Why not buy a robot arm and make your own car? Maybe not today, but manufacturing itself is bound to be obsolete one day. And then we can just shrug at GM when they are sad about all the 3D printers and Chinese imports.

Have fun running an economy where nobody has a job. At some point there ought to be a cause for concern, even for the laissez-faire anarcho-capitalist types, at least the ones that can do basic arithmetic.

Wow, someone from the future. What is 2917 like?

So, our dumb phones and outdated smartphones (e.g., iPhone 6+) will be useful again? :P

;-)

When I was an apprentice, the journeymen were better at arithmetic than this, probably because it was life and death calculation when dealing with a 3-phase 100A circuit. (all my very obsolete and half-forgotten training is in industrial, not whatever they have going on in data centers)

If their not editing Xorg config to add modelines, then is it really Linux anymore?

Civics and philosophy are above an electricians pay grade, nor is it for them to determine alone.

Some solidarity from the IBEW on the issue of AI and data center bubble would be nice. But the lack of a unified popular position is a key hurdle right now. It is unreasonable to expect electricians to fight for a position that AI opponents cannot clearly communicate.

That would have been an interesting angle, but I don't see 24/7 as the crux of the problem. The police-state/authoritarian personality is not crucially dependent on surveillance. If that were the case, then East Germany should still be going strong.

I can actually recall a stop-and-frisk scenario that convinced me the cops can find SOMETHING to make an issue of if they search carefully enough. Asking for a friend who feels lucky the police settled for a hundred bucks?

My own feelings are mixed. I'm a big believer in the truth and I don't have sufficiently negative words to capture my true feelings about liars. However I also think there are cases of "You can't handle the truth" and some of these cases might even involve police officers.

Still spanned about a quarter of the discussion...

That's why they stink?

Oh, wait. I meant "spell", but they and their "you can't blame me if you don't know who I am" ideas do stink, too.

I should include some flavor of the old joke about mud wrestling with pigs, but that would take effort and the propagation only spanned about 1/6 of the discussion (by ye olde scrollbar metric), so such effort isn't justified.

But a joke related to the story? Can AIs solve the AC slop crisis? Or a joke about prison for ACs, coming real soon if'n AC actually lives in the wrong place.

Just joking. It's already arrived in a couple of places. I just don't want to name them because I might get put on a (yet another?) list.

I'm not defending AI, but it's interesting to compare the price to other machines released long before AI existed.

Adjusted for inflation, the 2TB model is a bit cheaper than a Panasonic 3DO or a Neo Geo was at launch. But a lot more than any Playstation ever had been.

Consoles generally punch above their weight because games can be specifically optimized for them, compared to on PC where a compatibility is the most important thing. It will be interesting to see if developers optimize for this thing.

It did mention they were a junior, so yes probably greatly reduced fees. This would have been County Court too, Small Claims Track, so in theory you don't even need a legal rep. For £7k you might want one anyway, especially if the case is complex.

That's how much PS5 controllers are as well. The Steam one looks better though.