Except it really isn't. The stuff from 2 years ago is miles ahead from the stuff 5 years ago. The stuff from 1 years ago is yards ahead of 1 year ago. The stuff from 6 months ago is nearly indistinguishable from the stuff from a year ago. Diminishing returns is hitting hard and rapidly. Many experts think that LLMs are closing in on their technical limitations, regardless of how much extra compute its given. It will need entirely new techniques to actually become much more than it is now. Which may happen, but doesn't appear to be on the horizon.

A study you can't even directly link to? Yeah, I call bullshit.

And my personal experience is it's at least a 50% slow down. I have yet to ever have it do anything not completely trivial that wasn't badly insecure and broken, and when using them to provide static analysis the false positive rate is around 90%.

No, those who aren't willing are actually following the science. Every measurement so far, every actual study has shown AI code generation is 20% or more slower for senior engineers. Even scaleai, a company founded and run by Meta's AI chief, shows the same in their data (https://scale.com/leaderboard/rli). Possibly it will someday get there, but it sure as hell isn't ready yet.

Also, Android is an open source OS. You can always run it on a modified OS that pretends to have secure storage but logs all data sent to it.

Still trivially though for any talented reverse engineer. Somewhere in the code they have a function that checks if they think they're 18 and returns a boolean. Change the function to always return true. It would be harder if it was sending the image up to the server to analyze, but local is easy to break.

I actually like my camera bump- when I put it my last phone without one on a slightly curved surface (such as the side of my bathtub) it would slide off. With the bump, there's enough friction to prevent that. So while ugly, that's enough of a QOL increase I'd rather have the bump.

I have a dead former coworker. His family has access to his account. Every so often, they browse fb on it and like a post. It feels icky and wtf every time. In fact the first time I had to go back through old DMs and emails to double check that he was actually dead and I wasn't misremembering, it was that fucked up. This would be the last thing I'd ever want, for my loved ones or myself.

Doing a crappy C compiler was basically a semester course I took in college. Everyone more or less finished, while taking 3-5 other courses at the same time. So yeah, if it can be done by 1 engineer in training in a similar amount of time to it being done by 1 agent, while it's kind of cool I don't see this as a major accomplishment.

Really you can use lex/yacc for parsing and tokenization. You can find the C grammars online. C is a very simple language, if you aren't looking to optimize you can map each operator to a set of instructions easily. I'm pretty sure an experienced engineer could do this in 2 weeks easily. Absolutely so in 4, and probably start working in on optimizations. Instead you still paid the engineer for those 2 weeks, plus 20K on cloud costs.

This isn't about the ethnicity, it's about geopolitics and the different goals of our government and theirs. That said, I question the value of that when half our electronics are manufactured there and can have hardware level spying already there.

Like I said- there may be a small single digit percentage of people that actually do like not having access to a car. But that's all it is. This isn't just me talking- it's every time I've had this conversation with everyone else who lives in Manhattan, the one area of the country where a car is actually not practical. In the 12 years of having that discussion, nobody has ever said that they like not having a car. Not once. The amount they missed it differs, but every single person has wished they could drive on occassion. Just not enough to pay for it given the costs.

Welcome to reality- you may actively dislike cars and driving, but you're a small, miniscule minority. There is no major car hatred movement. There's pro-transit movement, but that's a different thing (and I'm also pro-transit, there's a variety of reasons why driving isn't practical or possible for everyone, and fighting conjestion is worthwhile). But you need to get out of your bubble and realize that people do actually love being able to drive, and cars aren't ever going anywhere. At most, you're 2% of the population. Although since you like suggesting people move, I'll match that- Mackinak Island exists. It has pretty much the entire population of people who feel like you. You should check it out.

The first 51% of miners by volume to agree to it. Of course once they do that, they'll realize they can do all sorts of other fun stuff. Like giving themselves free bitcoin.

Car free life isn't popular. I live in Manhattan, the biggest car free center in the US. I don't own a car, nor do 95% of the people I know. But we all wish we could.

We don't not own cars because we don't like them. Or because we have no use for them. We don't have them because due to the cost of parking them they aren't practical. I would one hundred percent prefer to be able to drive to a grocery store, shop for myself for a week or two, and drive home. So would everyone else I know. We don't because it would cost $600 a month to park the car at our place and another $30 every trip to park on the other side (minimum). It doesn't make financial sense. So we make a dozen time consuming walking trips to tiny stores that don't have great selection, or we instacart and hope the guy picking our produce is good and that they actually message us if they need to sub out stuff (they rarely bother to).

Nobody likes car free life. There's just enough here that's a positive that the benefits outweight the negatives- Broadway, museums, jobs, comedy clubs, sporting events etc. Especially when combined with the traffic making east-west driving in Manhattan a nightmare. But nobody likes the fact we don't have a car, and damn near 100% of us would have one if we could. You're in dreamland if you think the number of people who prefer to not drive at all is more than a small single digit number of the population.

Of course if they're making 30K in commission, that means they're making sales and thus more than paying for themselves. Which makes it an odd place to try to cut cost.

Experience only matters if you make a new version. Otherwise the experience has no value. The patents are only useful if enforcable, and if they provide defensive value against companies they don't already have defense against, orif the category becomes big enough to leverage against others who do succeed. Seeing as they shut down production, it's unlikely they will create a new version anytime soon. There's not enough demand. They have an extensive patent portfolio, so the defensive value is questionable. The offensive value is also negligible, as they're unlikely to get much out of it given the lack of success in the category. So no, not a good return.

Its useless. It doesn't do anything anyone needs or wants. Which is why VR headsets have failed in the market repeatedly, and at much cheaper pricepoints. That's why it's not a fantastic value- it's no better than existing tech, it doesn't solve a problem, nobody wants the category, and it's priced at nearly 10x the competition. On every front it's the exact opposite of value.