I'm old enough to recall the olden time - two years ago - when the hiring had slowed because there were fears (that had gone nowhere, just muted) that US economy is overheated and about to enter a recession.

But I guess the underlying conditions for recession are harder to spot, when the economic data are dominated by inflation (gas prices) and inflation (AI bubble).

I had to add minimum paragraph and sentence counts to the prompts it uses to keep it from trying to write a few terse sentences each time.

I noticed this in Claude (from DDG). It invariably tries to shorten sentences or make them more compact and concise. Sometimes that can be good, but most times long-winded sentences are what are needed.

I'm wondering if this is for the one of the graphics cards he uses for AI.

I waited a LONG time for Microsoft to screw up Notepad but they did it. For some reason, they seemed very resistant to screw up the task manager but I see now that they are finally moving in the right direction! The last step is for them to add a "let Co-pilot manage my processes" button for the enshitification to be complete! I believe in Microsoft's ability to intentionally harm their users. Don't disappoint me MS!

Touch screen in particular are a bad idea as they require you look at them. However, decked out entertainment systems only serve to distract the driver from the task at hand.

LOL! NONE of those rely on something as finicky as DDR memory.

Those aren't part of what make the car operate but rather an add-on. I have an old Garmin GPS device with updated map data in my car and it works fine.

That's fine, I have no problem with ECUs. The problem I have is these idiotic and distracting entertainment systems. Conflating the two does not help your argument.

I didn't mean the literal physical size but the computation power and expansive (and poorly tested) firmwares. If you want to bicker about using more precise language then I would point out that I correctly pointed out that they have mass.

I am aware of this and that it takes a minimal amount of computing to run the entire car which is done on a robust MCU. Considering I drive an EV, that computing power could be even lower because it's distributed to individual components which means the ECU does only slightly more than manage communications and driver input. The total number of tasks do not need much memory or computation power. I'm not joking when I say that it can be managed using an 20MHz 8-bit MCU with 64KB of flash memory and 2KB of RAM.

The issue is that DDR4 production is winding down and thus the price for that is also inflated. To compound matters, which RAM types they can use is dependent on the CPU being used. This isn't an simple fix and they contract out all the work for the car entertainment systems.

I think they will simply adapt an existing designs for a few years until DDR5 become obtainable since a new RAM production factory is expected to open in 2028.

That overhead whoosh wasn't from a Pinto exploding, it was the joke flying over your head.

and there is no way I can find to make it stop popping up giant intrusive ads for their other services every single time I open it.

Just like Firefox. There is no easy way to turn off being harassed by an intrusive pop-up telling me about a new update.

There used to be. It was a simple checkbox. But somewhere along the way someone had to justify their existence and removed that simple checkbox in favor of harassment.

they could stop putting massive computers inside of cars. I don't know which idiots thought these systems were a good idea but I think they are worst development since the Pinto introduced an integrated detonator switch into the bumper.

Would like to add one tidbit because I've had this same conversation at work. The professor stated they used AI to help edit only after hundred of hours of writing. In other words, they did the heavy lifting and only used AI at the end to help refine what they had already done.

Is this any different than a human editor? If I write a book, do what I can to edit it down, then go to an editor who makes suggests, removes or reorders parts, and so on, is that any different than having AI do the same thing? In both cases you wrote the words. In both cases you went somewhere else to help edit.

If people claim that using AI to edit a work is "cheating" because it's no longer your work, then the same should apply to a human editor.

I recently downgraded from Cable 800MB to starlink. Simply because for some reason at 2pm EVERY SINGLE DAY my ping times with charter would go from around 30/ms to 100-1000/ms and it lasted for a few hours. I work from home and that was unusable. The only other "broadband" available was starlink. So now I'm much slower in the 100-200MB range, but overall we haven't noticed much difference.

So I'd say, yeah, you don't have to go all the way up to gigabit to be considered broadband.

lol, like phys.org (somewhere between journalism and breathless huckterism) has never got crucial facts or inferred conclusions wrong.

College press releases, science journalism, and medical journalism THRIVE on hyperbole and overexaggerated / misunderstood conclusions like this.

That would be a really good deal for an iPhone 16 Pro (>$2300) but if If you don't want to get an iPhone, you don't have spend that much money In fact, you can get a Fairphone for $650.