I’ve watched the pros. The foreman’s job is basically running to the supply house before the team need the thing, so they can keep working. They try to show up with everything and to varying degrees they do but every job is slightly different.

That’s why I said originally generative ai and LLM

Some societies consider the welfare of others; other societies don’t.

Greed. Case study: insulin.

I think that’s just pattern matching like facial recognition. It covers more imaging in less time and can help identify areas of concern. But that doesn’t need trillions of dollars.

I don’t believe that the current definition of AI (LLM/Generative) will ever live up to half the hype. If I knew how, I’d try to make money from the hype imploding.

I even more confidently believe that it will not lead to a post-scarcity society. But most of that belief is because I don’t think humans are capable of developing such a society.

My perception is that India is closer to China a couple decades ago. the whole rural poverty class to train in manufacturing, they’ll cut corners you couldn’t imagine exist, and the “native” capabilities are still the sandals videos we see.

But they’re coming up in capability for sure.

China’s been trying to figure out what to do with their demographics for a while and I think they’re still not sure. It will be interesting to observe. I wish I was wealthy enough not to also be somewhat concerned. The reason the iPhone isn’t made in USA or Europe etc. is linked to labour cost and with China expecting upward mobility, stuff will get expensive.

This has interesting ramifications. iPhone manufacturing is quite fiddly and needs skills and a high level of quality control. Several years ago, India did not have this capability.

Meanwhile China’s middle class is growing and doesn’t want do manufacturing.

I don’t know if it’s old man or not, but I kinda agree. Taylor Swift has sucked so much air out of the room so to speak, so there’s not nearly as much money for other artists. I feel like most of the music I hear these days is the same or very similar genres. Back in the 90s and 00s I feel there was more variety. Maybe it’s my perspective. Maybe it’s TikTok.

Oh. Yes. I forgot about that for a moment.

Renewables provide energy independence, which is a matter of national security. Why the right can’t understand that, I don’t know.

Swap isn’t terrible though, a lot of current gen mac hardware has very fast SSDs and very low latency controllers so it’s pretty transparent in normal use.

They do typically have good hardware that works well together. It’s a ton of work replicating that level of hardware compatibility. Apple catches a lot of negative feedback and some of it deserved but they won’t be caught dead shipping a wifi chip as shitty as the one in my Surface.

I think if you are on a website like this, this computer isn’t for you

Probably. I’m in the minority on an iPhone.

Yeah, conceptually it’s good, but the free up is important and seems to be a secondary concern. Perhaps it’s the third party devs.

Wasn’t super fetch what they called the high speed usb flash drives you could use as swap? That reminds me of a time I was optimistic about technology. Vista RC and Office 2007 on my MacBook Pro.

XP used to just have ram sitting there empty waiting for something. Then over vista and 8 and 10 they started more and more preloading because hey if the ram is empty it’s wasted. Like database servers, they always suck down all the RAM possible. Problem is windows doesn’t release it when the cache or whatever isn’t useful and something else wants it.

It’s been a while but I think macOS is considerably better at both parts of that equation.

There’s no reason that computers need to be so powerful other than MBAs saying “optimization is too expensive, just push the feature.”

Energy independence through renewables is a matter of national security.

Carney said he won’t “comment on every ‘tweet,’ or ‘truth,’ or comment from whoever,” and that he “can handle it.”

That’ll piss off trump more than anything. Toddler tantrum incoming.

The SEO spam was bad before AI. AI just made it worse.

Good point.

It’s not discriminatory. They don’t have any legal obligation to serve citizens of foreign countries. Citizen of USA isn’t a protected class. When they do serve American citizens it triggers a whole lot of regulatory work, and it’s understandable they don’t want to do that unless you’re a high net worth individual (ie they make enough profit to cover that cost)