I taught Gemini how nose-picking works. They owe me!

So we put some app stores in our app store *Xzibit meme here*

Seriously, why should book authors get more compensation for their work being trained on than the rest of us?

Hopefully Google won't hamstring this by forcing you to enable "install apps from any source" setting to use non-Google app stores. If I use an alternate app store I don't want to let apps from just anywhere be installed, I only want apps from that app store to be installed. Apps from anywhere else I want to continue to block.

Being from India is not to blame, it's being clueless and distant about the business at hand. The worst software I have made is when I didn't understand the domain side.

Iran also abused advertising technology used to serve tailored ads to cellphone users,

The Soviets used to say, "The capitalists will sell us the rope we'll use to hang them."

space ships and stations get a much higher amount of external radiation than Earth...and they needed to make sure it wouldn't interfere with the scans.

Just tape the film-stock on your leg and stick it out the window, free x-ray source.

I can't find it because your grep is not working ;-)

I guess I'll be an hour late to work from now on. Or an hour early, depending on how you look at it.

For what, math problems? The last time I used a blackboard to communicate was in Calculus II.

Substitute Lucky Dragon for Amazon and it's also every William Gibson story

This reminds me of microtransactions.

We're 50 years overdue for an alternate payment clearing system that doesn't take more to process than the payment is worth. Most of the enshittification we've seen due to an eyeball (now attention) based economy could have been sidestepped if we built a system for people to pay on a transactional basis for compute and content.

Funny how the wave of autonomous agents is once again driving people to revisit this stuff.

https://spellboundproductions....

"Thirty years ago, General Magicâ(TM)s Telescript established a foundation for autonomous agents. The vision behind it sounds like today's promises of Agentic AIââ but in fact was actually enabled by the technology from the outset. Telescript didn't ask users to just trust it. Instead, it built deterministic safety into the system itselfâ"Permits that limited resource consumption, Authorities that enforced accountability, an Engine that prevented agents from touching host resources directly."

There's no reason you can't pay in tenths, or hundredths of a cent. It's the same idea as a cryptocurrency ledger, minus the ridiculous overhead of the blockchain. Building out the infrastructure to do that is beneficial to both humans and autonomous agents.

https://x402.org/

So... yay?

and fix known bugs. Search can some later. The "Backroom" panel that interrupts Save operations is an example. I want to see File Explorer and only File Explorer, not your damned Spam Panel!

Even if the bubble bursts, AI will still be radically more powerful in a decade

The bottleneck may be training data, only so much can be wrung out of it even with hyper-training. Until bots actually understand shit, this may limit them for a good while.

That's actual stock, not options. Incentive stock options (the kind executives receive) don't count as income until you sell the stock after exercising the options. Take out a loan against that stock and you've got dollars in your bank account you can spend but no income to report. Now, suppose the loan's structured so that, as long as the stock is worth enough to cover the principal plus accumulated interest, you don't have to make payments on the loan. Do this through a trust so your heirs don't have to worry about repayment either. Every year now you get the full dollar value of your stock awards in cash without having to declare any income. Possibly even without having to exercise the options, depending on how friendly you are with the lender.