umm.. no.

1.3 billion iPhones have a problem with your website then your website has a problem.

It's not technically enshittification cuz Alexa.com wasn't something working well that was shittified.

Alexa has always been shit... these unwanted for "by the way.." suggestion garbage always always piss me off.

Just went through it this morning. Have to say... very disappointed with the setup process. Seemed very amateurish. I almost suspected this was some sort of 1/2 baked phishing scam....

At 1 point it sent a code to my email and asked me to type in the code once I received it but when I switched to email to look at the code and switched back the interface said... "reconnecting to server"... then presented me with a cleared out form which ended up sending another code to my email.... etc etc etc. After a couple of cycles and realizing the futility... I tried just waiting for the autofill on the iPhone to detect the code and type it in for me... cept that didn't work either... it kept missing a few digits of the code. Eventually, I got it to work by watching for the autofill message... remembering the code... then typing it in manually.

Also at a couple of points in the setup, I rotated my phone and rotated it back... 1/2 the screen was then lost (off screen but couldn't pan to it) to me including the button to continue.

I REALLY hope the implementation is better than the setup...

What's really messed up is that UCSD and most California schools don't use standardized tests any longer. So my son, who got 720 on his SAT math couldn't get into UCSD while 900 students who can't divide by 2 could. WTF...

The idea behind the ban was that these tests are skewed toward those with more means because they can take the prep courses so it's unfair. But at least the student was able to do it on the exam... who cares how he got the skills?

And its actually much much more skewed in favor of the rich if you think about it because now the rich kids don't have to prove their worth with a test... they just have to have the right essay. >>The rich can hire the right people (previous members of the entrance committee) to write those critical essays.

Also, life experience can be easily faked and I doubt the entrance committee checks up on every single applicant.

The system is so messed up...

Plus they said 6x the logic⦠not 41x the logic. I assume they spent most of that space addressing heat.

To be fair... they did say 600% more logic so 6x and not 41x (41 layer stack) so they probably accounted for heat dissipation in addition to pads/vias.

Cuz with 41 layers and no heat dissipation concerns... you can probably do over 39x logic...

Also Moores referred to 1 chip and not 41 stacked chips... so no. If it was 1 package then we could easily wire 10000 chips into 1 big ass package back in the 70s and Moores law wouldn't even be a thing...

I submit as an alternative hypothesis the rise of computers and interactive entertainment as a cause.

The rise of computers since 1970 coincides with the timing.

The interactive nature of computers in general engage the brain more than just watching tv (3 channels old timey tv), listening to radio, or even reading the newspaper. Games in particular engage the brain much more than being a couch potato. Social media allows faster, easier, and more frequent interactions. The quality of these brain engagements can be argued but I think the net effect for the average person is significantly higher. Just think about how many hours are spent reading news, playing games or even watching cat videos vs staring out the window on a train... staring at the display on the elevator... or looking at your watch on the train platform.

>> Children born since the 1970s were the first of subsequent generations whos life expectancy is lower than that of their parents, this is why.

Unclear.. life expectancy as a whole has been rising steadily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Any graph on the right hand side.

The idea that children will have lower life expectancy is at an educated expectation based primarily on the increase in childhood obesity and the expected subsequent diabetes and heart disease issues.

The problem with this assertion is that it doesn't take into account the effects of continuing medical intervention. Dying from obesity related issues has dropped by a factor of 4 in Britain as a result of medical advances in recent years for instance. There was a meta analysis that even suggested that being overweight actually increased life expectancy. But I think the biggest confounding factor are the new class of GLP1 medications which have the potential to completely crush the obesity epidemic.

The actual money per employee isn't actually mentioned so saying it's more "Than Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix Combined" is clickbaity in my opinion. The actual number could be $90 per hour or just slightly more than Facebook (#2) for all we know. I doubt it's more than $210 per hour which would be what the others "combined" implies.

As an aside, I worked at a startup where the per income was over $1m. It's fairly common for a highly functioning small tech company.

If normal enzymes/etc can't deal with the chirality of the new organism then likely the new organism can't deal with the chirality of the natural species.

I'm not even sure how you would keep something like this alive let alone have it dominate the world. I mean it likely can't handle natural D-chiral sugars (right handed) so what's it going to eat except some left handed sugars made by chemists in the lab? If it gets out... it'll just starve to death.

Likewise l-chiral amino acids (normal amino acids) would probably choke one of these anti-chiral organisms..

The objective is to replace people with automation... especially in vehicles. That's the most economically and societally impactful use of AI.

This clearly isn't going to work any time soon. No matter what Musk claims nor who's ear he has.. automated driving isn't even close and he's been lying for over a decade.

This is one of those things that bean counters do without thinking about the whole picture.

When I worked at nVidia, they would offer free food at 6pm. It was basically rice with some chicken slop on top of it... couldn't have cost more than $3 to make but the line of engineers waiting for it was staggering. So they basically got an hour of an engineer's time with $3... plus they were happy. Amazing returns on investment.

Coffee? Caffeine is the life blood of engineers. Cutting that off is pure stupidity.

It's like the hot dogs at Costco. Yeah they're losing money per hot dog but if you look at the big picture... it's the best investment they have.

GLP-1s like Rybelsus, Ozempic and soon Retratrutide will crush obesity in the near future as supplies increase, patents expire and prices drop. Also, chronic application of GLP-1s has been shown to lower blood pressure. Obesity and BP are 2 major factors of CVD (cardiovascular disease) so I suspect that this issue will become moot long before 2050.

I asked chatGPT to create a data structure in python that can hold the data described in Table XX.X in the document at the link www.XXX.XXX/XXX.pdf. About the only useful thing I got out of the thing was the name of the pdf document. At least I know it can read a pdf. The rest I might as well have typed "sample python data structure" in google. It completely ignored the data in the table and just spit out some random data struct that has no connection with the described data.

This is the kind of simple task that you'd expect basic programming capable AI to handle. Its the kind of stuff you'd toss to a junior fresh out of programming 101 high school student. I expected some errors.. minor optimization issues.. etc etc but it just spit out essentially nothing. I suppose I could have refined the question a little more... "field 1 should be a 2 bytes and named 'manufacture_id', field 2 should be a string...etc etc" but it would be easier to just type all that in.

another hysterical wave of hype...

We used to call it Mousewitz.