Yep, was more thinking of the "people using wired don't care about the DAC" part than the actual machines we're talking about.

Quite the opposite. A strong use-case for a jack is low-latency audio, and tht's the kind of thing used by people who use their machines for audio and music production. I'm a heavy user of Logic, and would absolutely not let wireless headphones anywhere near it.

For "people who don't care the DAC sucks", there's wireless. For people who do care about the DAC but only for listening to music or conversation etc., then wireless also exists. For those who care about both quality and latency, and that's really only for specific use cases these days, then wired is the way.

The problem with better DNA error checking is you risk choking off evolutions necessary source of entropy, and if that life can't evolve, it wont do well protecting against OTHER threats.

The conclusion would be that while too much radiation precludes evolution, (as it requires too heavy "error checking"), too little radiation also precludes evolution (no errors means no changes) and therefore there has to be a 'just the right amount', making that yet another constraint , in this case magnetic, on what sort of environment qualifies as the "goldilocks zone" for life.

Most of those complaints are from people too lazy or too stubborn to just type in the word into google and see what comes out. Worse, there is also a variant of people who say "I dont know what is", in a transparently bizzare attempt at trying to sound knowleagable, by feigning ignorance.

Don't this just make them chase never-ending profit to the detriment of all?

Anthropic where always a for-profit company, meaning that chasing a profit is a fiduciary legal requirement.

Tbh, of all the AI bro companies, Anthropic are the least obnoxious, and I do wonder how their stance against weaponization survives when board is stacked with venture capitalists instead of TESCRAL doomers.

Mindyou Nvidia may well be skewing young with its headcount. Prior to the AI boom NVIDIA had a very generous vested share program for its engineers, and suffered a rather unique problem when the AI boom shot their shares through the stratosphere when suddenly all their senior engineers where sitting on, in some cases, upwards of 20 million USD worth of shares each. And like normal people instead of wall street suits, they pretty much collectively said "Well, fuck this working shit" and cashed their chips and retired with their millions, gutting their ranks of senior engineers.

FYI: Apple discontinued their Time Capsule in 2018 without replacement.

In my experience, smart people at best found school worthless, dumb people found it a waste of their time, and midwits loved it. Midwits are smarter than most teachers and the teachers tell the midwits how smart they are and give them gold stars and certificates that say they're smart. Which is like cocaine to a midwit.

When I see someone talking about how great their government school teacher was and how much they learned, I assume they're a midwit until proven otherwise.

Seems to me that most government school teachers go into teaching because they're not smart enough to get a real job and where else will they get a pension, job security and long vacations?

Or because they want access to kids.

> Thinking starts with foundational knowledge taught in schools

Every smart person I know would laugh at that idea.

If a kid can't think by the time they get to school, they probably never will. Dumb kids can't learn much and the idea that a 100-IQ teacher can teach a 150-IQ kid how to think (or anything much else really) is laughable.

Government schools were created to turn kids into compliant industrial drones. They have served no purpose since all the industrial jobs were shipped to China, but teachers' unions have ensured that millions of teachers continue to have jobs anyway.

well, at my current job they use NoSQL, in this case it's DynamoDB and it's been frustrating at times. So I asked the question: why are we dealing with these problems day in, day out, if the problems we're trying to solve have been solved half a century ago with SQL?

The answer is cost. The way we access data may be convenient to do with SQL, but it's also expensive. We have big (not webscale but large) volumes of data coming in every day. Having this on SQL would cost us tens of thousands a month. Keeping it in DynamoDB costs us a few hundred. And it's stupidly fast - if we wanted to get that kind of performance from SQL we'd have to pay for a supercharged overprovisioned server.

And honestly it's been fun. It's turned "boring business software development" back into more of an engineering problem.

Also Africa has a heck of a lot of sun in patterns that are more consistent all year round. Close to the equator you may get less sun in the day but you don't get a 4x difference between the peak summer production and minimum winter production as we do here.

More consistent output means it's easier to plan around, and not having winters at 40 below zero means even if the power is out for a while you're probably not going to die.

Lastly, of course, with local power production there aren't thousands of miles of copper cables and tall metal pylons to cut up and steal.

I see the problem as a more "get off my lawn" types here. They have fully adopted "vibe coding" as "anything made with AI assistance" as much as older people call anyone younger than them "millennials".

There's a big difference between an experienced programmer providing the AI with clear, concise prompts and guidance; than having someone with zero knowledge trying to build an entire app from scratch.

One is "augmented capabilities", the other is vibe coding. But the haters here just refuse ANY sort of AI involvement.

Someone on the email list said it can give a 6-8% performance boost because the pointers are half the size so you get better cache utilization. For some uses that's going to be a noticeable win.

That said, I've never heard of any software using it rather than just requiring a faster CPU.