AI can craft a small routine or single command customized to my parameters faster than I can write it myself even if I have it committed to memory.

AI can do slightly more complex things, and so long as I keep it tightly compartmentalized so it's easier to debug, it's fine.

You cannot sit down and ask an AI to write you anything long and complex and expect it to do so successfully without requiring more debugging than writing it yourself.

At least, that's been my experience. I rarely code and never anything particularly complex by the standards of a working pro... and I still hit those limits of AI regardless.

There are 'easy' places to build a base at the equator, in partially collapsed lava tubes that provide free shielding you could build a city inside.

There's a problem; the best science locations are at the southern pole. At the south pole you can build on the side of a crater rim and have permanent sun above the lip for solar power and heat, and permanent darkness below the rim for cold to keep your telescopes happy.

You're probably digging through 8m of regolith to anchor your base and dealing with the risk of lunar avalanche and that nasty lunar dust.

I'd just send a MIRV-like rocket to fire low-ex penetrators into the crater wall at the desired location to deliberately shift the regolith clear of my construction site, then send up boring equipment to dig into the crater wall... but so far as I am aware, nobody's done even a cursory feasibility study on anything like that and it's certain nobody could get it done in 2 years even if they had and decided it would work.

We make things worse, more of us die, the issue is blunted. Make it bad enough, civilization fails, lots of people die, and the surviving population will be environmentally worse individually but few enough in number it won't be a major climate factor.

Then the Sun expands, bakes the planet sterile, and possibly burns it into a puff of plasma.

Long term it's a losing game, but short term we could play to win if we didn't lack the required strategic thinking as a species.

I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.

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They're brilliant at making games. They have their suite of exclusives that people love and will buy the console for. And they keep a consistently high quality bar for those games. Even the worst Mario game was still good. Same for Zelda. Same for Metroid. As long as they keep that the case, and their consoles are reasonably priced they'll sell. Which, combined with cheaper parts, is why they generally made a profit per console rather than a loss.

Xbox and PS don't have that. They used to each have some exclusives- but they've gone away from that road due to the high cost of creating them (Nintendo's focus on gameplay over high end graphics also reduced the cost of making a game). Even the exclusives they do have don't have the reputation for quality- they tend to run hot and cold. And MS in particular has waffled between wanting to push xbox vs PC gaming, reducing the number of exclusives as they launch on PC. It leaves them in a place where there's no driver for their new product other than better graphics quality. And with the economy tightening, that's something that will be dropped first.

It's a professional near-necessity for me to have a presence on LinkedIn. ...The number of people posting AI crap is disturbingly high - if it's not AI slop, it's fellating AI slop.

It's that the AI guys respect people's right to say "no" about as much as your average rapist.

The easiest workaround that seems the most difficult to defeat is to run the AI agent's actions from your preferred browser on your phone or computer, and still extract whatever data they want from the response to be relayed back to them for ingestion into their data centers.

They'll be every bit as respectful of websites saying 'no' to them as they were to writers, performers, and artists who told them not to use their work to train AI.

In Philly, delivery robots are considered pedestrians for the purposes of permitting them to use public pedestrian pathways, with the restriction that they must give way to humans.

The obvious intent of the law is to have robots legally permitted to use the sidewalks autonomously, but the letter of the law seems to clearly say they are universally subordinate to humans.

My guess is the cops don't care, decided she was a troublemaker, and then got pissed when she wouldn't simply submit to them and obey their commands to desist what was probably a legal activity (because legislators somehow didn't anticipate this event) and found a charge to apply.

I understand when Microsoft tries to adopt something from the Linux community. I do not understand how they imagine the typical Linux proponent (corporate or individual) would be interested in the reverse.

Kind of. The show isn't Jamie's version, it's Jamie's compromised version. He did the compromising because he knew he couldn't draw and keep a broad audience on his own. Which is likely true and absolutely disappointing.

I don't think he's even particularly interested in being on camera - there's probably a reason Adam is all over YouTube and Jamie isn't. Which is also a bit of a shame from my perspective - I would prefer more info than infotainment, as much as I did enjoy watching the Mythbusters blow stuff up.

MythBusters is unwatchable in its original form.

Do yourself a favor and find a copy of SMythBusters. It's a streamlined edit that removes the ridiculous constant recaps that make up a disturbingly large percentage of the show.

It's a show for people who are curious about experimental discovery (and blowing things up). Those are people who usually can pay attention for five minutes at a time without being reminded of what they're watching so they don't lose track.

And while I recognize Adam is talented in addition to being an entertainer... somewhere out there in the multiverse is Jamie's version of the show where you get more into the design, build, and results analysis and there's less time taken up by Adam being goofy for the camera to keep the low-quality viewers watching. I would love to see that show.

GTA IV is a great game - in some ways better than GTV V - but it could really do with GTA V's driving physics.

Let's Encrypt's mission was to get everyone to use SSL... OK. Nice. Thank you.

But now it's "We're reducing the validity window to force you to use automation by making manual updating more frequent than people will tolerate". What the hell is so bad about manual updates?

There's a whole world of people out there who are too small to set up a nice automated system but who still should be using SSL, and this is Let's Encrypt telling us they don't really believe in their mission statement.

The population will expand at a rate supported by available resources... as the population grows, the individual's share of resources reduces and fertility and/or survival rates will drop.

It's never been a case of "oops, too many people, we all die today", it's a case of "everyone gets more and more miserable but enough people die that some will live".

That's how Nature keeps populations in check... she's not a nice lady.

If you did this in Canada, whatever you create is more or less completely and instantly public domain. You could fight over details in court, but to win you'd need to have done most of what you're using the AI to avoid doing.