That's odd, for my purposes -- story writing, research, and keeping my schedule -- I've found Grok to be very inferior to Chat GPT. Only in image editing is it superior.

Of course pre-pandemic, it was around $1200/ounce, and it's been just insane since the pandemic set in until now...

True, still not at the peak, but speaking of adjusting for inflation...

Cisco from 1998 to 2001 had a crazy anomalous valuation that was the biggest of the big examples of the dot-com bubble run amok. That behemoth of a company had an inflation-adjusted market cap of about a trillion dollars. Microsoft was in same ballpark, with Oracle and Intel a bit less, but still big examples of the dotcom bubble.

This time around, Google is 3.8 trillion, Meta is $1.6 trillion, Microsoft is $3.6 trillion, Amazon is $2.5 trillion, nVidia is $4.4 trililon, Apple is $4.1 Trillion....

This bubble is just massively bigger than the dotcom bubble, with just one of the big players this time being valued even adjusting for inflation more than all the big players of the dotcom era put together, and there being a fair number more of them this time. It dwarfs the 2007 bubble in these top few players alone. When this pops, it's going to be mind numbingly severe fall..

I still can't get ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to write a decent story or do an engineering design beyond basic complexity. They're all improving, but they're best thought of as brain-storming aids rather than actual development tools.

Yeah, this is one area where LLM can certainly make one side more successful. A screw up means either the attack fails, which no worse than not trying or messing up the target system, which may not be the ideal outcome, but it's not like the attacker really cared that much about the target system...

You think the companies are deliberately keeping their models from being professional grade because of some sense of social responsibility?

That is hilarious. They are pushing as hard as they can and hyping it up even more than it is capable of performing. Any shortcomings on their part is not by lack of trying or somehow holding back.

Switched 2 years ago. I do miss cable. DVR is one thing, internet via wire was another for a while until the power company also got into the ISP business and provided fiber.

Streaming has myriad options that are harder to manage than the offerings on cable. You can generally find whatever you're looking for, from the World Series of Poker to the next NASCAR or Indycar race with the cable. Not everything is on streaming. I couldn't find the Coca Cola 600 run after the Indy 500 in the evening last May. Supposedly it was on Amazon Prime but I never found it. And my strictly streaming solution does not have all the local channels, not even the 4 major network channels. I find myself still coveting a tower with an antenna, but that is pricey.

The deal breaker with cable was a combination of moving into a new house, and the cable folks blacking out the internet for 7 consecutive hours on a Sunday morning to do scheduled maintenance. All other cable-provided internet I've ever that had kept both the TV and if offered at all, the internet, active except for these planned maintenance events which would occur in the wee hours of the morning and last maybe 2 - 3 minutes. They always seemed to have a plan that would keep them operational for all but a tiny fraction of the day. So, this may only be the important factor that it is in my local area, with the cable company that serves just this area, rather than cable in general which I think is better.

Another factor is the cable changing their system so the gosh-awful great TIVO can no longer be used. And my current discontent was an over-the-air internet solution that was both geo-fenced so it would only work at my home location, so I couldn't take it traveling, and it's highly variable performance, when 300 MB/s was available sometimes, and at other times it might be 5 MB/s. Returned the equipment and moved to fiber when that became available.

I've considered re-adding cable but dang... $$$$. $310 / month when I gave up on it 2 years ago, but of course I had pretty much all their premium channels and the fast internet. Again, I do miss it, but wouldn't give up some of my streamers now, either, so... I guess I will be less than 100% happy in the future on this particular subject since when money is considered, there is no happy solution.

Such a shame that CVE quality is generally crap, as it's flooded with dubious 'findings' from people trying to build a resume as a security researcher. I'm not sure why you assert this is largely still done manually, reconciling with SBOM tools in my neck of the woods is pretty much automated for detecting and flagging issues because *no one* has time to deal with the gigantic volume of CVEs. Of course another problem in those SBOM tools is they have a terrible false positive rate. Trying to follow their guidance 100% may be impossible (complete misidentification) or requires significant work (SBOM tools don't do great with 'backported' fixes, and many software components don't bother with maintaining backward compatibility, so rebasing to a new version is big).

Updating software that is vulnerable is a key component, but I wager a greater general risk is how folks configure and operate credibly secure software stacks in insecure ways.

The class in question was given IN PERSON. I didn't carefully review the article but that happened. Anything about Linkedin Learning is a deliberate decoy, same as the coke can. This is my last post on the topic. You may now reiterate that I'm wrong and pretend it never happened. Whatever makes you feel comfortable.

Republicans equate being pro-market with being pro-big-business-agenda. The assumption is that anything that is good for big business is good for the market and therefore good for consumers.

So in the Republican framing, anti-trust, since is interferes with what big business wants to do, is *necessarily* anti-market and bad for consumers, which if you accept their axioms would have to be true, even though what big business wants to do is use its economic scale and political clout to consolidate, evade competition, and lock in consumers.

That isn't economics. It's religion. And when religious dogmas are challenge, you call the people challenging them the devil -- or in current political lingo, "terrorists". A "terrorist" in that sense doesn't have to commit any actual act of terrorism. He just has to be a heathen.

Yeah, thing is they actually did that. I'm guessing you don't want to believe it because it supports a "side" you don't like. That or you're just lying for the same reason. Sorry, bub. You don't get your own facts. To get even slimier, they made a similar story (the coke can) and paid a reputation company to pump it to the top of results to disguise things. Here's my receipt.

... give a little ground on the opensource drivers.

In my experience, some Linux systems still need binary drivers for stuff like WiFi or cellular. Just hold your nose while you download the Windows driver and load it with NDISWrapper.

I'm not mad at Coke for their ads, but they've earned my lifelong boycott for telling their employees to be less white.

And you thought it was bad when your cloud-dependant IoT device or game bit the dust when the server went away? Imagine a data center or AI based business going dark when Nvidia decides it's time for them to upgrade.

My laptop looks like crap compared to a TV monitor. Even an older generation TV set.

Really? The Chinese have it*. And I bought a Chinese converter to rescue a few older but still good plasma and even CRT TV sets.

*Probably due to the fact that this is where our Windows machines come from.