Wait, I thought boosting worker productivity (or taking over entirely) so you can trim the headcount was the promise of AI that we're all upset about. Then this is not a failure, but a success.

There's nothing faster than a skillfully written, monolithic 'C' codebase with just a wee bit of assembly thrown in for those CPU-bound routines.

How monolithic? Does the author of every little utility need to implement their own GUI custom-tailed for the needs of that application? Or are we going to be generous and allow them to statically link in the GUI that comes 'close enough' - uh oh, that sounds like compromise sneaking in.

Beyond GUIs the broader issue is code re-use. The more you can re-use, the more you can focus on what makes your app unique - but the more you'll be bringing in code that wasn't written or optimized for your purpose, and that you don't fully understand. And that's true whether you're linking in a binary library or have the source in your build tree. There's just not enough time in the world to study and fully comprehend and tailor all the code for even a moderately complex application from the ground up.

Pretty much. Ask it to find your answer step-by-step, explaining each step. Then ask it to briefly state its previous answer.

It may sound 'wasteful' but sometimes a simple answer takes a lot of reasoning or processing to come up with, and a bare LLM (even a deep one) has a rather limited ability to reason in only a single pass. What you're getting there is just a first draft.

Well, a lot of them are willing to act as if they believe it which often amounts to the same thing.

But some, I think, believe The Donald and other conspiracy theories because during Covid I heard about people who got Covid and went to their deaths saying things like, 'I am not dying of Covid. Covid is not real.' That's the message they chose to send to their families. Not 'you should get the vaccine and avoid crowded spaces.' Is that not a True Believer?

It's a nonsensical claim without stating what they were getting paid. Generally silicon valley engineers are paid a LOT for a high level of commitment.

I don't deny this is bad news and signals an incipient recession. But what about credential inflation? The number of college graduates has nearly doubled since 2000:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feducationdata.org%2Fnumb...

Have to wonder if demand has kept pace with that huge increase in supply.

People are always talking about how great college students had it in the 1960's. But you have to realize that was a very small, select (not necessarily by merit) population of college students back then. Grant some privilege to everybody, and it tends to dilute the value of it.

First, I think your recollection of last year's election is a bit hazy. Biden was not on the ballot on election day.

But secondly, you cannot deny that Trump has a lot of really adamant supporters who would vote for him over anybody else you can name. Not grudgingly. In fact they automatically believe anything he says, which is quite a feat.

The median is slightly more meaningful, as you are assured there is at least one sample in your set having that exact value,

China has reached a kind of crossroads where they need some kind of transformation.

The usual answer being that China needs to increase internal consumption, becoming more of a consumer-oriented economy.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcarnegieendowment.org%2F...

What I don't understand is why this is hard to do. Don't people love to spend money and increase their standard of living? Better food, nicer transport, more clothes. Then Uber Eats and a couple jet skis and a big towing vehicle. As an American the, concept of people not wanting to join the rat race, or being too principled to do so, is really foreign to me.

I'm not up on this but what are you referring to? It doesn't look like they're jacking up the price on any hardware they were already selling at a lower price.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fus%2Fwh...

Raising prices on existing hardware is pretty rare in tech. Moore's outlaw?

Games, ok, that's a labor-driven thing. Nobody thinks the cost of the dvd media or download bandwidth are driving the price.

It looks to me like if you set your desktop to a solid color the 'dumb' way - with a small (e.g. 2x2) bitmap of the color you want and let it get scaled or tiled - you would not get the delay.

Disinfo bots yes - but how about marketing? Virtually the entire web is this same experiment, except to sell stuff. Collecting demographic (including political leanings) and puchasing info to present the most persuasive message to individual potential customers - from simple ad placement to custom text - is a many-billion-dollar business. Maybe trillions? Sounds hyperbolic, but that's what drives google, facebook, twitter, the lot.

Does Lufthansa not carry thermal containment bags? I thought they all did now. (Note the old age of my link - 2016 - is actually a plus in this case... airlines have been taking action on this for years.) If the iPad isn't even in runaway, sealing it in there just in case seems like you have covered the risk very well.

They spent around $24.5M on tickets (assuming they were able to keep the 5% sales commission), took home $57.8M (the lump-sum payout of the $95M pool).

If one other person had won each winner would take home $28.9M, still a small net profit.

It's interesting to hear about an under-served niche in what sounds an awful lot like what a lot of us were doing 20 to 30 years ago. I liked programming at that level. But if I were young now, I would be afraid, very afraid about the long-term prospects for that specialty. I believe you when you say you are thriving, but the total number of people employed industry-wide (especially domestically) in that work is a small fraction of what it was. I say enjoy it while it lasts, and put some money in the bank.