They've done great stuff, but I honestly don't feel dependent on them and simply don't see them as more than a one trick pony.

I'm 100% convinced that other than spending irresponsible amounts of money on building an infrastructure which is only competitive because they are willing to outspend their peers, they don't offer anything of value.

I currently am using glm-4.5 on a computer with 64000 cpu cores and 304 H200 GPUs. I share the machine with 10 other users. It's pretty fast. It gives me an idea of how AI will perform in 20 years.

But that's the point. OpenAI is interesting because they have computers that cost $1 billion. My little computer cost 1/20 of that. But, consider the NEC earth simulator cost $350 million in 2002. Performance-wise, it was about as fast as a $250 NVidia RTX 5050. It had 10TB RAM but the RAM performance could be matched by 8 2TB PCIe Gen 5 drives in RAID.

So, in 20 years, we should expect to see the biggest computer OpenAI has today for about $2000 in the size of a laptop.

OpenAI's edge isn't their IP. It's their spending.

Nonsense. Tor Indstoey's entire career is about being an alarmist. He studied at BI which is a school that explicitly shelters students from engineers and sells himself as an MIT attendee because he took two six week online courses with no entry requirements. He works in a group at Telenor who doesn't really do anything beyond look for ghosts and talk to the press. He's investigating Nio vehicles as if he could even identify the difference between the steering wheel and the computer in the car. Telenor employs way too many BI grads and its killing the company.

If you need to drive a bus into a tunnel to look for security threats, you already failed completely.

No government needs backdoors to shutdown these systems. You need a tourist and a funny hat.

Oslo's busses are electric and their charging stations are completely insecure, not even a fence. If I wanted to cripple Oslo's busses, I'd visit there driving an electrician's van one day with a gum to take the impression of the "lock" on the chargers. It's more of a security screw than a lock. I'd come back a day later and photograph the electronics. A few days later, I'd return with a circuit board capable of remotely shorting the contactor and also a component contains a corrosive that can be triggered to spray. I'd use a simple nbiot module with esim. Just label everything as Schneider Electric and it will be invisible.

Why sabotage the busses?

You can easily replace busses. The charging infrastructure is far more attractive and easier.

Most people would do just fine with a pretty simple tax app.

I'm pretty sure I could vibe code a PWA in a few hours that would work for 80% of Americans.

How would I fund it?

$0.78 for a stamp.
$0.10 per page to print
$0.50 for an envelope
Total $1.38

Consider payment fees and such and we can settle on $3 to click submit and I'll print and mail your tax form for you. Or, you can do it yourself. Same, same.

Thank goodness I don't live in the states. My taxes are "log into government web page, see if it's worth my effort to make changes, click submit".

So, here's the deal. First of all, this stinks of corruption. Henna Virkkunen will probably have a nice corner office at Nokia in 3-5 years because her work on this.

Next, using "safe vendors" leads to apathy. Nokia and Ericsson are worse than back doors. Their equipment is shit and their paywalled documentation looks like it was written during meetings held in pubs. Just hop on eBay, buy a used Nokia BBU, boot Open5GS and have fun. If you can't find at least 10 security holes in the first hour of looking, you're as drunk as their documentation authors. Don't worry about the age of the software, Nokia and Ericsson don't patch them. The only thing making Telcom software secure is that management is out of band, you need to hack that... But hacking is such a strong word. "Nokia security" is like putting a post it note on a bar of gold saying "don't touch, this is secure" then leaving it on an unattended bench in the park.

Huawei is far more secure. Every single thing they do is watched closely. They patch their security holes at breakneck speeds. Beijing would need at least 10 minutes to hack their stuff compared to the 30 seconds for Nokia or Ericsson.

So... About 55 years old with a pudge and shiny head?

Did you decide a really sad car was easier than a gym membership? Did you know that Corvettes are about as sexy as leisure suits in 2025?

Seriously... You shouldn't have bought the 2022. It isn't even useful for compensating for something. Spend the money on a trip to Turkey for hair implants instead.

I actually had forgotten about Corvettes... I thought they ungracefully faded away.

Sorry, I live in Europe. We don't have GM here

If my entire production system were attacked and I lost all 500,000 nodes, network, and base storage, in 200 data centers in 100 countries, we could have operations back up in a few hours... days if we need to fly staff to remote sites.

I don't care how bad the hack is... Even if you have to debrick every electronic system one by one and even build and install firmware, I'd be embarrassed if it took more than a few days to get systems at least operational. If accounting and ordering is the problem, where is the backup?

If JLR can't handle this, do you really trust a car made by them?

