Hence the rub: if I already know what I'm doing, I don't really need it, even if it saves a bit of time. On the other hand I tried several times to use it for things I knew nothing about (a new communication protocol, a very obscure bash add-on, a complex set of mixed-language libraries never meant to work together, etc...) and I got absolutely nowhere: all the code generated didn't work, wasn't even relevant and a big waste of time overall. I couldn't even coax it to give me even starting points.

Since when does private party A doing something "unlawful" compel private party B to take some action?

Ever since the first time someone pointed a loaded gun as B's face and said "do what I say or else I'll kill you" and B did as ordered, instead of accepting their death.

I think it was sometime around 1234567 BC.

Nope, conspiracies don't ever happen.

The 9/11 hijackers did not plan their actions in advance. Just by sheer coincidence, 19 people just happened to be taking those four plane flights. And by coincidence (no coordination) they all got the same spontaneous idea at the same time, an idea they had never spoken about before: let's hijack the plane and crash it.

Crazy people babble on about "evidence" like people taking flight lessons, sharing vehicles, etc. but we know those things cannot possibly be true, because conspiracies are not real.

If you have a hypothesis of x and then find lots of supporting evidence for x and it becomes the prevailing explanation, that creates a theory of x, but there's one exception: when x is a conspiracy. Conspiracies are a special case, because they don't really happen.

They just publish hype fed to the by CEOs of Anthropic and the like, who have slop to sell.

Why not interview Emily Bender and review "The AI Con"?

Is there a way to edit the hosts file on Android?

Regardless of whatever budget Congress sets, the majority party has already been clear that they have no intent to enforce it. If the president uses the NASA money for something else, or even just puts it into his own personal pocket, we can be confident that he won't be impeached, and if impeached, he won't be convicted.

The only thing that matters is the total budget. The president is free to spend that total however he wishes. This isn't the law as written, but it's the law defacto. If voters have a problem with that (do they?) they can choose a different party to be the majority.

So when Lindsey starts reading from her AmEx-approved script, callers are infuriated by what they perceive to be another machine.

If she's accurately executing the programmers' script, I'd say she is a machine. Somebody port Doom to her!

This is a fuckin' awesome idea, but there's an easy improvement over the red rectangle and block symbol. Seriously, dude, you gotta use the sign images from They Live (1988). You know you want to.

If people don't have a government-granted monopoly on their features, they'll have no incentive to have any features at all.

The A pillar should be narrower than 80% of drivers eye distances, allowing to see "through" it thanks to parallax. In my car it's very thick and I have to move my head from side to side whenever I'm in a curve.

We never needed "AI" or LLMs to think we're nothing more than machines.

Yeah, and those are all 20yo movies at least.

Last I heard, Apple sales haven't plummeted and thrown them into bankruptcy, so it sounds like they learned the lesson just fine: it's fine to show people ads. People might complain a little bit, but they won't stop buying. Cost is $0 and ad revenue is presumably more than $0.

If someone is stuck with your proprietary software and you aren't showing them ads, then you're leaving money on the table. What're they gonna do, fork it out?

Yeah, I just saw a movie yesterday where there was some (very mild) tits and nudity and serious theme of sleeping with other people and I was like... how long ago was it that I saw a tit in a movie ? It seems nudity was in every movie (even unrelated ones) a couple decades ago, and now it's all "hide sexual thoughts and body parts or the evangelicals will become incensed..."

For info, the movie was Le semeur and it's okay but not great.

Yeah, I'm hung up on that too. You can come up with some outrageously huge numbers for mass and angular velocity, but once I multiply them by zero distance... I'm missing something.