Honestly, it's not that much more expensive per foot. Also, in a lot of places, the last run isn't super long anyway. And the distance before you hit fiber is shorter and shorter in a lot of cases.

Also, the services are simple. You get a dynamic IP (more if you want a static IP). That's it. No email, TV, phone. Comcast has way more complex infrastructure and that's on them. They also got used to renting equipment and making money on getting dimes and quarters here and there. My fiber installation fee came with a optical to Ethernet terminator (a small box). I own it.

Comcast can get lean and compete on internet alone if they want to, but it's much hard to do versus about "unrealistic" pricing. Cheaper options for more is nice in this era of paying more for nearly everything else.

This makes little sense to me. It's not a huge burden to declare you used LLM tools. It is a acknowledgement that the code was generated from tools that have used sources that are not attributed nor provide primary sources for the derivative works they create.

My bias is that all the major LLMs have abused the notion of fair use to an completely unreasonable degree. It's a stretch from allowing academic teaching and research to exist to making all the monies for some tech startups.

It would be different if these tools were indeed freely available for non-commercial and research purposes, but that's literally too expensive to do.

Linux, a project whose success is directly tied to the GPL-2 license and the protections it afforded is now just shrugging it's shoulders and saying why even bother just noting that code came from a tool that inhaled everything out there, because it's useful?

That's just lazy.

Of course they will complain about any new costs that they have to absorb. But, they are complaining to the wrong people. Given the current US administration's level of isolation and uncertainly, the EU has to enforce this as a matter of practicality. Just handle it and send a polite invoice to the White House for the additional costs.

Why we connect to movies, art, music and so on is thinking about what the artists was thinking, trying to convey.

In a movie, we appreciate the craft in bring words to life and it does require a high level of skill. Bad acting kills a story.

But, in the age of hyper-condensed media and attention spans, a whole generation is being trained to enjoy absolute garbage, devoid of any real effort. Even, then, it is actual human beings doing the dances or whatever on Tik-Tok and so on. If AI comes in and replaces the last human part, it will just make some people appreciate reality even more.

Also, we know the outcome here. It leads to people being vaguely unhappy, disconnected and unable to really feel a sense of accomplishing anything.

I am probably wrong, but I hope there is a real rejection of the current social media culture and there is a embracing of making computers into mere tools again.

Companies that ran roughshod over copyright and IP in order to create AGI (whatever the heck that means this month) are unhappy that China, who fundamentally doesn't see copyright and IP in the same way at all, are stealing things to undercut models they shouldn't have access too.

The same companies that wanted to eliminate as many creative or coding jobs as possible.

Oh no. How completely unexpected.

While this isn't just a random AI hyperscale buzzword next gen data center, it is a large data center. And people that live where it is going have the right to know how it will be powered, cooled and all the environmental impact it has.

AI has brought more scrutiny to this in general because of all the bad well people building new data centers as fast as possible have brought. Making entire neighborhoods almost unlivable because of constant noise. People paying more for electricity to support grid updates they didn't need. Water shortages and so on.

LANL can and should be showing the way on how to create a data center with the highest standards of transparency, quality and care for the environment. And if they can't, too bad.

That level of coerced overtime is a big sign that things are about to collapse in a big way.

Very few companies make it through that kind of death march, much less newer companies. Most can't pay off the technical debt and the cost of employee turnover and things go south. In this case, it's doubly damming. You can't sell big gains in productivity and labor costs when you have to run your own workforce into the ground. If you are choking on your own dogfood, you can't expect to put a shiny label on the can and hope it sells.

None of this is surprising. Writing code was never the hardest part of software projects. It is making sure the code that is written is an acceptable foundation for the end goals of the project or company. Making code faster than people can read and review it just doesn't make sense. It may pay off or more likely, completely fall apart.

I personally I am not motivated to switch over (I like my workflow with Windows), but anybody that does, thanks. It will get their attention and it will start to make a difference.

As much as Microsoft's leadership wants people to think AI and Azure is Microsoft, their brand is Windows. The worse Windows is, the worse their brand is.

