I would rather a 3 year wait, and a show that's high quality than a 1 year wait for another round of trash. As a brit, I find it hilarious that you guys think 10 shows is a *short* season. I get that you used to have the year divided in two and basically 20-26 shows a season in the past, but it just doesn't make sense. You can't have a show that actually has a cohesive plot, that every episode advances, and also have 22 shows between major events happening.

I'd generally agree with you, but not in the case of AppleTV. Their hit rate has been higher than most, and they haven't gone off cancelling things that people loved. For example, a recent survey said Apple's rate of a show being good, outstanding or exceptional was 50.8%, while Paramount's was 41%, Hulu's 40%, Max's 25%, Disney's 24%, Netflix's 20%, and Amazon's 14%. Their top hits have been:

- Ted Lasso
- Severance
- Silo
- Pluribus
- For All Mankind
- Slow Horses
- The Morning Show
- Murder Bot
- The Studio

every one of which is still running.

Whatâ(TM)s odd to me is that the Brits already have a solution to this, theyâ(TM)re just not deploying it. British councils *love* giving people 63 wheely bins for them to sort increasingly difficult to identify waste into. Why not just give out a container for people to put waste batteries/battery containing devices in? Alternatively, do the same as most councils do with glass, and put a big metal box in a fairly central location to contain them until the bin men come and empty it?

You have no clue if you think they dont. The M5 max GPU is roughly as fast as a laptop 5080. If you want either pro apps, or AI ability, the M5 isnâ(TM)t beaten by anything at all.

That doesn't really make any difference to the RAMpocalypse though - the thing that's hard to get is the RAM chips that go into those tightly integrated packages. Apple is having just as much trouble as everyone else getting RAM.

I'm not sure what the distinction you're making is.

The memory manufacturers stopped making your desktop memory in order to make RAM for AI data centres.
AI data centres are taking all the RAM.

These are the same statement.

Theyâ(TM)ve been hypothesised for a long time. Actually finding that little red dots actually are them, ⦠no, thatâ(TM)s not been a thing since 1994.

I mean, we don't know at all if they're making profit. I very much doubt it, but you're asserting that with extreme confidence, when it's not known.

At least in the UK, when you're operating a boat with a VHF radio, it's a requirement to leave it on channel 16 when not actively using it. Is that true in the US?

I really don't think that's true. Scientists studying the last universal common anscestor have found extremely short pieces of RNA that can self replicate https://www.science.org/doi/10.... The machinery of a cell is comparatively enormously complex compared to this simple self replicatiing chemical.

Yeh, but heâ(TM)s also skipping right past âoecomputers can keep track of far more variables than humans.â Watch a Teslaâ(TM)s screen while itâ(TM)s in self drive and youâ(TM)ll observe it tracking 10s or even hundreds of cars exact position and speed. A tesla is already significantly superhuman in some regards. Where itâ(TM)s not is in decision making.

I mean, itâ(TM)s fine to make the argument that âoewe want as much redundancy as we can because weâ(TM)ve not found the place where more redundancy doesnâ(TM)t make things significantly betterâ, but thereâ(TM)s also a question of whether not perfect, but significantly better than human acceptable if it means that we donâ(TM)t have ugly, non aerodynamic bumps with lidar systems in them.

What theyre really arguing is âoeour system canâ(TM)t be made to perform well enough without lidar, so youâ(TM)d better accept the big bumpsâ.

That's what they're doing - they're storing your encryption key on your devices. That's why they can't access it, and nor can they give it to the UK government.

Why not? Some of them could be the next great astronomer.

I donâ(TM)t understand - what better monument to the sky gods could you build than an absolutely fecking mahoosive telescope?

Sully sticking an A320 in the Hudson comes to mind. Thereâ(TM)s also been quite a few uncontained engine failures, but not impacts with the ground.

That regional jet bit is also doing some pretty heavy lifting.