That's why we have excellent public transportation. No need to drive. Or pay ridiculous amounts of money to own, maintain and house a car. Plus, living just about anywhere in Europe, I can walk to the grocery store to get what I need.

Not too new at all. There were enough chargers to make the trip two years ago, and they've been adding to that network constantly. Chargers in the EU are standardized and all offer Type 2, meaning you can charge any car anywhere. And if you have a legacy vehicle, you can get an adapter to Type 2.

What you often can't find is petrol which will work reliably in a 25 year old octo vehicle.

Not most, by far. Over 60 million housing units are still vacant, and in the previously completely empty cities where people have moved in, occupancy is often at 10% of capacity or so. A lot of the housing has simply been demolished, which has improved statistics somewhat, but a lot of unfinished housing also remains.

None of this is an indicator of collapse of the economy, and it has never been. The economy isn't dependent on people living in ghost towns. What it is an indicator of is massive private investment losses, as the majority of private investments in China are in housing.

"Simple supply and demand" requires ethics, or it doesn't exist.

We don't have reliable knowledge models built on LLM's. That's the core problem which they're unable to solve, still. There exists no LLM based knowledge model which works well, so that's still science fiction.

LLM's have use cases, sure. But they're a lot less general than they're being sold as.

Thanks to movies and hyperbolic descriptions the initial effects of nuclear weapons are vastly overestimated and their long term effects vastly underestimated. If you don't get hit by the initial flash and radiation, and you manage to find cover so the blast doesn't take you out, you stand a very good chance of surviving unharmed and be able to get away from the area of danger.

Even laying down in a ditch or similar is likely to be enough to not suffer any ill effects from the detonation itself. But then it's a race against time to get away from the fallout. Standing watching what's happening though, that's going to end badly. Flash burns and radiation will make short work of a human body.

Sure, there were a couple of people like that. They were outliers, even among those who kept using Usenet and Gopher.

Ironically, writer tools have moved away from WYSIWYG to content focused tools, making the circle complete. And Emacs and Vim remain not only popular, but for many tasks indispensible, tools of the trade.

What's happening with LLM's is different. It's not a couple of outliers. In most places, the outliers are the ones embracing the LLM's to mash out more LOC, as if that's a good thing.

Watching people misremember what "every office had in the 1990's" really hammers home how some people are blinded by marketing.

And without irony, "every office" is in the next sentence reduced to "one guy", who is described as an aberrant outlier.

LLM's are being shunned by professionals everywhere, for good reason. It's in certain areas in the US they're being adopted, mainly due to horrible metrics used to measure performance, but otherwise they're relegated to the equivalent of grammar checking.

So basically, you use Claude like other people use migration scripts. And you expect someone gets paid $70k+ a year doing migration scripts. If someone does, they've landed one helluva deal, lemme tellya.

Seriously, if this speeds up how fast you complete tasks, you've got no business holding the position you do in the first place. YOU are the junior programmer in this scenario.

Or you know what you're doing. Amount of code produced is one of the worst metrics possible, and anyone using that is a bad programmer.

Did you even glance at the summary? The target was set in 2023.

"It has also eliminated thousands of jobs and raised prices."

From the summary. And from the enormous counter-reaction to all the raised prices, of games, consoles and gamepasses.

One of the best selling games in recent history, which has made its developers very, very, rich, was first announced six years ago, meaning development had already been ongoing at that point. Hollow Knight Silksong. Evidently, making excellent games is a great way to run a business, even if it takes seven years.

All communication has delays. Several modern wireless controllers have lower latency than wired controllers used to have. And there are no "blips" in a normal home environment. The signal is consistent.

It's not even remotely comparable to touchscreens in a car. Wireless has progressed since you were a kid.

Engineering is about building FROM, not ON, unreliable things. Sand is unreliable to build a house from, but when mixed into concrete it becomes reliable. Building a house on sand isn't reliable, and no amount of engineering will fix that other than by replacing the sand.

You can buy super cheap wifi devices that doesn't phone home from Ali or similar. Much cheaper than the ones that phone home. A wifi thermostat is super cheap. What you can't buy is plug and play software which doesn't phone home. That's what's costly. Not the device itself. The software infrastructure.