If a district has made the effort to get Windows working well enough, then stay there. You have more hardware vendors to choose from and the "bring your own" options are there as well. And there is really good hardware for about the same cost as the Neo and even cheaper options.

Honestly, macOS doesn't make sense in that environment. By the time it does, the children are probably old enough to have their own MacBook and get things done anyway.

The only question mark around Chromebooks is Google does have a tendency to just drop projects out of the blue, but no need to cry "the sky is falling" yet.

Personally, I think Windows is the best option. It's everywhere, having some experience with it for most jobs will be useful and it doesn't really inhibit older students from branching on their own.

If somebody learns enough about organic synthesis to make cocaine after doing a lot of reading about it in a library (or two), the library isn't on the hook just because they had books people can read to synthesize knowledge.

If a library handed out an actual recipe with very clear instructions on making cocaine that also forgets to note how dangerous step four is, then yea, the library is liable.

I don't have a problem if these AI companies are held liable. You can't make massive money spewing out slop and go "oh, not our fault" when somebody slips and falls hard on that exact same slop.

It's getting a bit tiring to hear yet another example of how poorly the ecosystem created around these systems are and yet any reasonable criticism is too often met with some random variation of "AI is inevitable, adapt or die". Nothing here is inevitable, not even close.

OpenAI, the company, did this. It's not an employee or AI gone rouge. They were testing the model to do a thing and they did such a poor job of creating a proper testing environment that they created a major security incident with a competing AI company.

And they want to you to pay them to mine all your data so that they, well, trust them, it'll will be super cool and totally worth whatever we will charge you.

Put it back in the box and let it bake. Go fast and break stuff has limits.

There was a push in some factories to adopt a "30/40" approach. Schedule people for 30 hours, pay them for 40. There will be no real change in actual productivity (it may improve a bit), you can run three solid shifts and idle the machines to save power.

The pilot programs worked a treat. Probably didn't survive management coming in and not realizing that the 30 hours part was the critical part, went back to normal hours with a brief overall gain that quickly faded.

The forty hour workweek was designed with a single income household in mind. We'd all be better with an actual 32 hour workweek and strict overtime enforcement.

I look forward to the comments in which that is deemed lazy and how working 60 hours to mainly grow the wealth of the ownership class is the only proper American work ethic.

I mean, I sure enjoyed having to clean up the messes that overworked, slave to the grind programmers with delusions that stock options would be their way out made. Well, I didn't actually. Paid okay, however.

Not just DAWs, but all the VSTs out there are pretty much Mac or Windows. Sure, there are projects that support them on Linux, but the reality is so hit and miss that it is just not worth it. There are a ton of weird little programs people out there might use and like that keep people on Windows. If you bought a Cricut for random craft projects, you are pretty much toast on Linux.

As people note, there are lots of options for tasks on Linux, but for many things, people don't want a choice. Few people overall want choices for exploring the file system via a GUI or how to install a program and so on. They just want to cut out some craft paper and get on with things.

For Linux to get even close to how popular Windows or MacOS are, it would give up all the things that power users like about it. I don't know why some many Linux users are seeking this "year of the desktop" when it is a perfect example of being wary of what you wish for.

I fully expect this administration to just be an extension of Trump's ego at this point. Yes, going after companies that he disagrees with is a major issue (see how the FCC pressured major networks and how quickly some of them folded).

I can't care about Anthropic getting in a spat with Trump. Anthropic were the ones that started this "our model is so good at finding security exploits, it's too dangerous" marketing campaign and people are surprised that the current administration took their word for it and banned even their "safe" version after a simple jailbreak was found? There is a good argument that there are other models that are about as good as Anthropic's models when it comes to finding potential security flaws, but none of them when around saying "it was too dangerous to release to the general public".

They made their bed and somebody came along and lit it on fire. Seems par for the course these days.

I mean an AI would never look at a request to by a pair of wireless headphones and order a pair of wireless headphones. And by pair, you mean two orders of the same wireless headphones that were less than 150.00 each, correct?

This will be fun.