I'm still waiting on the Johnny Cab!

I just wish they would go back to standard time and leave it! DST is a stupid thing that has no real benefit in the world today. "Oh! But you get an extra hour of daylight!". No, you get your sleep rhythm messed up. Ok, then set the clocks to DST all the time. Yeah, and for most people the sun won't rise in the winter until after they get to work. Those in the northern hemisphere won't see sunrise until after 9am! The old indian chief said it best: "only white man think cut bottom off blanket and sew on top, make blanket longer."

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Not just Apple, but pretty much any publicly traded company. All they care about these days it making the stock price higher. They don't care about innovation. Especially when (not just apple) other companies that make smart phones and what not can get people to line up to buy a new one EVERY YEAR.

In the 80's-90's antibiotics were handed out like candy for everything. Any chance the "bugs" have become resistant?

It's planet of short stature now

After years of other manufacturers building folding phones, you would think Apple would have bought them, dissected all of them to see how they are built, how to improve designs and what not. Other than a manufacturing defect in a few hinges, I don't understand how Apple would release something like this. No pun intended, but Apples integrity HINGED on this phone.

The good old days were before that. Circa '92 was good. Reasonable etiquette, news groups for almost every interest you could care to name, decent people you could run into (a bunch of people I met on the 'net prior to '92 was the start of many trips over to the States, many of whom I'm still in touch with). After '92-93 was the Eternal September, and the net went to hell in a handbasket.

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

Uncopyrightable just means public domain. Using public domain code doesn't make your whole work public domain.

Interesting... I didn't consider that angle.
Thanks!

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

My opinion is that AI will kill Linux eventually. Not now, not when Linus uses it, because Linus knows how to code and is careful. But eventually the crappy vibe-coded junk will seep into the kernel. And then you'll get Microsoft-style code quality issues.

Birds are pretty smart, full stop. They're the only group that has a method of creating and using their own hooked tools (Caledonian Crow) other than humans.
They are excellent problem solvers overall. Given their size relative to comparative intellects (Crows are comparable in intellect to monkeys and gorillas), they're absolute marvels.

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.