Capitalism since…ever. Regulation is the only balance and that no longer exists.

Michigan is actually the first state to have such a law or nothing would have happened.

The thread is so lost anymore it doesn’t even matter. In America it is just survival as America becomes Russia. You can’t defend anyone when you can’t even get your doctor visit or medication to live if you even try to rock the boat for more than 3 days. If that. Modern feudalism.

Alexander Hamilton

Don’t forget how Outlook is often “cloud” now with local message backing sometimes failing to load a message until you choose another a few times, or how Teams overlaps Outlook overlaps Teams for functionality in a terrible useless way.

Or how selecting a message thread often doesn’t show the most recent or any of the unread messages, while clicking the unread message directly also sometimes doesn’t load it.

Microsoft business tools are an absolute joke.

Nickelback is Beethoven compared to that loser.

I don’t like Nickelback.

Sociopaths are popular in the US for some reason.

Also likely why he’s being drained once a month now when it used to be every year or every 6 months. Fluid buildup.

Hey, now, sometimes the rack is across the street. /s

Since its inception, the US government has never liked paying soldiers for war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Mutiny_of_1783

Alexander Hamilton didn’t even want to pay the IOUs back, until he decided that many were owned by investors that had bought them from soldiers. The quote was something to the effect of, “those investors are true Americans and they should get their money.” The Dollop podcast has a good 4-parter on Hamilton that covers that and other issues.

Agree. Checks are the way.

If I recall from The Dollop Podcast correctly, corn flakes were first used as a douche.

Just support anything that isn’t Google and gets the job done.

They are all some binary file that completes a task. That LLMs have a statistically derived “personality” (if one would be dangerous enough to call it that) to make people like them was a purposeful mistake in development to trick people into embracing the technology. LLM is non-deterministic by nature which means results can never be trusted.

Honestly, the Photoshop filter analogy may be wrong because the filter is deterministic. The same settings produce the same results every time as it is math on an image file. LLMs literally can’t do that.

LLM tech is only seeing more “reliable” results now as they often throw the tool against a sandbox environment where it has to execute deterministic code to compensate for the random unreliability, and it still screws up.

Linus knows code, the tool sped up his process. In the absence of his knowledge, it would be useless.

Neat toy, but way too inefficient to bank the future on, and very dangerous to have such a religious reaction to.

LLMs are akin to fancy Photoshop filters for code. They can be used well by professionals and terrible by n00bs.

They are but a (very inefficient) tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1 at least as a stopgap, a small-ish adtech company that may or may not be privacy focused (their claim) is still better than Google. But yeah.

Just to see the clear message in app metrics is a good thing though.

He isn’t distracting. His mind is just gone.

That is likely exactly what that propaganda piece is for. “Don’t drink water, it’s silly anyway!”

Coupled with pushing sales of beverages for money.

I figure when the datacenter bubble bursts, the tech companies will keep consuming the same amounts of water and just start selling it.

Gotta find some way to the plot of The Water Knife. (Book has gas pumps that sell water, water meters next to sinks and showers, etc.)

100% it will happen. You know the process is broken, however, when Taco Bell is now the beacon of food safety.

They just want in on it.