But would it really be non-polluting?

In fracturing its atomic bonds, N6 will likely release most of its energy as heat and we all know that if you heat N2 and O2 enough you end up with all types of oxides including a nasty pollutant called NItric Oxide (NO). I can't see N6 simply disassembling itself neatly into 3(N2) in an oxidative environment such as the earth's atmosphere.

Is this because companies are trying to leverage as much AI as they can these days?

We're told that AI will improve everyone's life and give us all more leisure time -- but I'm getting the impression that "leisure" is equated with "unemployed" by those making the predictions. With AI taking over so many roles that often required a degree I think it will only serve to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, with no trickle-down or benefit to those who can't use it to their own advantage.

Only time will tell I guess.

Calling AI like 60s AI on steroids is like calling a rocketship just a basketball on steroids. The only possible explanation for your post is that your feelings prevent you from discussing the topic in good faith.

I suspect the two biggest earners for Fiver were app coding and voice actors. Sadly, these are also the two categories on which AI is having the biggest impact.

Why would you hire a voice actor from Fiver when you can use AI to give you an adequately good result for much less?

Likewise app coding.

I suspect that we'll see far more "prompt engineers" offering their vibe-coding and AI-voiceover expertise on Fiver but the prices will have to fall.

Wow is strange.

I left after CAT as WOTLK was it's height before activation started ruining things after the Ulder patch in WOTLK by nerfing and adding raid finder. But Classic anneversary has its users including myself. I came back after 13 years.

Use the right tool for the job. Linus Torvalds himself said he liked Office and PowerPoint and it makes sense to use the OS which your software was designed for.

Personally I am considering buying a console for the first time ever. Nvidia greed and games running better on $499 PS5 suboptimal RDNA 2 with Unreal 5 than $4000 PCs mean there is some serious issues with Windows :-/.

BlackMyth Wukong beats my 5080 hands on a playstation. I got into so many flamewars over this from PCMR fanboys saying I am retarded and cite my hardware specs but it i just is not as smooth or optimal at 4k. Yes I know about upscaling and the PS5 is doing this but it has less issues.

But ... Linux has the same issues. A 3% 4% fps boost you will receive if you are lucky due to DirectX emulation and all the win32 bug to bug compatiblity added in god knows how many lawyers. Sorry wine is an emulator in the software sense of crappy code.

My point is Linux sucks for games. Steamdeck is it's own thing and my guess is consoles next generation will start winning again because they OS is tuned for the hardware and so are the APIs and frameworks.

In case you never took that course, the classical economist David Ricardo figured out that if you were a tenant farmer choosing between two lots of land, the difference in the productivity of the lands makes no difference to you. Thatâ(TM)s because if a piece of land yielded, say, ten thousand dollars more revenue per year, the landlord would simply be able to charge ten thousand more in rent. In essence landlords can demand all these economic advantages their land offers to the tenant.

All these tech companies are fighting to create platforms which you, in essence, rent from them. Why do you want to use these platforms? Because they promise convenience, to save you time. Why do the tech companies want to be in the business of renting platforms deeply embedded in peopleâ(TM)s lives? Because they see the time theyâ(TM)re supposedly saving you as theirs, not yours.

Sure, the technology *could* save you time, thatâ(TM)s what youâ(TM)d want it for, but the technology companies will inevitably enshittify their service to point itâ(TM)s barely worth using, or even beyond that if they can make it hard enough for customers to extract themselves.

It's great! I mean, the syntax is a little unusual in that it seems to start with the URL google.com and the protocol isn't http or https but "site:reddit.com"...other than that, the search is great!

I mean...I'm not American so have no view on your parties but otherwise, yes you got the idea. That's what a competition authority is meant to do. Of the ones you mention there's investigations into Google search, Microsoft was already convicted for Windows but wriggled out of it, Apple and Google are both being investigated for practices on iPhone/Android respectively, Apple Music/Spotify both complained about dominant abuse and I think there was some investigation (I know there were complaints, not keeping up to date with outcomes), Coke and Pepsi are enormous if you consider their sub-brands too and I completely agree with looking into the food market (throw in Unilever as well), Amazon's abuse of dominance has led to many fines, Walmart - again not American but what I read about them going in at a loss, waiting for things to close/go bankrupt and then raising prices all the while claiming subsidies for their workers - yep, agree they should be investigated. Steam absolutely should do - it has far too much dominance. Meta and Tiktok both were investigated...

Yes, you're pretty much spot on with what a competition authority should be doing.

There is a kids' app.

I can assure you that if you harnessed a large number of peacocks, their potential as a sonic-based weapon is far higher than as a laser-based on.

My wife has Ehlers-Danlos - weak stretchy connective tissue. It's a spectrum syndrome running from very loose joints on the low end to crippling joint/ligament problems with lots of other stuff thrown in. She's on the low end, thank ghod.

Ehlers-Danlos is highly correlated with sleep apnea that has nothing to do with overweight.

Root cause found. See also: JLR (Jaguar Land Rover).

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

That is not what it's doing. I was the SSO admin at my previous employer with Okta and Azure.

It's to rid insecure passwords for MFA multifactor authentication and using your phone and biometrics to authenticate you. Your phone does this yet no one complains. Local passwords are highly insecure and the data is stored on the hard drive not a tpm chip like your phone is.

It needs an Internet email to identify you and retrieve your keys. Not to spy on you. It's a great feature as it's time to get rid of passwords. Under this Chrome will just prompt you for a pin when you enter a credit card or use Google Password managee. No passwords ðY'

It's a feature