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Comment Re:Mixed feelings, actually.... (Score 1, Interesting) 23

"I think there's considerable evidence this AI bubble is going to pop" Citations please? I've read lots of speculation, but where's this evidence you claim?

I think many of us may wish there's a bubble that may pop, but 'if wishes were fishes..."

There IS evidence that job losses are occurring, it's not just hypothetical, just because you say "I'm not seeing..." perhaps in your immediate world, evidence is to the contrary (just a few I found)

https://www.goldmansachs.com/i...

https://econofact.org/factbrie...

https://www.adpresearch.com/ye...

Comment Re:LinkedIn issue (Score 1) 91

I'm late in my career, only a few years left -- and almost all of my jobs have been through connections with people I actually know or have worked for; so I'm not worried.

I think LinkedIn was 'ok' when it started, then it turned into spammers, bots, clueless headhunters, obnoxious self-promoters with made up titles/terms, people trying to be 'influencers' (hate that term, more like hucksters), etc. To use Doctorow's term, it got totally 'enshitified', I don't miss it at all.

Comment LinkedIn issue (Score 2) 91

I deleted all my data and closed my LinkedIn account years ago (their security was [is?] atroious).

I was surprised to see that people sometimes put salary history in LinkedIn, seems like a bad idea to me for various reasons. Thinking about this situation, you are tipping your hand to prospective employers.

Though, I guess people could lie and pad their salary to say they made $X + 15000k for example. I don't know if a prospective employer can ask your current employer what you make? I'm guessing this varies from state to state, and even country to country?

Comment Toll roads could've done this decades ago (Score 0) 196

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

Submission + - Anthropic blocks Claude subscriptions from third party AI tools like OpenClaw (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage inside third party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT. Users who previously logged into those apps with their Claude account will now need to purchase usage bundles or use a Claude API key instead. The company says its subscription plans were built for normal chat usage, not the automated workloads often generated by external clients and agent frameworks.

The move appears aimed at controlling compute costs as demand for AI models continues to rise. Third party tools can generate far more model requests than a typical user chatting in a browser, especially when automation or scripting is involved. Casual users likely will not notice any difference, but developers and power users who relied on those tools may now face usage based pricing.

Comment Re: prediction (Score 1) 39

I was thinking the same, carefully crafted echo chambers and intentional confirmation bias. The irony of the name 'social media' just keeps growing, as it continues to drive wedges between people instead of bringing them together -- or at a minimum, at least support a live and let live, 'agree to disagree' mentality. It's really a dystopian nightmare in the making.

Comment Not a web browser (Score 1) 18

It's interesting they say 'browser', sounds more like an 'application generator' because what they're describing isn't really a conventional web browser, it sounds like an application based probably on various web standards at best with a web interface. It's not performing a search to direct you to relevant websites (can you use it to browse in the traditional sense even?). Sounds like it's using the websites almost like an API, pulling data/info from them basically and then generating application from it? Perhaps calling it a 'browser' is a marketing decision, but it's not a browser imo.

Comment Haters gonna hate (Score 1) 59

Negativity is cool I guess. I found the show has lots of interesting elements, for example:

The tension between cyborg, synth and hybrids; almost like a class/race hierarchy
Pondering what being one of the above means... are you still human? Is humanity about the intellect/mind/soul only, or also the physical body?
5 corporations basically running the world. William Gibson alluded to this in Neuromancer and other works. And I think it mirrors some current trends.
Billionaires/Trillionaires who live in la-la land (or Neverland), like Boy Kavalier (great name btw), who give a shit about 'normal' people, live by their own rules, that sounds familiar.
Some great new species, c'mon, tentacle eyeball is just awesome and terrifying, ticks from hell.

Sure, has it flaws, so do most shows -- but I'm enjoying it, and looking forward to seeing where it goes.

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