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My strong photographer opinion is that you should buy the oldest action camera that meets any resolution/framerate needs and treat it almost like a disposable. Buy on sales or used units. Use them on shots you genuinely are unwilling to use a mirrorless for - strapped to the front of a bike, magnetically attached to the side of a car, strapped to someone jumping in a lake.

Similar arguments have been made about Git UIs and automated tools, and of course most people who depend on such things also depend on others to bail them out in difficult situations with git.

So it just becomes a question about whether or not it's part of your core value proposition. For many developers, the answer is obviously no. And then outsourcing those things to automation, including LLMs, seems fine.

But if you can outsource your job, so can everyone else. If the LLM (or ide or any other tool) just needs someone to vaguely press the "next" button to do your job, well, your boss and everyone else can press that button too.

Outsource carefully. Know the value you provide.

without corporations hiring people to undermine wages there would be pressure to pay higher wages for low skill low education workers

Supply and demand. If you increase labor supply, prices go down.

More workers will in fact depress labor prices.

Higher skilled and educated workers are making less too.

This is outright false. Skilled trades are suffering from an inability to fill vacancies and salaries are going up.

There is a systemic effort to gut the middle class

The middle class is shrinking.. because the middle class is becoming upper class.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/upper-middle-class-income-us-wh...

The middle class earners are earning enough to become upper class.

Aside from less than a quarter point (0.24) from Covid, wages have in fact risen with inflation and that small difference is also likely to disppear soon.

https://usafacts.org/answers/are-wages-keeping-up-with-infla...

It is in fact rents, especially with mandatory add-ons. The actual cost of renting a place is a lot more than the direct rent payment.

"If I see you on social media, I'm grounding you for two weeks with no phone."

You can't fix a behavior issue with tech, just like you can't fix your computer by being good.

I'm a parent of two, one of whom is a baby. I rock a Sony zv-e10ii.

Image quality is real. That glasses camera is teeny tiny. At the most basic layer, it's going to look like a bad camera from decades ago by the time your kids are old enough to want to see those photos.

Meta sells that device to generate data and profit from "services". Zuck said so directly in an earnings call: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-explained-ai-glass...

You are the frog being boiled. Your glasses are the pot.

Buy a proper camera. Your memories will be a lot higher quality and you'll go from creepy guy uploading toddler footage for Zuck to watch to someone who loves their kid enough to run a real camera.

Just drop the gl. Seems to get the point across.

Microsoft chose to run a shoddy bounty program. The researcher tried to do the right thing.

Microsoft could have prevented this. They were warned. It's their own fault.

The exploit exists whether or not the researcher reports it. They didn't make the exploit.

So which is it?

Do people need structure to occupy their time or will they provide it themselves?

Does school not count as "generous allowances to experiment"? Why not?

Under your definition, what does? Can you actually point to something that satisfies your definition?

Language is consumed by people, not machines.

You don't have to speak like a lawyer.

There is no intersex person waiting to jump out and yell accusatory things at you because you didn't include sufficient asterisks or you said statements that are 99.9999% true.

Venezuela has bulk freed their political prisoners and is on track to hold elections.

And I think you will find Ukraine lacks the necessary satellite constellations to enable very long distance corrected boat strikes. Yet strangely Ukraine has suddenly been successfukly performing trajectory corrected boat strikes.. at very long distances.. Seemingly launched from not Ukraine.

Or maybe Russian oil terminals just keep magically catching fire... along with their ships.. You know, the ones the US didn't interdict.

Could be. Could be.

Out of $188B of authorized aid for Ukraine, $109B has been disbursed incl 2025/2026 deliveries, with an additional $72B continuing to be disbursed per original timeline.

https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

You have to get at least the most basic facts correct. If you get even those wrong, you need to throw out your entire worldview and the sources that generated that worldview and start over.

Then taking down the Maduro regime and the Iranians who are both Russian allies, arming Ukraine, and enabling out-of-theater sinking of Russian ships?

That tweet is from yesterday.

Iran tweets about taking down an American jet basically daily. By their count we are down 40 f-35s, 4 aircraft carriers and thousands of MQ-9s.

Steam doesn't prevent me from running other games on my pc.

