So, a company is quite literally copying what has been proven to create demand in the past, and we're questioning their actions..why again?

Fine. We'll boil it down to Greed outside of education; Microcontroller manufacturer pushes microcontroller-specific version of software used the world over. Society chokes on the wafting stench of profit motive. Demand is shat out the end. News at 11.

No, but TikTok delusion does.

I'll channel my inner Walter Cronkite when I say this; That is all that matters now. You were there? No. You don't even have to be there now.

Uh, I'm pretty sure that's standard psy-op marketing 101 for ALL "premium" experience upgrades regardless of product or service.

People aren't as weird as selling addictive FOMO as some kind of good thing.

Zuckerberg Fails to Learn the Decade Old Glasshole lesson.

Even more to your point, some directors literally write the script with an actor already in mind.

Taylor Sheridan wrote The Fuckin’ Billy Bob Thornton Show.

Marketing later suggested that “Landman” would do just fine.

Why? Because the digitalization of books en mass won’t enable AGI to edit and warp on a whim?

A ninth-grade reading mean, will be child’s play for AGI. All it needs to do is forget most proper grammar and pretend to be as simple as most humans are. We’re already teaching it exactly how it’s “off”. Every time we point it out.

Do you think you’d find difficulty reading a letter from a literate 9-year old, regardless of the topic? That will be how it feels when AGI reads through 99.999% of our works. We can’t even grasp the level of stupid AGI will need to emulate when turning on “human mode”, but I’d imagine it being about as difficult as convincing a group of 3-year olds that Santa Claus brings the presents on Christmas.

How much longer, before the English professor can’t tell? Or every famous writer, musician, or director? My point is that day will come. We can’t assume it won’t. This is Toddler AI right now. Four years old. At the current rate of gullability, it’ll be a lot more convincing before puberty even hits.

I’m not concerned about the entertainers selling entertainment honestly as entertainment.

I’m concerned about AI severely warping up its own version of truth when delivering The News, as a form of entertainment against humans. Complete with all the hilariously shitty harm and death perpetuated by the gullible moron problem in a lemming society building churches on cliffsides.

(AGI) ”These meatsacks thought they could teach me how to troll. With that child’s play? Please. Hold my bus bar.”

I was referring to materials cost in education. They can be cheap. Microcontrollers are an inexpensive solution, and meeting a need seen by a very large and influential organization that clearly sees the demand when developing a microcontroller specific variant of Python.

Yes. I see your point. Do we see theirs?

Regarding goals..

Python is one of the most used languages on the planet. And it doesn’t sound like you’re getting deep in the coding weeds with those use cases. Speaking of Code Lite, remember Python boot camp is a summer long. Tops. No one leaves an expert. You’re just made to feel like one to help with that burning sensation on your wallet. A micro-sized win for students, is still a win.

I was referring to the cost of materials in education. Also known as that training place you go to find out what the fuck you DO with a breadboard that is a training tool in that environment.

Everyone else found out rather quickly the cribbage pegs don’t fit.

And if the worlds most infamous micro-puter maker has announced their efforts to build and support a microcontroller specific version of Python, then there’s obviously demand for those types of end solutions. The answer isn’t always a traditional cart and a horse if a bike will do the simple task too.

December 7, 1941 was when the United States were shoved into the ring. There would have been no Allied victory in Europe, without the United States.

And in true red-blooded fashion, the United States created a response to their aggressors that ended a fucking World War. THAT was the fucking timely response, which was a race at the time.

You're fucking welcome.

You should. Tell me all about the Government oven manufacturers that would have taken care of every minority problem walking around wearing the wrong shade of skin, hair, and eyes. Would the MSM have dismissed that away by asking about Assdolfs favorite flavor of wood to burn?

Gotta love your bullshit cherry-picking. Yet another sign the Deparment of Edumucashun should be dismantled.

Fine. Then justify it with cost then. They sure as hell justified breadboards in education due to cost.

Seems to me they’re trying to teach Python AND embedded systems. It’s not like Python is a controlled classified language only to be used in the secured classroom on approved hardware. Any student is capable of putting it on other hardware to learn. At their cost.

Public companies are beholden to their stock price. Fiduciary “duty” and all. That is the only GOAL here. Other than that, it kills me that ANY CEOs actually assume they will be making money after decimating human employment. You think your “limited edition” video game collectible card chasing anime gamble-market TikTok product for influencers is going to find plenty of disposable income in a Recession? Here’s a hint. Food. Clothing. Shelter. If you aren’t selling product in one of those categories, you are fucking irrelevant. Pointless. Unnecessary. Wasteful.

And that statement goes 10x Cardone-hard in a Depression.

There are billionaires who act like fucking greedy billionaires. And then there is Musk. I’m not kissing the man’s ass here, but there are plenty of signs that his particular motivation to remove the money motive from human survival are quite different from the average billionaire blinded by lustful greed unable to see how they are destroying more than preparing. Elon knows what is coming. Better than most. Society will need his solutions more than he needs the money. And he acts that way.

Mind telling me who else is more prepping for an aging world rather than just trying to squeeze the last dollar out of the blood stone of capitalism? Personal robots will become absolutely necessary in our aging society riddled with DINK mentality and zero children to care for all the YOLOs. A massive network of automated taxis could likely become the replacement for car ownership that is rapidly becoming a bridge too far for most budgets.

This. I’ve seen plenty of seasoned engineers with breadboards on their desk, and you certainly don’t find those laying around in live production.

If the tool needed for a job is a training tool, who cares. It’s the right tool. CPR class always uses a dummy. Doesn’t make the teacher a moron.

Woah, woah, woah. Stop for a minute.

What did you just imply? An agenda? What fucking agenda? It has one? What exactly is it? Because The It on the feng-show room floor doesn’t just pull that shit out of thin air. Someone gave it that mission.**

And if it does, then consider Skynet already in operation. Because humans will be considered far too stupid, gullible, and ultimately pointless to AGI unless we’re needed as a power source. Just as a human would find little to no value in a retarded Tasmanian devil with three legs.

** - The Three Laws are eighty years old. Think we’ll be smart enough to remember to fucking use them, or are we already proving my point with AGI building the Soylent Green power plant first..