> immigrants pay less and take more than the locals they're replacing.

BS, not if allowed to work. They come here with nothing and so are avid consumers.

Electric cars are simply easier to manufacture than ICE engines. The bottleneck used to be batteries, but thanks to Xi subsidizing battery R&D, that's disappearing. The complexity of ICE engines gave Japan, US, and Germany a Buffettian moat.

If the ICE companies want to survive (without protectionism), they should pressure to form international component/module standards so that it's easy to get modules from abroad and then customize vehicles for the local market(s). They'll have to survive by upselling via customization, as they can't compete on raw manufacturing alone. Factory labor rates are cheaper in China, Vietnam, etc. and dictatorships like it that way.

> Please enumerate how China is being unfair.

Chinese gov't subsidized battery and EV research and investment funding. They've since mostly pulled back, but the effects gov't meddling lingers.

The LLMs have injected enough training data that they can find something that looks rather close to a problem that's been solved once before and use that in most cases. It won't be perfect, but a human can usually tune it from there. I'm not sure if I'd trust a security audit from an LLM because they're incapable of doing actual analysis and rely on past data that's going to be heavily weighted towards saying that something is good. That may have been true in isolation, but not when the LLM has combined two pieces of code in a way that creates a vulnerability.

It will be interesting if the role of humans in software development shifts away from writing code and to verifying its correctness. There will still be a need for some human developers as no matter how good an LLM gets it can't produce output that wasn't a part of its training data. For computer games, there's a lot of repetition and getting one to spit out a 3D game engine isn't hard when it's been able to train off of thousands of examples. I'd say that building a novel experience for a what it would struggle with, but it seems that most people buying games largely want more of the same, so perhaps that's not a problem.

Microsoft has just laid off thousands of human developers across dozens of studios who were costing them money for very little in return. Even if the AI is not as good as what the best humans are capable of, Microsoft didn't have those people anyway. Maybe the AI doesn't save them and they're screwed either way, but as long as someone is making games that people want to play, the industry will be just fine.

Trying to suppress anything almost always has the opposite effect and makes people not only more interested in finding out what is being hidden, but also far more likely to believe that it's true.

It's usually far better (from the insidious side's point of view) to either ignore it completely or co-opt the messenger.

You probably had it easy. Did you also have to use your socks as mittens? Because let me tell you . . .

How many students are still doing that? Everyone living out of town rides a school bus and everyone in town has street lamps if they're not also getting on a bus. If everyone is that worried about it, move the start time for school so that it's light enough for kids who might be walking.

Let each school and community decide on a policy that works best for them instead of forcing everyone to use the same stupid system.

Porn stars. At least back when I quit WP, one of the things that sent me over the top was that every minor porn star (especially female) apparently deserved their own page, while scientists didn't even if they had numerous published articles and citation and done important work - but their field was nothing famous.

In theory.

If you follow actual notability discussions, they are largely about "this isn't important".

The deletionists are one of the reasons I stopped contributing to Wikipedia. It's not like you need to fit into a 20-volume print edition, idiots. You can give every damn porn star who's been in one clip you liked their own page, why not everyone else? For all I care, every human on the planet could have their own page, and every house with a story, and every dog and cat.

Just imagine if the amount of time and energy spent on the deletion discussions alone would go into improving WP instead.

Or, you know, you could use the time to do something about the people hogging their favorite page and considering it their property and reverting everyone else's edits just because it wasn't made by them. Or one of the other dozen issues the site has. But no, whether or not Xav deserves a page, that's what needs discussion. Fuck off.

I'll admit that I laughed harder at this than I should have.

The other 9 out of 10 should be locked out as well. Frankly, it wouldn't be the end of the world if everyone regardless of age were also barred, but legal adults can make their own choices and engage in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors if they want.

I can only wonder in horror at what kind of even worse mind-rot shit the next generation will complain about their youth spending all day on.

This is only in the context of programming/computer related queries, but honestly, the AI search results from Google are better than their non-AI results. It's probably better than (or at least on par with) their non-AI results from a decade ago as well. That's mostly because their regular results degraded so badly, but they're probably never going to fix that. The citations for the AI answer to most technical questions are the page I was looking for. They probably don't make money from those searches though.

Yes, but not for you and me. Graphics designers have been using stylus-displays for years and years, because it's great to draw on the thing you are making instead of drawing on a different surface like a Wacom.

But I'm like you, I don't have a use case for a touchscreen and if you touch my notebook screen I'll be angry because I prefer it without fingerprints, thanks. So my first question is: Do they offer this thing with OLED but without touch? I guess not. Pity.