If HHS can pull that off and make taxpayer funded science available via open or very low cost source, they won't have to cancel subscriptions, the pubs will die a natural death. It is ridiculous that gov't funded research isn't freely available. I get peer reviewers like an honorarium, but I'd propose adding to research grants a stipulation that for every X dollars of grant money the grantee needs to provide Y of peer reviews.

His is an odd quote considering Henry Ford based his company on selling cars to the masses and having workers who could afford a Ford. If AI is truly that good, why does a company need a CEO? It'll react to real time data indicating changes in teh market and make decisions long before a CEO and board can, and hallucination assures many of those will be as head scratching a with a human CEO.

First off, I'm not convinced the general movie goer population cares one way or the other about ads, and if they really do they can come later. That's capitalism at work, providing choices while keeping prices lower. You can come 30 minutes later and not see any ads or previews, and others can come earlier if they want. Both sides win and get the benefit of the viewing experience they prefer and lower prices. No one is forced to watch the ads, and if a theater thought an ad free experience was economically viable they will no doubt offer it; my money is most people, given the choice of ad free at a premium or being able to decide when to come and pay less will chose the later. Unless enough chose the former, the theater will go out of business and capitalism worked.

No, I am saying most consumers probably don't care and will simply adjust their behaviors to arrive so as to miss most of them, and theaters want to make enough money to stay in business without raising prices to the point people stop going; so ads are a bit of a prado efficient solution. I don't like them and generally arrive close enough to the start to avoid most of them, and since seats are reserved in advance I still sit where I want. The advertiser probably just get total ticket sales and some demographic data, so the theater gets paid for my eyeballs on ads while I get to avoid them and ticket prices don't have to rise.

Unfortunately, capitalism capitalism is designed to provide a solution that meets the needs of most of people while ignoring those need of a small percentage of consumers.

and letting the market decide. If moviegoers decide not to go because of ads, theaters will close or change their business model. Some have gone to a model where food service is more of the experience, including beer; while having reasonably low prices for the ticket. At least AMC says when to show up to avoid ads and trailers, if the offer reserved seating for advance purchases they’ve solved teh ‘arrive late and get a bad seat’ problem as well.

No no no, see, these regulations are working exactly as intended.

Google/Alphabet is looking for ways to extract more and more "Value(tm)" for their shareholders, and since they have already plumbed the legal avenues for revenue generation, the only options left are grey, and outright illegal methods of generating it, as it concerns user privacy, and as it relates to monopolistic business practices.

The "Innovation!!" that this, and other large companies are screaming about, is the "NEW! and AMAZING, MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES!" presented by Flagrantly violating consumer and market ethics, and they are OH, SO VERY UPSET by this.

The pointed response to this, is to ask google, bluntly, what exactly it has really brought in terms of USEFUL PRODUCT in the past decade, because search is DEMONSTRABLY inferior to what it was in the past (which is enshitification, not innovation), and Google Play services are just a walled garden pretending to be open by comparison with apple's white-plastic-dystopia.

The only thing it's really invested in, is in new and increasingly awful ways to fuck over users of their platform for profit. (The a-fore mentioned Grey and Illegal practices I mentioned)

EU regulation is doing EXACTLY what it is supposed to be doing, and Google needs to be FUCKING TOLD THIS, VERY VERY FUCKING PUBLICLY.

Sadly, our regulators here are so bought and paid for by these trolls, that such a missive will be a very long day coming, but hopefully EU stands firm in actually fucking protecting their citizenry, as opposed to the fucking gilded age horseshit we have over here in the states about these matters.

Ahh, yes...because it was *top* priority for the Biden administration..or even got a mention on Harris's "four years of JOY!!!11" campaign trail that followed her four years of being VP where she could have attempted to get a subcommittee together in the Senate.

Or because Gavin Newsom or Kathy Hochul or Maura Healey have made it any level of a priority for businesses in their respective deep-blue states.

The Republicans certainly couldn't care less about the issue at all...but let's not pretend that the CFPB cracked the top 20 of priorities for Democrats.

That would be true if all the graduate expected to do was write code; what the graduate needs to be think is 'how can I use what I've learned to identify solutions to problems by understanding what is needed and then use the tools to deliver that." The jobs in danger are all those cheap coding shops that employ a bunch of people to churn out code; companies ill be able to do more of that in house or with shops that can understand the need and use tools to deliver it.

I use it much like a community to get help with programming, asking questions such as "what does this statement do?" or "what are ways to do X?" or "What is wrong with this code ...?" or " Can I accomplish X by doing this using this code...? I don't use it to simply 'vibe code' but to help me get over a hurdle when I can't figure something out; much like how a community works but with instant response.

I view it as an adjunct and learning tool; not to simply produce cut and paste code. If it generates code I followup asking for a detailed explanation of how it works so I understand what it is doing, which I download and save for use later if needed. For example, I am using it to understand matplotlib's cmap function to generate gradient svgs t use as labels for graphs. It's a lot quicker yo ask AI to explain how it works after reading the documentation. It's also useful for answering specific questions such as "What are the hex codes for these colors...?' instead of doing a web search.

