If we go this way, then we should also adapt compilers to include random variation in the code that they generate, so that the same source code on the same version of the compiler won't always produce the same output.

You now, if LLMs are the golden standard for how we want all the world to work, we take the things that are really bad ideas for programming in LLMs and implement them in our compilers too.

I meant, you get a stream straight from the studio master, not ripped from an audio CD.

I thought the "high res" thing was to sell you music straight from the 48KHz master -- not jankily downscaled to 44.1KHz, clipped because of loudness wars, and then lossily compressed. Am I out of date?

or international skeptic forum. Argued to death with quite a few bigfoot believer ( all of them pretending they had proof that the filmed creature had a gait which could not be reproduced by human). That should be the nail in the coffin, but as we saw even with the Shroud, believer will continue to make all sort of excuses to continue believing.

I still want to use iTunes on my phone to replace my CD collection (or let me put the CDs in the basement while still listening to them). Sadly Apple has crippled it in another way. Songs disappear from iTunes on the phone if they would not be able to stream in your region, even though you ripped them from your own disc.

Even Texas has something like a 85% Urban population, and commute is in average commute nationwide is 27m (but there are wild variation depending on state (stealing from reddit :https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/191n6gq/oc_average_commute_time_to_work_across_the_usa/). The only really valid issue is resale value, battery price, and the difficulty to stop EV fire. That said I , like you I think, would rather buy an EV and see the advantage in the EV camp.

I am probably going to need to go with #3

No frankly, I keep saying people this is not a solution , citing a (IMO minor) negative effect. I am sorry, then what IS your solution ? Mass starvation ? Another modest proposal of eating the children ? If job are being replaced on a massive scale, then the government, responsible for the well being of those citizen OVER the well being of corps, will have to implement *something*. What do you suggest ? Ask people to dig hole in one shift and then the next alternating shift can fill it in, and vice versa ? If the government cannot implement UBI then *something* has to give in : either people mass dying, or another alternative to keep people alive. And if people don't have job because everybody replaceable by any type of AI and robot has been replaced, *who* has the money to buy anything whatsoever ?

In case AI and robot replace massively many job, UBI might not be the best solution, but so far I haven't seen anybody whatsoever propose a viable or morally acceptable alternative solution.

...if the thing you're enshittifying is already bullshit?

He kind of has a point though. Many websites force a fixed column layout. You have a choice between stupidly large text size or big borders either side, if your display is landscape orientation.

Yes, I saw crisp text on my 1024x768 LCD display a quarter century ago. But you missed the next part of the sentence, "even at small sizes". As text gets smaller you reach a point where it is no longer clear. On an 8k display even the smallest sizes are pin sharp. They are a bit fuzzy on 4k (as I use at work) and would be headache-inducing mush if you tried to show such tiny text on a 1920x1080 display.

Back in the day there were hand-created bitmap fonts for crisp display at small sizes. Nowadays, for better or worse almost every application uses outline fonts, which look a bit jaggy if rendered without anti-aliasing ("font smoothing") and a bit fuzzy with it. Only on a very high DPI display is this completely unnoticeable. My laptop is 4k and I am very happy with it, but to make best use of a 32 inch screen a higher pixel density is better.

I'm posting this from my home PC with Dell's 8k monitor. It's nice to see completely crisp text, even at small sizes, and certainly a noticeable quality improvement from 4k. But that's because I am sitting a few inches away. I recently bought a new television, and while I was tempted to pick up a cheap used 8k model, in practice it would make no difference when viewing it from the sofa.

Even Dell seems to have retreated from 8k, however. Their newer top-end monitor has a roughly 6k horizontal resolution.

"Remove the advertising"?

Isn't advertising the whole business model of most tech companies nowadays?

RIGHT?????

It goes on the LEFT!

But, yes, I agree with you that vertical space is much more of a premium now than horizontal space given the aspect ratios of monitors nowadays. It was different back in the 1980s when a lot of the UI conventions we still stick with were first established.

What AI for picture is a very complicated warping/stitching, but not inspiration. Inspiration you can get something nobody ever did before. See all the painting types for example, surrealism, cubism, etc... If you take all realistic/romantic painting of all the years until 1800 and feed an AI, you can let it run until the heat death of the universe , you will never get any cubist painting. It cannot make new stuff, it can only do a very complicated copy paste.