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Counterpoint: SAP remains a going concern.

Opposite experience here. Had a bright BMW sports model, and then when moving to a dark family vehicle from a manufacturer without this reputation people treat me totally different. Anecdotally I don’t drive any different, still speed as fast as the conditions allow on clear highways or go with the flow of traffic, even if that flow is +15mph over. However I got pulled over by the police for speeding about quarterly in the BMW, and have not been pulled over a single time in more than five years in my new car. Wild.

> The WHO recognizes "porn addiction" so it’s not some conspiracy theory. Not that I trust the WHO.

Who are you to say this? Who? WHO? You don’t trust WHO but do trust them when they support your pre-conceived solution? You really think you won’t get fooled again?

Absent some really abnormal situation, no one is physically trapped in a coffee shop either. Respectfully it seems like you have a conclusion or opinion and are looking to ignore some pretty basic facts to advocate for it rather than looking at the facts and forming a conclusion.

This question implies that you might think that SoftBank is something like a bank with branch locations where people can go deposit money and have a checking account. Not so! SoftBank is basically just a Japanese investment fund and probably doesn’t need 800 points of presence.

I’m on the 13 Pro Max and this year and last year I said, “I’ll get the new one if there’s a killer feature that I can’t live without,” and while USB-C could theoretically be that, as pathetic as that sounds, I can’t find any reason whatsoever so upgrade. I like the titanium color, but my phone hasn’t seen the light of day in years because of the case so even that doesn’t matter.

That USB-C though would be nice so I’d finally have only one cable needed.

It’s more like running a PaaS product backed by AWS and then your customers realizing they can just use AWS directly, pay less, and have less complexity. And they have done this before for what it’s worth.

They never made sense long term, of course. But, plenty of first movers made a bundle of money making chatgpt wrappers and marketing the hell out of them. In that context, they probably made sense for a small subset of people for a small slice of time.

This is not a technical problem.

The crux is that they don’t let you rack up that debt in the first place if you’re cash only. ;)

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Two economists walking, spotted a $100 bill on the ground, and did not pick it up under the reasoning that if there were really $100 on the ground, someone else would have picked it up already.

I don’t think they mean in a legal sense. That’s undecided, you’re right.

In a common sense, dictionary usage of the phrase, it is absolutely coordination.

Very curious about the scaling process. I've been building something on a breadboard with an esp32 and I'm pretty happy with it. Now I want it to be a lot smaller, and in one piece rather than with a bunch of wires and components on a breadboard.

How do you make the step from breadboard dev to something manufacturable?

Sounds like the statement is referencing the past not the future. I think it’s a reasonable thing for them to say: this was stolen, and that sucks, but perhaps a little reassuringly we haven’t detected this being misused. idk.

Number 2 is half correct.

Wouldn’t it be cool to write something that is ostensibly interesting and then spend a bunch of time obscuring it through an annoying click-for-each-word presentation?

For anyone curious, Ken White has a good and entertaining article breaking down maximum sentences in print (here, 110 years) and what people actually serve. It's worth a read:

https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...

A takeaway:

"1. Maximum sentences have very little relation to actual sentences in federal law. When the government quotes the maximum sentence, they are trying to scare you. When the press quotes it, they are uninformed or lazy. Exercise skepticism. Resist emotional appeals to "how is this sentence reasonable when murderers get less?"

This is awesome. LWN is one of my favorite publications.

I just assumed Disney paid their employees, though maybe they’re volunteers or something. I read Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc. a while back and my takeaway (in addition to seeing a glimpse into how the management worked) was that all workers at Pixar were compensated for their work. Not totally orthogonal because Disney did end up acquiring Pixar. But I have a hard time believing a movie like Frozen was created without paying for it to be created.

> No that is not what people are upset about. They are upset that their life's work is being used without even asking permission, for someone else to get insanely rich. That's what they're upset about.

This is kind of petulant then, respectfully. They got paid to produce that work, and they sold their services for that paycheck and the knowledge that they were putting their work into the world. The fruits of their labor were already being used to make Disney, etc. massively wealthy.

But this is even another step of indirection from that totally fine and reasonable situation: people (or machines) are learning from the work and producing their own. They might as well be angry at interns who learned their style to get junior jobs at Disney and who are now up and coming, replacing them.

EU rights do not apply in the US.

It doesn't matter. They're all just fungible wrappers on OpenAI or Midjourney or some open source model or whatever the flavor of the week is. I don't blame people for doing this -- those "generate your profile photo in 20 different scenes with AI" that were big six to nine months ago (?) I heard generated literal millions from people putting a frontend in front of whatever AI source before those style of images fell out of fashion.

The critical error of OP's attempt at this was not spending the barest amount of thought or time on designing the website or writing reasonable copy. That, and the number of businesses who will use this are much smaller than the population of regular people who want to do something like AI-ify their profile photos.

No, but looking at the offering from Threads Software, it was probably the most value Threads Software founders were ever going to extract from the company.

It’s like the skit in The Office where the Washington school wanted to buy Ryan’s company purely for the name WUPHF.

Now Threads Software is going to have to deal with mountains of legal expenses which they will only recoup if they win (though they likely would eventually win, to be fair).

I haven’t done much radio aside from basic SDR stuff, but receiving imagery from for example a GOES satellite requires a parabolic antenna.

Sorry but Elon is probably in the top millionth of a percentile in brainpower alone. He will likely single-handedly bring humanity out of the dark ages and into the interstellar space. Articles like this are just trying to be relevant by glomming onto Elon’s name and we shouldn’t give them our attention.

As such, I have flagged this article and will flag any articles that paint Elon in a bad light. Go have your fun with someone else who isn’t saving humanity. Once you all learn to behave yourselves I will remove the flag.

I don’t use chatgpt or LLMs for anything factual at all given the workflow you’ve described of asking a question and then needing to separately search all results. But they are very useful for framing documents, summarizing things, etc.

There’s lots more today. You can go to Amazon and search for any very specific niche subject and find AI generated books that claim to address that subject. The ability to churn out useless garbage with few resources is at an all time high and will continue to increase.

Somewhat related:

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/altius-drone-flies-hurricane-ian/

I saw an article recently that claimed Germany was going to surpass Japan as the third largest economy, aided partially by new arrivals. So I infer they’re pretty productive! Will try to find you a link.