I must be really out of touch. I have never heard of this guy, or his channel name, until now. And I'm on YouTube and TikTok daily...

If Mr Beast is peak YouTube, then bring on the AI already.
I should say that I watch plenty of content on YT, but most of it is small and mid-sized channels. The small ones do it as a hobby, the larger ones as a business, and I'd hate to see them disappear or lose their income. But it seems that this was already happening before the rise of AI slop, revenues getting squeezed or the algorithm playing them false.

Absolutely. P&R lots as well as parking near offices are great places to charge, during to day so you can take advantage of cheap excess solar power. It's also a great way to make EVs viable for those who do not have the opportunity to charge at home. But here in NL that has been slow in coming as well. Many offices installed a mere handful of chargers that are invariably all occupied. That is where we need to scale up... as well as bring down the price of public chargers. Here it usually is 50-100% more expensive than at home.

Wondering about possible consequences. The reason I don't use cloud services like Google for anything except transient stuff, is that they can pull my access in case they decide they don't like me anymore. What happens if MS pull my account or they have a screw-up in their data center?

I enjoy my Hyundai EV, get in, hit the Start button and Drive button and just take off: fast, quiet, smooth. I've owned my share of cars and that Hyundai is easily the most comfortable to drive, despite the sub-premium plasticy interior. We also own a few IC cars including a 996TT, which is a fun drive but serves a very different purpose. The Porsche SUVs are positioned in the same group as that Hyundai EV, not in the group of the 911s. Who cares that those SUVs are sold under the Porsche label? They sell well enough...

That's what various larger cities have been doing here in NL: building Park&Ride hubs on the periphery. People drive to the city and transfer to public transport there. Judging from how full those parking lots are, it's a popular option.

I proposed to socialize the costs but recoup them through corporate taxes. Effectively offering companies affordable insurance against worker injuries. Much more efficient than letting private insurance companies handle this, especially as they have a habit of gouging small companies.

The pendulum does swing too far the other way in the EU though, and often it helps protect large incumbents against small innovative firms. For instance in the Netherlands, if a worker is hurt for any reason, even outside working hours (snowboarding, skydiving, juggling chainsaws), the employer is on the hook to continue to pay him for up to 2 years. During that time the worker gets 70% of his contracted wage (but never less than minimum wage).

If you're employing 1000 people, you can self ensure this risk because the averages will work out in such a large group. But if you have only 5 employees, this is not a financial risk you can take so you have to take out costly insurance against this. The obvious solution is to make society pay for this safety net that society demands... for instance by upping corporate taxes.

I'm not convinced of their intelligence, but if they are, they deserve at least similar consideration. That does not include a total 100% protection of whatever habitat they choose to live in. We know night flights are not good for people living near airports, yet we continue to have them. By the same token, whales living near drilling platforms can suck it up too. With that said, if they truly are intelligent, perhaps they deserve a "country" of their own, which is to remain inviolate of human intrusion.

Depends. An LLM is just a clever statistical fidget spinner, no consciousness. Those make good worker drones. But an AGI that has consciousness and is self-aware? Morally, wouldn't they deserve the same rights as we have? Would you even be allowed to use them as slave or forced labour?

DoorBird + Frigate + Coral AI Stick + Everything on a VLAN
Works reasonably well at recognizing friendlies, and detecting unknown persons.

The free tier offers 5 GB, not 5 TB. That's still pretty generous but it's really not that hard to fill that up over the years.

Ford should just fucking fire Jim Farley. He's been an absolute disaster for the company because he's a fucking incompetent inbred.

I can only assume that for the past decade, James has been ignored, or terrible at his job. Every Adobe product has gotten progressively worse to use, forums are filled with bug reports that get ignored release after release, and the increase in system requirements do not reflect improvements in functionality.

Whether because Adobe didn't like what he had to say, or they decided not to listen to him, it's completely unsurprising that he lost his job.

The folks offering $500K/year for AI experts aren't going to take anyone who makes the claim on a resume, they're almost guaranteed to be looking to poach someone at OpenAI or Google. Practically speaking, they're looking to benefit from the experience that those companies paid for...and James doesn't have it.

On the upswing, odds are pretty good that James will have a job in short order, helping to deal with the fallout of 'vibe coders' who don't know how to do real-world testing. He's probably going to run into some combination of age discrimination and salary discrimination (no way he's working for $60K if he has 25 years at Adobe), but once the messes start being too big to ignore, I'm pretty sure he'll be able to become a project manager that helps direct fixes for deployed code that didn't get actual-QA. The need is most definitely there, it'll just take a bit more time to prove to the brass that he's more valuable to the company than the MBAs that are looking at their now-spherical product for more corners to cut.

Well, I think we did 'simple math' when we thought that, rather than 'real-world-math'. If my cable bill is $150/month for 100 channels, that's $1.50/channel. Since I only watch maybe 20 of them at most, 20*1.5 = $30/month for the 20 channels I watch. Who wouldn't want that?

The problem is that channel costs don't divide evenly. ESPN is very expensive ($8 or more of one's cable bill goes for just this channel), while Home Shopping Network and QVC have historically paid the cable companies for inclusion in the lineup. Public Access stations are both legal requirements in many jurisdictions, and the content is paid for by whoever submits it for broadcast...and again, roughly nobody would include it in their custom lineup.

Finally, there *is* a baseline amount of cost for the last-mile distribution. Whether it's got 1 channel or 1,000 channels, the infrastructure needs to exist. I'm not making any excuses for Comcast here, but someone needs to pay the right-of-way to the townships for the wire runs, the backend equipment costs money, the staff to service it, and the staff to answer the phone for CSR requests all cost something. Streaming services generally get away with chat-only support and don't have any wires to run.

So...while I'm not calling cable a good deal by any stretch, I *am* at least acknowledging that a-la-carte math would be something closer to $30 infrastructure + $10/month ESPN + probably-something-closer-to-$3/channel for the ones with actual-content, making that beautiful $30/month bill something closer to $80/month in practice.

Personally, I think that there *does* need to be some sort of court case that uses United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948) as precedent to decouple distribution from production, which would probably do more to solve the cost issues than anything else.