Most people don't upgrade their computers every year. Every year, people upgrade their computers. s/computer/car/wives/husbands/toasters/wtfe/etc
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You all crack me up sometimes. Was last year's model boring, because it could be that simple. Stop looking at your individual case and look at the big picture. Every year some people are going to upgrade, or buy new ones for growing families. Lots of little things can make them hold off a year or two or pull the trigger a year or two early. There's no reason this one NEEDS to be special, it's the right time for some people. And why are you dismissing an explanation because it's new this year, isn't that exactly the kind of year over year differences to look at?

If a FedEx airplane hits a utility pole, yes there would be an FAA investigation. I'm not sure why this would be surprising to anyone with even a passing familiarity of aerospace regulation.

I'm sorry, please stop that bullshit with conspiratorial spice on top if you want to be taken seriously. You could replace AI with Wikipedia and make as much sense, or "The Media". What example would you even go with here. Grokipedia? Elon Musk's attempt to convince people that Elon Musk's answers are always reliable and complete?

The problem with AI is NOT that there aren't enough disclaimers that the answers may be incomplete and unreliable. That is the standard disclaimer on every god damned LLM service, and we all know it, and we all talk about it. It's the reason "Grokipedia" makes us all chuckle just thinking about the idea of it and knowing nothing else.

LLMs are a tool, and when they mess up, YES we attempt to explain why and prod around at how to avoid pitfalls. But reading that as there being a shadowy cabal of AI apologists convincing you up is down and AI is always correct, that is straight up looney.

They're not a magic box, they fuck up, they're also really useful. Check their answers, they're not even stupid. The PROBLEM is most people are. Stupid. You will NOT fix that by telling them AI doesn't think. You won't fix it telling them it's a magic box not to be trusted. You won't fix it by telling them it's just a computer not to be trusted. You can't fix stupid, and as you pointed out, explaining how someone else's source of information is wrong goes over like a lead balloon. You have Joe Plumber over there thinks the loaded gun he's carrying for protection against "Them" shouldn't have a safety selector because it will only slow him down. If anyone thinks the one thing that guy, representative of our world of idiots, needs to know is that AI can't think and the PROBLEM isn't his overconfidence, it's Them convincing us AI is flawless... look this is stupid.

None of that explains any kind of link to health concerns, it just describes commercial and industrial food production.

If THAT's how we define processing, and fair, it seems like a useful distinction, it makes the health concerns surrounding it seem like complete bullshit. As cuckoo as anti vaxxers.

You can grow all kind of carbohydrates in your backyard, all kinds of natural walking protein, plant and animal based fats and oils, sugars, etc. Doing all that the hard and "natural" way in your kitchen to make ANY kind of sugary fried carbohydrate caky thing, or salty fried carbohydrate crunchy thing, or salty fat with some protein added meaty thing doesn't make them one bit more healthy than an industrial version.

It's not exotic ingredients or processing techniques that makes those things bad for us. We all know why Doritos are bad for us, it's not the fucking food coloring. I wish we'd all stop with this processed vs natural bs. 99% of the problem is just that they're too convenient and accessible. I have no problem with people choosing to eat them, but the convenience, abundance and addicting nature is the real problem if we're being honest.

First you say it's a matter of affordability. Now you say it's a matter of taste.

Cheap and addictive high calorie density food is hurting people. Period.

Processed isn't unhealthy. It's just a really stupid way of saying junk food.

Organic backyard garden potatoes hand carved into chips then kissed with heated peanut oil that was hang wrung from all natural peanuts that were read bedtime stories every night are still just fucking potato chips.

Carbs and oil and salt, it's not great for you, and processing it more or less doesn't change anything.

I thought we had too many kids taking underwater basket weaving and wanted more of them in the trades where foreign language requirements only makes the cost of education unnecessarily more expensive. Or that was last week. But ... still, foreign language requirements are all over the place in high school and university programs. Or did you mean Latin specifically and not Spanish for some reason.

I can't keep up with right wing "culture" bullshit. It seems so arbitrary, like are we going to do Germanic runes next, or advocate a specific rugged typeface? Fuck indigenous American basket weaving, make kids do math in Roman numerals for "culture" education, seems par for conservative course of things.

Going to be honest, I didn't even read your whole post until after I finished writing mine and thank you, here it is. The Superman falls from the sky, Skynet spontaneously becoming aware comic book plot of an overwhelming force that appears from nowhere. It has to be unknown to be scary, so it happens somehow.

Look, every comic book problem has a comic book solution. The humans win in every Terminator movie. Just saying. Don't be afraid of a problem we made scary by definition.

Why would you force something more intelligent than you, something that by your own definition is capable of independent thought and free will, to do your bidding?

A person with fully twice your intellectual capacity can be enslaved, I mean it's a force and threats of violence thing not a brains thing right, isn't that the basic math for that equation? I'm asking why you think that is a good idea. What is this super-duper-intelligence, three, four times, immeasurably more intelligent than you? It's just as high as you can put your hand up thiiiiiisss intelligent, the exact imaginary point you're afraid you won't be able to restrain it, THAT level of intelligence, OFC.

Is it the intelligence you're afraid of? WHY? Intelligence should be restrained WHY ... and an intelligence great enough can't be ... WHY?

Can we back the fuck up and think about that premise a little bit please? We could play this game with Superman. If we make a Superman, how can we make Superman do our bidding? This is hypothetical but wow wtf people, who is the bad guy here, why are you even asking that. Besides that, if you have the technology to make a Superman, how do to keep twisting yourself into a knot where you don't also have the means to use force against him. Where does the asymmetry come from? He didn't fall from the sky, you made him in this story. So you need another plot device! We made him but we don't know how woooooo oooooohhh. GEE, never heard than one before. The AI will spontaneously make itself somehow, and therefore... hand waving.. unstoppable force. Good grief people. Don't you see how dumb this is.

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to take this, it's like looking up how much Maine legislature is influenced by US national legislature prior to secession and trying to use that metric to somehow rationalize the clearly disadvantaged state it would be in after seceding from the US.

We can over fish the fuck out of lobsters now, so much freedumbs! Fuck you Canada! Camera pans to Maine when Canada sits down on the same side of the trade bargaining table it's on. Maine makes surprised Pikachu face.

That race to the bottom mentality and sad attempt to rationalize can only be explained by eating paint chips in your youth. DeplorableVibeCodeMonkey.

Bank doesn't mean retail banking services, jackass, it's a regulatory thing. Are you going to have your paycheck deposited in your Coinbase checking account? Financing your home or auto loan with them? Then in what way are they competing with ... Independent Community Bankers ...

Mainly this is happening because there aren't enough Banks willing to partner with and take on risk of all the various schemes going around. The regulatory environment for scams and schemers is hot right now.

How much more would you make by tripling down on an irrational market? Hell, go all in. We can't ALL ignore fundamental value all the time, you understand how catastrophically stupid that is?

"This time is different" "It always goes up"

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This is accepted practice in the devops world unfortunately. It always sets off my spider senses when I see it, but with an authoritative enough looking source and informed timing as the article suggests, you could dupe a bunch of "modern" developers. For non-technical people, forget about it, why would most people doubt sketchy hotel WiFi setup instructions given the mess they're already used to.

Then why the fuck did you bring it up yourself? Are you paid to write propaganda or just do it for fun?

Where do you get that from, Macs integrate with AD better than Linux systems do.