breadwinner

Here's another one:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/03/media/elon-musk-x-kamala-harr...

During election, Musk promoted a lot of deep fakes about Kamala Harris, including fake images generated using Grok. He's a total asshole.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/kamala-harris-de...

I am a fan. Because it is search based, I see a lot less hallucination, and it always provides links so you can click the link to verify the information.

Trump is thinking like a business man... ordinarily he would pocket the 15% himself (this is after all the same man who said the entire Gaza should be his personal property) but realizes the country is not yet at the point where that would be seen as normal and acceptable. Trump is taking us in the direction where soon that would be seen as normal and acceptable.

> It can’t possibly be any more useful than a generic chat bot on a phone. How could it be?

It is the difference between dial-up internet and always-on internet. Can always-on internet do anything dial-up internet couldn't? No... it is the same internet... but being always on makes a big difference.

Same with Alexa. It is always on. No need to pull the phone out of your pocket, find the ChatGPT app, start it, switch it to voice mode, ask the question, then put the phone away and so on. Instead just ask the question and you get the answer. Just like always-on internet, always-on AI makes a big difference.

This seems reasonable. California doesn't want to subsidize the education of the privileged few who qualify as "legacy admission". And Stanford doesn't want to give up the financial support from alumnus.

Right. It is called holistic review. Originally invented to limit the number of Jewish people in top universities (not kidding)! Now being used to limit the number of Asians.

Elite-College Admissions Were Built to Protect Privilege

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor...

The new holistic admissions policy worked as intended, successfully suppressing Jewish admissions.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/23/a-lawsuit...

The 'holistic' admissions lie - The Daily Californian

https://www.dailycal.org/2012/10/01/the-holistic-admissions-...

The False Promise of 'Holistic' College Admissions - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/the-fa...

Lifting the Veil on the Holistic Process at the University of California, Berkeley - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/education/edlife/lifting-...

That could means OpenAI does not take any shortcuts when it comes to safety.

It was probably made using Musk's own Grok as other AIs disallow depicting real people.

If a big company in dominant position is allowed to gobble up any and all upstart competitors that's bad for competition, and it is the FTC's job to preserve competition.

You are contradicting yourself... var is perfectly fine... but it shouldn't be used as much...

You are right, SomeMethod().Fire() has the problem too. But typically you write

   Employee e = SomeMethod();
   e.Fire();

This does NOT have the same problem as var. When you use var you reduce the opportunities for the compiler to catch your bug. So the best practice is to explicitly state the type when possible. It makes the code more readable too.

What's more, Microsoft recommends using implicit typing for local variables only when the type of the variable is obvious from the right side of the assignment. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals...

But that's not what the community is doing, and some tools (JetBrains Rider) recommend using var whenever possible.

No one else falsely advertises it as "Full Self Driving".

Use of preprocessor in the example is incidental. The problem with var is that you're not completely stating your intent, leaving it to the compiler to infer your intent. This can lead to trouble in some cases.

I have seen code that sorts numbers as strings, because nowhere in the code was the intent stated that the array is supposed to hold numbers. As a result, if the programmer forgot to convert strings to integers at input time, the bug is never caught.

See: https://circles.page/567f44465c28b00bf8ed6cf9/Csharp-type-in...

You are right about this not being a new feature. But if you don't use it, it seems like you haven't updated your skills in a while.

Besides making the code harder to read, "var" also makes your code less reliable as seen in this example: https://circles.page/567f44465c28b00bf8ed6cf9/Csharp-Type-In...

> Like engineers in that community look down on not using the latest features?

Yes. Engineers use the latest features heavily to demonstrate that their skills are current.

One of the worst such features is "var". Some tools even flag your code for not using var when you could. Inappropriate use of "var" makes code harder to read (and even MS documentation says this) and makes code slightly less reliable too.

> Nobody is completely immune to trends and fads, but the SQLite developers work hard to avoid being sucked into the latest programming fashion.

So good to see this. I have seen so many developers use the latest C# features heavily, to avoid looking weak.

Elon Musk finally does the responsible thing and acknowledges his LiDAR-less cars are not ready to self-drive.

You realize you're posting this on a day Meta stock climbed 11% after reporting record profits?

Just a few months ago Musk filed a lawsuit in August accusing OpenAI of offering "lavish compensation" to "starve competitors." [1] That's when OpenAI was paying employees 100s of thousands. Now Meta is paying 100s of MILLIONS. Where is Elon Musk now and why is he quiet about this?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-openai-salary-workers-pa...

> elsewhere your goods cost 15% more than those coming from the rest of the world.

That's impossible. Goods manufactured in the US will cost way more than that. The minimum wage in Vietnam is under $1 USD per hour, while in the US it ranges from $7.50 to $15 USD. So unless the product is manufactured by robots (which defeats the point of tariffs), products manufactured in the US will be around 10x more expensive than those manufactured in Asia.

Yes, but on the camera app, you should set 3x to use the longest lens. This will avoid distortion.

And which lens was used?

Most of the issues noted are because of the wide angle lens of the iPhone. The more expensive iPhones (the Pro models) have 3 lenses one of which can produce photos similar to a traditional camera.

Edge has its own shenanigans. Solution: When signing into Gmail use Edge. When signing int Outlook use Chrome. That way Google/Microsoft can't use your credentials to sign into the browser itself.

You can create multiple profiles in Chrome. You shouldn't sign into Google in your main profile. That should be reserved for just one profile reserved for Gmail.

This is incorrect. US firms also have to pay tariffs in the US, unless the products are manufactured in the US, which almost none of them do. And that's unlikely to change any time soon because it is cheaper to pay 15% tariff that it is to manufacture in the US.

If LDL cholesterol is the villain it is made out to be then lowering it — by whatever means — should produce a proportionate reduction in heart disease. It does not (see ENHANCE trial [1]).

And yet lowering cholesterol using statins has proved beneficial for people who have already suffered heart attacks. How do you explain this? One explanation is that statins work for these people not because they lower cholesterol but because they reduce inflammation and stabilize plaque.

The science behind this is not fully understood. Big Pharma has no incentive to research this because they are raking in money, and any further research could only slow down the gravy train at best.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0800742

If the price goes up then yes.

> There is zero financial incentive for a physician to prescribe a statin.

Well, doctors make money when they prescribe drugs: Patients will make more doctor visits when they are on prescription medications than if they are not.

> The data showing benefit...

The reason for the benefit is not fully understood. The argument is that the benefit comes not from lowering cholesterol but from reducing inflammation and stabilizing plaque. The medical community has no incentive to research this because they are raking in money, and any further research could only slow down the gravy train at best.