I don't know where to start:

trolling electronic DBs without suspicion? (Laws were written for individual search)

Interstate trolling DBs by non-TN acredited LEOs?

Issuing arrest warrents without any corroboarating evidence?

acting on a warrent without any checking?

Other?

Mistakes will happen, you are guaranteeing more if they are not effectively prevented and ultimately punished.

LEOs are all about seeing people punished for mistakes. They must accept same for their own.

Not only can neural nets "understand" nothing, humans are not tremendously better: Nukes are far more effective as a threat than as delivered. There's so much fear (from Hiro/Nagas horrors) that an actual nuking would recalibrate. Hint, not the end of the world except for small/local values of "World".

1) Convince us it tastes the same.
2) Obviouslty this threatens ranchers everywhere and they're not going to go quietly

People can use the system to their advantage and still not be 100% sucked in.

Best place to be drunk is at home, either with or without friends. Paying retail price for drinks is insane.

I suspect there will be some weasel wording around "gross" versus "net". A lot of people I know are getting laid off while their companies continue hiring. It's not even a shift in resources or skillsets, it's a true revolving door.

Agreed. 40 years ago I read a few to understand what the then-new publishing sensation was all about. Newer stuff might be better, but that stuff did nothing for me. Not stimulating, not even enjoyable. And I was reading Tom Clancy. The blunt fact was even my failed attempts at romance and getting a GF were far more detailed, interesting and compelling to me.

I've come to conclude (contrary to advertising) that far more men are capable of pair-bonding and romance than women. So they have to work at it.

Apple devices do command a premium price, but it's a misnomer to say Best Selling devices are in the premium category of devices.
They definitely have more polish than some devices, and not all iPhones are in the premium category of devices, regardless of their polish.

Lets not forget those flock cameras that are recording us everywhere. Surprised and disappointed the kids in our neighborhood havent smashed them.

I don't think it's malicious. Most people who lose weight by any sort of diet end up putting it back on. The whole concept of a "diet" is inherently flawed. It should be looked at more like treating alcoholism or drug addiction, except that you can't go cold turkey, and you probably can't even control your lifestyle.

What we fundamentally need is a device that monitors our calorie intake and our calorie expenditure and starts asserting itself when our budget is off. The one nature provided isn't working out.

This is the super rich who have crashed the economy yet again trying to calm you down so you do not demand they fix the problem they caused.

There is a continued push to convince people to do things, or have their kids do things, the speaker won't do themselves:
- Join the military
- Skip college
- Take up the trades
- Nursing!
- Do manual, unskilled labor

All of those are fine options in theory, but there are definitely reasons we aren't doing them until better options have run out. I'm not optimistic those reasons have changed, just the rate at which better options are running out.

My condolences and heartfelt sympathy for Dell employees about to undergo what must be the 300th failure to try to do this thing in the past 20 years. You will singularly bear the brunt of the pain, you will endure insane new meetings that will go nowhere and do nothing, and the result will be yet another new, mediocre thing to deal with.

But operating a computer on a virtual screen?

It's actually really good at this and is my favorite way to use it, particularly when I'm not at home. It ends up being a large, high resolution screen that you can sit comfortably on a couch and work with. I spend a lot of time coding in this environment.

It's video games that I'm not sold on yet. It's great at RTS/factory/flight sim games, or when you can stand still and shoot/slap/etc. It's not great when you're moving.

I prefer scotch with my beef, but I guess that means I'm just a commie.

Those of us who don't work for anthropic, and whose bean counters are large and in charge will definitely not appreciate 5 (or more) free-running claudes. Either you'll spend a lot of money, or they'll just impose a token limit and 5 claudes will just be 5 hung terminals. If it's important, you'll have to go through a corporate approval/procurement process to have the cost approved.

I'd rather just write code than spend all day sell-sell-selling.