Maybe it's better if they don't recover.

This is pretty amazing.

How does this compare to human readers?

Are the problems with AI or are the source articles the issue?

It's a developed nation problem.

In properly developed countries with socialism and high standards of living, education is a serious problem. We don't focus on it anymore. After all, kids were raised believing that they will do just fine if they do just fine. Also, free market capitalism has driven home ownership so high that even with a top job, a young person can't buy an apartment until at least their mid to late 20s.

We depend on underdeveloped countries with corrupt governments to provide good people because horrible countries like India where the prime minister sees less than half the people as human beings and runs a "worse than apartheid" nation gives huge incentives for people to work as hard as possible to escape to a place where you don't have to be worried that your daughter might be stoned to death in the middles of the village for committing the crime of being violently raped.

Americans lack incentives to perform well.

Good pay is nice, but this isn't the boomer generation. A good apartment in the city and enough money to out, rent a ride share and take some vacations is great.

Owning a house sucks. Long commutes, new car (and payments) every few years, shoveling, mowing, fixing the roof, etc... all the time. That's for the boomers. Who needs a big crap house which you just fill with crap to store even more crap?

If I were 30 years younger, I'd have bought a 70m.sq. apartment in the city, dumped the car and bought a workshop with some friends.

I wish Slashfot had a simple one click like button.

Portable TV fot the cabin?
Popup shop display?
Hot dog stand display?
Portable large second screen for Mac?

I do see a bunch of applications. But they are all niche and $3000 is a huge amount of money for a screen that is both too big and too small. 18" has always been a crap screen size.

Also, as a Wacom 27" owner, touch at that size is just annoying

Aspergers is tricky. Until ~6 years or so ago, it was almost entirely undiagnosed in females and even now doesn't get diagnosed until much too late.

Additionally, people like me never considered getting diagnosed as there wasn't any benefit. A diagnosis in 1980 may have helped me, but in 2025, I gain nothing.

When my daughter was diagnosed, the doctors, while interviewing me informed me that if I were to undergo the process of being diagnosed, it would be extremely easy. I was shocked. I never thought of myself as Aspergers or autistic...so I hyper fixated on it.

Result, it's freeing.

Knowing I'm autistic has allowed me to focus on productive pursuits rather than spending endless hours trying to figure out why something is different for me than others. It's helped me to sustain friendships with people. It was earth shaking to finally be able to start a conversation by saying

    "I'm so sorry I can't look you in the eyes. I am happy to tell you that I can finally look to the sides of people rather than looking at their chests"

It's amazing how 45 years of staring at breasts has been bad for my reputation. But before the Aspergers epiphany, I would try too hard to look at the person and avoid their eyes by looking down. With the freedom of knowing, I feel free to apologize beforehand and not try so hard to look at the person.

We call it the spectrum because it's a huge Venn diagram. We're as different from each other as anyone else. But, while "neurotypical" people have really annoying quirks, like not being able to hold a conversation with 100 separate threads, Asperger's for example makes it really convenient to understand our quirks. And for the lucky ones, Aspis can ask each other "What's you're superpower" because hyperfixation often gives people extreme advantages over everyone else.

The earlier we can diagnose people, the earlier we can raise them properly.

BTW, many autistic people with empathy issues don't lack it. They just need to learn it when it comes natural to others.

They were terrible?

Google did everything wrong that they could. It was just a bad platform

Uh, yeh, no.

As a code quality aficionado, I have been vibe coding A LOT lately to improve all of what you mentioned.

My vibe code is clear, well documented, built entirely on TDD, and what the AI is fed are clear, reviewed requirements documents.

You are accusing vibe coding by poor engineers of producing poor results. But, you're not praising vibe coding by quality engineers for producing quality results.

LLMs are just new programming languages. And just like how I used to review hundreds or even thousands of lines of assembly language listings because we didn't trust compilers to produce quality results, now I review code produced by LLMs.

Don't be the guy who writes a business CRM in assembly because you don't trust the tools.

Fox is a conundrum. Their main website often delivers pretty decent content. Their syndications and TV presence is insanely polarized crap. On the occasions I visit their website, I often find actual quality content. It's just not as exciting as the rabble-rousing idiocy, we all see from the outside.

CNN ruined themselves in my eyes when the broadcast medical doctors as "virus experts" during Covid. What the hell does a doctor know about microbiology, molecular biology, computational biology, virology, epidemiology...

I lean neither left or right. I'm more of leaning up... As in I form my own opinions and use my brains. I even sometimes agree with Trump's actions... god help me, if I believed in one of them.