Well, then this is a fundamental part we disagree upon.

You only see "the statement", while I see the purpose of the statement, the context it was made in: to support a highly political agument, namely that of whether the economy at large is "doing well."

When the economy polarizes rich vs poor, depleting a middle layer, it's not "doing well". (It may be doing well by some artificial metric, but it's not serving the wellbeing of the majority.)

And this is exactly what's happening - only you can't see if you're looking only at M. You're actually tempted.to accept the oppsiite if you do that. You have to look at P and R, too, to get the whole picture.

And this is an example par excellence of statiatical mamipulation: technically the numbers are (probably) true, very dificult to attack; but selection criteria were carefully tweaked to support a different framing/conclusion than what's actually happening.

Amazon's DRM has changed a couple of times. If you want to get purchased content out of the Amazon eco-system, using an older Kindle is easiest. I suspect that's the only real motivation here.

We really need legislation around the client/server issues. There is no technical reason (other than DRM) to disable these devices. Similarly, game studios that choose to stop running servers for non-profit able games. What does it mean, to "purchase" a client that can be disabled st the whim of the producer?

Don't worry, it's just a little prick.

I took advantage of the EV rebate when it was still a thing and I don't have to buy gas, so my exposure to this suckfest is only the portion of pass-through costs associated with high fuel prices. I absolutely don't consider the benefit of owning a EV negated, because if I still had my ICE car, I'd be buying $4.30/gal gas on top of the increased costs of everything else.

So, from where I sit, the tax credit was a net benefit, and getting rid of it means that the Republicans screwed over anyone who looks at today's prices at the pump and says "fuck that." For someone who would've qualified for the rebates, the cost of opting out of gas went up by $7.5k for a new EV, and up to $4k for used.

You can go down the pedantry route if you want, but this is a story about mcbook neo. And you can certainly run something like a switch 2 version of CP2077 if that ever gets released in the massively cut down version.

Do you know what is one of the big features of those cut down versions? Super compressed low res textures. Guess what takes much if not most of storage space in most modern AAA games?

That's the part that perplexes me. I can't say I have followed the Vision Pro that closely recently, but at least in the early days, it was very locked down. There are large parts of the system (sensors) that I understand are still not accessible to 3rd party apps. I remember reading several VR developers who were trying to port software from the Quest to AVP and simply couldn't.

To me it would have made sense to open it up entirely. Porn, video games, emulators, whatever!

Are you unsure what "agentic" means? Generically, agency means, more or less, being able to do things. An agentic AI program (ChatGPT in agentic mode, OpenClaw, Claude code) can take actions without being controlled by humans. This is also sometimes called an autonomous agent, but "agentic" has become the dominant term over last year or two.

If you were to try something like Claude code, for example, you would see that it can run shell commands, grep through a source tree, edit files, run git commands, compile, execute, review output, edit code, compile again, etc.

Your post is confused as it assumes that LLMs looking for security vulnerabilities are -- in your words -- "LLMs can unreliably find some defective code patterns if they are obvious enough. (Remember, they cannot do deduction, just statistical pattern recognition. Too much noise or too far from the template and they fail."

That is false. The LLM models in an agentic system are doing more than just looking for "defective code patterns."

LLMs can perform source code level analysis, but they can also, in agentic mode, run fuzzing tools, scan for open ports, write a custom program to attempt to fuzz or exploit an open port, review the output, modify the code to try again, compile, repeat, and so forth. Multiple instances of agentic AIs can do this for many hours and more.

As I've said multiple times before Gweihir, I really don't know if you're trolling or not. You've seemed at least somewhat informed before, so I'm really surprised you didn't know what agentic means, or what has been possible with these tools. ChatGPT agent mode has been out for about a year, and Claude code for a bit longer.

They can live up to 18 years in the wild. So, if it wasn't injured in its fall through the ceiling, it's possible the porcupine is still alive today to pester other tech bros on vacation in the jungle.
 

We were warned about not hooking up critical infrastructure to the internet back in 1995. And when AI takes over and destroys the world because everything is connected to the internet, we were warned about that, too.

Nah, I already watched the Anaconda reboot. That was definitely not as good as people made it out to be, unless you're Gen Z and meta humor really does it for you.

Seriously. Why are we just now hearing about this?

Wouldn't that be embarrassing. Talk about being hoisted by your own petard.

Nope. That's actually one of the funny things about the Bolt. Most people just assume that it's just another ICE compact hatchback (like the Honda Fit it looks nearly identical to) and pay it no mind, even if they despise EVs. My car not looking like a political statement is actually something I consider a huge plus.

Bitcoin pump, probably. It's up a bit today because Iran made it the official currency of their oil tanker "tolls".

The idea that someone could have access to a vast sum of wealth, but chooses not to, makes for a good story, but I'd say it's more plausible he's dead.