I was using Android from 2015 to this January and I never even heard of instant apps.

We need NGOs to fund education about nuclear power. Much of the opposition to nuclear power is rooted in ignorance of how clean and safe it really is. If we can teach people the truth then there would be many more reactors built.

Microsoft spent years developing Wordpad, killed Wordpad, and is now adding Wordpad features to Notepad. The stupidity never stops in Windows world.

This is a good start. But somebody has to pay for it. Make tech companies pay for reactors to power their massive data centers. Either that or tax tech bro billionaires and use the money for reactors.

Apple’s developers can’t even get Siri to pronounce words consistently. Half the time it says “Amazon” or “remastered” to me Siri mispronounces the word. I laugh at the idea that Apple can turn Siri into a serious competitor to ChatGPT. I know that some people will say that this is a new team in a different country, they’ll build something great from scratch. But if Apple was capable of making a good Siri they would have hired good people the first time around!

Anybody, regardless of income or background, can have an AI write a great application essay in seconds. Why require them if most students won’t write them?

Most of what I see on Facebook now is just bots posting stuff and engaging in conversation so that they look like real accounts when used in an astroturf campaign. Earlier today I commented on a post by a musician I follow, who responded asking me to DM her—obviously her account has been hacked and is controlled by a bot. Another person tried getting me into a conversation, that person was obviously a bot. There are tons of accounts posting photos, those seem to be bots running on a schedule. Lots of videos are just bots scraping videos from other places and posting them to Facebook; the videos often end early because the bot screwed up and didn’t get the whole thing. Most of my friends and family got sick of the bots and stopped using Facebook. Groups are slowly becoming less active as users get tired of all the bots on Facebook and stop posting. At some point Marketplace postings will be most of the content posted by actual humans.

“Meta's New Tech Wants You to Be an Asshole in Theaters”

I’m sure that llama will do an excellent job working with both sides of the Holocaust, lynchings, and the My Lai massacre.

MacOS is absolutely not tailored to running one full screen program. Itâ(TM)s tailored for designers, developers, and video editors who bounce back and forth through multiple applications all day long. Thatâ(TM)s why it has Mission Control for switching between software and desktops. Itâ(TM)s common for graphic designers to have Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, a music player, and a browser open all the time. People who just want to run one piece of full screen software are either gamers running expensive PCs or office drones who spend their entire day in Word or Excel.

Big tech companies are the ones that need all these electricians. Big tech companies are also some of the richest, most profitable, highest market cap companies in the world. How about instead of leeching off of taxpayers they be the ones to come up with a training strategy and pay for it?

China won’t beat America by educating generations of great engineers. Because America has something better—prayer! The USA will keep defunding public schools and steering kids to parochial schools where they’ll learn to solve problems with the help of Jesus. Just get on your knees, bow your head, and ask The Lord to help you develop new software and hardware and he’ll solve your problems. MAGA!

Why is the Vision Pro project lead being put in charge? The Vision Pro flopped. Because it’s just a bad knockoff of the Meta Quest that most people can’t afford. John Giannandrea should have been fired months ago. Does Tim Cook even know what Apple is selling anymore?

Super Mario 64 was the first third person 3D game with controls and a camera that actually worked well. It was also the first game to play well with an analog control stick. There were earlier first person 3D games on the Playstation, but the controls were terrible and camera behavior could obscure the player, which made most of those games awful. Mario 64 taught game developers how 3D should work and it changed first person 3D games from technology demos to fun games. It also prepared developers for Sony’s Dual Shock analog controller.

"The changes were made so Intel can align its factory operation with market demand"

Nobody wants to buy our chips anymore.

"The changes will ensure Intel's Ohio fabs will be finished in a "financially responsible manner that sets up Ohio One for success,""

We can’t actually afford to expand because nobody wants to buy our chips.

It’s sad to see what’s happened to Intel. I know they were shitty monopolistic bastards in the past, but they still made great chips.