No. Just... Hell no.

I hate this kind of "intuitive UI" shit. It constantly activates when you are trying to use the device and gets it the way of normal operation.

I don't want to do the "special new thing"... get off my screen!

[shakes fist at clouds] ...dammit! Now why is there a contextual pop-up menu in the sky?

That which is measured is improved.

You want more token usage? You got it!

Two. A security guard to watch the door, and a dog to bite him when he falls asleep.

Security is not the goal. Control is the goal.

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

A lot of the automated "site-builder" tools include these trackers by default. Some of the trackers (like the Google one) are useful for site-operators to track metrics (# of individual visitors vs repeat visitors, referring source, etc.)

If you build your own site from scratch, and know how to code, you probably would not include them in anything sensitive like this. But if you are just a guy who's boss said "Make it so" and searched for "how to build a website", well... here we are.

One of the goals that the AI pushers proclaim is for every human to have their own dedicated AI Agent that sifts the raw newsfeed and crafts articles tailored to the individual's preferences. Individually tailored spin. Everything matched to our pre-existing biases. Comfort and outrage tailored to our individual expectations. 100% engagement.

Classical Education is still a thing: Logic, rhetoric, grammar, debate, mathematics, reading, memorization, public speaking. Not available via the public school system, because the ratio of students to teachers does not work out.

This problem is not from vibe-coding. It is from a lack of design.

Real developers spend more time designing their programs than they spend coding them. For a reason.

(... and forget the EPSTEIN Files)

Shouldn't this datacenter be utilized by xAI (which is part of SpaceX now)? Why would they be leasing the capacity to a competitor instead of using it for their own internal AI corp?

Also is this datacenter built with the NVidia processors that were originally purchased by Tesla (for their AI project: Self Driving), before Musk decided to redirect them to his competing AI company xAI that he started because Tesla wouldn't guarantee him the controlling ownership stake he demanded "or else he would build AI elsewhere" ?

Nothing shady here...