Ads are just pissing on your brain, so fuck them for this in the first place.

No no no. You're mad at the wrong thing. I'm pissed, because now "Chocolate Rain" is going to be stuck in my head for the next 4 - 5 days.

So glad someone else will remember him for that. For such a nice guy, he really nailed "villain you love to hate."

Gone up to the big nuclear wessel in the sky.

You're right, and I thought about this about a half hour after making this assertion. Of course, I'll have to crack the book and learn whatever new thing displaces Rust, or whatever.

I currently use qwen 3.8 27b on a system with a couple of RTX 3060s that I bought on ebay for personal coding projects. I've been a firmware engineer professionally for a couple of decades, and I recently wanted to branch into mobile app development. Last year, I bought a book on React to learn cross-platform app dev. But, last month I built this pieced-together system for local AI and have come to the conclusion that I will never need to learn a new programming language again. This lil' bastard does everthing!

And, professionally, my employer pays for a top-tier subscription that's able to code, run command line tools, build and install firmware, and even connect to a logic analyzer and debug data lines.

Yes, "AI bots" can write most of your code, if you're able to clearly explain what's needed in your planning and action prompts. And, beyond that, AI can examine an existing code base, very clearly explain its function, and provide recommendations for refactors and other improvements.

At this point, it hasn't replaced me as an engineer, but it's definitely augmented my abilities it in a way that "paired programming" and other stupid Agile-touchy-feely methodologies never could.

Yeah, remote assistance. That's different from the drone pilot driver scenario you alluded to.

Those are both for remote assistance, and neither are "overseas". Uh, nice try?

Right. So, for this to work, each car has to relay several video feeds to a central station, which then route to this "overseas" location. This would add seconds of latency. Then, these "overseas" taxi drivers monitor each car's video feeds simultaneously (maybe with a headset?), and perform steering, acceleration and breaking actions on a mock setup. This control data gets routed back to each individual car, which adds seconds more latency.

Do you really think this is how it works?

Expensive gimmick? Definitely. Appeasement? Who needs appeasement?

Precisely. And in a sane world (15 years ago), people would be pushing for exactly this. Monitoring should be for alerting and observing; control should be distinct, and monitoring should never require the ability to control simply because some manger heard the phrase "autorecovery." Instead, we have this. I'd like to blame the rise of k8s, which made people feel like problems didn't need to be resolved or engineered, but it's also cost and lack of foresight/battle scars.

If these were highly remote locations and getting a human to them in time to fix a problem was going to be a challenge, then maybe remote controllability would be important. But this is a damn supermarket; there's going to be somewhere there or nearby constantly. Dear Lord.

Yes, much of the world is bilingual -- their non-English, native tongue, and... ENGLISH. English is the unifying language; the language of air traffic control; the language of the United Nations; the language of the Internet and programming languages -- it's the language of technology. It's not arrogance to say that it's the language that the remaining and dwindling numbers of non-speakers want to learn. Until some unforeseen hiccup happens, English is the language of the future of planet Earth.

Admittedly, I DO speak some Spanish, along with some Russian and Japanese. But, as technology progresses, as the rest of the world learns English, I grow less and less interested in learning any other language. What's the use?

It [AM radio] needs to be forced as standard equipment.

Why? What good is it for me? I don't speak Spanish.

Now they can do to Babylon 5 what they did to Star Trek.

Oh yeah. We are partying now.

It's not just phones. I recently switched back to FF from Vivaldi on my desktop with the death of Manifest V2, and in one day of use, It'll hit 3 GB of ram of more with 1 active tab. It's gotten very annoying

Once a brain has the opportunity to idle, it will develop further.

Happy Singularity, everyone!