We used to have EDDs (etc) which companies could inform of their job openings, and people could go to them and find out about opportunities that matched their backgrounds. These evolved into places to get help with resumes and searches for jobs, but not with job listings themselves. While those are clearly needed functions, having a trusted source of job listings with a legal obligation not to needlessly disclose information about you to third parties was also valuable.

At least with a government program there is a reasonable possibility of useful oversight under some administrations. With private operators it always seems to go wrong for lack of transparency, as opposed to only most of the time.

There are good alternatives too now, like GOWIN. I know it's not always an option, you might need Xilinx features, you might be familiar with them already, but I find it's often worth the effort to move if you can.

As I recall one pilot held their stick back to keep the nose up the whole time, which doomed them. Airbus averages the inputs from the two pilots. Boeing produces a "dual inputs" warning.

Because he held back the whole time, the other pilot's efforts to level the aircraft and gain speed were ineffective. As you say, it was noticed at the last minute, but too late.

That always seemed like a very weird design choice to me. But also, the crew should have noticed sooner, and they should have made it clear who was flying and that the other pilot needed to let go of their controls.

Seems to be more a case of enough AI tokens and the source code, and all bugs become shallow.

Presumably Microsoft has Copilot doing the same for Windows, and Apple has some AI working on MacOS and iOS, and we know Google has been using Gemini AI for Android.

They just quietly fix stuff before it becomes public knowledge, but Linux is open source so can't really do that.

This isn't true. All you need is a lot more people than there is work for them to do for it to make sense. We're well past that, and very far into make work for the sake of employment. That's waste, i.e. inefficiency, and therefore worse than UBI because it requires resource consumption to maintain.

This is quite possibly true. If we don't learn to work together and control our government rather than having it controlling us, then UBI won't really make things better. It will only change how we are oppressed.

There are obviously cases where complete vertical integration makes no sense; literally all of them if you interpret 'complete' at full strictness; but when someone actually says "privatization" they basically always mean contracting out something large enough to be or have been an internal program. Sort of the way you don't say "outsourcing" unless it either was or plausibly could be an internal function. Ordering copy paper from staples or having a meeting catered generally doesn't count.

That doesn't mean to say that it's always a bad idea; but when someone says 'privatization' that's a "we'll have SAIC do it" proposal not a "employees and the DoE use laptops they got under a GSA schedule contract rather than from the First People's Computational Manufactury" proposal.

Perhaps, but what a great job the unions did negotiating even this much. A massive bonus, nearly 8 times annual salary, and even if the stock price does crash eventually, those workers still did extremely well out of it.

Perhaps they can pay them to have it deleted. That's had great repercussions so far.

On the upside, AI lets anyone make a movie.
On the downside, AI lets anyone make a movie.

Including people who have terrible taste in plot, style, and everything else.

There's some genuinely good stuff out there - Gossip Goblin's work for example. But this is....

I'll just say, there's far better things that one could have spent half a million dollars on...

Most people want things to just work, and then they delude themselves into thinking they do even when they do not.

If I had a dollar for every person who I've seen join a 3d printing group and ask how they can print more than the models shipped on the machine, I could buy another printer. It's a desktop-sized industrial robot, not a games console.

Getting a coherent style good or bad from AI requires training, which is a lot harder than just prompting. Since AI isn't actually working from pictures, just statistical analyses of them, it has a really hard time giving consistency. A real art department making a real film has a body of concept art, samples, and other resources to draw from and compare to, and brains to do it with.

What good is emergency speed capping when the tower loses power? When we had our last earthquake the local cell site went down after a few hours and they never bothered to bring in a generator, I had no phone for almost three days.

Yes, they do, in fact typically every FD has their own for example and then there's one for each county as well, but what's the relevance of that to this?

Spoken like a city dweller with no health issues. Maybe when you get older you'll realize that your situation isn't the same as everyone else's.

Apparently you live in a big city, and not in the country (which describes most of California, despite persistent misconceptions) because in my area, POTS service is absolutely necessary for a large percentage of the population, and in particular a big share of those on fixed incomes who don't have the money to change because COLAs don't keep up with the actual cost of living.

I think you eat crayons while doing paperwork. For someone who's lived in California for so long, you sure don't know shit about it.

Dumping POTS absolutely will reduce power consumption, because they won't have to push analog signals through copper over long distances. It's just not sufficient justification for doing it, because that functionality is irreplaceable. We should be keeping some POTS service around for customers out of wireless range, and for alarm systems. A lot of those have gone cellular, and in some case that might be fine, but it's inferior and cellular should be used in addition and not as a replacement. (It can be text only, so the cost can be very low.)