Anthropic clearly forgot to pay bribe money to the US gov... err, I mean, democracy-loving "lobbying" money, like OpenAI / Google / et al.

Good post, thanks ðY'

Whether the music is by AI or a 5 year old child or the next Taylor Swift, does it matter?

Surely all that matters is the end audience and whether they like it?

Before someone mentions "artistic creativity", I'm sure many would say that most of the stuff written by the top 10 out there is just trash anyway. e.g. Lady Gaga, Bieber, Kanye West, etc.

Instead of judging battery life based on "screaming fans", perhaps take a look if the cpu is doing anything and what, if any process, is involved?

Could just be that you don't have a particular driver installed for the system to manage the fan, something as innocuous as smbus?

What the fuck is wrong with Americans? The moment anyone says something as benign as "let's all agree to be nice to each other" you lead poisoned fucks start screaming some shit about communism. No wonder your country is descending into a socio political shithole.

We need to cut our workforce and save money, so we're letting a whole bunch of guys go (eventually).

"and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they're getting done,"

This allows us to spy on the same user from different devices (and their family), especially if they're stupid enough to own our multiple channel surveillance tech.

While I accept your point, I feel it necessary to add that the problems you are referring to, excessive cost and poor quality, are American problems. The rest of the civilised world has low cost or free healthcare and doctors that aren't ground into apathy by the capitalist machine.

So the rest of the world would like to be cautious because we like what we have. Unlike Americans we do have something to lose.

While I partially agree and it was a generalisation on my part, the tech you mentioned (Flash, Java, ActiveX) all came at a time to fill a gaping hole and they solved many problems of their respective time, yes, even ActiveX.

- Flash came at a time when the web was primitive, there was no other way of doing funky animations or creating web-based games.
- Java - not sure why this was mentioned, as it's (arguably) still a success - came at a time to be able to write code to run on multiple different platforms with minimal effort. And it's arguably still a success on countless back-ends to the web.
- ActiveX came at a time where again, the web was primitive, JavaScript was still in its infancy (to some degree), and it allowed not only desktop apps to talk to the web, but solved web front-end and back-end communication at a time when there was no ajax.

The problem with Microsoft trying to reinvent the wheel in Windows and re-writing foundations with .net only makes the OS ever more bloated. We have gone from an OS using only a few hundred mb of memory to over 4gb while sitting on the desktop, for doing absolutely nothing of benefit to the end user, majority of whom spend their time either gaming, or using a web browser, or standard Office applications.

To me, they've solved no real problems... unless perhaps Microsoft secretly hopes to enlarge the number of .net based apps, so they an eventually launch another phone/tablet product? Or perhaps they envisioned the collapse of x86 before Win10 came on the scene, and hope to be able to switch to any ARM implementation with as little friction as possible?

But to me, removing WordPad and then re-adding those features back into notepad serves no purpose. Each app has it's own use case and worked well, and seems another example of increasing bloatware into a lightweight app.

Quite simple.
Many of the older (intelligent) devs retired or were made redundant and replaced with cheap H1B's.

The problem with H1B-types and the younger gen is they only care about making everything using JavaScript or bloated .net. For them, everything is coded wrong and needs to be rewritten from scratch. They have no wisdom or care or appreciation for the countless hours gone into fixing intricate bugs and adding various business logic which they will never comprehend. For them, it's all about the latest toy, and the latest and greatest, no matter how inefficient.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com...

The fuck is wrong with Americans that they see everything as a tax.

Situation: The government wants to stop producing a currency that costs almost three its face value times to make and distribute.
Americans: THIS IS ANOTHER TAX FUCK THE GUBBERMINT AMERICA FUCK YEA RA RA

You people deserve the absolute shitfest that your country is about to become. Your broken politics and collective idiocy have paved the way for the coming storm. I for one am going to enjoy watching your oligarchs burn your house to the ground.

Wow, this idea is dumber than anything I expected to see in this thread. And I came in with low expectations.

Well at least we're being honest.

I guess the option of ensuring that the playing field is level and companies don't tilt the board in their own favour by bribing regulators is out of the question.

The US government has as tight a grip on media narratives as any other despotic regime. It's just they have better PR about it.

As for killing democracies and engaging in genocide, well the US has been involved in more of that in just the last two decades than China has in its 2,000 year history.

OK let's look into this.

Countries bombed at the direction of the CCP: 0
Countries bombed at the direction of Washington: Lots

Countries invaded at the direction of the CCP: 0
Countries invaded at the direction of Washington: Lots

Democratic governments overthrown at the direction of the CCP: 0
Democratic governments overthrown at the direction of Washington: Lots

Drone strikes on foreign soil carried out at the direction of the CCP: 0
Drone strikes on foreign soil carried out at the direction of Washington: Lots

You may have some opinions on China and why they may be evil, and you're entitled to that. But I put it to you that however evil the CCP is, the regime in Washington makes them look like Care Bears.