That was far from universal, as anyone with a red box 30 years ago could tell you.

Later payphones were surprisingly 'smart'. Not only could handle payments, they could even be scheduled to call home to report. Others you had to initial the call,and hope no one answered! Sometime around the turn of the century, I worked on a project that used that data to create dynamic collection routes.

I hate to break it to you, but most people aren't bigoted freaks who can't handle seeing non-white people in ads without crying.

Corporations don't care about social issues. They only care about money. They put "DEI" in ads because it works. Get woke or go broke.

Gah- where the *manufacturer* would otherwise simply not sell them inventory.

Simple. Because the dealer model enforces at least a semblance of a competitive landscape where the dealership would otherwise simply not sell them inventory for the purpose of reselling- not honor warranties for third-party sold cars, etc. That kind of bullshit.

Dealership model laws are a form of anti-trust. And they worked.

That being said, I don't think manufacturers should be restricted from selling directly to customers. Rather, I think they should have to compete fairly with dealers. Keeps both sides honest.

When you pose the question as an either-or, it's definitely hard to make a choice.
Fortunately, one doesn't have to.

You allow the manufacturer to have its own dealers, and you statutorily force it to sell inventory to independent dealers in a non-discriminatory way.
That way, if either party becomes an unethical shitbag, you go to the other.

Only stupid people who don't know the difference between profit and revenue.

Don't let the fact that these things are inescapable at the moment fool you. These things are absurdly expensive. Everyone is banking on the tech improving rapidly and the cost falling dramatically. Enjoy the affordable access while it lasts because it won't last long.

If you environment variables get wiped out and shell logging is disabled then that's a HUGE red flag right there. Not stealthy at all.

Anti-debug tactics have been around so long that they have managed to improve debuggers just deal with them. This isn't new or special.

So what? They all produce nonsense the same way.

It's astonishingly bad at summarizing text. It will ignore important details and 'hallucinate' others. Oh, and if the thing you want it to summarize isn't accessible or doesn't exist, it will still provide 'summary'.

The output looks really good if you don't bother to check it for accuracy.

They suck at summarizing text because they're not actually summarizing text. All these things do, all they can do, is next-token prediction. That's why it doesn't matter if there isn't any text to summarize. Next-token probabilities are produced the exact same way, no matter what the context happens to be.

To be fair, I think we're all guilty of that. If not when it comes to AI generated nonsense, then a book or some other media. It's impossible for us to be experts in everything, so we all lean on expert opinion. We also tend to associate confidence with certainty, which is fine most of the time, provided we don't also mistake certainty for accuracy!

Considering the amount of time needed to build a nuclear power plant and the fact that there is a good chance the AI bubble will pop before it's constructed, I wouldn't be surprised if this gets canned in a few years.

There is an obvious solution to this problem: after you have selected a candidate to hire, simply pay for them to come in for a final in-person greeting. If that doesn't work for you because you are trying to get someone for the absolute least amount of money then you have identified the core problem.

Impressive? Yes. In a good way? No.

Technically, just The Government. The Prosecutor merely acts as their agent- but ya. I wouldn't hold your breath, either.
Even though it's a pretty clear violation of the CFAA, they really only enforce that against solitary kids that scrape research papers.

We move the packets. Get fucked.

I spent a week in Mumbai about a decade ago.
Nastiest place I've ever been on this entire planet. Broke my fucking heart to see how those people live.
Frankly, the Bay Area is better off without you if you consider India better.