> Cambridge remains a small city despite biotech breakthroughs that might have transformed it into a major hub.

This is just complete rubbish. I happen to have lived there on and off for 35 years.

The periphery of the city is absolutely TEEMING with new construction - from the massive expansion of Addenbrooke's hospital, to the science centre in the northwest of the city, and huge business projects throughout. I was there last week, and saw a lot of the new developments myself.

This is being done in a better, sustainable way through initiatives like The Quality Charter for Growth and the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel (CQP). The city is a beacon on how this stuff is done well, and extensively. https://preview-cambridgeshire...

Of course, the centre of cambridge has not increased in housing capacity significantly. But it SHOULDN'T, what do they want to do, knock down the centuries-old university buildings to make modern concrete flats? What a wanker for implying that.

This article is written by a halfwit (or a shill paid to lose half their mind) who has an agenda to push against regulation and will lie to push it forward. Bad journalism, low intelligence, and disrespectful to readers. Garbage.

I think that may be a you issue.

I've been coding for 40 years, and professionally for 30, and using tools like this speeds me up a lot, I'd say 25-30% more good code generated at the end of the day. Sometimes to generate code, sometimes to rubberduck or sift through sources for me. Certainly reasoning models are getting better at it. I trust it for low/medium complexity tasks - not blindly. But easily as much as I would a junior.

It doesn't get it 100% right the first time, every time. But if you can't debug it and direct it, that's on you.

It's a new tool, it takes time to learn. Don't get mad at it, learn how to use it.

While a lot of the themes in that resonate with us now, it's important to note that this didn't come from any point of view or understanding of technology at all. Rather this is a really common anthropomorphising of technology driven by fear, primarily of obsolescence. You can look back to the Luddites over 200 years ago, sabotaging machines (and by "machines" here I mean looms and other simple mechanical devices). Attributing Darwinism to non-biological constructs is a push, as well.

The fact we're on the cusp of self-improving machines is practically just coincidence, and while this is a fun curiosity, it's dangerous to feed something historical into current affairs as something prophetic.

Most sci-fi has some kind of doom/danger element to it, and needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt rather than lauded as divination.

Wow, thanks for explaining basic economics to me, I had no idea.

I shan't read anything else you write, you obviously have significantly more time to waste than I do.

You still need to improve.

Improve and don't be so bitter about your own shortcomings.

Wow, check it out, a jock from the 1980s.

Literally in the post "The deal includes a selection of curated content from key YouTube creators."

So you will get access to all the cached/promoted stuff stuck in a harddrive on the plane, and access to anything else will be over the usual plane wifi which will be a bit crap.

You are purchasing a ticket to transport a person. Not a specific number of cubic cm. This is passenger travel, not freight. People can't choose how tall they are or how long their legs are.

Your comment comes across as body shaming, insensitive, and ignorant even for 20 years ago. Improve.

Apple is concentrating on the 99.9% of users who are using AI to make images for their facebook group, to get the weather in a pirate voice, to summarise their messenger updates and other gimmicks. Apple are not going to be interested in the 0.1% who run their own ollama server, who want to make use of their own data (or care about the privacy of it), and so forth. We're not their target audience.

That aside, the "app store model"/system hooks you suggest is a terrible idea from Apple's perspective - that would give them almost no control over the user experience while rolling out the biggest feature in years. Apple wants to control the experience and deliver something that seems worth a high price tag.

The best someone in his position can do is say "hey fellow catholics, we know nothing about subject X, but you should listen to guys Y and Z about this, because they know what's up".

The catholic church releasing statements about things they know fuck-all about is just dangerous and perpetuating their attempted influence across all walks of life. It's insidious.

I honestly can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or not, given you're so tremendously far off from the facts and your writing style is so hyperbolic.

I really hope it is sarcasm.

The scam in the article is well executed, that is for sure (until the url anyway). But one thing that is mentioned there, and often in general, is that it's easy to avoid phishing/scams because they have poor grammar, spelling and so forth.

This is correct but for the wrong reasons. The scammers are not too dumb to put together one coherent sentence, but rather they are hunting for the most gullible and dim targets intentionally.

If you send out a well-crafted scam and get lets say 10% replies, but 9.9% of them understand it is a scam after a few emails, you have wasted a lot of time and effort on people you won't scam. But if you send out what looks like a poorly-crafted scam and get only 0.1% replies, you know the people who did reply are, well, not the brightest crayon in the happy meal, and you've immediately found your marks. Scamming is a numbers game.

...to get to work across the SF Bay Area in under an hour.

The interviews are run by (senior) users. Nobody is saying they're perfect. I'm an audio engineer myself and while I pointed out some inconsistencies / assumptions in the questions, the interviewer met them positively. They are also looking for personality matches as well.

That simple mechanic ignores freeleech / halfleech files, of which there are many and often even site-wide. This makes it more than a zero-sum game.