In my experience it is, how effective it is is directly proportional to preexisting project complexity when the commands are run. The bigger the project, and the more parts that are interfacing together, the worse it performs. But for small, simple projects and creating frameworks, it can be amazing.

None of our crime problems will be solved by sending the National Guard into a city for a few weeks. The only thing that this achieves is the destruction of states rights and possibly escalation toward civil war.

Proposal: Instead, fund and train law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, schools, and social workers. The first 3 address crimes that happened, the last 2 prevent them.

The best way to keep 'little Suzy' from walking past child molesters is to make sure her school isn't near the White House or Congress.

Fair. Agreed.

I'm not sure what "Building the Metaverse" is supposed to even mean anymore. Is he still obsessed with Ready Player One fantasies?

I mean, if he's just talking about generating 3d assets and the like, then maybe? AI 3d model generation is pretty useful if you don't care about every tiny detail matching up to some specific form. For example, I used an AI tool to make an image of an ancient mug with cave-art scrawled around its edges. It got the broad shapes of the model right, but had trouble with the fine engravings, making a lot of them part of the texture rather than the shape, but overall it was good enough that I just left off the engravings, had it generate a mug without them, then re-applied them with a displacement map. It got all the cracks and weathering and such on the mug really nice, and the print came out great after post-processing (cold-cast bronze + patina & polishing).

(I ended up switching from cave art to Linear A, because I also plan to at some point make a Linear B mug so that I can randomly offer guests one of the two mugs, have them rate it, and thus conduct Linear A-B Testing)

It's a cute "attack", but not practical in the real world. The "poison" stands out like a sore thumb on your loss graphs.

It's so easy to get tempted into feature bloat these days. You need a microcontroller for some simple set of features, like doing PWM control on a fan and handling a rotary switch, so you get something like a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 that's the size of a thumbnail and costs like $10, but then all of the sudden you have way more processing, memory capacity, pins, etc than you need, and oh hey, you now have USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and surely you should at least do SOMETHING with them, right? But the hey, for just a little bit of extra cost you could upgrade to a XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, and now you have a camera, microphone, and SD card, so you can do live video streaming, voice activation, gesture recognition... .... it really creeps up on you, because there's so much functionality in cheap, small packages today.

The irony though is that nobody really seems to bundle together everything one needs. Like, could we maybe have such a controller that also has builtin MOSFETs, USB + USB PD charging, BMS (1S-6S) functionality, and maybe a couple thermocouple sensors? Because most small devices need all these basic features, and it's way more cost, space, weight and effort to integrate separate components for all of them. The best I've found is a (bit overbuilt) card that has USB + USB PD (actually 2 of each, and reverse charging support), BMS support (1-5S), one thermocouple sensor, and a small charging display - but no processor or MOSFETs.

Enshittification isn't just "products getting worse over time" - it is where companies take an existing service, and either add features that benefit another party at your expense, or remove necessary features for it to function. Ex: You buy an ad-free streaming service to stream a certain TV series. The company then puts ads on it and removes the series you were watching. Or you visit a web site regularly, but now you have to sign-up to access it. Or the site now displays a bunch of pop-ups and only works on a particular operating system or browser.

If it was capitalism, you would just switch to a different streaming provider / web site. But with enshittification, there are barriers preventing that. Ex: No one else streams that series, or all the similar web sites require a login. In capitalism someone wins and someone loses, but with enshittification everyone loses.

This is different from "You buy a new pair of jeans, and it isn't manufactured as well as their previous line of jeans."

^^ What a wonderful summary of American politics in 4 simple lines..

This is the: "It's okay if *my* party does it" approach. Conservatives believe in Federalism, democracy, and the rule of law. MAGAs are Authoritarians so they just believe in force. 1 year ago ago MAGA pundits warned that Democrats were going to send the national guard into cities, and that was Fascism! Today, Trump sends the national guard into cities and that's.... suddenly a great idea!

This is where the observer erroneously thinks there is a way to wake them up. "Well maybe the current thing is illegal Fascism that destroys nations and we fought wars against it... but.... what is important is taking action!" If they really believed that, then they would be condemning Trump and whipping out the guns. This is a tiny bit of intelligence and conscience peeking through, but they are trained to squash it with catch phrases like "grew a pair" or "get the ball rolling." Here we see both used! Understand: These people are doing this because they are afraid. Their identity is tied into their party, not some underlying fundamental believe set. If they had a pair, they would stand-up against the fascist dictators, even if they dictator was doing what they wanted.

