Can't wait for Season 2 of Chernobyl!

I'm picturing Violet Beauregarde trying the sample - forbidden chewing gum!

Ideal for anyone whose eyes glaze over when conversations stretch past the two minute mark - they don't need to pretend to be busy or hide in a cupboard, they can simply let a wearable do the listening

Learning is particularly enforced by making mistakes and correcting them. In development world that might involve several hours of staring at a problem and working it through. If you use AI you're missing out on that learning opportunity, for the benefit of solving it quicker. There's probably a happy medium somewhere - developer gets educated and product still gets shipped, but managers are only going to care about costs at the end of the day and it's that short-term thinking that will ultimately put a ceiling on quality

It's the difference between a craftsman and mass production. Buying something made in a factory is order of magnitude cheaper than commissioning an expert to make it for you. An 'AI operator' is not as skilled as a developer - they may have started that way but they will gradually forget those skills and become proficient in a different skill, steering AI. Just as the art of watchmaking has 'evolved' such that very few people in the entire world could make an entire watch now, instead concentrating on some small part of the process

If everyone opts out of any annoying feature on a website, at what point does that impact the owners? Ie the ones providing often free content to users in return for serving them adverts? I'm prepared to see ads in return for free browsing but the business model only works if others feel the same

This is just the latest iteration of the attempt to pretend that the economy is still going well and keep people buying. The UK has relied on cheap credit to enable people to buy horrendously expensive cars with their poor salaries, and now pretty much anything can go on Klarna - don't worry about the ticket price, it's just another subscription! It's going to end in tears

Consoles used to be significantly cheaper than PCs but prices have crept up whilst PCs stay relatively static. Eg consoles were probably a quarter of the price of a gaming laptop and now they're maybe half. And console games are all online now - gone are the days of squeezing multiple people onto the same screen, sharing the same sofa!

Brexit was mainly about people thinking their crap lives might be transformed by doing X. See other recent political movements for attempts to fix anything but the broken capitalist model!

To be fair, they haven't offered to pay for any of the training material they harvested or the redundancies they'll cause either!

There's a lot to be said about games that don't turn the computer fan into a jet engine!

Carbon credits probably made sense at the time too but became corrupted. Like I say, in principle it could be good but there are are far too many examples of similar measures not working. On the opposite side of the coin, EU subsidies were paid for land that could be used for agriculture, meaning that cunning farmers cleared huge swathes of ancient forest in order to leave unused and unworked - a licence to print money

I have tracks that I can listen to daily as they are somewhat unchallenging. It seems wrong on some level to reward that artist more generously than actual geniuses - based purely on volume, some white noise track may end up hoovering up half the artist revenue!

shame if something was to happen to it! This has common sense written all over it - after all the UK for example used to be heavily forested and it seems hardly fair to make other countries freeze development at some arbitrary level/time. You just know this is just going to devolve into greenwashing and extortion though!

As opposed to a degree that might be completely unrelated to the job plus $100k of debt?