That's why approved phones exist to support them.

https://www.samsung.com/us/bus...

Traditional Land Nav is to teach O-1s humility when they get lost in the woods.

If you can't afford a phone for cash that's a hint to improve your financial management including not buying phones you can't afford.

From TFA:

It may not be what you wanted, but it's better than nothing and better than what Sony and Nintendo offer. I don't personally care. I am not into old games, but seems like a nice to have for people who are.

Did it grow legs, plug in an Ethernet cable, proceed to leave the building and push the nearest senior citizen in front of a bus? These things don't do things on their own. It's just a bunch of static floating-point numbers memory-mapped into VRAM. What they do is take an input (ver much NOT on their own) and derive instruction context from that input. That input may say to "keep trying" until "something" happens. If no ground rules are provided, the calling harness will loop-and-loop-and-loop looking for a way to make that "something" happen. So to be clear, nothing happened on its own and it certainly didn't set its own goal. Someone prompted it to do “something," and the path it derived to achieve that "something" happened to go through a combination of known exploit vectors that targeted HF. So much nonsense and fearmongering. Know what the ultimate defenses against a harness and model are? Unplug the machine and yank out the network cable. The level of ignorance on the news about how these things are pure black magic is just off the charts.

look if reversing the tachyon polarity hasn't fixed it you've got bigger problems than chatgpt

Last mile hardware is far from being the whole network.

Storing your data on an economic competitors computers is fucking stupid, yet it takes a public scandal to make it a matter of real concern.

I stopped using Rust because the compiler is an unmitigated pain in the ass. I'm not a 5-year-old. I know damn well when something is safe. If I have to tag everything unsafe to access memory in an optimal way, then what is Rust bringing to the table other than frustration? I moved over to Zig, which is much C-like, produces faster, smaller, and arguably just as safe binaries, and also happens to support C-FFI and cross-compilation out of the box. There is literally no advantage Rust has over Zig for C programmers.

Nice platitudes, but these workers are not anomalies. They may become the norm. AI is a big fucking mess right now. It (largely) doesn't work as well as most think and is far inferior to what is promised...but....if that changes, we're FUCKED!!! Once you can automate my job, you can automate anyone's! Are you ready for the financial apocalypse once every office worker's jobs is automated away?...every accountant...every lawyer...every engineer...every designer....1000s of professions I can't think of at the moment, which are the cornerstones of our middle class will be decimated.

OK, so smarty pants...you retired?...you pivoted to healthcare??...welp...I hope your 401k doesn't include companies with huge number of customers impacted by the job apocalypse?...if you and your younger loved ones pivoted to hands-on healthcare, like nursing or doctor positions....well....do you work for free? Who is going to pay your bills when the economy collapses? You'll make it, but life will SUUUUUCK when you're relying on the gov alone to keep the lights on.

Maybe you're special and open a restaurant or bar...same problem...who has money? OK, so now the layoffs spread from white collar workers to EVERYONE because so many relied on middle managers and accountants and lawyers and engineers as customers.

So your tone-deaf comment about living beneath your means and building wealth? I hope you picked wisely...because if the white collar job apocalypse does happen, it's going to impact most of the Dow, most of the S&P 500, the real estate market, etc. This is scary stuff to be taken seriously. What is being threatened is like nothing seen in hundreds of years, if ever. I have enough to retire today....but yeah....I have a fuckton in stocks that are quite vulnerable....OK, I get lucky and cash out in time?...well...I have no clue what will happen to interest rates, but I can't imagine them doing anything but plummeting....so yeah, I was planning on have sustaining income....nope, retirement may be me just eating away at my savings at the exact rate I live....rather than watching it slowly increase, as I had hoped .

Unless you have a very peculiar job, I think you're one of those AI-as-a-religion zealots who WANTS to believe and thus overinflates the productivity gains. I've been using it daily for 2 years. I just had it write a new feature for me. It FUCKED UP bad. It actually worked...but holy shit was the code awful. As a professional software engineer for a software company, we don't tolerate that level of shittiness. It copy pasted so much code instead of refactoring private methods to be public...it looked up the same data multiple times. Claude's version took 2 seconds to run for a request from a large customer...unacceptable. I had to go in and fix it....my version?...0.02 to 0.2 seconds and my version was 1/10th the code and no copy/paste. It also tried to change the unit tests to cover up it's mistakes. I've caught that on several coworker's pull requests as well.