Your experience is the opposite of mine.

I can't wait to play with my 3 year old and 1 year old. I get so mad at work when I have an odd late meeting because it is keeping me from them.

My three year old helps me build furniture (he gets screws started, counts out parts, helps apply glue). I love showing him synths and instruments and seeing his face light up.

My one year old is a cuddle monster who likes listening to jazz with me. She also really enjoys when the cat climbs up on our lap and she gets to pet it.

I don't know your situation, but most miserable parents I know see their kid as something to manage, like some kind of annoying work underling.

I see my kids as little detectives.

My goal isn't to solve their case or even help them approach it in the right way. It's to give them an occasional hint (or step stool), keep them from danger, and help them discover the correct way to behave.

4Chan has blocked the entire UK IP range. They do not host any infrastructure there.

They are bound by UK law exactly as much as they are bound by Venutian or Mars law.

4chan's lawyer, who has been engaging with this well since the beginning, has clearly advised his clients, who have no intent of ever going to the UK, to not go there. In addition, Ofcom does not have the ability to collect them through the EU itself. They must go to the UK.

It already sounds like Ofcom is likely to lose lawsuits about this, as they do not have jurisdiction in the U.S., where 4chan is hosted.

I live next to a sprawling apartment complex after rezoning allowed it to go in.

Now we have a large homeless encampment partially on the apartment complex lot - that the complex can't deal with because their lawyers told them off.

Now we have a significant uptick in petty but quality of life impacting crime.

The roads around the apartment complex are now swamped because the entrances were placed stupidly.

And the people who live in that apartment complex are also upset about all of this.

None of this is about "my investment". It is about not letting commercial outfits hurt my quality of life to subsidize their profit margin. It's not the fault of the tenants, nor me.

Now we get to sue the stupid property management company until they fix their issues.

What is your main use case?

Conference calls? Get soundcores.

Actual music? Buy proper open backs and a DAC.

Follow the money.

There's no money to be made arresting criminals. Sure you get a few police contracts, and you need to show enough results to keep them.. but your moat is mostly how hard it is to even submit bids.

There's a lot more money to be made knowing that Accountant Mary's Lexis is looking kind of banged up and she could be sold on a new one.

You want to fly a multi-hundred dollar device loaded with radios that constantly broadcasts out a unique ID and possibly your FAA ID and use it for crime?

Or even better yet, get arrested halfway to trying to dip your drone into paint on a sidewalk?

Just throw a rock at the stupid thing.

Can you name the groups? (Assuming they are sufficiently public, corporate/political entities)

No, you don't need "superhuman levels of willpower to avoid social media entrapment". Just block the damn sites. Delete your account before you do. No you don't need to keep up with Timmy from the 8th grade and his third marriage and worsening benzo addiction.

People smoked for the same reason people doomscroll - anxiety.

You can expose your kid to technology and also explain the role of moderation the same way you do with candy and sweets. You will need to model the behavior you want in your kid - that means putting your phone down. Buy a timed lockbox if that is what you need.

There are millions of people who are obese - not just fat - primarily from fruits. Those people have a history of obesity preceeding modern processed foods, and it's because they have very dense fruits (and starches) available to them in plenty.

My mentioning plantains wasn't random.

And this is the issue with these "healthy"/"processed" discussions.

If you live off bananas and rice, you are not going to be healthy. You can get just as fat off plantains as you can doritos.

Peanut butter (which is at least partially processed) can be a healthy part of your diet. It can also absolutely wreck it.

Is there anyone who can't do this today? Adult websites self label, and both your router and ISP offer removing adult websites as an option.

If your kid is going to get around that by clever vpn use, age gates don't help.

Can age assurance be done privately and anonymously? Absolutely.

But the entire point of age laws is to stifle free speech and ruin privacy. Thus why every age law requires uploading an ID.

If it was just age, just require a credit charge of a $1 through an intermediary. Good for a year or whatever.

To the extent that you are able to send messages back, I would relay that the correct strategy is to set up a terminal, run it for a max of an hour or two, then tear it down and move again. And the terminal needs to never be plugged in and active in the same place where it is stored when it is not in use.