It may be a trite saying, but it's as true in education as it is in a gym. If you don't exercise your brain, it's not going to improve.

There's a reason weightlifters don't use a forklift or crane to pick up the barbells and do a dozen reps. The problem is not that the weights are in need of lifting. And that's the same problem with homework. The teacher doesn't need a stack of 5 page reports; what they need is for their students to practice using their brains.

Unfortunately the education system is designed to evaluate output instead of process. It's easier to grade a paper or a test, not evaluate a demonstration of knowledge. It's always been ripe for cheating, but now the cheat tools are everywhere and made legitimate by techbros demanding AI productivity. So either teaching will change, or we'll head straight for idiocracy and nobody will be left with the skills to wonder why it all went to hell.

We will all be dead soon, but won't know it's coming.

If it's just plumbing; inventory objects, audio, money, users, and rendering,
shouldn't they have done that a hundred times over by now?
And they have comparatively boundless server and compute to pull it off.

Second Life has had at least 50,000 in-world users, all day and night, for over twenty years.
Figure out why those people stayed and paid, and copy that.

China: oh yeah? Bzzzzzzzt!!!

I had a GRiD 1530 laptop in 1991 that did exactly that.
It was as amazing as it was awful.

Shit, why pay them at all 'if I don't have to'?
That's the end point utopia they are working towards.
Seems they all have in common some weird 'if I was the last man on earth' syndrome.

We're only about 20% there, but they're accelerating with all the effort and focus they can muster.

Steve Jobs famously stated that the computer is like 'a bicycle for the mind'.
But now, we're the bicycle, for their mind.
Funny, that.

Drop a million or so off at the White House, and poof!
No more regulators. No more rulings. No more fines.
Just pure, friction-free Capitalism.

The kitchen cabinets in the house that ASF grew up in were made of white oak.
It's a nostalgia thing.

Use it for what? Anything, everything?
Just go use it!

good grief

Cave Johnson would never have let this happen.
He knows a thing or two, because he's seen a thing or two.

That's more of a failure of the phone's UI.

The only use case for a hinge phone is showing it to someone else for the first time.
To which they'll reply, "huh, I guess".

The ones complaining expected to get that $250,000 back in the first three months.

I don't know why anyone would need to spend a quarter mil
just to learn the best ways to take stuff and get away with it.

Those poor souls. Can you imagine having to do that every day?

And also, VB and FORTRAN are not "similarly" anything.

Hacked thing gives dangerous responses.