If AI hasn't actually, really, been here for even a single fiscal year then it explains away everything. Suddenly the fact that it's made zero impact on productivity, that no one is making any profit on it, all of that becomes justified. "It's still early."

I think you've nailed it.

I clearly remember 2023 being the year where AI and ChatGPT hit the mainstream. Looking back, nvidia's stock price had already doubled in the first half of 2023.

On one hand, fuck that guy and what he's trying to do to the world.

On the other hand, he's saying the CEOs are lazy and want to look smart. Can't argue with that point, even if it's a small piece of a larger stream of bullshit.

That's our wonderful american culture for you.

iamverysmart + iamverybadass + iliveinconstantfear

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et tu, dogé?

My boss for example fully believes that the earth is 6000 years old and that carbon dating isn't real. Because and I quote "I am required by my faith to believe the earth is 6000 years old for it is in the Bible. If I do not believe it I will go to hell".

I wonder if your boss makes any distinction in their mind between truly believing something and telling everybody you believe it's true.

All the super-fast EVs from the Model S Plaid and Lucid Air Sapphire to the Rimac Nevera have used separate L/R motors in the rear for some time now, and some have been separate motors for all four wheels. I think that includes some Rivians, and definitely the Nevera.

Keep in mind that having an electric motor per wheel would be nothing like having a gasoline engine per wheel. Not only can an electric motor change its thrust thousands of times per second for good traction control, it can also apply regenerative braking or even just let the motor spin freely.

I assume the cars are at least monitoring the current to each motor constantly, so it's just a programming decision when the LR motor fails whether to go into limp mode vs still sending 500hp to the right rear wheel to see what happens.

I'm in the US and I agree.

It's not even that Iran is trustworthy. It's that they are a country that does things, good and bad.

But this US government, their vibe is a worst case combination of weapons-grade incompetence and reveling in how evil they can get away with being. I would expect announcements from the US government to either be market manipulation, a distraction from something else, or a straight up case of lying to the world because they can. These are people who will fuck children to prove to themselves that there is no forbidden fruit out of their reach.

That is a badass projection method! I don't think I've seen it before.

I'm in the US, and I am kinda surprised that it's only a 5.5% decline.

So essentially for every 18 tourists we used to get, now we still get 17. That seems like a lot. I'm sure we'll drive it much lower. Ugh.

Windows has had a "fast startup" thing for a while where it hibernates just some parts of the OS.

I used to always disable it because I've run into situations where having it off prevented issues that appeared with it on.

Fortunately I don't have to use any Windows machines on a regular basis now, so it doesn't matter.

It can be pretty funny when done intentionally by somebody who is good at it.

In addition to this, check out Norm MacDonald's last special "nothing special."

This is one generalized stereotype that fully applies to my wife and me.

My chronically fatigued AuDHD ass barely has the mental energy to finish listening to her stories, much less somehow taking my internal state and synthesizing that into human speech.

Fortunately, the upside to her being the extrovert is that she maintains our relationships with friends so that I get to have a normal-looking existence.

I really like the Buddhist take, the three poisons. Greed, hatred, and ignorance.

There are a lot of different ways to state each one, but damn if those don't sound like the RGB components of the varied spectrum of shit we have going on in the world.