KoolKat23

It's fairly obvious at this point, it's a plutocracy.

I agree with you however I think even then you're still giving our brains too much credit. The speed definitely comes from that processing being "in silicon".

Your ball throwing example however will be handled by really small and really fast "fine tuned agents" dedicated to catching that ball. Eyes to motor neuron system. There are the illusion of free will experiments that demonstrate your brain only rationalises and explains whatever activity took place after the fact (It's explanation may even be entirely wrong).

If anyone wishes to see the future. A fast LLM is quite eye-opening. I think chatjimmy uses Talaas' chips where models are hardcoded into the silicon.

https://chatjimmy.ai/

This is absolutely true. Perhaps Microsoft have painted themselves into a corner, their catch-all marketing racking up significant tech debt. But in the same breath I honestly can't see what the value proposition would be for their office applications without it.

Regarding your first paragraph, if you're curious, I work for a multinational where we deal with company names, this is kept uniformly in uppercase in our internal system, globally there's too many variations and it gets visually messy (such as GmbH, there's also user errors to consider). However emailing external third parties, it looks a little unprofessional sending this information ALL IN CAPS.

New outlook is quite honestly a joke. I tried to like it but went back to the old outlook as crucial features were missing. Simple things such as shift+f3 to change case to upper/lower/sentence case. This I believe stems from spell check being missing, another big issue for those with custom dictionaries. Poorly implemented template and template file management, I could go on...

If I intended on using a basic email editor, I would not have installed Outlook on my PC, I think the product manager or whoever is in charge of it's direction completely misunderstands the purpose/use-case of their programs.

You're correct on me posting the wrong link sorry. Thank you for the detailed reply.

But I disagree slightly with your take on the secrecy thing. Many of those discussions are diplomatic or internal administration. It is normal for these things to be kept private even in domestic governments. As it can put the state at a disadvantage to have the matters disclosed publicly (the state acts on behalf of the people).

There seems to definitely be shortcomings in transparency however on legislative debates like you mention, and should atleast have a period of public consultation on all of them. Also the presidency sets the talking points and just ignore legislative proposals they don't like.

It is democratic but yes I 100% agree it's entirely open for abuse, and I'm sadly sure is being abused. Separately and unrelated, imo lobbyists should not feature on the system at all.

Legislative matters are supposedly not secret and appointments can be (whether it's wrong or right is a bit grey imo, and that isn't a good thing).

1. The European Council The European Council primarily decisions by consensus. However, where the EU treaties specify a formal vote, certain appointments allow for or require a secret ballot. When it is used: Secret votes are strictly reserved for specific appointments or personnel decisions, most notably the election of the President of the European Council. Legal Basis: Article 4(4) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Council states that a secret ballot shall be held if requested by any member of the European Council supported by a simple majority. 2. The Council of the European Union Because the Council of the European Union acts as a legislative body, its operations are bound by strict transparency requirements under the Treaty of Lisbon. Legislative Debates: When the Council deliberates or votes on a draft legislative act, the meeting must be public, and voting records are made visible. Secret votes are prohibited for legislative matters. Non-Legislative/Administrative Matters: Secret ballots are permitted only for specific appointments or selections to individual positions (such as nominating members of the European Central Bank Executive Board or Court of Auditors) if a member state requests it and the decision receives majority support to proceed secretly.

And dog welfare being across borders make sense legally (single market) and ethically.

Completely disagree.

I appreciate this website. This format is intentional and serves a purpose.

It's great to see the small web in action.

As far as I understand the council's votes are made public.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/how-does-the-c...

But the European Parliaments votes can be by secret vote, which is bad in my opinion, and ironic considering they're the ones we directly elect.

This is a really poor approach from Anthropic.

Its basically serving you something in bad faith.

I'd hope at the very least they're not charging you Fable prices for Opus outputs.

If it's not in the EU parliaments jurisdiction, it's in the EU council's. As a rule, all members states have to be democratic and you can simply vote out your EU council member i.e. your head of state. It is democratic.

I often won't look at it's route. If it seems like something's wrong along the way of course I'll double check.

Those folk driving off bridges and into ravines is scary as hell, it implies there's people driving around that don't look further than their car bonnet whilst driving (-+5 metres).

That's intended for the public good however in my opinion, not the driver themselves.

Easier said than done. Economies of scale.

I suspect you're missing the entire point of my statement however, I also suspect your mother accessing a recovery boot mode intentionally is not on your list of concerns, if you're infantilizing her use to such an extent.

I'd say, the reasonable person test, if the mistake sounds like one a reasonable person would make, then fine.

I guess sadly the press will gloss over all the intricacies for a few clicks.

I also feel that dumbing things down probably just exacerbates this problem as "reasonable folk" have no clue how you actually get from a to b.

At that point it's a them problem.

No it doesn't, it screams 2026 Nissan Micra.

It looks a little like the BYD seal too perhaps that's why you say this. The Asian sports cars look nothing like this, only practical sedans.

They needed something bold for their first foray into this market, but this is wrong direction bold lol

It pretty much is, otherwise it is randomness or entropy.

The unnecessary mention of Antigravity in there gives me Microsoft Copilot vibes.

Basic business principle, you charge what people are willing to pay not what it costs.

The timing of this is great considering Google's rumoured Gemini 3.5 flash pricing spike.

This is a great point, further to your point on AI. Another perhaps worse offender is our focus on "the economy", at times the focus is always on "what about the economy?!" Forgetting "the economy" is merely a tool intended to improve the human condition. Sometimes I feel people lose sight of this original intention, be it unintentional or otherwise.

At that point their ground truth is completely skewed (already for some folk), everything is relative. Some of them will probably die off in self-induced Darwin award winning ways, but sadly certain skewed world views may persist.

That part I get, the white collar work part is what I'm looking for.

Thanks for the response.

Subscription costs per person going from $20 to $100, may be expensive and potentially unbudgeted expenditure, but it's hardly ruinous.

Many big organisations are already on per token pricing purely due to privacy concerns.

Once workflows are in place it becomes easier to see what level of "intelligence" is adequate. It no longer becomes important to necessarily keep that workflow on the next state of the art model if the new cheaper models does a good enough job given ongoing improvements. Gemma 4 I'd say is equivalent to 2.5 flash in my opinion/workflows.

If you're competitors are doing it and your clients keep returning there's no downside.

So long as it achieves something and saves money, great.

I do feel from my own anecdotal experience, they're getting better, it's hit and miss but still some terrible implementations out there.

Could I please ask what stats you used? Intuition says the valuation is too large and implies replacement, would be interesting to see something backing it up.

You speak as if you've never used Chrome, Windows or Mac OS before.

By your same logic. You should be using chromium at the very minimum.

And now it seems they may be recording your screen all day long. What a wonderful environment.

11 years ago in laptop terms is still useable.

To get so upset over this is crazy, no need to be so pedantic. Needs change.

Your 2015 MacBook pro had 8gb ram and 128gb storage, the current equivalent has minimum 24gb ram and 1tb or 2tb. Please explain what you're using all this storage for?? Raw footage or something, well there's some double standards it's just a photo too if this is just a browser. 4gb is immaterial.