You know, I think I just came up with my first $1,000,000 product; drywall with embedded copper mesh.

Gonna be a whole lot of people born on Jan 1, 1970

Whether or not the economy can be called “OK” is extremely dependent on who says it and when. At the time of the election campaign, it was fair to say that the economy was OK. It wasn’t great, but inflation was getting under control, employment numbers were rising, it was generally trending in the right direction and could be called “OK”.

Then trump comes in and from his (more specifically his ownership group’s) perspective, this is currently beyond OK. Profits for the ultra-rich are skyrocketing. They clamp down on immigration to get rid of the sources of cheapest labour, then make sure the cost of living keeps rising to push people into taking whatever job they can get, for wages they previously would never have accepted. All while cashing in on planned market swings.

But yeah, tell me again how both parties are the same.

You still be identifiable as the walking cylinder. What we need is a ministry of silly walks.

There may have also been some big money lobbyists from companies like Google, Amazon, etc, that pointed out how much money it would have cost their poor shareholders to implement.

The fun part of open source is that someone smarter than me will inevitably just update the existing spoofing tools to include whatever checks those platforms are using.

It’s not arbitrary at all. In fact it’s the entire point.

Current tech layoffs are mostly a result of over hiring during the pandemic. Blaming AI is just the sales pitch to investors try to prove that the AI spending was worth it.

I’m thinking you might have been wrong. Even without AI, I don’t foresee demand for compute going down. Even if everything went over to ARM, I think that would have just slowed the rate of new builds.

Canals were at least solving a problem that actually existed and needed solving at the time when they were started. AI data centres are being built in anticipation of future demand, for use cases that haven’t been developed yet.

It also starts to depend on how you define what a given service actually is. Plex has shifted from being a self hosted media server to essentially a streaming service that you can hook your own library to.

To be fair, there are a lot of unhinged people who resort to actual death threats for shit that in no way deserves that level of intensity. It’s probably one of the big reasons why everyone who’s actually smart enough to run a city/state/country is also smart enough not to.

It was the third party apps for me. I never browser Reddit on their site itself.

Depends on usage. I’m starting to see Linux on the types of industrial equipment that used to run the embedded flavours of Windows, and those are usually Ubuntu. When dealing with the developers of miscellaneous projects, Fedora seems to come up quite often, and everything production is Debian.

Inflation’s a bitch.

Considering modern militaries throw around missiles that cost north of a $1,000,000 each, $20,000,000 for 100 successful strikes on a defended target is still operating with a discount.

Exactly. And that’s the entire point. If the human success rate is (just for example) 1 out of every 100, I only have so many pilots, so I have a capped number of successes. If I have AI pilots, even if they are only half as good as humans, I can now increase my total number of successes, since I have effectively an infinite number of pilots.

That ability to bring more at once also opens more options. Overwhelming defenses may not be possible if you can only fly 1000 drones simultaneously due to quantity of pilots. Throw 10,000 AI drones at it, and a 99% attrition rate still gets you 100 drones on target.

Sure and there is always going to be a limit of how many drones are useful?

In a word, no. Not for the foreseeable future. Entropy being what it is, only one has to get through, and I could theoretically send 1,000,000 at once. Air burst rounds may take out 99.9%, but that still leaves a lot of damage occurring.

On a 1:1 basis, maybe. You can expect to change as more flight data is pulled in. This type of very narrowly defined problem with enough training data is where AI becomes actually useful, as opposed to the online slop generators.

The other half of the AI vs human drone story is drone swarms. Even if the humans remain better pilots, there’s always going to be a limit to how many drones a single person can fly, whereas AI can just keep scaling up the quantities.

AI is bullshit, but it’s dangerous bullshit.

Dude, it’s 2026. We don’t sell shovels, we sell shovel subscriptions.