Never had the need to record a Blu-ray Disc but I watch 4k UHD discs all the time. The bit rate is just so much better from a player for both audio and video than it is for streaming, even when the provider has 4k/HDR available. Plus I have some discs like Westworld thatâ(TM)s not available for streaming anymore because of bean counters. Streaming has its conveniences but there are times when you still want to have am ownable version that doesnâ(TM)t require a network connection.

I have a feeling OpenAI is going to crash and burn unless they get a gigantic bail out (which Altman has been trying to get). They really should be allowed to fail though. So many companies are building on platforms that at this point have had the costs subsidized by investment capital. The true cost of using these services is yet to be seen.

Gotta lie to keep the stock price up.

Cancer is a terrible way to go, wouldnâ(TM)t want to wish that fate on anyone. Dilbert made an impact on culture. When it came out it provided a voice to a lot of us engineers and spoke to our perspective. I donâ(TM)t agree with the personal views of Scott Adamâ(TM)s but humans can be complex and create good things while also being terrible people themselves.

If you want physical media thatâ(TM)s portable just go with CDs (or an mp3 player). Tapes were a terrible format. The frequency response is shitty, they sound terrible and they can jam up. They were fun during the era when they were at peak popularity for mix tapes but you have better options now.

This is what happens when people place politics above science. There is no evidence of this but they will continue to say it until people believe it.

Because what is being marketing as AI is not an actual AI. It often produces incorrect annswers and there isnâ(TM)t any intelligence to it. LLMs are just probabilistic pattern matching with a very large amount of training data.

Enforcing cursive as part of the curriculum will mean teachers will need to make room for it by eliminating something else. What are they going to get rid of to teach a skill that has become mostly irrelevant? They'd be better served learning typing skills if they aren't already.

I saw that as well. My feeling is that companies are using "AI optimization" as an excuse to cut jobs.

I went last weekend and noticed this. It was literally 30 minutes of ads and then previews after that. The ads before the start time I can accept but itâ(TM)s getting ridiculous,

Alright, most of us agree that a 4 day work week would be nice. However I think Bernie is missing the more concerning implication of the shift towards AI in that itâ(TM)s a large transfer of wealth to a handful of tech companies. OpenAI and Anthropic will be getting paid rather than the salaries that were previously paid towards skilled labor workers in writing, marketing, software engineering, illustration, designâ¦and numerous other fields. Humans are terrible about considering the long game.

It makes sense, LLMs are great at transforming information but not coming up with the information itself.

I already feel bad enough for not seeing the friends that I have often enough. I donâ(TM)t have time for fake AI friends.

Pump and dump for the already wealthy elite

This is what happens when the CEO to worker pay is so skewed. People used to be able to make a living to support their families on. Amazon would rather maximize profits than improve the conditions of their workers.