He did go away. He's at his own company now developing non-core products that you're free to ignore. Seriously man, show us on the doll where he touched you.

Have you gone back and applied it to all your old code bases? I mean I'm sure you as a coder probably are way ahead in the LLM game compared to script kiddies, but are you using it everywhere? Do you even have the time to do so? I suspect you probably have better things to do than to convert your life to an endless bugfixer.

The reality is it doesn't matter how good our tools are if we don't apply them.

AI is technically accurate. ML is literally the core component of the 1955 conjecture that defined AI. LLMs are a display of intelligence as a result of ML, also directly part of the original conjecture.

You thinking it is something different is your problem, not a problem with the term AI.

False. AI is as much a description of a system as a baby displays intelligence. The fact it lacks creativity and independent thought doesn't make it any less AI. What the group called a few years ago AI was already AI then and it's only gotten better.

The fact that some people equated AI to an all powerful genius indistinguishable from a human is their own misunderstanding. The 1995 definition discussed a machine simulating intelligence through learning which is explicitly what AI algorithms have done for many decades now.

I'm sorry you had false hopes based on incorrect assumptions.

AI isn't slop. Slop is AI. AI is just a tool. Whether the output is slop or not depends on the stupidity of the person using it.

Religion should be relegated to its proper place: a private belief, or a hobby. No more exemptions: what is good for the goose is good for the gander, same rules for all. And no more protected status. Most religions' tenets are reprehensible. Some not so much in practice, others very much so, on average. But in either case we should have the courage to stand up to such ideas... and not be stricken down in name of the law for it.
"Life of Brian" could not be made today. A Muslim version would be completely out of the question. That's the position that religion has in our lives these days.

Now with more... molecules!

And any state won't just arbitrarily do it because one thing that is far more annoying than changing clocks twice a year is remembering which state has which stupid timezone. At least the vertically stacked ones can be easily guessed. Imaging South Dakota having a different timezone than North Dakota and Nebraska. It would be a right royal pain in the arse for any international or interstate business.

Heck my own personal experience is I found out I lost my job on the news. At 9am on breakfast news they announced that the plant was closing, something the plant manager intended to tell us at 10am at an all hands meeting. There was a moratorium on the broadcast to 10am, but when telling the local news office, they sent that to their head office one state south only to not specify whether the timezone was AEST or ADST.

Kids walking country roads? From the country that infamously has school busses everywhere, and where most of the population worships at the altar of Ford? I'll take made up non-existing scenario for $50 Jim. You guys don't even walk to your own letterbox.

This is a dumb staying by people who don't understand that a blanket that covers your head but not your feet isn't comfortable to use. No one claims the day is longer, the claim is the "useful" day is longer, because people get fuck all done before work.

Please don't. The world is complicated enough with the British using the term "half {hour}" to mean an hour earlier than Germanic languages "half {hour}". The last thing we need is to deal with Americans booking times on the hour only the rest of the world to figure out which half we're talking about.

Half hours are stupid. I mean it's better than Nepal with their 45min offset, but that shouldn't be the bar.

There's nothing "weird" about it. It's a natural result of their climate the time of day. The east of the north Atlantic is typified by temperatures which peak not in the middle of the day but in late afternoon. The point of sleeping through the part of the day where it's hottest is to go and enjoy the day when it's more pleasant to go out. You see this throughout the middle east and north Africa too,

On the flip side last time I went to Texas the hotel concierge was horrified by the mere idea that I walk to dinner. "You can't do that it's 95 degrees outside!". While last time I was in Spain it also got to 35C outside, but when I walked to dinner it was a really pleasant 27C at 9pm.

Corporate reserves are not a slush fund, and $6.8bn is not a big number to have laying around like this.

I'm not sure I can answer this until you demonstrate a high-school level of understanding of basic accounting terms as it applies to companies.

Actually it's not dumb at all. There's a mountain of things we've banned when they cause more harm than good. And crypto objectively serves universally illegitimate purposes.

Because I can't wait to see Trump lose his shit. As soon as he's done TRUTHing from his toilet though I think this tax is simply unworkable and needs to die.