Yeah, this started long before AI, and the AI just made it worse.

we all knew that streamers were basically giving the service away and spending A on of money to buy viewers. Operating at a serious loss is something that could not go on forever. Plus we all know now that part of this was the streamers taking advantage of vague working in actor contracts around digital distribution to save money by not paying them

I don't necessarily disagree with where you're going here, but can you elaborate on this:

I've worked at government contractors that had real air-gaps for things like their databases, but that does not seem to be the norm for the rest of the world. How would ordinary businesses make use of their databases if they are not network accessible under any circumstances, printed reports? Some sort of unidirectional transmission? What sort of data ingress are they using?

I ask this because I have been involved in the transfer of data in highly regulated, air-gapped systems, and they are incredibly expensive. Are you really indicating that true air-gap databases will be ubiquitous (or at least commonplace) in the forseeable future?

If you go back to around the time of the Cultural Revolution and the period right before that, lots of women finished school after 8th grade and started working, often in dangerous factories. And then they got married and raised families while working. By the time they are 50 they are actually pretty worn out and not capable of doing more.

and how is that woking out in your town? Lots of new buildings going up?

I mean California has such a glut of housing. Better not build anymore.

I'm not really what you'd call an TV commercial expert, like most of us I suspect I try to avoid being forced to watch them as much as possible. But I didn't really see anything particularly weird or bad about this one. If you hadn't told me it was AI created I'd never know know that. It seems a bit too much CGI for my taste is all. It's probably not a great ad but saying 'it fucking sucks' is over the top.

The critics I think are just letting their personal animosity against generative AI drive what they are saying.

It's a cool idea and they stand for a lot of great ideals, but laptops are incredibly hard to get right, drivers are hard to get right, and they are a small team trying to support a large number of possible configurations. Hardware gets more complicated by the year: forget the CPU and various GPUs, just look at how many other devices in a modern computer have a full-on processor, e.g. fancy touchbars, displays, even hard drives! Hell, your CPU probably has its own secondary general-purpose processors for things like security, and our CPUs themselves get firmware updates now to change how their instructions function. They are doing great work, but the deck is so stacked against them that it's not funny.

Most space launch companies are inefficient and ineffective. SpaceX has the margin to pay these taxes, those unfortunates don't. If you want to kill competition in an industry, tax it enough that only the large corporations can survive the loss, and add some complicated regulations in for extra effect. No one else has anything close to what Starship may become, and further reduction in margins will ensure that SpaceX will have a defacto monopoly on non-military space launches while their competitors are strangled paying for FAA services that is disproportionately benefit owners of private jets and charter flights for the rich.

So I personally like knowing if my messages with someone are end to end encrypted.

If kids are hassling each other over this, as they do with nearly every other sort of trivial difference, that's on us for creating a society where kids think thats normal and ok. Making apple turn all bubble beige or whatever doesn't fix bullying.

There should be an open standard that all phones could use that supports all these features but it's not Apple that is stopping that from happening. It's telcos and of course the DOJ is totally against hard encryption for mobile devices.

Apple could I suppose release iMessages for Android although we already have Signal that sits in a similar role.

I don't think top brass messed it up, that Bolt you got for that price was losing GM money. It was a compliance car. If they have to show a profit they couldn't sell it for that price.

Coinbase has a dedicated taxes section of its website. I'm surprised this is not the normal case

As a programmer I'm finding access to tools like GitHub copilot and ChatGPT makes me more productive and less stressed out dealing with simple boilerplate stuff or complex stuff I've not run into. I'm using it to learn new programming languages as well. So for me its a net plus but I get with everything there's winners and losers. Basically everything bad I'm hearing about AI I heard about the internet back in the mid 90s.

If someone has a talent for it and an interest we should nurture it. Telling people to learn to code because it's a stable job option just isn't smart. Not everyone is going to have the type of mind that is a good programmer.

I know some of you might be thinking 'kill someone over a truck'?? but you should know here in TX lots of guys depend on their truck for their living and not just for getting around. I'm talking contractors, builders, landscaping people and so forth where the truck is for business and is a true working vehicle. And despite the police saying 'we have the resources...' people generally don't get their truck back or it comes back totally wrecked and unusable. Lots of people in the US can't afford to miss working. So although I'd personally not kill someone over property, that's me being privileged enough to know if someone takes my car its just a big hassle not a 'losing my job and getting evicted' problem.