Yes, it matters. Even if Apple's revenue depended entirely on hardware sales, relying on fewer sales at higher margins is a concern for future stability. Fewer sales suggest that Apple's products are becoming less attractive to consumers. Competitive pressures could force lower margins. But Apple also takes a big cut of App Store purchases. Fewer customers means fewer sales in the app store not just in the current quarter but going forward.

And no consumer mother boards until 2030? The spec was finalised in 2021! Gen *7* finalised almost a year ago. If I were still with Teledyne, I would be working on a Gen 8 analyser that would almost likely ship in early 2027, maybe even this year. It looks consumer motherboards are going to be four PCIe versions behind when they finally ship with Gen6.

The current need for humans in the loop is much less about performance and much more about accuracy. Amodei must believe (in public anyway) that the hallucination problem is nearly solved.

The non-graduates may be accepting low paying, low stability roles, while the graduates hold out for quality that has become scarce.

Sure, but definitely slower than a bicycle, which can easily manage 10mph in traffic. Being behind a bus is annoying as they are awkward to pass but you must pass them or be stuck at a reduced pace breathing diesel fumes.

Not directly in competition with AI. However, DRAM manufacturers are motivated to move production where it generates the most profit. If DDR5 is where the money is, expect production to increase at the expense of older lines.

So, are AI hallucinations as convincing as the lies told by human sales agents? This might be one of those areas where generative AI can actually be productive because the result doesn't have to be accurate.

A recruiter's only function is to help fill openings that the client has difficulty filling on their own. Of course, he thinks remote work is dead, those reqs are easy to fill and, thus, few of them pass his desk. The money is in hybrid and fully in office reqs. Those are hard to fill because the candidates don't want them. More work for the recruiters.

No. You can be replaced by AI even if your job does require precision and quality. At some point, the company will have to rehire people to replace those they laid off but the CEO gets to keep the bonus. And it doesn't mean they rehire you. Probably someone cheaper.

It is definitely regional. In California, stations that don't charge a higher price for cards are rare. It happens (I stumbled on one last week well outside my normal area) but it is rare. Card same as cash seems to be the rule in Missouri. Here is California, the stations that don't charge extra for cards tend to be in relatively low rent areas. Missouri is low rent compared to most anywhere in California.

The pandemic work from home move gave employees more power while managers and top leaders had a more difficult job as their control over staff was reduced. The decline in the job market and RTO have reduced employee power while making the jobs of management and top leaders easier. So, it is pretty natural that staff will feel reduced well-being while management enjoys a tighter grip on employees and easier hiring. Whoever gains power feels better than the ones who lost.

I'm surprised they found so many "12345" passwords. Not because it is a dumb password. It doesn't surprise me at all that people would try to use a password like that. It surprises me that, in an age when even useless logins require eight characters including mixed case, a number, and a special, that there were enough systems to allow all numeric five character passwords for "12345" to be popular.

Certainly, I have never seen a cancel-rebook site. I do, however, do something similar manually. I will book a room or car well in advance with free cancellation terms. But I continue to shop. When better deals comes up, I make a new reservation and cancel the old one. When it gets close enough to the target date that I think it won't get cheaper, I may switch to a non-refundable booking to save a bit more.

I see all the comments of people putting coins in jars and this is on a tech board where I expect most people to be reasonably good at arithmetic. Or is the problem that you don't have a reliable place to keep the coins? I seldom have more than five pennies or three quarters on me at any given time because I deliberately pay out whatever it takes to get the next denomination. If price is $1.24 and I don't have exact change, I could pay $1.25 that means another penny in my wallet but if I pay $1.29, those four pennies in my wallet become one nickel. Later, I might toss that nickel at a transaction to get a single quarter back instead of two dimes. And I never pull out a $1 bill if I have four quarters. The math is not that difficult though I do understand that it depends on me being able to keep my coins together and too many wallets have no useful coin purse.