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This article describes ("corona discharge") what is the prelude to what you are describing ("upward streamer".)

Opus 4.6 is no longer available and Opus 4.7 chews through monthly limits with reckless abandon. The value-add of GH Copilot is basically gone (at least for individuals on the Pro or Pro+ plans.)

How does a state survive if refugees/immigrants are imported en masse and then the state becomes so dysfunctional to such a degree that its male citizens must be conscripted to fight and die for it? Surely this is a recipe for disaster.

I would sooner die for my family and my country but I wouldn't lift a finger to save the lives of refugees/immigrants.

Why aren't refugees/immigrants conscripted over citizens?

This kind of inflammatory nonsense serves no purpose other than to be insulting and provocative.

Kiro's spec-based development looks identical.

https://kiro.dev/docs/specs/

It looks verbose but it defines the requirements based on your input, and when you approve it then it defines a design, and (again) when you approve it then it defines an implementation plan (a series of tasks.)

Or property taxes should be eliminated because they are subject to abuse, and instead sales tax should be the primary source of income for all governments.

The parent specifically said inference, which does not include training and staffing costs.

Eventually the only reason people will use Android is the same reason people are using Windows now -- mandated by their employer or by being forced into the bottom cost-tier of products.

And the experience will be just as user-hostile with no end in sight.

You can thank the DNC for the appalling choices in federal elections, they decided it was best to mess around with race and gender quotas instead of putting forward genuine candidates.

* Product folks over-promise

* Engineers are consulted for estimates to facilitate long-term planning

* Middle management slashes those estimates in half due to pathological myopia

* Executives enforce musical chairs to assert their authority

* Consultants muck everything up while collecting enormous payouts

And yet the business cycle keeps cycling.

They spent billions of dollars on compute costs and they need to pump the PKIs to justify it. That is the only explanation.

It is the same reason every app (be they web or mobile) gets a redesign every year.

One delicious usage is blanching and then blending it into flour for green spaghetti.

Not all progress is good progress, not all cultures are good cultures, and some cultures are worth protecting.

There are valid criticisms of multiculturalism and there are valid merits to Trump winning the elections.

It's worse than that, the only authority figure in most kids' lives are women -- there are no male authority figures for over 80% of their upbringing between the ages of 0-18 years old, and most years it is 100%.

That $250M is (societally) better off going to him than being spent on whatever the hell Meta was going to otherwise spend it on.

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Any communication that I did not opt-in for.

Absence of obsession with identity politics is not the same as wanting you dead. I don't want my tax dollars funding your personal lifestyle choices, just as you wouldn't want yours funding mine.

It is happening in insurance right now and it is an unmitigated disaster that nobody wants to address.

There is real data used for insurance premiums and claims payouts but it's being swapped out for AI slop, and the sales folks are getting bonuses for selling hot garbage and the executives are getting bonuses for buying hot garbage.

It was not about standing up against IP juggernauts in the interest of users, but in the interest of themselves -- it was tech companies flexing their strength to show that cooperation with tech companies was required, and that they are open to cooperation in other ways too.

People will use public transport instead of cars when it costs less, it is more convenient, and it is safer. Most people don't want cars, they need cars.

When your bus is 30 minutes late for weeks, months, and years on end, you will look into getting a car.

When there are homeless people sleeping on buses, you will look into getting a car.

When there are mentally ill people threatening other passengers on buses, you will look into getting a car.

When there are drug addicts smoking weed or meth on buses, you will look into getting a car.

When there are sociopaths listening to music on their speakerphone or otherwise being very loud on buses every day, you will look into getting a car.

When you are assaulted or robbed at bus or metro stations, you will look into getting a car.

etc etc etc

It's not complicated.

The implication that the Palestinian cause must balance the State of Israel's governance is insulting and provocative, and sadly is exemplifies UN policy.

No subscriber told streaming services that they needed to drop literal billions of dollars on content production. I do not want to subsidize their poor decision making.

This is why streaming is so expensive.

It can be summed up into two key questions: is it necessary, and is it effective?

One could argue it is necessary but it is undeniable that it is not effective -- nuclear power plants take decades to bring online and then they may never see break-even. Not only that but they require vast sums of water for the entire lifetime of the nuclear plant (which is fast becoming a scarcity, if not because of increased consumption but also because of changing water availability.)

On the other hand, renewable (wind and solar) can be brought up MW by MW, on a much faster timescale, privately funded (all nuclear is publicly funded now), and it has much better unit economics even without subsidies. Renewable energy is here to stay, it is going to become more abundant, and it is going to become more reliable with each passing year.

Nuclear is as unreliable as ever, even after 70 years of modernization, the economics of scale, and unlimited access to the public purse.

PG&E has made every effort to capture regulators and it has paid off handsomely -- residential solar in CA is being shut down by policy.

Reducing actual demand for PG&E electricity is not in the best interest of regulators, that much is clear.

There is some good that the FBI does but it is tarnished by this case and other cases like this.

There is a difference between the progressive ideals of the previous generation and the current generation, if anything the current generation of progress ideology is more regressive than anything else.

Wistron has has a rough history, including underpaying/withholding pay from employees[1]. Good riddance.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-says-wistron-on-probat...