Tech lust. Some of us can't help ourselves and buy shiny new tech products even though they're not particularly useful to us or even generally kind of crap. All our vices are devices. I've got a long list of tech products that I've bought over the years that seemed nifty or interesting even if they weren't worth the money. It's not really any more expensive than many other hobbies or typical money sinks for people with more money than sense.

Unless these are a significant step up from Chromebooks, they can go into the catch-all "craptop" product category. This already sounds like a Chromebook only with AI features. I think I'll pass on this.

Yes they certainly do, but if they would actually do this, it wouldn’t be a problem. We already h e age restrictions for tobacco, alcohol, and other things. They won't stop underaged kids from obtaining them, but they do help to some degree. There are too many absent or deadbeat parents for that to be the only solution to the problem.

It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing. Surely you agree that publishing health warnings about the dangers of smoking tobacco was a good idea despite that only happening centuries too late and even though there are still people who smoke cigarettes?

If adults want to use technology that will turn them into mindless zombies or rot their brains then that's their own choice. As long as the risks are published it's none of your or my business what someone chooses to do with their life as long as it's not hurting us in any way.

Did it "find" those bugs or did it ingest that documentation which made it more probable that it would regurgitate that same information later?

This would be a great opportunity for people to pitch in and do a manual code review because if there are dozens of bugs that people find then it makes this result even more underwhelming. Another way to test the usefulness of this tool is to seed the codebase with some bugs so that there are a known number it should be able to detect. If the project has commit history for most of the project they could use some realistic bugs for this.

Why would you sign up for a card? Even if you never use it, it's just hanging around as an even target for fraud and canceling it later has been designed to be a pain in the ass. Even without the educational discount Minis are pretty inexpensive unless you start getting upgrades.

A third of their store is devoted to selling collectible shit or similar products that retail for $20, but cost pennies to manufacture. It's been a while since I was last in one so perhaps they've further increased the amount of floor space for those products. I think almost all of their competitors have gone out of business so they don't have much competition as far as used game stores go outside of any local non-franchise stores. Until the consoles kill off physical media entirely there will be something like them that exists.

The manufacturers aren't the problem. They aren't the ones who make the rules about how their product is used on public thoroughfares.

The context of that phrase is almost always used for people who invite regulation with their own foolish/dangerous behavior.

In most of Europe individuals are free to choose which union or trade organization they want to join and the availability of alternatives makes those organizations compete with each other. In America they operate as a monopoly with all of the downsides. Of course the existing American unions don't want competition so they would never change to the European model which would actually see overall union membership in the U.S. increase.

If it gets rid of all the lawyers would it really be such a bad thing? This is honestly the best proposed use for LLMs that I've heard of yet.

At least this time you presented something more nuanced than "people can't afford housing because they spend too much on other things". You could have led with that.

Also, I live about as far from California as is geographically possible within the lower 48, so I'm not assuming any blame for what happens there.

What makes you think it's rich people who are doing the hiring?

Pretending that the cost of housing is a problem only for people who refuse to live within their means is certainly one way to show why resentment of the rich is near an all-time high.

If unhinged rants on the internet were a good predictor of crime they wouldn't be able to build prisons fast enough to house the criminals. The majority of people posting crap on the Internet are completely harmless. Like dogs safely behind a gate they bark loudly, but open the gate and they aren't as ferocious as they were moments before. Besides, everyone knows that it's the quiet ones you need to watch out for.