And now some of it is AI.

Money gets moved around a lot. The more it moves, the more people benefit from it. Every dollar spent becomes someone else's paycheck, someone else's income tax, etc. It's true that if you look at the number and try to move that needle independently, you wreck the meaning of the numbers. They are only symbolic numbers. But they represent something real.

That's true of modern systems too. Good practices should include highly modularized interconnected systems. A ground-up rewrite is impossible for monolithic software that's been around very long. That's why you need small enough pieces that you can actually take them on.

People actually forgot what failsafe means. It's not just contingencies within your code. It's expecting failure, and making sure that any possible failure has a safe result.

You know people actually need calories to live, even when you need to lose weight (especially protein, so you don't catabolize muscle).

The law of unintended consequences

Technically these drugs do change your diet and habits - that's what most of the weight loss comes from. Eating poorly for a while causes a mass die-off of bacteria in your digestive tract that helps with digesting healthy and fiber-rich foods. Those same bacteria actually release their own GLP-1 agonists. We can probably do better than these medications but they aren't a cheap gimmick either - these are drugs that try to make your body function as if it doesn't have a metabolic disorder and it drives better behavior as a result.

It's not expensive to make. Buying out the patent would make it affordable.

That is one way to price healthy food further and further out of budget.

It's not obvious overeating that is the issue for most. Most people are forced into relatively sedentary careers with long commutes, and it's worse the more education you have. An excess 100 calories a day adds up to 10 lbs of weight gain a year. It doesn't even take much activity to reverse that deficit. And then if you have kids, there is pressure to always be carting them around from one after-school activity to another. A home-cooked meal is unlikely because there is no time. Even if you want to eat healthy, there isn't really much "fast" food that isn't something like burgers and fries.

tl;dr It's a cultural problem, but it's not generally an eating or self control problem.

Social media companies just don't want to self-regulate and at the same time don't want to be sued by parents. If no laws exist, self-regulating limits your marketshare compared to other companies who don't. When there are no laws and no self-regulation, parents will take liability concerns into their own hands and sue for things.

For the most part, 2.4GHz is the only practical WiFi band for smart devices due to wall penetration. But outdoor cameras with line of sight are a pretty good use case for higher bands. Though not many people have APs near exterior walls in every direction.

A real functioning prototype is the opposite of vapor. It may not be useful to know, but you can't have hardware ready to sell the moment standards are finalized by waiting.

In the real world, I doubt 320Mhz is practical. Too much overlap. It's like trying to use 80Mhz on 2.4GHz. That's been available for a long time, but practically speaking it might as well not exist. It's just there so they can but a bigger theoretical max speed on the box.

California, the place famous for mispronouncing all Spanish city/street names except for Rodeo Drive (which people are obsessive about specifically for some reason).