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"best not to blame the students"

There are dozens for every one who didn't get the opportunity to attend an Ivy. The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. I'll note as a hiring manager the college degree won't be worth shit unless the school can show their students have any integrity.

"Blindly trusting" is not the same as "learning some new questions to ask about the validity of the given claims". The Midjourney announcement is not providing detailed medical credentials either.

never been so much backlash against data centers

Backlash against the proliferation of space junk still has plenty of room to grow.

explain the thesis

It's all laid out in this insufferable a16z piece if you can see past the ego-stroking.

https://www.a16z.news/p/spacex-and-the-sentient-sun

https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Acyclica_...

Tried this? defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.05; killall Dock

Original Singapore results from Debug in 2019 - "greater than 90% reduction in release areas":

https://blog.debug.com/2019/11/singapore-collaboration-achie...

Well, making throw-away things you never use could also be the definition of a hobby ... and hobbies are arguably good, and differ from "work" in that your goal is not to ship a product, but to scratch an itch. For some people AI assisted vibe coding scratches an itch. For others, not. Of course some hobbies turn into an unhealthy obsession, but that's not a new phenomenon.

I used to drive a 2001 S-class ... easily counted nearly 100 physical buttons within reach of the driver. In theory you could use the 10-digit keypad like an old flip phone to enter a physical address into the navigation, but is that really what people want to go back to?

I've definitely worked places where I used the company Xerox machine to print up 50,000 "Unionize Now" fliers.

Yep, I've co-founded several companies and sold them for near $1B in aggregate. My investors and customers are on there, sometimes posting nice things about us. So I give it a thumbs-up and move on. Nothing worth rage-bating about. Mostly I go there to play linkedin.com/games.

See also Asimov's The Last Question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

I have been to Rome and Taipei and Johannesburg, and crossing the road is terrifying lots of places.

Would love to enumerate those commonalities. Run by a psychopath? Commitment to violent lethality? Burning billions of dollars for uncertain goals? (ok there's one)

Here's the extracted text https://pastebin.com/LS2LpLZ7

The old argument for being locked in to legacy software costing 6-8 figures a year was that you had no choice. Now you have a choice! Clearly that is better, and everyone should evaluate that choice on its merits, and the stock market sees that people are voting with their dollars. If your whole sales pitch is "good luck when it breaks!" you might want to reevaluate your business model.

Blatant AI author. Here's a better article by humans. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o

Sounds like it's not unheard of in the UK: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1fabd0c/how_does_you...

I have more confidence that if I reply "never contact me again" to AI it might actually obey, unlike any people that have spammed me.

At least in the screenshots I did not notice absurdly large window corner radii.

I just Googled "kids magic show in Durban" and his ad showed up in the top slot (sorry if this post has swamped your ad bill); and as a bonus, the Gemini AI blurb also touted him: "For kids' magic shows in Durban, look for local entertainers like Big Top Entertainment..."

Doesn't seem like the issue is he's being outbid by international conglomerates with million dollar budgets. Maybe the kids magic show market has cooled in South Africa? Or users have left Google? Curious what we are to conclude here.

I really thought this would be about our company CFO who appears once every winter season, gets all lit up at the holiday party and then disappears until next year.

SAE automation levels are the industry standard, not FSD (which is a brand name), and FSD is clearly Level 2 (driver is always responsible and must be engaged, at least in consumer teslas, I don't know about robotaxis). The question is if "AGI" is as well defined as "Level 5" as an independent standard.

CAISO's own documents quote battery capacity in MW. So I don't think you can just blame journalists.

"Battery storage capacity grew from about 500 MW in 2020 to 13,000 MW in December 2024"

https://www.caiso.com/documents/2024-special-report-on-batte...

As another commenter notes, utilities are interested in "capacity on call" i.e. instant power generation.

Well the faster you get off the grid, the cheaper it'll be for the rest of us. All PGE's problems are caused by running powerlines for you through fire-prone kindling wilderness.

Quebec has them both beat. Hydro rules!

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/CA-QC/5y/yearly

(To be transparent, there's controversy around calling hydroelectric renewable.)

On the other hand, people born in Guam, Puerto Rico, NMI or AVI are US citizens.

https://ballotpedia.org/Citizenship_status_in_territories_of...

Can we even determine if what they found is the key, or just the plaintext? The article mentions they recognized bits of plaintext (Berlin clock) in the archives.

The performance of kids in school reflects adult behaviors.

Number of books Americans read per year is "a smaller number than Gallup has measured in any prior survey dating back to 1990"

per https://news.gallup.com/poll/388541/americans-reading-fewer-...

How about "Federal judge rules ICE arrests at Liberty restaurant unlawful"? Does this meet your standard?

https://fox4kc.com/news/federal-judge-rules-ice-arrests-at-l...