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It is basically the equivalent of comparing a desktop PC to a laptop. One is cheaper if you completely ignore the form factor and purpose of the other.

We pull from the aquifer, which is prior to the spring!

Every single working day where a suggestion or decision is made.

Sometimes it is a big deal and obvious but sometimes it is just keeping people doing the stuff that won’t break things that are already working.

I was disagreeing with your statement that most adults don’t have time and gave a counter example. Never said that zero adults didn’t have time.

Recipes are something I rarely take the first result for, since they can vary widely for the same dish.

Do you care what website it came from?

Have you ever checked to see if it actually matches the source page recipe?

Recipes are something that I always check a couple sites for to look for consistency or variation and some cooking sites are better than others.

I have experienced that in a relatively small number of user, communities, or instances. I tend to block them if they are jerks or the community encourages dog piling on people who “don’t get it” or the mods are power tripping.

They do tend to be active because they are so contentious, but it is very repetitive as they cycle through the same few topics.

Google and Bing return the results instantly for me.

Is chatgpt twice as instant?

Buy now pay later is predatory because it encourages overspending.

The latter. Maybe even more than half once it becomes apparent that for profit pricing will cost more for worse results than just hiring people. I expect a large number of them to not be built.

The horrible AI ones are different than the older style that Google and other search engines have used for decades. The old style was mostly storage with enough processing to find the data and were air cooled. The new ones are mostly processing power and require more energy and water cooling because racks of processors run hotter than drives. They should be called processing centers instead of data centers, but they like using the confusion to make it sound like they are comparable to the old ones.

Anything that can is promoted as being able to do ‘everything’ instead of being the specialized tool that it is. LLMs have some limited uses but are being promoted to do the things they are terrible at and will never be AGI as an example of the current trend. GenAI being promoted as being able to create entire movies from scratch is another exaggeration of it’s actual near future capabilities.

Humanoid robots is next on my list of tech bro bullshit as it is already in the works.

That makes it something other than a search engine, not a new version of one.

The use of Navajo worked because the Axis countries, including Germany, trying to decode were not aware of the Navajo language and were trying to decode it into English/French/etc.

A constructed language is just about the only possibility, but we can translate dead languages up to a point and someone trying to create a language is likely to end up with a structure close enough to make translation trivial.

Am adult, have a full time job, raised a kid, and never had a point in time where I couldn’t game for without needing to make it a priority. Time spent watching shows and movies went down because I enjoyed games more, but if one has some down time they can choose to play games as an adult.

Gaming as a kid was fun because it was new, it is still fun as an adult because I can pick and choose what to play and when to play it.

Best description ever.

Fuck no, it is a lie. It is like an actor pretending to be a knowledge worker which fools people who don’t know better or who want to believe the lie.

Remember, it just regurgitates what it is fed plus some randomization and it can’t come up with novel ideas based on experience. That is what knowledge workers are for, applying knowledge to novel situations.

The range is reduced when used to haul things around or when the AC/heat are used. With charging being significantly slower compared to filling up a gas vehicle and without the option to use a gas can if it runs out, there are unknowns and people don’t like unknowns.

I think the range is fine for regular light use personally, but being concerned about a fairly short range isn’t completely baseless. Or would be if the people buying it actually used it as a work truck.

They were saying “everyone is stupid” which is reductionist and frankly, stupid.

Everyone can make mistakes, especially when they don’t know everything, but that doesn’t make them stupid.

Being aware that one person doesn’t know everything is different than being stupid.

The issue isn’t that there are zero jobs. The issue is that there are far, far fewer jobs after automation and there are not other options.

We have massively reduced farm labor through automation, but people moved to industrial manufacturing. Manufacturing automation moved labor to office work and service jobs. In both there are still some people who design, build, and maintain the machinery, but they are a small fraction of what came before. We don’t have additional jobs waiting to be filled, and with big increases in automation it will be easier to automate any new potential source of labor.

This could be avoided by universal income and health care and other approaches where the general public benefits from all this automation, but the environment that pushes the automation gives them the power to keep that from happening.

Can’t fix stupid.