LOL. This is great. What you may be missing here is that global warming alarmists are obligated to shout down any suggestion that human development has led to any upward skew in historical temperature data through localized effects, as opposed to global atmospheric effects. Now, we have someone pointing fingers at data centers by measuring temperatures near these developments and reporting increases. "The Cat" has instinctually surmised the crisis.

What's an interweb Planet Saver to do??!!

A year? I've regularly written that much in a month, and sometimes in a week. And, counter-intuitively, its during those sprints when I'm pumping out thousands of lines per day that I write the code that turns out to be the highest quality, requiring the fewest number of bugfixes later. I think it's because that very high productivity level can only happen when you're really in the zone, with the whole system held in your head. And when you have that full context, you make fewer mistakes, because mistakes mostly derive from not understanding the other pieces your code is interacting with.

Of course, that kind of focus is exhausting, and you can't do it long term.

By focusing on the structure, not the details. The LLM and the compiler and the formatter will get the low-level details right. Your job is to make sure the structure is correct and maintainable, and that the test suites cover all the bases, and then to scan the code for anomalies that make your antennas twitch, then dig into those and start asking questions -- not of product managers and developers, usually, but of the LLM!

But, yeah, it is challenging -- and also strangely addictive. I haven't worked more than 8 hours per day for years, but I find myself working 10+ hours per day on a regular basis, and then pulling out the laptop in bed at 11 PM to check on the last thing I told the AI to do, mostly because it's exhilarating to be able to get so much done, at such high quality, so quickly.

If you didn't know mass surveillance was coming since the 1970s, you were not very imaginative and didn't understand human psychology.

Mass surveillance is occurring right now, it will continue to occur, and it will increase. There is no stopping it. Humans want to know about other humans and they want to control and bully other humans. No matter who gets near the surveillance apparatus, they will be corrupted by its power. The One Ring indeed.

The politicians voting for this stuff are not voting because they are believers. They are voting because that is what they are told to vote for. Politicians believe in one thing: Bringing in more money to their political party. It is how they found success, it is how they maintain success.

Voting does nothing when your candidate comes pre-corrupted before you can even vote for them.

Fascism is an ideology that is taking root amongst our aristocracy (which we aren't supposed to have, and yet we do). The aristocracy will pay or threaten anyone who they think is vulnerable to such manipulation. Political party is irrelevant to who is vulnerable. You say it is the Republicans and not the Democrats. You are wrong. It is members of both parties that are vulnerable to manipulation.

Fuck you. No. They do not.

Either children are going to be forced into the real world or adults are going to be forced into a child's world.

One is a tragedy, the other doesn't even make sense. I am not certain why this keeps getting brought up except for fascist intentions.

It is up to the parent to protect their children, not everyone else. The only responsibility others have is to not hurt the kid themselves directly. But "you" think it is okay to force me to forgo my interests to provide some environment that isn't really any safer for the children and is a HUGE weapon against Free Speech. Ok.

No, seriously. Fuck you.

They could have created an endowment and then would not have had to worry when the money dried up, because the earnings on the principal would have funded them through the end of time. But, like most non-profits that end up with a bunch of money, they just used the opportunity for mission creep.

It is absolutely amazing at what a captured political process can achieve... especially when coupled with poor and misleading education.

Correct; however, numerous people knew it was going to happen, even myself, even though it surprised me.

Osama Bin Laden had his training camps in Afghanistan attacked by Bill Clinton with Tomohawk cruise missiles in August of 1998. His (Osama) response was (paraphrased) "I may not be able to to use $5 million dollar cruise missiles to hit you, but I can use your airplanes."

It was published in the open for everyone to read. Portions of the government knew. Portions of the government did nothing to prevent it. The reason it still surprised me was that I was envisioning remote controls and how that could be accomplished. I had no idea you could train intelligent and sane people to perform suicide missions. Live and learn (for some I guess)

That's a valid point, though right now while they're facing competition from startups the dealerships do provide them with a moat that they want to preserve. If/when the startup threat is gone, the automakers will go back to hating the dealerships.

I think people forget how everyone laughed at Tesla because everyone knew that starting a new car company in the United States was impossible. Now we also have Lucid and Rivian. Maybe someday Aptera will manage to get off the ground. This is a novel situation for American carmakers.

Buy the S2 now, while they're still working through their existing backlog of stock.

I bought a PS5Pro when the word 'tariffs' was first dropped, and I'm glad I did.

They had to say it that way, because the more accurate statement is that the dealership law unfairly advantages existing automakers. It's not about the dealerships being good or bad, it's about the fact that setting up a dealership network takes a lot of time and money and requiring it is a good way to keep new competition out.

The correct term is "regulatory capture". Private businesses use the power of the state to protect, subsidize or otherwise benefit them and harm competitors and potential competitors. It's extremely common and the more pervasive the regulation is, the more common it is. Red tape and government procedures benefit entrenched players who have built the institutional structures and knowledge to deal with them.

This isn't to say that all regulation is bad... but a lot of it is. There was never any consumer benefit to banning direct sales. All regulations should be thoroughly scrutinized for their effects on the market, direct and indirect.

This. This is a legal earthquake and existing law firms will pivot and new law firms will be created to dive into Big Tech social media settlement money. Plaintiffs will be groomed, "expert" witnesses will be retained for years, judges will get cushy property deals and non-show non-profit jobs for their clans.... the whole shebang is spinning up right now.

And "changes" will only mitigate (no preclude) future cases. This is all unprovable mental health stuff and "harm" can be attributed to anyone that's seen a post since facebook et al. was founded.

You are correct. Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) has an annual R&D spend exceeding US$40 billion. Five times more than the $7 billion (in today's money) quoted as the Bell Labs R&D budget.