First being in AI programmer is like having a limitless supply of Junior programmers doing their very very first gig and you are their manager.

Second what ends up happening is if the AI doesn't work you're doubling up your work because your boss tells you the AI must be working so you must be more productive. And if the AI does work it's just doing the grunt work and now instead of having a little bit of grunt work throughout the day to rest your mind in between the hard stuff you're expected to be full on 24/7 banging out the most difficult aspects of code one after another.

Basically it either doesn't work and now you have double the workload without any new tools to manage that workload or it does work and now your boss expects you to crank out super code 24/7. Either way your job just got a whole lot harder and a whole lot more miserable.

Hate me? Motherfucker if I caught my children smoking they'd be out on the street, disowned, and I'd be in the bedroom making a replacement for their sorry asses. Parenting isn't about letting young idiots (which they universally are) who are incapable of making good choices do whatever they want. That's "bad parenting". It's the reason we don't treat kids as adults in the first place (and one of the reasons selling this stuff to them is already illegal).

You're missed the biggest benefit: You can quickly identify those people who make poor life decisions.

That's a misnomer, you still should bring cash. It's not that plastic isn't widely accepted. For a long time it's actually been more widely used in Western Europe than it has been in the USA. It is *CREDIT CARDS* that are not widely accepted (and still not in much of Europe). Most of Europe runs on debit transactions. Yes it can be confusing to see two overlapping circles and confuse the Mastercard logo (red and yellow) with the Maestro symbol (red and blue) or the Cirrus symbol (light blue and blue).

Come here with your fancy Mastercard / Visas and you may not even be able to buy something at a major supermarket even in a very digital country. And god help you if you have an Amex card.

That said things are changing Mastercard has announced it will discontinue Maestro and that is forcing countries to massively rollout card readers capable of reading Debit MasterCards and VisaDebit cards, and since they have the same underlying technology as credit transactions, that will mean credit cards will very soon become far more widely accepted.

This is a case of a captive audience. If in general machines don't accept credit cards then the complaints will fall on deaf ears. What are you doing to do, drive to a different supercharger and hope for the best? Call roadside assistance when your battery runs out? It's one of the situations where you get to force your customers to do what you want.

That is coming. Quite a few cars on the market support auto-negotiation of the charging. It does work for Tesla... at Tesla chargers. Great if you have a monoculture, not so much if you live in Europe where there are literally close to 100 different companies offering charging infrastructure.

That said most of them offer "network" style subscriptions, which is to say you apply for something like a Shell Charge card and you can tap and go literally anywhere. Yeah it would be nicer for the car to do that automatically, but really you need to stand next to the charger to plug the cable in anyway so it's not like tapping your charge card at an RFID reader is a hassle. So far I've yet to find a single charger that didn't work in my "network" of allowed chargers.

Says who? Not me... are you reading the right thread? Maybe we should ban Slashdotting under the influence of alcohol or whatever hallucinogen made you come up with that post as well, save you from yourself.

You'd be very wrong. Sony hasn't made camera sensors in a decade. They spun off Sony Semiconductor Solutions as an independent company back in 2016. Also Sony makes a loss on Playstation, but you are close to correct there, 60% of their profit is gaming. A lot of the rest is music and film, followed by professional gear.

Most of the storage / memory business is neither designed nor manufactured in China. There's nothing to design here. It's a chip bought from *Korea* or Taiwan slapped into a small plastic case.

Literally everyone other than you from the looks of things. Certainly everyone who has a Sony video camera professional or amateur, or a Sony mirrorless professional or amateur all of which I wonder if you know about...

I guess that answers that question. This sounds like a *you* problem.

Yeah the company that made $81billion selling products you don't know nothing about about is "dead". Gotchya buddy.

I shudder to think at the amount of compute required to fill a 930GB CFexpress card full of video.

Wow arsehole much? You're so desperate to victim blame you fail to realise it's not the people hosting the project having ads injected, it's the people contributing. What do you suggest contributors do? Call up the lead author and get them to send your the original so you can host it on your own server to do the PR request?

Yeah there is a jackass here, a victim blaming one.

Microslop does not like you calling them Microslop. It is offensive to call their slop slop and associated slop with Microslop.

Wanna know how badly Apple sucked? I had a Magic Mouse go dead. I got on the phone with Cupertino. After convincing them it was a legitimate defect,at 5 p.M, they had one at my doorstep at 9 the next morning - California to PA. Their only request was to send the old one back prepaid so they could do a postmortem.

I had a bluetooth problem with my headphones. I'm rather deaf. After posting on their support section, I got an unexpected phone call in 15 minutes. I dunno if text sent an alert, but one of their support people hopped on that, and we fixed it pronto.

They prepaid my trade in of an Intel iMac for a new M4 Mac, and I got several hundred dollars trade in.

I always like to contrast Apples worst in class support with me having a in warranty problem with my kid's laptop a few years ago. (forget the brand) The "service desk" handed me a Xerox copy for me to walk the whole way through it.

Sucks to own a Mac.

These lawyers should be sued for professional negligence. How they argued the case without addressing the most obvious concern and instead went on a tangent that had no hope in hell of succeeding is beyond me.

These guys are almost as stupid as Trump's lawyers. ... Maybe this was resume padding?

I hate to disagree, but there is a huge difference between conceptualization and marketing. But you realize you are saying that Apple would be where it is at today with a marketing person as CEO.

Marketing people might be able to sell refrigerators to inuits, but someone needs to come up with concept and direction. I've been involved with marketeers for a long time. They pitch products, not conceptualize, design or built them.