

Unless he twists his back golfing. That does hurt. Thankfully he has a caddy to place his ball nicely for him in case of a shot into a sand trap or rough.

I always said before the Rs went full on after their perceived enemies they'd have a full blown year or so of a "night of long knives" purging their own ranks of those not significantly R (or MAGA or hypocritical) enough. Look at how some of them, for example MTG, are now at each other's throats claiming the other isn't pure enough or doing the wrong thing. Whining (yet dangerous) children indeed.

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Long time SL veteran. Not it can't. I'm running 64GB RAM and a 3070 card w/8GB, *and* a wicked fast Net connection, running mostly high settings graphically, and on busy sims like Muddys I'll get 30–60, 60–90 on near deserted sims, and bog down to 10–15 on crazy busy sims. Every single asset is made by SL users, often badly by amateurs, with horrific poly counts ... shoes, clothes, buildings, furniture, lights, decor, trees, all of it. Turn on PBR iirrros and you get a 25% FPS drop instantly. It's what's great, but also what's holding SL back from ever becoming anything kore than a 20+ year old side show these days. My avatar looks amazing, as good as almost anything out in any other "game", but the frame rates utterly suck and always have.

Am a cat lover but this quote did sprint to mind ... If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. -- Terry Pratchett

He's just a typical kid who was bullied who turns into one because that's all he emotionally knows. He behaves like a child because he was stunted as one. I have carrots the same colour as his face in my garden with more emotional stability and empathy than he could possibly ever show. And I'm sure Nixon and Johnson and Ike etc could drop an F bomb as well as anyone could, but in front of TV cameras? Guy has no sense of decorum or common manners (yeah, I'm old, like "mom used to go the bank with gloves on old", manners mattered once, kids). Plus, having been given millions from daddy probably didn't help his emotional growth either. TACO.

Only em-dashes can. En-dashes are used to denote "to" as in a range. For example, the play will be performed nightly at 8:00pm from June 4 – June 18. Also note the spaces before and after the en-dash; most good typographers only add a half "m" space—if any at all—on either side of an em-dash, though that choice is often dependant on the typeface being used.

And linguistic evolution is how we now get that sloppy mispronunciation of the word kilometre. It's pronounced/stressed like every other metric unit of measurement; e.g., millimetre, centimetre, nanometre, decimetre, etc. Not like barometer (even the ending is different to give you a hint). Now get off my typographer's lawn.

"Besiroglu argues to the naysayers that having agents do all the work will actually enrich humans, not impoverish them, through "explosive economic growth."

I know exactly who this will enrich, and I guarantee you it won't be "all humans". If you think Bezos, Zuck, Musk are pricks now, just wait until you see the next set of bro trillionaire AI bosses. Gutter level misery for most, privileged lives for few.

It won't ever be. We're in the process of deporting him elsewhere because we don't need smarty-pants around here. He's next after we remove the Pennsylvania-born doctor from her New England practice and ship her elsewhere. "Lisa Anderson" ... a foreign name if I ever heard one. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news...

In those sprint planning sessions. It'll take a year just to create JIRA task board with the Epics, without even breaking those down into stories and tasks. And the inevitable bugs? Someone is sure spouting nonsense with no understanding of how software development actually works and the timelines needed for even moderately complex tasks. Deluded.

WhatsApp? Acquisition. Oculus? Acquisition. Instagram? Acquisition. Facebook, sure, but you stole a lot of the UI/UX idea for other social platforms. Z is an idiot.

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

"The windmills are driving the whales crazy. Obviously."

Fact check please in aisle one!