Given the speed at which they have already been progressing with IC fabrication, and the fact that people said the same thing about battery technology, photovoltaics, EV drivertains and cars in general, wireless comms systems like WiFi and 5G... Well, I wouldn't bet against them.

Even on the consumer side, their in-car front end software went from some of the worst to now some of the best on the market, in maybe 5 years. Huge generational improvements, much faster than other manufacturers.

I want to know how much money Jensen put into the Trump bank account as the payoff/bribe.

Look at the amount of investment it spurred in Chinese development of replacement chips. The government made producing cutting edge parts a national strategic goal, and when it does that it tends to end up dominating a decade later.

It's probably too late to stop it now, and I'm sure the real reason they are doing it is because Nvidia paid for some expensive lunches at Mar a Largo, but it may slightly slow things down a bit.

Ah, the old Playboy defence. "I only read it for the articles!"

This, we're seeing the rise of ultra-nationalism in western countries and it will be the destruction of us if it's not stopped.

Also the GP is wrong. Globalism didn't start in the 1940s or 50s after the fall of fascism, it started in the 80s after the rise of Reagan/Thatcherism. The rise of ever more right wing policies has enabled and encouraged more and more jobs and industries to be sent overseas in the name of increased shareholder value. The 50's, economically at least were a good time for the US (Socially it was a total mess but beyond the scope of the argument I feel).

It's the same thing with Mexico, companies went to India because places like Mexico got too expensive.

India is becoming expensive and Indian oligarchs know it, so they are now demanding Indians work 80 hours a week for the same pay.

I doubt they're moving off to Nepal though as Nepal doesn't have the infrastructure.

The problem with AI bug reports is that it consumes resources. Even if it's asking for more details, it's still someone having to read the slop, understand it, and then asking questions which consume a lot of time.

And most AI slop bug reports basically have that question shoved back into the AI to generate a response, so it can go back and forth multiple times without much improvement.

All this wastes developer time and resources who have to go through the bugs reported manually but the person using AI to report them spends hardly any time at all.

It's why YouTube has the problem as well - AI slop videos cost nothing to generate so you can make hundreds of videos a day, and it doesn't matter if only a few get more than a handful of visits because the sheer volume mean you can get a small reliable income.

Perhaps keep the bug bounty but provide the payout on how many back and froth rounds of questions it takes to understand the issue. If the bug report was filed perfectly, you get 100%. If it takes 1-2 questions to figure it out (e.g., missed a detail), still 100%. But after 3 questions if you haven't provided a proof of concept or enough details to figure out the issue, each additional question costs 10% of the prize pot. So after 7 questions, it's down 50%. After 12 questions, it's empty.

If someone else submits the same bug, but while you're still going back and forth, they provide a full PoC and details the problem fully they could steal the pot. So if you discover a bug but you used AI and remain generic and unhelpful someone slse could spot the issue you posted, research it and provide a far more useful bug report and snipe the pot away from you. So if someone else can provide a working exploit faster than you can, you lose the money. So you probably want to hold back until you have generated a bug report that's perfect from the get-go so someone else doesn't take your money by reading your bug, and making a more useful report.

I've long stopped considering electronic music to be music because a computer is not an instrument.

The music industry has loved this kind of thing because musical instruments require talent to play, especially to play well which gives the artist a large mesure of power over their own destiny, rights, a voice... things that music execs hate because they can use that to get more of their precious, sweet, sweet profit.

A "DJ" or rapper can be replaced easily as they don't have any actual talent. Doubly so for pop stars these days as it's all autotuned to within an inch of their lives (so much so that the "artist" can't recreate the sound using their own voice, so they all mime at their shows these days, and to think there was a time where we derided Kylie because she was the only one doing it). The person doing the performance has become the least important part of it considering most of the time someone else writes their own song. Execs really dug their own grave by making music so drab, boring, repetitive and especially by removing all requirement for any kind of musical talent, AI is set to eat their lunch and their biggest problem is not that AI can replicate their process... but the fact anyone can use it, their problem is that they don't control the AI.

You're right that AI is no different than when a label assembles a band (or runs a non-talent show to find someone).. but you couldn't be more wrong about AI being an instrument.

Not big on reading are you? I didn't say it wasn't successful. .

It can be minor, but it can also take someone singing completely out of tune and turn it into something passable. There was a leaked recording of the original Paris Hilton session some years ago, and she may actually be tone deaf, it's that bad. The released track is pitch perfect and sounds like a professional, if uninspired, singer.

https://t.me/nevzorovtv/28223 - this video shows ruzzian civilians, who are dead set on destroying Ukraine, no matter what. AFAIC Ukraine must exterminate this cocroach infestation that is ruzzia.

I'm just waiting for the first breach. People's photo ID, their name and if they used their driver's licence their home address, and a list of all the websites they verified their age for.

I switched my VPN endpoint to a country that doesn't do this. No way I'm handing over photo ID for any website.

There were laws in place to help Afghans who helped the British during the war there come to the UK anyway. Many of those on the list had the right, but the processing was very slow and it was difficult to get out of the country.

Then the data breech happened and their lives were at risk because they collaborated. It was the right thing to do to help them get away. The injunction was to limit the damage of the breech, not to cover up what was being done about it. It was always going to be lifted eventually, as soon as a court decided that the danger was passed.

It's a rare example of the UK trying to do the right thing.

It's complete and utter BS. The 2 state solution has been proposed multiple times ( https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQ... ) , the Arabs are refusing it because it would de-escalate the conflict and would normalize the very *existence* of Israel, which is what they are denying (and you here as well, due to their very effective propaganda).

Also very very personally, I have 0 sympathy for anyone attacking Israel, so no love to anyone who attempts on lives of any Israelis, may they all burn in this life and any and all afterlives (which I don't believe in, I am a complete atheist).

To me, everyone who attacks Israel is barbaric and must be destroyed, how about that? There is no genocide of anyone in Gaza because it's not me, who is running Israel, does it work for you?

I am well aware of ruzzian/Israeli relationship. There are a couple of million ex-soviets living in Israel, I was one of them back in 1992, when I moved to Israel from Ukraine.

Israel is doing everything anyone could ever do to protect civilians from being killed in fire indiscriminately https://chatgpt.com/c/6876bd05... Sure, you can always say that more could be done, AFAIC they are way overdoing.

Have a horrible day.

Mistakes were made.

They call them baby boomers for a reason - they are the biggest generation, by cohort size. A lot of the policies that benefited them were made on the assumption that the next generation would be even bigger, and that the economy would keep growing proportionally, and the workers would share in that wealth.

None of that turned out to be true. There were fewer gen X, even fewer Millennials, and far fewer gen Z. Wages didn't keep up with GDP growth.

In the UK, there were about 14 people per retiree to cover pensions and healthcare costs, back in the 1950s. There are about 5 today. It's not just state pensions either, boomers had access to defined benefit pensions that turned out to be unaffordable, so the schemes were closed to new applicants but workers today still have to pay the boomers who got them.

The massive increase in property value relative to wages was a one off too. If Gen Z manage to buy a house, they aren't going to see it go up in value by hundreds of percent over their lifetimes.

And then you have climate change. Too little, too late, with massive costs coming.

So sure, individually boomers may have had hard lives, may have worked hard to get what they have, no disputing that. But mistakes were made at policy level and now nobody has the balls to even try to really fix them. Younger generations are actually screwed. They can't expect the same opportunities that their parents and grandparents had.