Isn't it enough to spread Rust among earth's programmers?

Isn't that already covered by putting the browser on their carelessly unlocked screen into full-screen mode and then directing the browser to https://meatspin.com/ - one of the few web-sites that persisted since the 1990s?

Contemporary OLED screens do that "slowly moving around" on their own, already, in order to avoid "burning in" sharp, visible edges.

And, of course, with sound at full volume!

I never used a case. But I also did not waste money on an expensive high-end phone, anyway, because for me it is just a communication device, and not the center of my life.

Kind of wasteful to just filter away the UV part of the light. After all, its ~5% of total energy from the sun light at the surface could contribute to the energy harvested by the PV panel. Is finding materials that do not deteriorate when exposed to UV light too difficult?

Another option: Setup a computer that actually does use some (locally hosted, reasonably cheap) LLM, but with a system prompt that instructs it to make up "chapter 1" of any book it is asked for based on the book title - but make it boring to read, then offer the user to generate the next chapter upon request.

Or, just lower your voice, and whisper to the person asking: "I should not tell you this, but that book has been black-listed by the government, so we are not allowed to speak of it anymore."

Telling from the outside, that plan appears to work fine. It still seems unbelievable to me that among 300+ millions, these two utterly incompetent figures - Biden and and Trump - were presented as the only options to the voters. Almost as if both parties wanted to mock voters by telling them: "Look how we can make you desperately choose between two terrible options, both of which we already know will not work in your interest."

What the US is lacking is at least one non-crazy, non-demented, not-corrupt third option, but it may be too late for this to materialize.

Microsoft lost the console war. They may already have had their last Xbox hardware produced a while ago. And they probably think, "why not sell the rest of our stock at ever increasing prices to the few die-hard Xbox fans that will pay just anything?"

Those 100k$ may become "H1-B loans, to be reimbursed by the employee to the employer" similar to how student loans in the US "work".

I think there will be "mid-level executive directions" from remote, like the remote worker assessing a construction site situation, determining what path to take, while the local computer will still react upon sensor input fast enough to not run someone over or bump into another car. That way, in only the most seldom situations, a less-cheap-more-near remote driver needs to be assigned for a short while.

Not sure why I should pity one who first asks some LLM to spit out code only then to complain how bad the results are. But her fate was much less sad than that of actual senior developers working at larger corporations who are increasingly confronted with code that new hires claim to have coded, and would not admit to have vibe-coded, even though the kind of errors made (and not made) make it quite obvious that the subject of the review is AI slop. Babysitting junior coders that vibe-code without admitting to it is so much worse than just babysitting AI.

I guess the "Tech Giant" side agreed because they expect the time period where this may have any relevance as pretty short, anyway. While truly "autonomous" cars are not quite covering the service, yet, a combination of "automatically driven in many places" with "remote controlled by the cheapest of workers somewhere on earth" will be able to substitute local human drivers soon. And depending on how much time those cars spend under conditions that are easy to automate driving in, on of those remote driving workers will have to control 3 or 10 or 20 such cars.

So I hear they've found a spare planet for us to live on, so we need not worry about destroying this one. That's the message, right? :-)