The trouble with Transhumanists is that they all imagine there will eventually be only one human per company with an army of AI's to do the work.

But they all think they'll be that one person.

Also, they're insane.

Boogergooks.

They've never met 7th Grade boys, have they?

It happened once, a grand experiment, some time in the 1770s.

The experiment has not yet failed entirely.

"they also get actual governance done"

The governance Democrats get done is largely that which I do not want...

"Republicans can't govern, they have never cared about root causes"

The Civil Rights Act.
Clean Water Act, EPA.

Enacted under Republican Presidents. Not rejected by Republican legislators.

And then the ultimate 'root cause' solution - The Civil War. Addressing slavery in the United States finally came to a head, and the Republican Party was founded to address that injustice. It has not, despite mainly opponents claiming otherwise, stray from that purpose. Feel free to disagree.

When CUDA started taking off we had ATI hardware, to support their open source pledge, and looked into ROCm.

Just getting the drivers to build on EL-anything was an extreme effort, and it wasn't my first rodeo.

Without betraying confidences, I was told second-hand that there were only ten people on the GPU driver team across all platforms and that they were doing their best and not sleeping enough as it was, with Compute way behind gaming bugs on the priority list.

I couldn't independently verify of course but the theory fit the data.

I immediately empathized with the suffering of the devs and went out and bought nVidia cards, annoying binary drivers and all.

Since then I've felt like that some bean counter at AMD wrote nVidia a trillion dollar check.

If you're not a tiny company *overstaff* your engineering departments so you don't miss new opportunities as they arise. The opportunity costs exceed the opex costs.

Same here but this lack of support will matter much less than dropping i486.

There are still embedded systems sold today that only meet i486 specs. I don't use them but some industries do.

Sure a $12 ESP32 can handle those tasks but it's a revalidation thing.

Not that anybody from those vendors stepped forward to maintain a tree.

OTR might be small enough.

The Axolotl Ratchet is much better but perhaps too big for SMS.

TextSecure probably would have offered it were that feasible.

Of course if you can arrange one-time pads you're 1:1 at 140 characters.

"such a wide ranging benefit for all other sectors of the economy"

Um, the economy should pay the fair share - as in real cost.

If USPS cannot deliver this 'wide ranging benefit' at an acceptable cost, it cannot deliver, and alternatives would be proper to pursue.

Returning to pre 70s status is acceptable to me.

FWIW, you are discussing this with a MAGA-style Conservative. As you excoriate 'Republicans' for not caring, do you tolerate the Democrat response to throw good money after bad? As I self-identify, I prefer to solve root causes. USPS needs both a reformation of mission and reformation of operation.

A side note, lumping me in with Establishment Republicans is an error. I am not like them any more. And I am not alone.

USPS needs to adapt to the market. Either function within budget limitations or raise revenue needed, or stop failing.

Do I 'care' about USPS? The same way I care about the military etc. I think a national postal service is a legitimate exercise of governmental power, a necessary and useful servicer to citizens and enterprises, and should operate at a break-even funding level, users (customers) paying reasonably for the service. When government relies on USPS for functions such as sending or receiving payments, information, or requests, it should pay for that as a service. One example is perhaps USPS identifying the real cost of first class delivery and starting with Congress, requiring franking to pay that real cost, no internal subsidy. Other agencies likewise.

Reform, not more of the same.

Those were the days...

Yeah. Are most other governments unionized?

I bet your attorney is a member of the state bar. And enjoys the privilege of limited competition by denying to those who did not play the game access to practice law, and in some instances, even represent themselves at law.

Your mechanic, however, completes in a market where there is no barrier to entry other than tools, equipment, facilities, access to vital information (at a price), and knowledge/skills/abilities. Training is not essential, however desirable and helpful it must be.

Your attorney is part of a cartel, however useful and productive that may be. They don't even have to serve you terribly well. Your mechanic will try harder, they have to. And if you think attorneys are somehow practicing a trade more important than all others save doctors, well, maybe. Maybe.

Being able to have a wide variety of items delivered, overnight, that I would previously had to visit more than one local store to find in stock isn't 'new' to you?

You're excused for apparently being too young to remember pre-Amazon. Amazon was and is a new thing. Your disdain for all things corporate might be showing...

Subsidizing the USPS isn't 'reform'. It's the status quo.

Certainly would be a lot easier to fund pensions after the retirees die. What I mean by that is to not fund them at all l..

That's a model used in many other industries, with predictable results. Given a choice, I support the current system. Now to see if the USPS lasts another 75 years before it's privatized so the pension fund can be raided to the benefit of the lucky few who win that lottery.