It's not copyright infringement. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, only the specific form an idea takes. This is why, for example, there's many sci-fi seafaring tales, but in space books, TV shows and films.

Heck, I finally got around to watching that Wednesday series on Netflix and they basically did that whole school for exceptional outcasts trope, which is so heavily used that it actually ends up divided into several sub tropes.

Your UID is too low to not be aware that mergers and acquisitions always end in enshittification.
 

I'm a night owl too, and I honestly don't care which one they pick as long as they get rid of the biannual clock fuckery. It's the losing an hour of sleep that makes it rough, once that's done away with I couldn't care less that I'm actually being "tricked" into waking up an hour earlier than solar time.

If I got one for free, I'd probably plug it in and mess with it a bit, establish that it doesn't really add anything useful, and shove it in a drawer.

If it was $25, I could see a few niche users buying it.

But $230 is insanity.

How about we just don't? It's not as if you won't be able to go to the store that closes at 10PM for groceries if your employer doesn't let you off until 5:00PM when others are off at 4:00PM. Also, a lot of us don't have kids and we'd consider it a perk to work at an employer that isn't fucking with the clocks twice a year to align the work schedule with the schools (or at least makes it something you can choose an an employee - many companies do let you come in an hour earlier or leave an hour later).

Society schedules things in a far more ad-hoc manner these days anyway. Even "Prime Time TV" is basically a dead concept, replaced by on-demand streaming.

Now we have solar powered LED lighting though, so it's NBD to install some lights at the bus stop.

And "walking" to school? Hah, these days the kids that aren't riding the bus or being chauffeured by their parents are on e-bikes and e-scooters (which either already have lights or they can be easily added).

Is that a problem? It feels uncomfortable, sure. But what's the legal take here?

... to begin with. Why I don't quite get is that many people seem to be unaware of how quickly LLMs will be optimized to run on quasi-regular hardware, not needing the insane datacenters primarly used for training. AI _is_ a revolutionary tech, no doubt, but there also is a bubble that likely is about to pop.

Any IBM project I've seen in the last two decades has been filled with outsourced Indian consultants that put in the hours warning their chairs and accomplish nothing only to be replaced by another bumbling Indian to do the same when there is no progress and complaints come in from management and new time extension contract needs to be signed for when time and materials exceed the estimated costs until the project fails.

IBM SameTime, Lotus Notes Mail server upgrades, Z/OS migrations, x390 upgrades, P-Series hardware refresh, TADDM CMDB inventory, BigFix patch management failures, and the list goes on. All IBM products and projects that I've had to help fix, implement, maintain until replacements can be installed and IBM garbage ripped out.

Teaching IBM mainframe consultants how to FTP files to their mainframe filesystem partitions to upgrade the z/OS shows how low that company is sunk after it moved to India since it fired all of their local US talent and mainframe guys.

Any project that IBM touches goes IBM Blue(TM) from asphyxiation and withers away and dies.

Now they are losing to AI on their inept services and software projects after failing to anticipate that is just par per course for their consulting business. Just as bad as Deloitte.

Microsoft is following on their heels now also, full of outsources and offshored Indians and people wonder why Windows 11 sucks so hard?!

The US techies are left scrambling for the few leftover IT jobs here to be taken over by AI after they implement the death knell for their back-office working bretherent. They are building their own AI terminators, first for the non techies who are the clerks and analysts, but then for themselves to snipe each other out of the few remaining jobs in the future maintaining the AI IT infrastructure.

... is what I suspect. If AI has the impact many predict, people will have to rely on their social security network for a while, but given the AI productivity boost things will get way cheaper too. There will be chaos and more pain than necessary for country with a sub-par wealth distribution, but by and large I am somewhat optimistic about the AI shakeup.

If all goes as it should we'll all simply be working less in 10 years time. To be honest, I already am. AI has cut my workload and increased my productivity even further to more than compensate for me calling it a day an hour earlier than just a year ago.

Your link - seriously?

"Tobacco giants say"? Dude, they said that smoking is actually healthy for a few decades. I'd trust my cat around buckets full of her favorite treat more than those companies.

Because the cost to society is paid not by the smokers but by all of us. And health care costs are only the tip of the iceberg.

There's no culling here. Both doom scrolling and smoking kill you so slowly that evolutionary it doesn't matter.

Feature request:

Implement more engaging side quests after the main goal of winning capitalism has been completed.

In my neck of the woods, idiot human drivers regularly still somehow manage to get hit by our commuter train. That's astoundingly easy to avoid - just don't stop on the train tracks. The bar for autonomous driving being better than humans is very, very low.

Tesla's FSD actually seems kind of decent from the videos I've seen people post. It's definitely no worse than how humans drive on I-4 in Orlando. What I mostly take issue with is that Tesla promised this feature to people who bought cars with hardware that would never be capable of running the current generation of FSD software.