OK, so they make their own fabs. Aren't the components in short supply? Aren't they paying more for ASML machines?...etching chemicals?...high-end silicon? It's like the Strait of Hormuz closing...the USA is now an oil exporter, so we're not impacted, right?...nope!!!...because everyone who is impacted is now buying from the USA and our gas prices went up nearly as much as everyone else's. OK, so Apple can make their own chips?....what's to stop them from jacking up the price since the market is willing to pay? They make more money, but they're not going to be virtuous and underprice their machines in a market that's willing to pay far more than they should.

The problem you get though is what I call the "California Cancer Warning Problem"
Basically, people can only pay attention to so many warnings. The more often people get false or trivial warnings, warnings where they have to continue to get things done as standard, the more likely they are to just plain ignore the warnings.

While hackers might be able to figure out a way to do something malicious without triggering the warning, the warnings back then were worse than useless, because they not only triggered for just about every document, users by default could not assess the document for safety without enabling the scripting. IE I couldn't by default open the document and look at the scripts to assess them (and some of them were only like a dozen lines) without enabling them.

Saying the warnings were necessary also ignores that there have been exploits that didn't even require opening a document to cause infection. Preview was enough.

Basically, if the hackers figured out something clever, just add that to the check. It would still be a better situation than what we had back then.

If you were correct, then this wouldn't apply to laptops and open-market RAM and storage. Consoles are not the concern...the fact that I have to pay a fuckton extra for SSDs and RAM and devices of all sort, even those not subsidized as a loss-leader, is the concern. I don't even want a PS5, but this does apply to everything I do want to buy in the next year that draws electricity.

This is a problem, well-documented, by the fact that the major AI vendors are buying all they can...it's a basic market problem. The only solution is to let the horrid bubble pop. My frustration is that they're subsidizing it in a circular manner and hiding from everyone how horrid their business model is.

LLM AIs will outlive this hype cycle and all the destruction they're causing. AI is here to stay. I just am sick of suffering because the major vendors are lying to investors and lying to their customers about both their business model and the capabilities of their technology.

Every time Hollywood sells a movie as 'realistic', it's turned out to be bullshit. The trade mags and entertainment reporters repeat the lie, but that doesn't make it true.

I'll be watching this movie soon, it looks fun. I will not expect them to get physics anywhere close to correct enough that someone with a decent high school physics class under their belt won't see where they got it wrong.

I was so proud of this robot that I went up and gave it a hug. Everyone around me started yelling at me to get away and then the robot tried to install a solar panel on me. Long story short, I ended up in the hospital with a restraining order against to stay away from the robot.

THIS ROBOT IS NOT FRIENDLY.

You probably can't see how because of the same vision problem that prevented you from reading my post.
"simulate materials without ever having to construct them."

Don't care. If your shit shows me ads, it's not getting into my kitchen. Note to self: Don't buy appliances from Samsung anymore.

Yes, I am vocal in how much I hate ads. I believe the CEOs of advertising companies should get one hit with a stick for every time their ad bothered someone even in the slightest.

Exactly what I'm saying.

The fact that users and enterprise customers are not demanding better software from Microsoft with the same fervor their ancestors demanded that the witch be burnt speaks volumes.

And I'm specifically talking about operating systems here. Software can crash for all I care. I'm fine software quality being all over the place, the market can sort that out. But operating systems are natural monopolies and the foundation for everything else. We should not accept shoddy quality there.

I’d argue that slavery wasn’t “legal because nobody banned it.” It was legal because there were explicit laws that created, defined, and enforced the institution.

There were statutes specifying who could be held as slaves, rules that the child of an enslaved woman was automatically a slave, procedures for manumission, regulations on how slaves could be bought, sold, punished, or inherited, and laws requiring that escaped slaves be returned. That’s not a legal vacuum, that’s a full legal framework.

It’s similar to how segregation laws later forced discrimination on people who might not have engaged in it otherwise. The state wasn’t passively allowing something; it was actively mandating and structuring it.

Slavery existed because the law built and maintained it, not because the law failed to forbid it.

I remember those days where it would warn if there was any scripting at all, rather than look for dangerous commands first.
Just as a thought, not bothering if the script cannot reach outside of the document itself. Functions that access other files or documents, email functionality, and such triggering the warning instead would have been more effective.

Chips are not only more expensive, their supply is unstable and unreliable. It impacts everyone who buys computer components. Apple has more leverage than Sony, but trust me, you'll see the same level of price increases from Apple, probably this year and every year until this horrible AI bubble pops. It's fucking surreal to want to buy devices early to save money. All my life...you wait to buy something, it goes down in price and gets better. Now we just pay more for the exact same performance every year.

This is pure bullshit. It's a 5.5 year old console and priced more than it was during introduction! OK, so Sony is overcharging me...well, so is everyone else. Every device is going up in cost, purely due to us subsidizing this LLM circular economy. Fuck every LLM provider. I want useful devices, like consoles, laptops, phones, and tablets...without shortage pricing...not your useless LLMs that can't even generate code that compiles, Claude 4.6 opus/sonnet. This week, I used it like 10x...EVERY fucking attempt was a failure..."why did I get this exception?"...failure..."update this json schema to validate across 3 fields"...failure. "Update this code to the latest version of Spring"....failure. "Change this legacy for loop into a lambda"...failure...didn't even compile and hallucinated methods that don't exist.

I have to listen to employers AI-washing their failures and convincing the industry they can lay us all off.

I have to pay a lot more for any device I want...with the prospect that things aren't getting better any time soon.

So far, I am not seeing any tangible benefits to these technologies, yet lots of suffering.

This bubble can't pop fast enough.

I know AI will someday be useful, but it's been nothing but a curse. Instead of getting slow, steady progress, we're getting fever-pitched investment that's not paying off, disrupting the job market, and now making it a lot harder to buy useful technology. Fuck these guys. I am sick of paying for their stupidity.

Finally, we're seeing applications of QC that are actually useful. I look forward to this expanding so that we can greatly advance materials science by being able to simulate materials without ever having to construct them.

You do realize they have Mennonites in Oregon right? If not then you should really educate yourself about the nation you live within because it's quite diverse. If you think diversity is a bad thing then perhaps you're in the wrong nation.

Right but what they are talking about is nuclear propulsion. Don't like how space.com writes? You can go right to the source instead of wasting other people's time. https://www.nasa.gov/ignition/