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.

the subsides on renewables just level the playing field against the subsides on oil, gas and coal. If you want to remove them all, I'm with you, but removing subsidies just because that sector provided less for your election campaign I have a problem with...

Or we could just tax Besos at a reasonable rate (at least so he pays more tax than most of the people reading this post) and then fund real space science..

All valid, and, if you look at the investors, none of them (that I saw) will really notice the money lost - I have no sympathies for them. And, unlike, say Theranos, it seems that there's still some faith in the founder. I feel 23andme just doesn't have a business model, certainly not one that doesn't involve selling large amounts of private data to 3rd parties, but is not hiding anything, (I haven't looked that closely, so presumably the new investors have a plan).

Brilliant. VC fund a company for $XXX (seems to be about $1B), run the company into the ground. Find some more VCs to buy it at ~1/3 the original price, repeat.

I'd love to ditch Slack/Teams/Meetup/Zoom/etc. etc. etc. in favor of an open source alternative but have not found a suitable replacement.

No, Word wasn't better, WordStar and WordPerfect were both massively superior to the nascent "Word" but MS sold it at a loss ($30 or something) which wiped out the companies who were making a living selling word processing software. Of course, as soon as the competition was destroyed, the price went up to about the price-point that WordStar and WordPerfect had been selling at.

Uber is a similar example - run an illegal taxi service at a steeply discounted (ie non-profitable) price until you have enough passengers that cities change the taxi laws to may you legal. (Then, after you've destroyed the existing industry, up the price, but that's another story).

Have you ever asked an LLM for test code? It usually takes two attempts, the first is the basic level of test that I've seen often, the second is a decidedly thorough test that few of us have time to create (just the typing would take half a day). And it will often create tests for corner cases that an average tester would miss (or just skip).