I had VERY SPECIFIC requirements and I wanted the extended warranty. I would have paid 2x at a dealer. I know what I was doing.

I bought a used 2020 XC90 from CarMax last week. I did everything online from shipping it from Texas to Minnesota to financing the extended warranty. I walked in the door, gave them a cashier's check, and drove away within 10 minutes.

That's how it should be.

I uploaded a photo of my wife and told it to make something that would showcase all the cool new features.

NB2 generated a photo of my wife using the editor to make a picture.

Touche, sir.

I'm gonna need a bigger garage!

Yes, but the people and hardware are dying of old age. And both the people who use it and maintain it.

COBOL was old when I helped a few clients troubleshoot/move away in the 2000's. The folks committed to using it in 2026 are one metaphorical asteroid away from extinction. Hopefully someone in leadership sees and can influence that.

Probably the best answer. You're right that it really depends.

My desktop? 10-15 seconds.

A Dell R-series server without boot memory test? Probably 1-2 minutes for iDRAC's hardware profiler to finish.

Some lightweight Debian VM I just spooled up for a project? I think the Grub menu timeout takes longer than the boot process.

https://archive.is/uyPhk

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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.

The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."

Based on previous experiments it'll try blackmailing you for more content.

But, you're dead. It has to try and bring you back long enough to get the content to serve its purpose. ...and that's how we get the zombie apocalypse.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...

Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.

Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.

The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.

What shareholders?

Please. We'll take alternative marketplaces any day.

If we're getting politically harangued no matter what we do then it's time to open up the market. Why protect a country's copyright that won't reciprocate?

I've worked for a competitor to RackSpace for ~30 years. They're not trying to compete with Google. RackSpace has always sold itself as a premium product, especially on the support side:

Their servers have always been more expensive
Their colo has always been more expensive
Their VPS has always been more expensive

Since starting they've sold themselves on crazy good support and uptime. They don't have the market share/automation of Google or the bulk goals of a dollar hosting provider. Ideally when you call RackSpace you're getting a live person, and the service uptime is 100%.

The short notice sucks because of their customer service expectations. But pricing is right in line with premium price for premium product. A similar two-facility setup for email redundancy with 24/7 live support would reasonably be $10/mo.

For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.

That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.

I found GP2.5 to be great at academic-style research and writing; it was absolutely awful at writing code. So; I would tell it to plan some thing for me and write it in a way that could be used by another agent (Claude Code) to build the code to do the thing. In this way, it has been great! I haven't yet attempted it with 3.

That said, I found GP3.0's page to be hilarious:

It demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanityâ(TM)s Last Exam (37.5% without the usage of any tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%). It also sets a new standard for frontier models in mathematics, achieving a new state-of-the-art of 23.4% on MathArena Apex.

It then proceeds to show, lower down on the page, an example of what it can do, by showing off 'Our Family Recipes". If there's anything that touts PhD-level reasoning and writing, it's a recipe book.

We have direct peerings for services like voice, and IX'es for the big data providers. But at that scale I think it'd flatten at least one of our gateway providers, even with wire-speed ACLs and big routing hardware.

I'd be very curious what Microsoft did.