Hey Fred, can you change the engine sound to that of a sports car? Sure Debbie, let me pull up the engine sounds I've got stored on the computer. What a flipping JOKE!

Honest truth: restructuring based on changing business. We did the same thing when Cloud happened. And two decades earlier when the Internet happened.

It's just like when things in a grocery store go down in price. Yeah, the price dropped, but the QUANTITY in the box went down. I never buy anything on Prime day...it's for suckers. They jack the price up a week or two before prime day, then discount it to make it look good.

Also people seem to assume this is true

not actually supported by real consumer demand

I work at one of the big companies involved in this situation. All I know is, we cannot deploy solutions fast enough for the number of customers we have much less the rate at which demand is growing.

Many are startups and many are big companies still doing pilot projects. It all could go away. But it is not just VC dollars and George Forman AI Grills; at least for the Fortune500 types, there is an awful lot of actual business efficiency being realized or they would not keep sending us money and requests for more capacity/lower latency

You can see the price. But not how many were traded. Because that is how anonymous internet cash is supposed to work

"...gamers would play as a Black man..."
Ah, so NOW authenticity is important Ubisoft?

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

Let's not forget that all life on Earth would have died in about two million years if we hadn't returned stored CO2 to the atmosphere. CO2 has been declining for tens of millions of years and in a future Ice Age the amount in the atmosphere would have fallen too low for complex plant life to survive. We've given the planet another twenty million years or so by increasing the CO2 levels.

Even so, plant life evolved when CO2 was around 6,000ppm in the atmosphere so it's literally starving right now but people are demanding we stop feeding it.

I've found it good at writing unit tests for old code which didn't have them. For writing new code it's sometimes faster and other times I spend as much time fixing the code as I would have needed to write it in the first place.

When you're angry about the Klan being portrayed as the bad guys...

There is literally no way to handle those topics in any commercial entertainment product right now that isn't going to enrage 15% of the audience. Those 15% will certainly use social media to make the normal people who understand it is just a fictional game, to uncomfortable to want to deal with it.

I would have canceled it too. There is no winning marketing something like that right now.

And he has been massively successful!

He has brought inflation down to tolerable levels, he has done a lot to improve the overall fiscal picture.

Trouble is voters like free stuff, they are tiring of austerity and the nation is still in debt up to its eyeballs from past mismanagement. Shocker a few years for doing the right things, does not immediate correct long term structural harm.

Good lesson here for the people keeping the government shutdown so they can shovel more money at the ACA. It does not work, the premiums remain affordable no matter how much stimi you try to use to get healthy people buy more insurance then they need, and with the nation graying it isn't going to get better, the demographics are against it.

Yet there is a segment even among the MAGA crowd that is pissed they see their costs going up. Politically this is problem - that extends beyond health care. We have an entire nation that is hooked on Federal largess but there is no way to pay for it. Let that sink in there is no way to pay for it. You can't generate enough revenue to eliminate the deficit without crushing the economy and you can't cut enough either. It has to be BOTH at this point, and we might already be Argentina. The UK is, and most of the EU probably are too.

I am sure it isnt going to sell a faction of what the original has over any span of its market offering. I would not be so quick to assume they wont still sell a lot of them.

Keep in mind the original was as far as mass market US in the US a 1980s today. I think it showed up a little earlier in the UK. This a gen-X nostalgia item. Older X'ers are hitting retirement age now. While it took them a little longer than the boomers many of them did alright economically.

The timing is spot on for remakes of the 1980s pop culture items. See Naked Gun and Spaceballs remakes, the resent explosion in retro-computing stuff, return of the Ford Bronco, heck even in US Presidents in some ways :-P. There is a huge market push to sell stuff to people who were in the mid-20s in the early-to-middle 80's right now because those folks at at a stage of life where they have disposable income and time. Everyone's first instinct is generally to return to hobbies they once loved, maybe share it with their grand kids in some way etc.

Like the usual liberal, they weep copious tears for people vastly far away, while hating everyone around them.

Let me guess, you despise your family, your school, your community, right?

I'd guess it'll last as long as the cover does?

Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer from Burkina Faso was known as "the man who beat the desert" for single-handedly transforming 75 acres of barren land into a garden by planting trees.

AFAIK eventually the government was so impressed, they seized the land from him and parceled it out for sale to bidders who more or less ruined it.