But at the same time it also increases the proliferation of new designs, which causes too much efficiency in production.

Horrendous. It seems to be the norm that enormous resource usage is justified as long as it's cost-friendly. No wonder we have an environmental crisis. I'd suggest boycotting this newspaper immediately.

But as usual, they went for the short-term profit and worsened the platform significantly for the most dedicated users. It might work in the short-term but they'll be driven away by their lack of uniqueness soon enough.

I only wish I could do more than disable: tear the code right out of firefox. I hate AI with a passion.

I remember noticing a huge speedup at some point, seemed like only 5-10 seconds to get the login prompt. This was 20(?) years ago when I was still building my own towers. Then something happened, I'll guess 10-15 years ago ... my next laptop took that long just to ask for the full disk decryption key. My latest laptop sometimes takes 30 seconds just to ask for the decryption key. No messages, nothing. After that, it's still only 5-10 seconds to get the login prompt.

Of course, this is all from memory, not logs or anything. I'm sure the timeframes are off. But the general trend is right ... slow, then much faster, then slow asking for decryption keys.

More taxes. of course. Or they could rely on SpaceX, but that contradicts their insistence on autarkey.

Technically impressive, but other than a few early adopters, the public saw no need for it. 8K might do better, but few people can tell the difference with 4K, so they'll need a better hook than just imperceptible resolution.

I wonder if AI game players could benefit. Their fake vision is as good as they want.

Trust is more than just technical stuff. You actually have to have the right attitude. Pottering's pretentious and overconfident attitude already casts doubt that he can be trusted.

The idea is if more bans take place, manufacturers would have to make refilling easier. An interim period of difficulty in refilling is a small price to pay for forcing manufacturers to make more eco-friendly products.

But has it been your job to do this every minute *all day long*? I doubt it. News shows waste so much time repeating themselves and showing nice visuals that few people actually concentrate on what they say, treating it more as a background noise generator with occasional cute pet videos or hurricanes pounding a marina. If you're reading a book, say on the financials of the Nazi economy, you are skeptical on the broad overall level, not every single detail reported; you don't worry that it's made up a complete production category from scratch, including the government ministry and minister responsible. Even if you're reading reports on the financials of a corporate division, the skepticism is nowhere near as pervasive as necessary with AI, which can hallucinate in the most unexpected places, and when you extend that to code, where literally every character can be hallucinated, that is the true full time skepticism at issue.

The last thing bureaucrats want is to solve the problems that created and sustain their jobs. Independent thinking workers scare the daylights out of them. And since the only measure of their success is counting subordinates, measuring budgets, and issuing new regulations, memos must continue to pour forth lest the outside world think they have solved their problems and are no longer necessary.

And dealing with bureaucratic paperwork is always a decent distraction. The more nonsensical paperwork lets you vent some of your frustration too. Taking that away doesn't help.

Intelligent people also didn't used to do it all day long, and humans provide clues that AIs are incapable of.

Make sure you wear them on the correct location on your belt.

To an extent. X has two clipboards, although I don't know what they are called. Highlight some terminal text, use CTRL-SHIFT-C to copy it to one clipboard. Highlight some other terminal text, leave the terminal, go to the browser. CTRL-C pastes the first clipboard, MIDDLE-BUTTON pastes the second clipboard. It's incredibly handy.