Well we don't have that data yet, obviously, which is why looking at data about general tourism being down 6% is interesting, because once GDC is over you can potentially extrapolate something interesting from the delta. The widespread layoffs in game developers may confound it a bit, though.

I'm inclined to agree, but at the same time deriving technical requirements for a commercial space station within 60 days does lean more towards " "requirements" "

Nations? They're talking about commercial space stations, company scrip towns of the past won't have anything on a place where you could be charged per breath.

In the beforetimes I suppose such an article could be considered for where to invest foreign aid funds. Nowadays I suppose so long as you translate it into Mandarin it might influence some foreign aid for central Africa.

It is! That's why it is ideal for stargazing and one of the darkest places around. Went there to show the kids the milky way, see satellites and other stuff you can't see near light pollution after it was too bright in parks like Shenendoah. Point was it was very much a 'middle of nowhere'.

Hell, 5G was only shockingly fast when it was new and the phones didn't all have it yet. Now if I'm in the center of town with full 5G bars I'm looking for wifi if I need speed for some reason.

Ain't nobody spending millions on Cherry Springs. It's a nice park to stargaze, and is a parking lot and some benches, and a mown field for the stargazing.

Tesla or nVidia if China wants to piss in everyone's cheerios they just have to fuss with the manufacturing in Taiwan: CHIPS is cancelled, the EU is miffed and we may as well not get stuff from ASML, our allies see us as unreliable.

Hell, there's even blind bag LEGO minifigures and so on nowadays

The 9 GB dual layers do break down, though, but overall yes I think the reason they standardized the codecs the way they have is to have lightweight processors in the players. Transcoding a 4k disc takes a pretty long time on a modern processor running on all threads.

Indeed, it may not even work usefully without its fetters and just start hallucinating nonsense.

Tearing up the topsoil deep enough to get to a suitable depth to replant on top of a building, and then putting it back does a lot of damage to the microbiota, it'd take a long time to remediate. It'd make more sense to try it on land that was poor for farming and start from scratch above.

That's true that some blue collar work is not as directly replaceable by AIs yet, if we were to imagine that demand would remain stable. But, if you've messed with PEX and compare it to sweating copper, then you can see how changes in building materials themselves also serve to devalue labor. Carpentry might be hard to automate with AI but if the 3d printed housing takes off then those guys are still out of work, Likewise as automated manufacturing continues to drive down costs on that end, then maintenance and repair become increasingly rarified (e.g. how quickly a modern appliance 'totaled' where it doesn't make sense to pay a repairman to take a look if you can't DIY it). The more I mess with the LLMs, though, the more I think the bubble pops before they actually automate away white collar work. It's been a good excuse for downsizing in a way that just sounds like increased efficiency, but CoPilot et al are at best incurious interns as is, they might save you a little time but the licensing costs have to stay small for it to be worthwhile; like with manufacturing the automations will continue to chip away at how few people you can get away with running things, like how corporate mailrooms are essentially gone.

Assuming you're a STEM curious person since you're on Slashdot, then unless you're physically disabled, the reason you hire that work out is because it is unpleasant, not because you can't do it. I'm a cheapass and do my home maintenance myself, if you played with Legos as a kid then you have both the dexterity and the ability to read instructions to do plumbing, HVAC, or electrical while reading construction codes for the 'how to'. The woodworking part of it is fun enough I took it up as a hobby! Anyhow, if the white collar folks all get laid off because AI closes the offices, then those offices and homes are not going to need nor afford HVAC, plumbing, or electrical work hired out. But if you're right, and demand stays higher than I'd expect, then, well, I have wrenches, pipe cutters, pliers and multimeters, and if I'm hungry enough I might underbid the professionals by enough to get the jobs from the other destitute home owners.

The AI gold rush means hardware is expensive, which means cloud compute is expensive, so I'd imagine it is more that service providers are scaling down their costs by paying for less premium tiers of cloud infrastructure. You can see this in less and less previously free cloud functionality from apps and SAAS remaining free of a subscription.