Merit should always consider strictly value.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

if my loose interpretation of news is accurate, xbox is doing pretty poor with market share and might make more money short-term by selling cross-platform than limiting it to boost their xbox sales.

lol they make some of the best SD cards available for photographers.

I didn't miss the jr. high "figure out what g is" stuff in the beginning of the book. I was kinda bummed at how much the selective breeding was glossed over as they had to cram a line into the movie to explain the disaster at the end. But a the same time the movie is two and a half hours long. While there are a handful of other cuts I think they could have gotten away with (the extended Karaoke scene maybe), there wasn't a ton of fat to trim to keep the runtime reasonable.

I don't think Xenonite is made of Xenon exclusively, but it is strange enough that handheld spectrometers can't deal with it. Maybe it offgasses xenon when bombarded by charged particles? One thing the movie glossed over is how Rocky's species is in many ways much less technologically advanced than Humans. Their materials science is outstanding due to the hellish nature of their home world, but they don't have electronics. Their math and science are back in the early 20th century. They went interstellar before discovering relativity. Mostly due to the fact that the astrophage is basically magic. In the book one background character mentions offhand that the astrophage is a miracle that will solve countless problems and everybody just glares at him angrily because even though he is right it's also killing them. On the other hand, while reading the book I had thoughts of an interstellar ferry service that collects astrophage and brings it back to Earth where it is tricked into releasing its energy into the atmosphere to warm the planet and light up cropland. Spin drives open up the entire solar system to exploitation and the astrophage is the perfect energy storage medium.

Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

This will not end well.

Why is this a problem?

I do not want my software censoring anything I make.

Neoliberalism and liberalism are two totally different things.

The reason for the disparity in belief here is compound:

- It's legitimately a skill you need to learn, a mix of technical writing and indeed programming. It's not just writing some quick text and boom magic you have an app. Don't believe the marketing bullshit.
- Some large corps give their devs unlimited token use. Personal users have in 1 month what a FANG dev can use in 1 day. Personal users can't use it enough to learn it.
- It's been getting better _rapidly_ and if you tried it 6 months ago, it's worth trying again now.

It isn't replacing us yet but if it never got better than current state, it's legitimately useful where it is. Just like Stack Overflow lowered the bar for copy&paste devs, AI does too. Just like Stack Overflow was a force multiplier to legit devs, AI will be a force multiplier for legit devs. ... signed, a dev who does complex low-level optimization work and loves coding. yeah it works for my stuff too, not just websites. I'm scared it will become purely a hobby in the next 10 years.