Let me also observe that Democrats do the same BS. Democrats justified it when Biden was stretching the rules with his own executive orders too. A comparable line might be "Maybe he doesn't really have the power to forgive student debt.... but think of the children!" and "Maybe the federal government shouldn't tell social media companies what speech to shut down... but it's misinformation!" A common one on that side is "It's the billionaire's fault." Both sides can use "It's because of big (oil | pharma | whatever)" -- that works for any issue on any side.

Fake issues dominate the national discourse: Teachers making our children gay, trans people forcing drag shows on churches, pedophiles running pizza parlors, free healthcare for illegals, vaccines causing autism, partial-birth abortions. Real issues rarely come up any more.

Finish by making it black or white - "with us or agin' us" If you can get someone to think for more than 30 seconds, they realize that these black and white solutions don't work. So how to control them? Train them to fall back to one-liners and sound bites, to prevent that pesky brain from getting in the way.

What a poetic summary of why we are all completely screwed. Remember, if you have kids, the required reading list to prevent this is:
1. Pre-k: The Butter Battle Book
2. Elementary: The Giver
3. Middle: Animal Farm
4. High school: 1984

This only applies to home edition, right? Businesses won't give up their domain accounts. Well... until they move to Entra ID...

The problem here is that consumers selected for devices that used proprietary interfaces rather than standards. If iTunes used any one of the gzillion standard ways to communicate with the host device, this would not be an issue. There were plenty of such devices on the market, but a guy in a black sweater told everyone to buy his more expensive proprietary clone, and so people did. Now everyone is stuck like this.

Get real:

Someone trying to setup with a local account is doing it because they don't want the telemetry crap. Microsoft is tying the telemetry to these features, to the detriment of everyone. Microsoft does not have to do that, so don't blame the "clueless user" or "some techie" for it -- the blame is 100% on Microsoft. Even if the scenario you describe happens, Microsoft will display 10 nag screens per day reminding the clueless user that their advertising telemetry, -- oops, I mean -- the anti-ransomware isn't setup.

None of the woo "hurt him in terms of accelerating cancer". The problem is that he did that instead of actual treatment, and let a highly treatable cancer turn into a nearly-untreatable one.

When you mentioned "third partner" who cashed out early, I thought for a minute you were going to be talking about Ronald Wayne - what a life of bad decisions he made ;)

For those not familiar:

He got 10% of the original Apple stock (drew the first Apple Logo, made the partnership documents, wrote the Apple I manual, etc).
Twelve days later, he sold it for $800.
Okay, but he could still try to claim rights in court... nah, a year later he signed a contract with the company to forfeit any potential future claims against the company for $1500.
Okay, well, it's not like he had an opportunity to rethink... nah, Jobs and Wozniak spent two years trying to get him back, to no avail.
Okay, but he still had, like memorabilia he could hawk from the early days, like his signed contract. Nah, he sold that for $500 in 2016.
And that contract went on later to be sold for $1,6 million.
Okay, well, I'm sure he went on to do great things... nah, he ended up running a tiny postage stamp shop.
Which he ended up having to move into his Florida home because of repeated break-ins.
Which he then had to sell after an inside-job heist bankrupted him.

Jobs committed suicide-by-woo. He didn't "turn away from traditional therapy because it can't keep up with rapidly advancing metastasis", he turned away from treatment for a perfectly treatable form of cancer for nine months to try things like a vegan diet, acupuncture and herbal remedies, and that killed him.

Steve Jobs had islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. It's much less aggressive than normal pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The five-year survival rate is 95% with surgical intervention. Jobs was specifically told that he had one of the 5% of pancreatic cancers "that can be cured", and there was no evidence at the time of his diagnosis that it had spread. Jobs instead turned to woo. Eight months later, there was signs on CT scans that his cancer had grown and possibly spread, and then he finally underwent surgery, it was confirmed that there were now secondary tumors on his liver. His odds of a five-year survival at this point were now 23%. And he did not roll that 23%.

Jobs himself regretted his decision to delay conventional medical intervention.

A more interesting question I think is, does anyone own this AI actress?

That is to say - if a company took her likeness, and used other AI to make porn - could "her" agent sue them?

Or in other words, is a purely AI generated likeness even copyrightable, when technically no human made it?