These, and floppy drives, are still in daily use in manufacturing. It's really hard to justify spending multi-million dollars on new equipment when the only problem is that you have to transfer information on a floppy or a zip. It's not just the equipment cost, there's also downtime and lost production.

More simply. The stock market does not reflect the economy. After Tesla, GameStop, AMC, etc. etc. etc. you'd have to be delusional to think otherwise. And GameStop, in particular, very much looked like a Ponzi scheme. Nvidia and all the other AI stocks are just a continuation of that trend.

President Donald Trump has gone all in on fossil fuels, which he says is the way to lower costs for families, increase reliability and help the U.S. maintain global leadership in artificial intelligence.

How's that working out so far? It's seems likely that the current situation in the middle east, resulting in increases worldwide (including the US) in fossil fuel energy prices is going to accelerate the uptake of renewables and a decreased dependency on the oil in the rest of the world. The major beneficiary of that is China - solar panels, heat pumps and world-leading EVs.

Clearly deep-fake AI footage (with a very creative backstory) designed to discredit the, totally believable, initial footage.

And the opposite problem. Politicians request the take-down of any embarrassing video as a deep-fake.

"Yeah, that guy handing me a large bag of used bills? - deep-fake., take it down."

Somewhat like the VHS era idea that taping shows was a copyright infringement, which quickly morphed into a drive for people to tape/watch shows (ads and all) I suspect this will not turn out well for Amazon.

Bots shopping is clearly the future and if Amazon is not part of it, the bots will go elsewhere.

From the CNET article: "Tiko has a number of standard agentic AI capabilities -- it can start and stop your music, open a web page for you..." When did starting/stopping music or opening a web page become an "agentic AI" capability.

Not judging Waymo and have no idea of the actual situation under discussion, but the reality is that, in a great many situations, you should run over the dog to avoid the potential of a larger problem. In the extreme, you could imagine someone slamming on their brakes at 75mph on a freeway causing a huge pileup and many fatalities just because a dog jumps out from behind a pillar or something else on the side of the road.

I was considering buy an EV Equinox at the end of last month ($7500 rebate). One of the deciding factors was no Android Auto. It wasn't the only factor, but it was solidly in the mix.

We're about due for another round of bank bailouts (it seems to be about every 15 years or so, S&L in 1989, Banks in 2008, etc.). Will the same rules apply - the government will take control of the banks as they bail them out?

I seem to start a lot of prompts with "Rephrase" for email suggestions. Especially if I exasperated at the recipient - the tone usually ends up much improved, although it will almost always need final tweaking. Be sure to always to do a global find/replace on emdashes (check for examples in the summary) no human ever uses those.

Many of the rest of my prompts seem to be "I have this code..."

One of my pet-peeve with humans is getting a different answer when you ask the same question twice and that's a huge problem with LLMs. It seems that neither humans nor LLMs can mange the "change this one thing" instructions - both seem to change many things under the guise of "making it better".

Yes, because surveilling Americans should be restricted to US multinationals and government agencies. We don't need help from foreign companies.

There was a point in the development of chess engines where a human and chess engine combined would perform better than either alone. This is no longer true, the human does not add value. I assume that coding bots are going to go the same way.

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Presumably said with a straight face, although, how that could be eludes me

Except that the cuts are likely funding none of that, just more $$ for billionaire tax cuts. I did notice that there doesn't seem to be much pork going to member-districts which seems a more plausible explanation for cutting the funding.