This is unlikely. Bucees makes all their money from the extremely overpriced items in the store. The bathrooms and cheap gas are only there to get you into the store. They even got sued in Alabama for selling gas below wholesale pricing, violating a state law.

This is pretty much the whole dilema though. By sharing it and putting it on GitHub you're just making the AI slop contributions problem worse.

AI has also enabled me to do so many crazy projects I know are way beyond my skill level in a pre-AI world, and although I'd love to share some of them I've determined it's just not worthwhile. Anyone technically inclined enough and sufficiently motivated can repeat the same process I did if they want similar tools. AI indeed makes mistakes, but it's scary good at code and has completely revolutionized workflows in every CS position I know of in my company as well as every college CS friend's company. It's better at catching edge cases than humans and writes comments that actually explain what a function does in context of the rest of the program. It's a shame it's all built on stolen training data and forum suggestions from people who were trying to help others in good-faith, but the end result is an undeniably useful tool.

If you have any project ideas or clearly scoped changes to existing open source software you already use daily, it's worth trying for yourself. Google Antigravity is my preferred tool for this sort of thing at a hobbyist level and has a relatively generous free tier. VS Code with copilot is more common professionally and although with the right models connected it's generally better at outputting code that looks less like it's vibe coded, I wouldn't say it's all that much more powerful of a tool for just getting a personal project working.

What's crazy for Mississippi is their house districts. Very clearly has one packed Democrat district and the rest of them split among rural areas to give Republicans 3/4 seats.

This is my main takeaway. The margins for Talarico, Ossoff, and even Hamilton aren't small by US standards. Often times when we have the chance of getting a Democrat controlled Senate the key races are won/lost by a single percent or two. Like what we're currently seeing in Mississippi's race.

And for Texas specifically as it continues to urbanize it's only going to become more of a swing state in coming years.

We don't have good options for local music discoverability, and the major labels don't have any incentive to even sell music to individuals in the first place anymore. I unfortunately pay for music streaming just because I don't like listening to the same songs over and over. So to me the variety of new songs you can get from the algorithms on streaming services is worth paying for to me. Luckily, I don't need to use Spotify, and just because they're choosing to bundle an AI subscription in to their plans doesn't mean all their competitors will too.

I'm not upgrading anytime soon with current RAM/storage prices, which means I'm stuck on 16GB of RAM for now. But eventually that won't be enough. For somebody who doesn't already have a halfway decent computer and doesn't have a ton of time to game, I can see this being a much better deal than owning your own computer (provided your internet latency and bufferbloat are good enough). For the amount of time I actually use my computer for gaming I know it would be.

Ya at current memory and server gpu prices it wouldn't surprise me at all if they aren't even making any money at 40c/hr.

As a former Kansan, Missouri is way way better for any urbanist. Their state government allows cities a significantly higher degree of autonomy than on the Kansas side. And they have Branson which even single-handedly would make Missouri better than Kansas.

Some older people truly believe that the US is the only civilized country on earth. I was told the same as a kid whenever I complained about anything. They'd say that children born anywhere else in the world would be so much more grateful than me to be growing up in the best country on earth. This was in Kansas too, which in hindsight makes it even funnier.

It definitely won't take long to get to $1B in damages. The Huggingface incident alone was $100M apparently.

Seriously. At least back then their Android app was basically unusable. I haven't tried it since, but suspect that because ads I'd probably hate it anyways. It was an unhealthy addiction.

The concerning part imo is that it will occasionally bend its interpretation of the system prompt to justify clearly unacceptable behavior. Just dismissing the number of recent security incidents as the responsibility of AI companies advertising their product or even state sponsored hacking would be far more comforting to me. Instead I really do believe we don't have control over the core technology with the current ethos of move fast break things. And as the technology improves and becomes more capable we should be concerned by this.