That's probably true; however, if the trend continues then the torch and pitchfork vendors may end up rolling in dough and pulling some serious overtime.

Remember kids - revolution is always an option, and sometimes a duty. America was founded by revolutionaries - so honour your forbears and carry on the tradition. You have nothing to lose but your chains!

(Sorry, I almost forgot - you'll also shed the propaganda that makes you think of the chains as cool jewellery).

Child, I had a Cyrix math co-processor for my 286 computer.

Speaking of "old", did you know that there was an 80186 microprocessor? The company I worked for made its own custom controller board using that chip. I had thought it was only ever used as an embedded processor, but just recently I learned that there was at least one PC produced that used a 186.

I take your points about the importance of tactile and audible feedback. Still, I wonder if esthetics might get in the way of feedback queues specific to electric drive.

Good points - thanks. TFA mentions muscle memory, which makes what you said more compelling.

I do wonder if catering to ICE-era reflexes might hinder adaptation to the possibilities that electric motors offer.

I have an Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro which I may upgrade at some point, so I've been following the Bambu situation since it became news. But I'm not terribly well plugged in to the 3D scene, so apologies in advance if what I'm about to suggest is silly or otherwise not practical.

How about setting up an open cloud service which can fool Bambu printers into using it instead of Bambu's own service? I get that might not provide some of the features and capabilities that would rely on tight integration. But it would give Bambu purchasers an alternative when they (probably inevitably) get too pissed off with "Bambu Deere" having who-knows-what access to their printers and their possibly-proprietary designs.

That might be the opening shot in a war of attrition on both sides. But it sure would get a lot of attention, and it would be yet another strong "NO" message to corporate overlords. The motto of everyone who doesn't financially benefit from Bambu-style overreach should be "jail-break EVERYTHING".

The market IS white hot right now, but the Hormuz hit is just starting to land. Demand at the edges is what sets the price - if all southeast Asian gamers are spending the GPU money on gas, that cools the rush. And I have no confidence any of these datacenter announcements are going to lead to actual builds. Companies talked a great game, but the political heat is on, the electric and water constraints are real, and advances like TurboQuant, which conservatively speaking offers a 4x boost to existing GPUs ... now layer the U.S. economic hit from Hormuz, which will only be a little bit behind the Asian blowout.

The AI/datacenter/GPU self dealing circle looks more like the derivative traders of 2008 with each passing day. Just like CDOs, that "money" is all conditional, and when conditions change, it's all gone. Society got some nice frontier models and advances in manufacturing out of it, now if corporate America takes even half a step back on the rush ... the market won't just vanish, because there IS a lot of benefit to using LLMs, but the demand may only match what's already been built. We'll take the hit from it, then the economy will rebound from a bunch of startups pillaging the existing firms that are politically incapable of making the needed culture change.

I spend my days working on the system for my startup. Since I had a computer science education and a bunch of time in grade running ISP systems, I bring that distributed systems engineer vibe to my vibe coding. It'll need work once it's funded, but the MVP will be functional and secure.

I was using X tokens/week via Claude Code. They stumbled on the Opus 4.7 rollout and I got busy tuning my setup. I added LSP Enforcement Kit + Serena, CodeSight, and OptiVault. This made Claude more or less behave ... while cutting my usage about 80%.

Companies that are using token burn as a metric, if they are not providing top quality tooling for the people using it, are basing their performance reviews on who can tolerate some highly random LLM over an efficient, well thought out harness.

Meta foisted a digital cesspool on us and it would not hurt my feeling a bit to see it completely desiccated. I do feel badly for the legions of humans that are going to be forced to wade through the increasingly crusty muck while the company attempts to figure out what to do about AI. There are rumblings out there about what is happening to the advertising based internet we all know (and despise). Meta clearly can't execute with AI and they may well get bowled over by it.

GM needs to be made to disgorge every dime they made selling that data.

They need to disclose who purchased the data and what the price was.

Every victim of this privacy violation needs legal recourse and class action seems like it would be best for the masses.

Anyone who can show significant harm should aggressively pursue all parties involved.

The only way this behavior will stop is when engaging in it brings bitter pain.

There may well be a legit issue that Bambu is facing, there's a bunch of "think of the children" stuff in play right now, it's mostly about ghost guns from what I have seen. They are perhaps under pressure and maybe they will be compelled to do things in terms of identity of users and/or items being printed. This is another instance of gun nuts ruining things for the rest of us.

But the chickendroppings manner in which they approached this merits a vigorous walloping. If they HAVE to do it due to some government pressure, be upfront, tell all of us, and maybe we'll put a stop to it. What they did here just smacks of ... well ... besides being just plain stupid when dealing with FOSS developers, it smacks ... and they should receive some smacks in return.

Wake me up when the penalty gets into the mid hundreds-of-millions. Until then it's just a cost-of-business that already appeared - probably at well over 12 million bucks - as a line item in a budget which existed long before the penalty was assessed.

Such fines are mere theatre. It's a show that keeps the rubes entertained, while simultaneously distracting them from the financial and privacy-oriented ass raping inflicted on them daily with the tacit assent of their government and regulatory agencies.

More people need to wake up to the fact that the oligarchs already own most of their shit and are rapidly stealing the rest of said shit, along with any power and autonomy which mere citizens may still possess.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines "ersatz" as follows:
adjective Being a usually inferior imitation or substitute; artificial.
adjective Not genuine; fake

Honda's faux clutch strikes me as slightly less ersatz than the vroom-vroom noises pasted on to some electric cars to make them mimic IC vehicles. Still, the idea seems a bit silly. It's like the video game version of a traditional motorcycle.

I'd rather see drivers / riders of these new vehicles lean into their unique characteristics. I think they should develop a new mythos, rather than pasting pictures of yesterday's glories on these whole new beasts. Clinging to the trappings of an IC engine when you have stoopid amounts of torque available throughout most of your RPM range just strikes me as kind of lame.

The Tragically Hip sang "New Orleans is sinkin' man and I don't wanna swim". Substituting "Mexico City" for "New Orleans" just doesn't sound right!

In a book published in 1973, Dorothy L. Retallack described experiments in which plants responded differently to different kinds and volumes of music. Her methodology and conclusions were criticized and to some extent discredited. Nevertheless, I think the fact that she did experiments and described results that overlap with those referred to in TFS disqualifies that "first direct evidence" claim.

Yup 100%. I can pass among neurotypicals if I keep my mouth shut, but people quickly pick up on it if interacting with me.

Doh! You're right - I shot from the hip and hadn't thought it through. My bad.