So what the fuck is coding now? (Roughly) 1950s, machine language. 1960s, assembly. 1970s, C, basic. 1980s pascal, lisp. 1990s Java, C++. 2000s, frameworks. 2010s, I got no idea, a bunch of shit. 2020s, even more what the shit.

Can AI write the super Woz machine? The fast fourier transform? The 3d Doom libraries? Perl scripts to manage unix servers? WHAT ARE WE CODING? Because it is utterly ridiculous to consider the BS we call "AL" as actually coding, as I understand it.

Do a database query and mark it up for a web page? Because that's not coding. PLEASE help me understand what the flying fuck we are even talking about?

I'm not defending that post. I'm saying you talk like a soviet. Huge difference between the two, but soviets didn't have logic as their strong point. Propaganda and sophistry was the soviet way.

Apple lost its design mojo when they got rid of skeuomorphism as a reactionary movement to Android. Reactionary design always looks derivative. From that point onwards, they've just been copying Android.

Apple still makes the best looking hardware though, haven't lost their design mojo there.

They are "the same" from the perspective of "ALL AI LOOKS THE SAME." If you want to build one, they are different.

Idiot. I didn't write that. Learn to read.

Oh yeah? What search did you use to find all these violent trans people? Why haven't they been arrested if they are committing violence?

Don't be an asshole.

I think you are confused. LLMs are chatbots.

Neural networks allow movement like this. China has built similar soccer playing robots. But it doesn't make sense to use an LLM to program robot movement.

Good question. The CBO expects it to cost $800 billion, the white house says $175 billion.

Practically speaking, America already has an advanced ICBM defense system, although as currently deployed, it is aimed at stopping missiles from a rogue state (specifically North Korea).

In the end, the Golden Dome might just end up buying a bunch of ground-based THAAD interceptor missiles (which are already in production), along with some space-based detector satellites. The sooner you can stop a missile, the cheaper it is because MIRV (multiple-independent-reentry-vehicle) ICBMS are very expensive to stop once they've split, because there are a lot of them and they are moving fast (along the order of mach 25). So if you can stop them earlier in flight it's cheaper. Estimate roughly $1 billion dollars spent to stop an ICBM in the terminal phase, so stopping a full launch of nuclear missiles by Russia would cost trillions of dollars.

The controversial part of Golden Dome is putting interceptors in space, since that is weaponizing outer space. That also concerns me, but we might not actually get there. The idea of ICBM interceptors is controversial to some people, but those people don't realize it already exists, and is deployed.

I see you have (somewhat ignorant) opinions about Trans people. That's fine, you don't need to be omniscient.

However if you go around hating trans people, then the problem is you.

No iPhone user gives any kind of fuck. Anyone have a count of Slashdot no-story-here posts by non-Apple owners' outrage about Apple? Well, +1 I guess.

Of course I didn't say China will collapse. Carry on, comrade.

In the same vein of thought, I really wonder how India got GM to lend them all those Volts.

No, USA has that one too. It's driving China crazy.

The US has basically gone back to the old cold war playbook and started pulling things out of it.

ok, it sounds like you have opinions on certain policies, although you probably don't understand them entirely and should do more research. But basically there's no problem with that. I don't expect you to be omniscient and I'm not.

The problem is when you go around hating people. Don't do that.

It depends on if you lean that way. I prefer to think of volts as loaned. You pessimist.