Kinda fascinating how we have come full circle on machine learning. One of the few things it is good at are things like recommendation systems and advertising. With the LLM revolution companies tried to break out of that box, and it would be rather fitting if it fell right back in.

From an outside perspective? Almost nothing. The number of antiprotons being transported is almost incomprehensibly tiny, it would take extremely sensitive instruments in a quite pace to even detect them annihilating.

Just like everyone on the internet is 'rational' and 'logical', while anyone who disagrees with them is 'emotional' or 'political'

Yeah, centerists usually are not, well, centerests. A bit part of the right wing world view and identity is that they are 'normal', they are the 'majority' and they are the 'real center', kinda like how they are the 'real americans' and, if you press them enough, the 'real chosen race'. "center' has become another word like 'rational/logical'.. they really are not, but the idea that they are is a core part of their identity and way of shutting down discourse since anyone left of them MUST be a radical.

Yeah, unless the 'everything cloud' push springs back, which is unlikely given how lucrative it has been, I can not imagine a return to high priced desktops. My company is trying ot move us all to sub 1k laptops with the idea that 'everything can be done in cloud VMs instead!'.

Apple is known for going back and forth on things, so it would not surprise me if they brining it back at some point when they get someone in charge who is not as enamored with the studio's design philosophy.

People tend to not like having multiple computers with multiple OSes in their workflow. So people, workgroups, companies, labs, whatever, who are using MacOS will generally want to do their AI work in it too. And over the years, I've known a lot of data scientists and systems engineers who primarily use MacOS for their work, which includes training models from scratch.

Also.. wasn't that 0.17/mile figure that something musk made up in his original pitch and would require infrastructure that doesn't exist? So the math gets 'interesting' if you take a bit of early marketing as real?

Kinda hard to take you seriously when you don't even know about leopard eating faces. Speaks to a great confidence but zero domain knowledge.

Republican voters don't have a platform, the only have a side. Their principles can be shut on and off according to what will get them the most power over others.

Gives him something to do that involves socializing with wealthy autocrats?

So.. i guess they thought to themselves.. 'hey, remember that text editor that morphed into an entire operating system? Yeah, lets do that, with AI!

It was really the 50s that kicked it off, though yeah, Reagan/Gingrich were a bit of a tipping point
 
In the post WWII era when communism was starting to come up, religious leaders (who feared atheism) and capitalist leaders (who feared loss of wealth and power) teamed up and turned greed into a christian commandment

Yep, dynamic memory allocation is a big part of it, though you can do OOP without that.
 
The bigger problem is the syntactic sugar. Things like operator overloading and inheritance (not even getting into things like mixins or polymorphism) are big no-nos. All of those 'make an API that does what I mean' tends to conflict with 'this code does exactly what it looks like it does'. They want a clear direct mapping between source and object, none of this 'well, this equal sign actually jumps to this other arbitrary function that is pulled from a table stored in a class definition'

Several people have pointed out the futility of trying to apply your country's laws to people based out of other countries, but it isn't quite as pointless as you might think. There are all sorts of mechanisms for handling this, starting with extradition treaties (where the whole idea is countries selectively respecting each other's laws), as well as working directly with banks. The US is not the only country that pulls the 'well, because your bank wants to operate in the US, they accept orders to freeze your funds'. The UK is, after all, another major banking hub that can exert that kind of pressure.
 
Now, the politics of extradition tends to be pretty expensive, so the UK would have to weigh if trying to go that route is really worth it, but ultimately all they have to do is convince US officials to go along with it.
 
Or they could outright kidnap them. That president is pretty well established by the US, it would actually be kinda funny to see some country turn it around.