Always! For the usual delusional failures, that is. We have two stellar examples right at the start of the thread.

Dumb and dumber. Yes, you are obviously not gping to because your tiny mind is not able to comprehend a simple linear scale. But here is news for you: Not everybody is a dumb and uneducated as you obviously are.

Seems the customer gets zero respect there.

That is because you have no clue what you are talking about. Currently we find that things may be worse than the predictions and we can run into effects that make it much, much worse (up to extinction level) at any time. Just denying the problem and the risk is an utter and complete failure at risk management. You _always_ need a safety margin that is larger than the maximum plausible error. We clearly do not have that here. All because some already rich assholes need to get even richer and a lot of morons (like you) are unwilling to make reasonable changes in their lifes. Great job!

Some people are dumb and aggressive and cowards on top. You know, scum. The person you replied to qualifies.

It uses about a bottle of water. I don't know how true that is but you can bet it uses a hell of a lot of water. Yes of course it's not necessary for it to use and dispose of water but it is much cheaper than having the more expensive recirculating systems. And AI is already on money loser so you can bet your ass that's one cost they will be happy to externalize.

So sure let's find a desert where water is scarce and build giant data centers for replacing white collar workers.

It really pisses me off the water and electricity I need to live are going to be taken away from me so that I can also lose my job. And the bastards are going to get away with it too because we are stupid and we're going to let them do it.

Lots and lots of Americans cut everything right to the edge. There are lots of jobs in New York that pay like shit and people aren't forced to take and order to get enough experience that they can move somewhere else that isn't so fucking miserable to live.

So I can see somebody driving in not as some sort of status symbol but because they needed to being put off by this massively.

Remember an economist calling modern American Life a fragile existence. No safety no protections everything can come crashing down in an instant and then you just get replaced by somebody behind you in the line.

The number of people who go to restaurants for food is vanishingly small. Most people go because they are either too tired to cook or they just want a place to hang out with friends and maybe drink some booze.

So while I certainly agree with you that to me it seems strange to spend all that money on shitty reheated food to most people it's the going not what do you get when you're there.

Also I have kind of a fucked up sense of taste and smell so my kid would pretty much take anything except what I cooked because I was in absolutely terrible cook, still am too.

Oh and sometimes it's just dumb memories. You grow up eating a certain type of slop from chain restaurants and you associate good things from childhood with it. Burger King might be terrible food but I have associations of eating it after seeing a movie or getting a new toy.

So haven't done quite a bit of tech support I can tell you that there is no such app.

Many many years ago there was but companies decided to fire their local documentation teams and either insist the employees right to documentation in addition to their regular duties, which of course they don't do, or the outsource documentation writing to Indians who barely speak English but are super super super cheap

The result is if you are calling tech support you are almost entirely reliant on institutional knowledge.

Companies are trying to make it so that that institutional knowledge ends up in AI. I don't think tech support people are intelligent enough to realize that's happening when their knowledge is being plumbed. But I also don't think they're capable of writing documentation that would be useful to an AI.

It's possible that the companies will start to hire real tech writers again to feed the AIs and if they do that then yeah, you'll be able to just chat bought your way to fixing just about any problem except things that need to go to the actual development team.

The fun part is we are about to put pretty much every white collar worker on the planet out of work. And the blue collar workers will follow because the high earnings of high productivity white collar workers are what allow us to hire blue collar workers to do all the other work they do.

Basically the entire economy is going to collapse. If you've ever seen what Sudan looks like think of that but the entire world. A tiny amount of people living in God like wealth, a handful of people servicing them and then object poverty everywhere.

Oh and drones to keep the rabble in line.

It's called techno feudalism and I don't think we can stop at anymore. The only thing that could have stopped it was electoral politics and that has failed us. Violence won't work because that just turns into a right wing extremist government and they are going to maintain the status quo.

Apply Asimovs laws of robotics to the AIs.

Evil Clippy.

Remember back in the early days when they were pretending that they weren't an illegal taxi service, but rather were just normal people "sharing a ride" to where they wanted to go anyway, and so called it "rideshare" to avoid prosecution?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

If we still enforced antitrust law I think you would have a point but we stopped doing that 40 years ago.

So the way it plays out is right now if you're a large Enterprise VMware has you by the balls. As others have pointed out there really isn't anything that can scale the way VMware does and broadcom knows that which is why they're charging through the nose.

Smaller shops can and will switch to other products but like the grandparents is implying VMware doesn't care because when you can soak your big clients that hard you come out ahead.

Now 20 30 40 years ago if you did that then a competitor would use their access to smaller clients to climb their way up the ranks and then they go head-to-head competing with you.

After 40 years of zero antitrust law enforcement broadcom is going to spot that competitor coming a mile away, drop their pants on pricing for a year or two and run them out of business while poaching all their best engineers, and then buy up the skeletal remains to get the patents.

I don't think people realize just how much we have given up in the last 40 years to mega corporations. Especially as tech nerds because we are only just now getting put on the same menu that the blue collar guys have been on for the last 40 years.

I started bringing reusable bags because they were insulated and it's summer. I keep a handful of the plastic bags from the supermarket around for emergency trash but I find that if I am not consistently bringing my own bags I quickly wind up with way way way more supermarket plastic bags and I can possibly use for emergency trash cans.

They're too thin and flimsy and full of holes to use for anything that has actual garbage in it. I don't eat out very often so the constant grocery trips mean that I end up buried in them if I don't just throw half of them out.

The only downside is it's made me picky about how my groceries get bagged trying to get the cold stuff in the right place with the cold packs I usually carry with me to keep ice cream from defrosting.

On the plus side just so I can really piss some people here off bringing my own bags let's be put the n95 mask I wear everywhere in public in the bag so I don't accidentally forget it and have to drive back home to get it.

And just to really confuse and irritate those folks I drive an SUV. albeit one I purchase from a mechanic I trust because it's what they had at the time and I needed a car. Also it's old and I barely drive it. I don't know how SUV owners put up with the cost of gas when you have an actual commute...

I prefer Cookie clicker and the eldritch Grandma apocalypse, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...