I think for the most part in the US, the EV market is saturated.

Most people that want(ed) them have them....I read a good number of them got out of the EV when they could...and lost money on the resell....

Unless you have offstreet parking and a garage in the US in a home you own, you're like SOL for home charging which I feel is absolutely necessary to really conveniently use an EV....especially due to charging infrastructure not being a thing unless you are on the far east or west coast....?

WAT?

It takes more than couple days to test and push software patches. You do want things tested right, you'd hate get a TZ file where someone fat fingered something and systems set to a given zone all default to GMT or something right because they can't parse the row needed?

Also it isn't just computers timezone change impact. Contracts may involve hourly payments etc, and people might need to negotiate changes; not many people maybe but not nobody.

Honestly I don't see any universe where responsible governance would change time standards with less than years notice. Not that it does not happen but there is no reason that is should. What possibly makes it so urgent to change right now if you want to stop doing DST -> STD vs pass the law now have it take effect before the next would be time change after this one?

yeah I have done a bit of that on my little personal projects, that I have "vibe coded".

It is fun because you get to look at code, like it is the 90s again, and everything there is relevant and important. As much as people fear AI is going to generate a lot of incomprehensible mud-ball programs, it is actually pretty good and generating concise things, that are easy to read.

HOWEVER...

Those personal projects don't resemble the requirements of contemporary software. Even internal enterprise software these days often needs support for stuff like internationalization, accessibility support, adaptive UI that is useful and efficent for the comptroller with the 43" monitor and for the CEO who insists he only needs a 6" mobile phone for all the things.

The libraries are big because they do all that stuff, and if skip them you don't get that stuff. 80% of the time you don't need that stuff. That said, for your little S-corp, or even smaller LLC you might not need that stuff right now but very suddenly you might find that you do. When you do you'll be rewriting or at least rebasing a lot of code back onto those big library stacks; where as if you'd used them in the fist place it would probably be just add some start up parameters to flip on 'high contrast mode' in the display tool kit for the color blind person you just hired. Alternative you could try to just add the functionality you now need, but of course then you are just putting the complexity right back and getting to run a new untested system, with lot of fun corner cases and gotchas for you to discover all by yourself because you did not know enough about the subject to tell the AI Agent what it all it really needed to do.

It is fashionable to hate on all the complexity, but to often people forget about the simplicity it affords. You can today get an incredible amount of functionality out of handful of lines of "application" code. If I use a browser as my UI, a single gives me an edit control where a user can write click and get spelling suggestions, the get ranged selection support, I can style it with a few more lines of re-usable css, screen readers know what to do with it, and more; try that with your win32 CreateWindowEx() edit control....

Complexity means bugs, because bugs are ultimately a function of interactions that were not considered fully, the more stuff interacting either the more buggy it will be or the more effort will be need to control for it. The complexity though exists because people demanded it, society decided software had to be usable even if you don't speak English, and we decided things like it should portable even if you change computer architecture, and .... achieving all that without the library ecosystem really would be impractical.

AI allows drawing conclusions from mass movement information, it is beyond just someone's location, it would allow predicting market moves based on movement of groups of people.

This is not just about following any one person, this is about information movement, following a group of people who work on the same project for example to understand when they are going towards the same site / goal. This is beyond dangerous.

LOL it was the last crash that created the "you're the product" tech industry. Everyone woke in 2000 and realized nobody had a real business plan, and started sell; tech's answer was monitize the users.

Holly crap dude you think with regulating big tech is going to give you more freedom. I have 20% share in the Brooklyn Bride if you are interested, I am willing to sell for pennies on the dollar!

Seriously all regulating AI will do is make it harder or impossible for open source and open models. Regulation is what Anthropic and OpenAI want, they are littleral asking for it. Why? Because they only have a realistic revenue stream and by extension business if either; the history of computers getting faster and cheaper suddenly stops.. or they can someone legally keep people from publishing stuff and others from selling hardware. That is 100% what that is all about no matter what they say, and Democrats will play right into it. We all better hope they don't get both Houses.

Rewriting legacy code in itself makes sense if the idea is to extend and improve the project, add new features, increase functionality. For this purpose, however, you need a person with access to all of the documentation and understanding of why the code exists, not a person who can ask an LLM to rewrite the code simply by using the existing code base as the documentation base. Before rewriting the code what needs to be done is documentation needs to be created (if it doesn't exist) and business requirements need to be collected, basically normal business analysis and product management, once you have that you can hand it over to a developer.

Starting with a developer is probably a recipe for failure in this case.

- lets just make sure we get behind it during the other 99.9% of the time..

I am against government involvement in any construction or any planning of infrastructure whatsoever. I am against government as a general principle. People taking care of themselves is the basis for all humam civilization in the first place.

Someone has already pointed this out, but it bears repeating. For that to actually be true, they would need to cost more from the budget than they add to it through both direct taxation, and the tax revenue generated through the effects of their labor and other economic activity on the GDP. Virtually all studies show that they're actually a net benefit there.

Perhaps for the LEGAL migrants...but not for the ILLEGAL migrants...they are a burden on the US taxpayer.....they're usually paid under the table, off the books and are the ones clogging up our ERs and classrooms.

May he go forth in the sunrise boat,
May he come to port in the sunset boat,
May he go among the imperishable stars,
May he journey in the Boat of a Million Years.
— The Book of Going Forth by Daylight (Theban recension, ca. 18th Dynasty)

Not like IPv6 solves anything with lots of ISP blocking inbound IPv6 connections.

But,, but, but.....I thought "Data Centers == Bad"...?

Ellison's Paramount Skydance Warner Bros Discovery - and movies/TV can be very subtle in pushing a narrative or shaping public opinion.

As opposed to all the subtle (and lately not so subtle) narratives the current folks have been pushing for years now?

Wait, you believe that government builds sewer pipes, gas systems, plumbing, roads? All of these things were and are built by private companies and should be built by private companies, not governments. Nothing should be done or built by governments, there shouldn't be any government employees, all government employees should be fired, all government regulation need to be abolished. People will rebuild everything, there shouldn't be even such things as government enforced zoning laws.

Right that is the real problem isn't. Google has not yet worked exactly how to stuff enough ad impressions to make money without destroying the utility the user is getting out of the experience to the point they are likely to abandon Google for a traditional search engine or go pay for Chat-GPT or something.

Really 'ad words' in AI summaries ought to be "easy" from an implementation standpoint. The 'problem' is doing its going to use even more tokens that need to be paid for.