Have you ever reported a pot hole? I did, and it got fixed in a day. There are people who's job is to fix pot holes, but they're not out looking for them. Somebody has to report it to them.

That's 10 times more than I'm willing to spend on a phone.

I don't generally like change, but I think I'll like this. I prefer IDEs where tabs are on the right instead of at the top.

A Chrome on Windows 11 feature I like is being able to name windows (on the context menu of the taskbar icon). So I can have a window for work tabs, and a window for news/other tabs, and be able to tell them apart easily.

I'm just trying to get by in a world where I didn't make the rules. The only way I can really help reduce climate change is to cease to exist, and I'm not willing to do that.

An AI data center can replace a legion of human workers. So the heat emissions can be offset if those humans cease to exist.

It took both of them to get an Apple 2+ into my parent's living room in 1982. And that's where my passion and my career started.

I've seen the low quality of Chinese motorcycles and ATVs. I'll pass on a Chinese car. There are plenty of good used cars if price is the issue.

Yeah, I couldn't imagine wanting one of these at all, let alone paying almost three grand for it. I've had the same $200 phone for five years.

I used a Nostromo speed pad back when I gamed. All the functions are programmable.

Many years ago, I saw a photo of a protester holding a sign that said, "Who needs oil? I take the bus".

That was the most brilliant advertising stunt of all time. I hope they do it again when the ISS deorbits.

My company gives me 300 Github Copilot premium model credits per month. When I'm out, I'm out. It would be in their best interest to give me as much as I can possibly use. It's like $0.04 per request. But nope. Instead I'm back to writing code manually, or trying to debug the drivel that the free models regurgitate.

Seriously, if I was interviewing today, how much compute I get is a question I would most certainly ask!

January 6th attack on the capital involved a lot of proud boys. Several of whom were convicted for their actions that day.

That they exist is not the issue. It is the credulity with which people talk about AI agents. AI, no matter the guidelines, cannot be forced to stick to writing things that are real. It is a simulacrum of intelligence, of self directed agency, of humanness. They are sophisticated simulation algorithms. Not true self-aware intelligences.

part of the problem is one of vocabulary. We need new vocabulary to separate what LOOKs like a person with agency, from some that that actually IS a person with agency. By reviling our existing language, we are conferring greater significance with what these programs are doing than is appropriate, based on HOW they work.

it is easy to believe these agents are being truthful and honest, because they parrot real humans, but every AI output I have ever attempted to validate has turned out to be completely disconnected from reality.

There is no reason to believe ANYTHING the bots told him about their users is real, or accurate. Fabrication is the norm. Stop hugging AI vendor propaganda.