Well it certainly takes our money and puts it in big pharma's pockets. Standard American operating procedure.

Anil Dash dares to dip on Zork???
"There were a tiny handful of incredible nerds who thought [Zork] was fun, mostly because 3D graphics and the physical touch of another human being hadn't been invented yet. "
How dare you sir! HOW DARE U
It's clear that Anil never found the mailbox or the house or the window that's slightly ajar and just stood there in the clearing arguing with the CLI until rage quitting the game.

"We left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago for a reason"
You left, Anil, you left. Clearly the experience with Zork was a traumatic event in your life. The CLI gave you bad feelings and you gave up on learning.

The important bit in the article is this one:

"During setup, Atlas pushes very aggressively for you to turn on "memories" (where it tracks and stores everything you do and uses it to train an AI model about you) and to enable "Ask ChatGPT" on any website, where it's following along with you as you browse the web. By keeping the ChatGPT sidebar open while you browse, and giving it permission to look over your shoulder, OpenAI can suddenly access all kinds of things on the internet that they could never get to on their own."

That's extremely bad. For the benefit of some kind of convenience or productivity boost, Atlas wants to remember everything you've done, so you don't have to.
I know some people will say how incredible this is as a feature, but you'd be wrong. Nobody needs that. 99.9% of the time that's not a useful thing to have, considering what it costs in privacy and just overall fuck OpenAI, Sam Altman and his kind who want to watch the human race devolve as they feed it more garbage, all the while training some "super genius" AI that will tell them the secrets of the universe and how to be immortal trans-humans. But obviously just tell them the secrets, not the rest of us, because we're going to have to pay for the privilege they've foisted on us as a necessity now that the planet is on fire due to the CO2 these giant data centers are producing.

Sam Altman believes he can become a god, and AGI is the way to achieve that.

Dating sucks anyway. All they want to do is talk about their gold CFDs and crypto investments. And how do they ALL have an aunt who's an investing expert? Is that a coincidence? Why are they all so positive?
Also, all this texting and still haven't had a single date. It used to be sex first talk later, or maybe not at all.

I'm not sure if GE makes any combined-cycle portable plants. There are solutions listed here with up to 55% efficiency, which would suggest some sort of combined cycle:
https://www.gevernova.com/gas-...
The turbines these datacenters are looking for are probably the 40% efficient air-methane burners.
Aeroderivative, fast power is what they're buying:
https://www.gevernova.com/gas-...

These are gas generator turbines intended to burn natural gas to provide power to the datacenter. The datacenters will be up and running before they can get grid connections, so they'll run air-breathing methane-burning turbine generators. It may be years before they can get enough power from the grid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A steam generator plant is much more efficient, and has a lot of pollution controls compared to an open-air methane burning turbine. The CO2 has to go somewhere though.

I agree with you. Most of the money is going where it will do the least good. Not just for people, the planet, etc, but for the economy and US empire in the long run.
Most workers haven't seen a raise that matches inflation unless they jump up the ladder a few rungs. People have been getting 0-1% raises for decades. Inflation that low only occurs in years where markets are reeling from self-inflicted disaster, like 2009.
Notice that healthcare costs keep going up, while the coverage provided by plans keeps going down. Costs of goods in the US goes up, pay rates stay the same.
Value of the dollar goes down, pay rates stay the same. Eventually either the cost of living has to come down, the value of the dollar has to go up, or people outside of the 1% need to get paid more. A lot more.

I'm using an early LED projector, the LG PF1500W. It's Full HD, FHD or 1920x1080 or 1080p depending on how you want to say it.
It was under $1000, probably $975 or something like that. I bought it because it had a "bulb life" that will outlast the internal display itself, which has started leaking pixels on the edges. It's something I could afford to replace now, but don't want to. I think I'd have to upgrade to an ultra short-throw 4k to make it worthwhile, and then we're talking $2k at the low end.

Pause. Zoom. Pan left. Focus and enhance. Read small note. Zoom out and continue.
Didn't you learn how to use a computer from late 20th century tech thrillers?

Amazon Prime video screwed up licensing and is missing the last 20 years or so of Gunsmoke. They even went to color TV at some point in the series. I bet those are on youtube.

Apparently youtube has Miss Chinese International Pageant going back to the 1990's. You know, for all the years I missed between 1996 and now. I learned this recently whilst dining at a Chinese restaurant. Try finding that on traditional TV.

The old AI group leaders probably didn't get along with the shiny, new Wang, and so they had to go. When Wang stops being able to sucker Zuckerborg on the whole superintelligence thing, he'll get replaced too. He'll be extremely rich by then so good for him.

I mean how fast does it really need to be? There are always a few people who say the performance is good enough, and making it 50% faster doesn't make it shovel money any faster. I like chasing after milliseconds but the managers/execs don't until people choosing between our system and our competitors say ours is too slow.

Yeah why was he in his bathroom? Did he airbnb the rest of his apartment? Genius. Rent out every bit of the apartment you rent to cover your rent while you pitch your crypto-scam from your bath tub on Zoom. This is the underdog pulling himself up by the bootstraps story of the year!

"listing every fee they created would be too difficult."
Difficult how? Making lists is not difficult.

If they were honest all the fees would be listed as:
$3.99 - fee type: money grab
$0.95 - fee type: money grab
$0.10 - fee type: lets make billions of dollars
$10.99 - fee type: executive yachts fund contribution
$1.00 - fee type: executive yachts fund contribution fee

Bullshitting customers is easy: get ChatGPT to make up the fees. How hard is that?
But it's easier to get Brendan Carr to get rid of any regulation that requires them to do work.

That's where I stop. I don't need more help from a tool than getting the boilerplate stuff out of the way quickly, creating a skeleton, maybe some unit and integration test skeletons that I can fill out with real assertions that mean something. If you keep it limited to small tasks, it does fine. I can get it to identify thread-safety issues in code reviews or refactor something into less complicated code. Small tasks that speed up development. Ask it how to do something, provide an example, and it's way better than searching the googles or any of the other heavily commercialized search engines. So far GPT and Claude haven't injected any ads or product placements into their answers.. Trying to do "agentic" stuff ends up pooping out code that gets filtered out by its own minders after a few minutes. If it needs a lot of context, it goes kaboom.