So if you're putting out 10x productivity, you're either unusually lucky or....you're spamming your codebase with SHIT code that will be challenging to maintain down the road and making your users suffer.

I get the AI is your religion thing. I want to believe too...I just have real world experience and a demanding job with coworkers and managers who hold me accountable when I release shit code. We have 2 guys on the team who sound just like you. They watched the movies. They WANT to believe. I have to reject their pull requests OFTEN because I can spot the errors.

If you said 2x?...I'd believe you...maybe 4 since you're very niche and the only guy there....but 10x? Nope...I am skeptical. I'm not saying you're a bad guy, I think you're just too confident in what you're putting out and overestimating the gains.

They posted their first profit in 2001. Also, they were INTENTIONALLY unprofitable and I think you know this. They wanted to dominate retail and get people hooked, like my wife. 15 years ago, you'd have to be an idiot to buy elsewhere. They had the best prices and insanely good service...then they flipped a switch, metaphorically and their retail division was profitable...suddenly, their prices all went up and the service went down. Remember when Prime guaranteed 2 day delivery? Now prime deliveries can take as long as 2 weeks....but so many people had their brains hacked. I check several places before buying...my wife just goes to Amazon alone...is always surprised when I tell her it's the same price and often cheaper now at other major retailers, depending on the item.

Amazon smartly played the long game, but they're an anomaly. They reinvested heavily and now can charge normal prices and still profit more than their competitors...from investments in supply chain automation, marketing, analytics, etc....not to mention the AWS thing, which I am convinced was a happy accident.

What are you smoking? By 1997, thousands of small businesses were thriving. Also, barely anyone was spending anything in the early 90s. It wasn't until 1995 we had a browser that reliably worked and was popular (Netscape 1.0). ChatGPT was released 4 years ago. So the fair comparison would be 4 years after Netscape 1.0 was released and a FUCKTON of businesses were thriving back then. I did all my banking online back then...from some bank that's huge now, but was a startup back then. I ordered food online. I was a Netflix subscriber in 1999.

AI? Well...it's not useless, but....I can't measure the value at my own job. It gets everything wrong daily....but it has enabled me to boldly write code in languages I am not qualified to do so...nothing bad can come from that, right??? :). We keep detailed metrics among our teams and frankly and have been mandated to use Claude daily for 2 years and no one can point to a tangible increase. I've noticed some horrible vibe coded garbage and a deterioration in our quality...but to be honest, neither a measurable increase in productivity among probably 100 developers among many teams in many continents....but also no noticeable increase in bugs, either.

I like it a lot because I switched to a new product-line and am not familiar with the codelines and it's been hugely helpful to ask Claude why something is breaking or where things are done, etc. But with my old project, where I knew the code well, it never helped one bit.

Dating is a pure market game. Men get the short end of the stick based on supply and demand and from what I've seen, it balances out with age. Dating at 18 SUCKED!!!! But it makes sense. Imagine a numeric "appeal score" that covers EVERY facet: looks, personality, wealth, whatever matters to you. I was a 6 maybe a 7 at my most confident best days. No older women wanted to date me. Women my age who were 6s were getting attention from 8s their age and 7s ranging from slightly older to older than their dads. I don't hold it against women for choosing an 8 or a 9 over me.

However, I'm told, and from what I've seen, once you're 30, it reverses. A male 7 over 30 gets attention from older AND younger 8s. The women your age have lowered their standards because at 32, your ideal natural window for having children is nearly closed.

However, that's for first time marriages. In general, the older you are, the greater the probability your pool has found someone. I have a friend who is single and horny AF in her 50s. She meets lots of great men and jokes "unfortunately, the good ones are taken". She's told me stories about the men she's dated. If they're decent, they're very entitled (the market problem from before...he could date a woman his age, but also random women in their 20s and 30s are constantly hitting him up for no-strings-attached sex...many of which have less wisdom and experience and put him on a pedestal because they don't know any better).

All this is market stuff. It's like a house. If you want to live in a nice neighborhood with a short commute and a good school district....you're not likely to find bargains and will have to make compromises.

But in the end, you're still single for a reason. Maybe you found fulfillment being single. Many women do. They don't emotionally need men as much as men need a family. Lots of single moms just give up and focus on their kids and friends and are happy without a man....that's a valid reason.

In their case and yours, I'll wager you're not relying on AI chatbots for emotional fulfillment.