It's needing to drop 200 bucks to take your family to a movie and get popcorn, slurpy, etc. It's just not worth it. It's fun, and I took my kids to see the Starwars re-release last May, but since then, nothing. It'll be out on streaming in a few months for at most 20 dollars. Movies just became obsolete. It kind of sucks but there it is.

32 Gigs of system RAM has been normal for like 10 years now...

Surely you're not saying the 2->3 rollout was smooth, Bill?

And ruined it all. We're just finally crawling back from the 2->3 forced migration at a cost of millions of dollars. Hopefully Python devs learned not to do that again.

I'd pay good money to bring my kids to see LOTR in the theater again... Just like I spent good money to bring them to Revenge of the Sith back in May.

What's illogical about what he wrote? It REALLY is that simple. You enter without permission, you're here illegally.

Only makes news when it's bleaching... The last few years it's regrown at a rate faster than ever but nobody pays attention to that.

And it's completely custom. It's like a master carpenter showing up to your home and building custom cabinetry that is perfect for just your height and reach and has all the right spots for your favorite pots and pans and dishes. It's perfect, just for you. Want a new knob? Well you made it so no problem.

Wan2.2 Just dropped a few weeks ago and making AI videos has never been easier... US Companies are sitting on their hands while China innovates, innovates, and innovates. With 4 times the population they have 4 times more genius's than the US. It's just math at this point. They are going to win in any intellectual game... Never mind tic toc is illegal over there and the Chinese version is full of astronauts and engineers as role models. Who are the US role models? Snoop dog and Kim Kardashian? They have a completely homogenous society as well... Diversity is NOT a strength. Unity is.

I've used it as a sounding board for various problems. For example, here's a real world 'problem' AI helped me with. I have an above ground pool. It developed what I thought was a mole tunnel under the liner. (Oh great effing moles...).. So I asked ChatGPT what's up and after a bit of back and forth it helped me realize it was caused by a big rain storm (like a 100year storm) and ChatGPT let me know that this sometimes happens when water gets under your pool and settles any air pockets as it drains. I had no idea about this nor did I even know what to search for, but ChatGPT 'talked me off the ledge' so to speak... It's been a few months since then and no additional 'mole tunnels' so I think it's right.

I have a few examples like that where ChatGPT really helped my anxiety and helped me work through practical solutions to real problems.

Anyway, it's the best 20 dollars a month I could possibly spend...imho

Then there's some cool projects where it helped me write code using python's tree sitter library to generate call graphs and symbol tables which made me famous at work (and I got a huge bonus and a raise) so it's useful in my career as well.

It's great for brainstorming ideas. It's great for helping with various every day problems around the house and yard. It has the memory feature working great so it remembers things from past conversations. It IS (for as crazy as it sounds) just as much a 'friend' as a coworker is... If I have to be honest, probably better.

Paint me weird. I really like 4o and its 'personality'. I use it instead of the other models as well, for exactly this reason too.

Death penalty. Not only that, but public gladiatorial combat. Televised and broadcast for free. Seriously, we'll only need to do maybe 30 of these and hacking will be solved.

I have two daughters and one is a hard worker, one isn't. Twins, Identical... One will do ok in life, I worry for the other... The lazy one knows what's what. She doesn't care. It will serve her less well than she probably intends.

That is his plan, actually. Young people today think that moaning and blaming other people IS the solution. Complain enough and SOMEONE will do something... Someone, not them, but someone.

All you have to do to be wildly successful is work your @ss off. Literally wake up and get going. Keep going all day, and don't stop until bed. Do that for like a month and you'll achieve things you never thought possible... Or, you can play Xbox every day after school/work and all night collecting gear for your game of choice. It's why Elon Musk and Donald Trump are so successful, neither of them sleep and they work relentlessly, non-stop.

Hey thanks! I did not know that.