It's planet of short stature now

Interesting... I didn't consider that angle.
Thanks!

My opinion is that AI will kill Linux eventually. Not now, not when Linus uses it, because Linus knows how to code and is careful. But eventually the crappy vibe-coded junk will seep into the kernel. And then you'll get Microsoft-style code quality issues.

Russian sites like Yandex, Rutube, VKvideo... are great to find porn. But if they go down, I'll take the minor inconvenience for the sake of Ukraine.

More seriously, Yandex has been throttling queries rather aggressively lately, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with their compute going up in smoke due to Ukrainian drones.

War department is Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth doing their fascist circle-jerk.

What can go wrong?

I wonder if the control room technicians will be allowed bathroom breaks...

...in the hands of a competent, careful and passionate programmer like Linux Torvalds.

What I worry about is when Bob in the junior software dev team, who does his job to put food on the table, and just good enough to keep his job, uses it to vibe-code company data as his day job.

He would be serving time.

Why hasn't Sam Altman been arrested yet?
Why is OpenAI allowed to continue to operate?
Clearly it's a criminal organization.

Honestly... Since when reshuffling in a company's upper management is of any interest to anybody other than the people working for that individual at that company?

What next? They're gonna replace Bob at accounting because he didn't use AI to format his Excel sheets?

Honestly, I'm scared of eating any chicken or beef based foods from McDonalds (or Burger King or Wendy's) at this point. I've had issues with "chicken" nuggets as well as "burgers" being made of something I would not consider the appropriate type of meat.

Fish sandwiches are still okay, for now, since they have trouble replicating the texture. But I avoid them anyway. I don't want to get a bad fish sandwich.

French fries are fine. I know they are coated to stay crispy longer, but at least the texture and flavor are okay.

Posting a price is easy if it's part of your business. Gas stations can update their prices and are incentivized to keep the prices up to date.

A hotel that has a couple supercharging stations may not even be running the charging stations in their parking lot.

My local hospital just put in a couple chargers. No posted signs up but their is a QR code that goes to a link to the current prices. So I guess that's something.

a doozie to debug

There is a simple answer to this. Don't buy their cars.

I owned three BMWs (two 3-series and a 5-series). Will not buy one again, even though I loved the feel of a BMW on the road. They really are The Ultimate Driving Machine.

But my local BMW service center absolutely sucks and was often disrespectful to my spouse. And (more recently) they have put subscriptions on features that I would expect would be included in the cost. And let's not get into episode of advertisements playing.

So no more BMW for me. And I am fully in the demographic they want: Mid 50s male, significant disposable income, homeowner in the suburbs.

I'm wondering why they don't just continue the Vision Pro team and see where it leads them.

Or maybe they are continuing the team, just getting rid of one skill set?

I don't have any VR system, but even I can see it's not ready for Prime Time yet. But that doesn't mean it won't be in the future.

As for marketing of it, it really should be marketed as a desktop/laptop computer replacement.

I think a part of the issue is the amount of gold and other precious minerals in the cameras.

People are using AI to find out about the cameras and the AI is scrapping comments like this and telling people about the gold. Then people take down the cameras to look for the gold.