But it was a lie,[...]

And people aren't really sure still which is worse

that's because people are morons. They didn't figure out it was a lie first time. Somehow after living the first one in real time and Trump leaving very unpopular they figured it wasn't a lie again. If people haven't figured out which is worse they have their head so far up their ass they might be able to see brown tinted daylight from the wrong end.

He was insignificant in 2021 too, then Dems mismanaged things and made his message significant again. If they do so again, then in 2028 dems will face a similar message but with a saner and less polarizing candidate delivering it.

He's effectively out, a lame duck. "America First" is not out, and it could have a saner and less polarizing leader in 2028.

When Biden did not deliver, we have a huge voter swing that swept Trump back into office. Now we have had another huge voter swing as Trump did not deliver. If the Dem Congress does not deliver and plays games once again we will probably see yet another huge voter swing in 2028. The Dem party is as hated as Trump, Independents growing in number and becoming more influential than ever. Dems would be fools to think voters have some sort of love for their agenda. Voters have finally learned to punish those who do not deliver, they punished the dem who did not deliver in 2024, and now the republican who did not deliver in 2026.

"Lame Duck" means unable to get one's agenda passed; Trump is absolutely a lame duck. We can have a "do nothing" government for two years if no cooperation can be found, but that's how the system is supposed to work. No consensus, no new laws. Divided government that does nothing is often better than letting either extreme have its way.

"Laws" that have no presidential signature, or no veto override, are not laws.

Voters are extremely pissed at both sides. Independents more popular and more influential than ever. Wild 2-year swings a distinct possibility for any party that thinks an agenda, rather than results, will get votes. As Trump just learned.

Biden's Border Crisis was entirely self inflicted. As was half of the 9% inflation of his last year. The half that was covid related was unavoidable but then there was an awful lot of gratuitous spending after that. And as AOC pointed out, the woke stuff got a little crazy.

If the Dems continue to let an extreme DSA minority lead them, then things will set up extremely well for.a republican candidate less polarizing than Trump. This election was nothing more than a protest vote against Trump, the far left is as hated as Trump. Far left overreach, led to Trump's second term. It can lead to 2028 republican victory too. It's be easier for Republicans with a saner candidate than Trump.

I expect datacenters and regular users would be using different tape. As we saw in the 90s with QIC-80 which was more a professional or small business thing.

I can see why you don't want competition from other hateful demented people on the rampage.

That is like me hoping I'll win the lottery. I don't play.

Well done, have a cookie! Unfortunately you failed to take the next step. If population density isn't uniform then literally none of the overall population density based arguments make sense.

Those areas to dense for even EVs? Perfect fit for efficient, high quality public transit, and good pedestrian and bike infrastructure because you have a population density of higher than inner London.

It's also about not going to websites other than the bank's.

It could be for archiving the training data used for a model and not the model itself. If there's ever a major legal case involving an LLM then being able to show exactly what input was used in its construction would be very important. The data used to train a model doesn't need to be consulted too frequently once the training has been done. Since LLMs are starting to live outside of RAM now, it makes sense to kick the data that used to sit on disc out to tape.

It depends if it is accomplished through normal attrition or layoffs.

And quietly using AI search side (no summary, analysis, etc, just a link to source material), not by the student directly, is something entirely different than giving them AI tools before they have learned to summarize, analyze, etc themselves.

Forget the datacenters, what about ordinary users? I still miss QIC-80 tapes. I had long since copied my 1990s QIC-80 tape backups to DVD-R and then NAS. Recently (well, 2020'ish), as my last motherboard with a floppy connector was about to go to the recycler I decided to connect a QIC-80 drive and seem how many of those old tapes were still readable. Out of 50 tapes only one was bad. And their last 5 years was sitting in a hot garage rather than a shelf inside the house.

Some modern incarnation at a comparable price point would be a welcome improvement over external 2.5in USB drives.

I'd say the person only considering LLMs and not any other AI based tools is the one ignoring reality. LLMs are not the only tools.