Taking my own advice, I stopped writing novels 3-4 years ago (lifelong scifi author before that) and am now working as a carpenter.

Go for it! I've been using that one for about a year now, and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth...

If a company published a 30-volume printed encyclopedia and 10% of it was made up, they would be a laughing stock. News would spread far and wide, memes would spring up, and even the thickest of the thick would know not to trust that encyclopedia unless they wanted people to laugh at them too.

But because digital is somehow seen as transient and is held to a much lower standard, these companies are getting away with it.

Anyway, I recommend people learn a manual skill* because digital employment is going the way of the dodo.

*Until we get reliable humaniform robots, and then everyone is screwed.

YOU may believe all content is interchangeable, and you may see this AI-generated crap as functionally equivalent to human-generated podcasts, but as you shovel this garbage onto your audience you should know that your audience does, in fact, know the difference.

AI hallucination in a factual broadcast is like catshit on a pizza: It doesn't matter how infrequent it is, no amount is acceptable.

Towing a loaded semi-trailer uphill there and back

When 50% of cars on the road are EVs, 50% of the gas stations will be gone. When it's 80%, only 20% of gas stations will be left. At that point people will be driving 50-100 miles to fill up, then 50-100 miles to get home again, and an EV will suddenly seem like a good idea even to the holdouts.

I used to carry a 100mb zip disk between work and home, switching between one for each working day. I had about 30 zip disks in total, and I only shredded them all about 10 years ago after copying them all onto more modern backup storage. Then I tossed the zip drives as well.

Fantastic storage for the time, never had one go bad.

When we're talking about engines on aircraft, it's important. 1,300HP is still relatively small, often what we're talking about in small turboprops. A 737, for example, will have north of ~30kHP, or 25+MW. A lot of readers are thinking 1MW is larger than it really is.

Yes, but calling it "megawatt class" makes it sound disproportionately impressive. Remember, 1MW is only ~1,300HP.

Dammit, I meant free to download and install, not free to play.

Then they should have made it free to play with a monthly fee.

Amazing it happened on April 1st, too.

Good luck unpicking all this special AI source code when the data centres all shut down due to lack of power or money.

I have the same issue on a couple of folders. There are some large exe files in there (downloaded installers) and the explorer window doesn't even show the directory contents for about 2-3 minutes. I'm only running Windows Defender, no 3rd party AV, so something in Windows is taking an absolute age to analyse those files *every time I view that folder*