IKEA force you to use an AI chat bot. It was so bad for the multiple times I had to use it, I ended up asking it to patch me to a human on the it’s line.
But not quite as bad as when MS outsourced L1 support to India and instructed the support person to empathise with your plight.
I’m sorry sir you mouse disconnects 5 times a day. That must make you feel mad,
"...do you discover who's been swimming naked."
AI mostly comes to us from California, the original land of "Fake it till you make it". AI fakes intelligent results, without "knowing" anything, with what Gary Marcus calls "a world model". A world model means you "know", that you "understand", that you "comprehend" that:
-- the cited-cases part of a legal filing should be only drawn from the list of existing cases that the thing was given
-- that laws mentioned should exist in documents called "Title Code" that the thing was given
-- that there are laws, these are supreme "orders" above others given
-- that one of them is "killing human beings is against supreme orders that supercede all other instructions" (sorry, not on topic: it's just HAL didn't "know" the 3 laws)
-- that human hands have just the five fingers.
They just fake it, producing documents that look like good ones. They can't make it. Not in them. No world model.
And the tide is going out.
And don’t forget they still use Imperial. And tipping culture. And voting on tuesdays
...with a couple more features you probably don't need, missing some cool stuff you'd rather have.
And hideously expensive and complicated to administer, instead of free.
...about intellectual property "value" is that you couldn't snap your vinyl in half and get the CD for the price of reproduction plus sales, since you'd already bought the "intellectual property value".
You'd bought that, too, when you bought the vinyl, but they didn't respect YOUR intellectual property rights, did they?
Not saying they had some legal obligation, but I've laughed ever since at the attempt to morally shame intellectual property "thieves". Now, people who paid for intellectual property rights (to view) are having them taken away without compensation. Whatever the legalities, it is, morally, theft. They're thieves.
They deserve no respect or political support.
It only has to hallucinate less than a human to be usefull.
Just about every engineering and non web LOB software.
Altium, any old microcontroller dev platform, most mech CAD.
Altium Designer
Keil MDK
IAR Embedded Workbench
Intel Quartus Prime
Lattice FPGA tools
Proteus (if used)
Siemens/Cadence PCB tools (PADS, Xpedition, OrCAD)
Solid works
STLink
flash magic
NI lab view.
M1 ERP
PSOC creator
You get the idea
It’s a long list.
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. "
-Gen. Smedley Butler, 1933
A lot of American wars are at the behest of resource-seeking corporations. National forces are brought out when corporate enforcers are inadequate or expensive. I thought all this got very obvious, too, when "Blackwater" was so much in the news during Iraq, and the legal need to give them the same immunity to every Iraqi law that American national troops enjoyed.
Running a business with $15M turnover, we are not big enough to take advantage of big business shenanigans.
It peeves me off no end, that I pay 30% tax on profits while big multinationals spirit their profits off tax shelters.
I don’t mind paying the tax, as you need tax to provide for a modern society. I’m peeved multinationals are allowed to engage in tax fraud.
Actually, the "youth" (50) death statistics were the worst thing about America's response to COVID.
Canada had about 1/3 the death-rate that America had...overall, through most of the pandemic. (I followed from March 2020 to March 2022).
But among people under the age of 50, it was SEVEN times as bad as Canada's. Canada lost just 1100, under age 50, during those two years.
An equivalent for the USA population would 9X as much, or just 10,000. America actually lost over 70,000 citizens under the age of 50, to COVID; it lost more people too young to remember Vietnam, than it lost in Vietnam.
Among developed nations (i.e. not India) only America had COVID orphans, who'd lost both middle-aged parents to it, had to be adopted.
Thank you. I was there, and it was about 8 hours, not "almost two days".
Tesla has already solved the
Existing battery assembly lines include football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents.
problem and now using dry process for anode and cathode at scale with their 4680 cells.
Yeah
We have 5 Altium perpetual licences and were offered the usual maintainence renewal but have finally declined because any new stuff is in their cloud subscription layer which we refuse to use, because who wants their IP trapped in single vendor subscription hell.
The old Altium perp. Lic. Is not going away, but what they are saying, is if you don’t stay on maint. you can’t get back on maint. They made that threat 5 years ago and I called their bluff. $ are $.
You can't pass a law that affects only one person or corporation, not directly. If the law affects a definable group that happens to have only one member, that's constitutional, I think.
So the next president and congress can just pass a 90% wealth tax on wealth over $100B, no?
But, the next president and congress can also declare the SpaceX, for various good reasons known only under national security seals, can't have any more government contracts - isn't that about 90% of its value?
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
