"When an institution sends a letter formatted with a proprietary font, embedded in a proprietary format, produced by proprietary software, it is not communicating information but perpetuating a dependency."

This problem has been solved. PDF. I've never received a letter, or any correspondence from a company, institution, or school formatted as a Word or Excel document, and I don't know why anyone would send one in any other format.

You should answer this question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Wrong, it's a slight of hand. This is not about individual cameras, this is about the network that uses all cameras together to follow you no matter what you do, no matter where you go, people shouldn't have a government that follows their every step by using AI and networked devices. If this was about individual cameras you would have a point, it is not, it is unreasonable to allow a government to exist that creates a panopticon of this scale, citizens shouldn't feel like they are inside a prison and the warden is watching.

80% of the current TOP500 supercomputer systems used nVIdia GPGPUs. Worst case scenario, nVidia sells cheap upgrades to existing supercomputer systems. There is demand for these things in a lot of sectors besides AI. Video/3D rendering acceleration, finite element analysis, fluid dynamics, etc... There's actually pent-up demand for these things because they are being diverted for AI.

You are making the classic mistake that, because a lot of people are investing in AI, there is nothing else worth investing in. There are plenty of sectors worth investing in, everyone is dumping money in AI because you can make a fortune on the stocks.

For instance, self driving cars will be a huge market. Several promising startups failed or reorganized because funding dried up, as investors shift their money into LLM based AI tech, which doesn't help self-driving cars at all.

Think about it this way. If AI goes away, will nVidia fail? Even before the huge demand from AI, they were the most successful graphics company. They use their GPGPUs in supercomputers. They are the go-to for gaming.

The other factor is AI isn't going away. The AI bubble burst will be like the .COM bubble burst in 2000. A lot of startups will go under. Most established companies will take a licking, but will be fine (Oracle is in a LOT of verticals) AI will still be around.

The thing is, it used to be better. I don't know what changed.

It's transcription is hit-or-miss with me. It either nails it or gets one thing bafflingly wrong.

The thing I use it for the most, playing music through CarPlay, is almost worthless. It used to get everything right, even with weird track names in French or German. Now it barely gets English bands or song titles correct. 40% of the time it will play the wrong thing, 40% it will play any random song, and 20% of the time it will get it right. It went through a stretch last year where it couldn't find any song in my library, and asked if I would like to buy it.

The creator also made the Jack Ryan TV series which, aside from the titular character working for the CIA, has absolutely nothing to do with Tom Clancy's character. They turned him into Jason Bourne. Looking at his other productions, it isn't boding well.

in an unregulated market (what consumers need), new businesses are able to create new competition if there is money to be saved for consumers.

I stopped listening to TWiT not too long after they kicked Dvorak off. I think Leo didn't like him arguing about stuff. After he left, Leo would bring up a news item, the guests would say "Yeah that's cool" and they'd move on.

Not everything has to be drama-filled nonsense, but maybe a different perspective or two would be nice.

He got his start writing a wine column, but his editors noticed he was using a computer to do it, and put him on the fledgling computer beat in San Francisco. He has killer stories. Calling up Microsoft for information on a story at 9PM on a Friday and having Bill Gates answer the phone. Competing industry parties on mega-yachts. Producers at CNET-TV, before TechTV/G4TV, having no idea what they were doing. He'll be missed.

Yeah, all the hip/cheap/new coders all know node/JS inside and out, so that's what they program in. Your desktop application is basically a web app running on a webkit/chromium container talking to a local webserver backend. It *looks* like a real desktop application, until you look at a process tree and see node, and python, and chromium, and a half dozen other things running so you can see the battery status of your UPS.

I'm 90% sure it's all node or electron. CyberPower's UPS app is node based, along with Python/Twisted to talk to the UPS itself, so it has an entire server backend and Python installation to talk to a UPS.

Logitech does something similar. My Triathlon mouse occasionally triggers a driver update that installs some sort of shim that keeps asking to install the Logi+ app from the app store. You just uninstall and it goes away, for a few months at least.

I wouldn't mind installing it, it does offer some nifty tweaks, but at ~300MB it weighs in a bit hefty for a mouse options control panel. I can't imagine what other junk is in there I don't want or need.

in the free market businesses form and compete for consumer money with other businesses, it is the competition that is pro consumer. Unions, like any other political formation, exists to protect special interests, preventing businesses from competing to the best of their ability and pushing prices up - anti consumer.

Businesses are pro-consumer by definition, unless they are government subsidized. Being anti-union (as I am) is being as pro-consumer as possible. Unions push prices up, consumers want lower prices, unions are anti-consumer.