So I'm asking because I'm clueless. I know that when exceeding Mach1 there'll be a "boom" sound called supersonic boom. But do these planes first climb to high altitude, head out to sea, before actually achieving Mach speed? If they do that, I don't see such a great impact on civilian lives below. Again, I'm clueless, and appreciate if anybody can help understand how this works.

Anybody still remember DeepSeek? That hype lasted couple days, it sent US AI stocks spiral but then all of its claims were not backed by anything. People forgot about it a week later and all affected US stocks recovered their previous levels. Without being able to provide any proof to their claim, the internet should really stop taking their words at face value.

I imagine one day FSD becomes quite mature and can safely (not 100%) drive around with incident rate much much lower than human drivers. We won't be discussing subjects like this anymore. When is the important question. Who will provide that technology is still too early to tell. Right now Waymo, Tesla, GM, Uber are all testing their stuffs but who knows, a small player may emerge with exceptionally better technology.

My vision for future FSD is not only on the cars but on the roads too. Posts on the road side with sensors that can handle things like range, velocity, pedestrian, etc... all this communicated to vehicles in range so that they can make split second decision without risks. If such autonomy succeeds, we won't need traffic lights anymore.

From previous articles I've read, it seems that Ford laid off people BEFORE installing robots. Now they have to rehire because the robots can't do as good of a job they expected. Wouldn't it have been a much more appropriate call to install the robots, test run for at least a few months, assess how many head counts the technology can replace, then lay off that many? A 5 year old can make this decision.

Good God! I can't imagine a working condition where all my keyboard/mouse activities are monitored. In 2019 I was laid-off and did apply at FB. I guess It was a good thing I landed my new job before meeting them.

Hi guys, I'm asking because I'm clueless. Last time I used Steam platform was to play Counter Strike on the computer. I haven't used it in probably 15+ years. What is Steam capable of today?

From my understanding, this will be voted in November, but the net worth assessment goes back to January 1 this year. The retroactive aspect of this thing doesn't sound right. I foresee billionaires fighting this in courts for years before CA would be able to collect a penny. Suddenly giving up 5% of net worth is not that simple. A billionaire may be worth $5B but they won't have 5% in their bank account to pay. In order to pay, they'll have to sell their assets (most likely stock shares). The sale will likely affect their stake in certain companies, forcing them to lose voting rights, especially ones that they co-founded.

Previously I made statement about CA lawmakers eating shit for lunch, I'm still holding that statement. Some asshole attacked me for saying that and I put him in his place.

Nowadays, everybody talks about AI. Specifically for IT/hitech folks, some decent AI related skills is not hard to get. Took me few hours to really get fluent at getting various AI platforms to provide me useful information in chat mode, from gardening, to cars/electronics/smarthome, to technical how-tos, to cloud computing, to financial explanations. Moving beyond that, it took me few days to get fluent at Claude and Codex. I had them review my code, propose changes to address bugs and adhere to security compliance. I also get them to write brand new code, etc... If employers are now looking specifically for that, spend a few days on those things and you'll get through it fine.

You seem quite mistaken in this.. you didn't "decide" anything. What he'd done and become was not your decision.

Given the hunger for computing, data centers will get built regardless of opposition. They'll just get built somewhere else. When enough number of new data centers built elsewhere and existing ones cannot renew, related jobs will have to move too eventually. It will undoubtedly affect areas with high concentration of data centers like Virginia, Silicon Valley, Phoenix, Chicago, Atlanta. Those jobs likely will move to Texas, Ohio, Penn, Wyoming, North/South Dakota. This might bring about big changes in terms of economics. If enough job migration happens, it'll affect housing price, cost of living of the involved cities. Let's wait and find out.

Thanks! I'll check it out

I wholeheartedly support this. Customer ID, however unreadable it is, won't stop anonymous scam calls, but it sure will decrease. I'm sick and tired of people calling without talking, texting garbage stuffs to my phone. In order to avoid them I have to enable screening, which silent/ignore calls/texts from numbers not in the phone book. But there are legitimate calls/texts that aren't saved in my phonebook. Once in a while I'll miss them and the only way to see them is go to the page that lists all the screened calls/texts. These scammers have been wreaking havoc on the world for so long, we really need to get rid of them for good.

Every source of water comes from somewhere. That source is already part of a lifecycle that has existed since the beginning of time. Whatever it is that they do, they do not create or replenish anything. They simply move water from one place to another.

Agreed... the type of storyline Stargate is, will always attract the scifi loving crowd. I love all kinds of scifi. I watched Star Trek, Stargate many reruns. A newly developed series would be highly anticipated for me. That's too bad though... I don't think executive management nowadays got ball to do anything important!

I own Office 2019. I can't remember how much I paid but I've bought the license since my first personal Mac. I can't say I'm thrilled about this. In fact I'm disgusted. The amount I paid was for lifetime use of the application. I don't give two shit or a flying fuck about some certificate expiration because that wasn't disclosed during my purchase. Why do I feel like when MS makes good on this plan, it will fall on its face because they'll face hundreds of thousands of lawsuits.