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Was seriously considering getting a Framework to replace my aging ASUS. Upgrade- and repair-ability were my main motivations.

But now I'm reconsidering. Not standing behind their own BIOS update is pretty horrible.

Turing was half right. Pass his test and you haven't proven a machine can think — you've proven it can make us think it does. That's a far more dangerous thing to have built.

Honest, good-faith question.

Is CC getting better, or are you getting better at using it? And how do you know the difference?

I'm an occasional user, and I can definitely see improvements in my prompts over the past couple of months.

> It's not that Dell doesn't care about AI or AI PCs anymore, it's just that over the past year or so it's come to realise that the consumer doesn't.

I wish every consumer product leader would figure this out.

The actual headline is:

Analysis finds "anytime electricity" from solar available as battery costs plummet.

Those missing quotes go a long way to making the headline make sense.

"[Microsoft's] platform power didn’t just come from controlling applications on top of Windows, but the OEM ecosystem underneath. If OpenAI builds AI for everyone, then they are positioned to extract margin from companies up-and-down the stack — even Nvidia. "

Ah yes, the ChromeOS strategy. How'd that work out for Google?

Building a platform is good, a way to make quite a bit of money. It's worked really well for Google and Apple on phones (as Ben notes). But there's a reason it didn't happen for Google on PCs. Find it hard to believe it will for OpenAI. They don't (and can not) control the underlying hardware.

> Example: When encountering a memory error during a Docker build, it increased the memory settings rather than questioning why so much memory was used in the first place.

AI really is just like us!

“Technically, I am homeless. I do not have a place of my own. I’m not on any lease,” he says.

That is not 'technically' homeless, or any other kind of homeless. If it was, millions of adults who move back home with their parents would be 'homeless.' Millions of spouses who aren't on the lease or deed would be 'homeless.' Millions of roommates, too -- which is, in fact, what this guy actually is.

I sympathize that the guy is in a tough spot, $70k a year is not a lot to live on in LA. But this kind of self-victimization is not helpful, Professor.

This is a horrible way to frame the study's finding. "1% of people are responsible" sounds like some group is wasting resources, or taking up an uneven share.

The study looks at one year, and finds in that one year 24% of spending was on 1% of the people receiving care. That's not very surprising. 30 years ago I was in a bad car accident. I'm sure the cost of the ambulance, the emergency surgery, and the after-care was WAY more than most people average that year, and easily the most expensive medical year of my life. But it was just that one time.

I use Ubiquiti throughout my 90+ year old home, with multiple AC Pros. During the heart of the pandemic I had four people in my house, all Zoom'ing or streaming video at the same time, all on WiFi, with no issues.

I don't really know why I would need anything newer.

The article REALLY ought to say so, but the underlying data is CPI adjusted.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/

Lighting? Or lightning? I'm hoping the latter!

I don't doubt that. But how do they find candidates? And how do interested engineers find positions?

OnlyFans is at his core a tech company, with (I'd guess) a stack that looks a lot like any other high volume social media platform. They likely have a decent size engineering group.

Yet all of what I would think of as the expected recruitment links (e.g. https://careers.onlyfans.com/) go nowhere. Quick searches on LinkedIn, Indeed and CrunchBoard come up empty.

Obviously, this is due to their content. But I wonder, how does a company like this recruit good (or at least decent) talent?

Been here longer than you, my friend.

The knead because those biscuits aren't going to make themselves!

Isn't the ultimate lesson here that the rules are useless? The user got CoPilot to break one of its own rules with almost ridiculous ease.

"something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest."[1]

The article you get when clicking isn't the content promised by the headline. To get the content promised, one needs to go to a second article, which requires a fee.

If that's not clickbait, I dunno what is.

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait

It's 100% clickbait, as the second part of the article is available only to paid subscribers.

"Let's now assume that the user enables the PIN unlock and configures Bitwarden so that it doesn't require the master password on restart."

If the user has setup Bitwarden so the master password is not required, then the user gets what they asked for, namely a password database secured by a 4 digit PIN. Not clear to me why this is a problem Bitwarden needs to fix.

"SimCity should step outside the single-player bubble and embrace the fad of the moment—multiplayer"

Found the problem!

Nice to see an article address what Moore actually said (transistor count doubles every 24 months) and not what people often thinks Moore said (performance doubles every 24 months).

7.7 million people live in the Bay Area. Your 40% estimate is off by several orders of magnitude.

Same! I can only assume it's some kind of rolling announcement and they haven't gotten to us yet.

Not sure where you're getting those numbers. I've been a Backblaze customer for 10+ years, and I was contacted about the directed share program. Have not heard about price or volume yet.

I've been using Unix in one form or another since 1986, and I was today years old when I learned about 'grep -c'. I've probably done some form of 'grep foo | wc -l' once or twice a month every month over those 34 years.

While I'm sure that says something about me, it also says something about the depth and complexity of Unix/Linux. There is a LOT there, so it's not surprising that people find less-than-optimal ways to solve their problems.

I had this happen to a .com domain I own, also at Namecheap.

In my case it was actually a trademark infringement legal action. My domain got listed as hosting a site that sold knock-off sunglasses[1] . The plaintiff in the case got a court order to transfer all the suspected domains to them, a list of about 1,000 domains. I got no notice, my domain just suddenly disappeared.

I had my lawyer contact the plaintiff, in which we apologized, told them we had no idea this had happened, and promised to up the security (in reality I just nuked the WP site.) About a week or so later they transferred the domain back. For me this was annoying and cost a few hundred bucks in legal fees, but not that big a deal. Obviously not the case for Susam.

[1] My (largely abandoned) self-promotion Wordpress site got hacked, and was used to host an e-commerce site. Weirdly the domain was ${my_real_name}.com, hardly an obvious choice for selling knock off sunglasses.

Uber: AB5 doesn't affect us. Also Uber: We are prepared to spend $60M to stop it.

It's a punishment. You can't send a corporation to jail, you can only fine them. The Jury found that Monsanto committed fraud, and acted with malice. $1B is enough to hurt the corporate finances, very much by design.

What punishment do you think would be appropriate?

I think you have the question backwards. I wonder why more people, especially in tech, don't have agents.

Broadly speaking, writers are freelancers who enter into short-term high-value contracts for work-for-hire. Agents negotiate the contract on the writer's behalf, with the agents compensation depending on the writer's (this, in fact, is what the current dispute is about, as this has become less and less true). This ensures that the writer gets a good deal, ideally the best deal possible. Talented writers aren't necessarily talented negotiators or networks, so this division of labor works well.

Seems to me everything I just said also applies to freelance Tech Workers. But instead of Agents we get marketplaces like oDesk or TopTal where freelancers are competing against each other, often in a race to the bottom.