That said, the answers and code is hit or miss. Even if I wanted to , the code it generates often isn't cut and paste and I have had numerous occasions where I've followed up with 'shouldn't this line be this" to have it reply 'Yes, you are correct, let me fix it...'

As a learning tool and documentation it has been very useful expanding my knowledge as well as letting me focus in on what I am try to accomplish with my program. Instant response is also useful.

One are I have found it very useful is for documenting my code. I have it add line by line comments to my code so it is clear what is being done for future reference, as well as generate markdown documentation of the code. That way, when I deliver it, if it needs updating or changes later it is clear what I was doing and why. Without AI generated documentation my code would be littered with random comments and not really as easy to decipher.

For me, if all you do is vibe code you are replaceable by AI and a free intern; the real value is using it is to help deliver a solution based on what the client wants, which requires someone who can bridge the gap and is the human value add. That is especially true since the client often doesn't know just what they want and needs help defning it. Until AI gets good at reading minds there will be plenty of work to go around.

So, these are a few things off the top of my head; I tend to limit my usage to only smaller installs, so consider this more of a "stuff to Google for clarification" list than a definitive set of information...

I think the biggest thing is that there is no analogue to vSAN. It'll mount iSCSI and NFS targets, and its ceph implementation is at least on par with VMFS, but larger installs that depend on vSAN tend to be underwhelmed.

The Proxmox Datacenter Manager, which allows for live migration of VMs between hosts, is still in an alpha state. I've had it work pretty well; it's quite polished for something being described as being in its alpha stage, but the functional equivalent of vMotion is still lacking.

Meanwhile, support is not quite at VMWare levels. Obviously, post-Broadcom, VMWare support took a nose dive, but Proxmox does not offer direct phone support, instead depending on resellers to do so.

Beyond that, I personally found the UI to be rather unintuitive, for example storage is defined at a 'datacenter' level, rather than at a 'host' level. PCIe Passthrough can be a bit...special, compared to VMWare having that be a trivial matter. Also, more sophisticated networking configs are more "Linux-y" in Proxmox than in VMWare, which uses a more traditional switches-and-ports paradigm that's much easier to understand and visualize. I also found VMWare's storage to be simpler, in that a datastore can have thin-provisioned VMs, thick-provisioned VMs, and installer ISOs all sit next to each other in harmony, while Proxmox gets more...particular. For example, an LVM-Thin volume will thin provision any VM stored to it and won't allow QCOW2 virtual disks to be added to it. ZFS storage is more flexible on that front, but it handles snapshots differently...

I say all of this as someone who either has moved, or will move, all of my VMWare clients to Proxmox. The feature set is more than enough for all of them, and as an added bonus, Proxmox is a *lot* less picky about hardware; I've got a box full of 10GbE NICs that got a new lease on life because VMWare decided the PCIe 3.0 Qlogic cards were 'too old', while Proxmox will still send traffic over a 10-Base-2 BNC network through an ISA card if I gave it one.

Of course they do; it's just more insidious. Try installing software without an iCloud Account...it's getting more and more difficult to get downloadable DMG files anymore; even open source Wireguard doesn't distribute a client for OSX independently of the Mac App Store.

Now, once one has the almost-obligatory iCloud account tied to the Mac, the nags come when the storage runs out...because while us PC folk can install 4TB internal SSDs, possibly two of them or even more, there is no way to upgrade the internal storage on a Macbook.

So, the choice is to either walk around with a USB external drive forever...*or*, capitulate to the conveniently-placed notices about how iCloud can seamlessly put 2TB of data in iCloud for you and manage it automagically, so you never run out of space, for $10/month. ...so yes, Apple has its nags; they're just more transparent because storage isn't the primary sales pitch for iCloud+...and while Microsoft is assuredly worse about the nags and notices, Apple isn't innocent.

But is the total cost cheaper? I have a neighbor who sells and installs doors. He custom makes wooden ones but the big decorative iron ones are cheaper to fabricate and ship from China than source locally; teh downside is lead time since he needs to fill a container before shipping. He loaclly sources teh glass so he can replace a broken panel for the customer long after the door is installed.

Of course, ending stuff is only good if it doesn't impact your voters. We're already seeing that in higher profile issues such as Medicaid/SNAP and immigration where R's are realizing their voters will bear the brunt of the cuts and their farmers/construction/other industries that rely on immigrant labor will suffer and jobs be lost. Nad voters, as they see the impact in their communities are saying "That's not what I thought would happen or what I want,' well you dumb fucks he told you what he would do and you voted that way anyway, so live with the impact on you.

Because - and I can't believe I have to explain this - if you have the generated value so that you can validate your identity to the computer, there's no way the computer can verify whether I paid you $50,000 for that code. There's no way for the computer to validate whether the data exports I perform are for backup purposes, or to extort the company.

So, whether we're dealing with metal keys, or 8192-bit SSL certificates combined with a 24-character password and an iris scanner...the human holding the means of access can use that access for good or for ill, and there can be motivations for both of them, including bribes. Whether one does so for money in the context of a "paycheck", or does so for money in the context of a "bribe", is fundamentally impossible for a computer to ascertain before it gives you access.