I’d suspect the low “density” of context makes it prone to hallucinations. You need to load in 3000 lines to express what Python does in 3, so there’s a lot of chances to guess the next token wtong.

I was under the impression this was still a VC-driven bubble. The product is being sold below cost in most cases, so exactly how much below cost is sort of moot.

The other satellite players (Hughesnet, Viasat), the fixed 5G boxes (although places sufficiently rural to seriously consider dialup may not have 5G), probably some smaller boutique dialup ISPs.

How about pseudoscorpions? One landed on my arm a few weeks ago (probably fell out of the AC ducts) and it was charmingly silly proportioned for a tiny little thing waving pincers.

So what I’m hearing is thst there’s high quality loudspeakers just waiting for someone else to use them?

Glorious Marshall, bid that I may use these loudspeakers to spread the principle of Juche as a zesty new way of escalating tensions with my homeowners association!

Now I want to see a fully Hexbearified LLM.

Instead of racist conspiracy theories it will divert every topic to beans. And the saucy images will be mostly of cuties from Soviet posters.

The 487 was just a full 486DX with a pin that told the motherboard to deactivate the soldered-on 486SX.

It’s being shoved at us.

Most new tech starts with a narrow legit use csse or an enthusiast culture and gradually works to a breakout moment where everyone wants it. Think of cars in 1900 vs 1925 or home computers in 1976 vs 1999. Also note plenty of new tech fails to go mainstream no matter how much effort went into it. 3D TVs, turbine locomotives, non-photovoltaic solar: they tried but didn’t really make it.

Capital has decided AI will be the next thing and they want it now, so they refuse to let the process run. They can’t wait for a product that solves real faults with the current designs (inefficiency, hallucinations) or does something people actually want (nobody asked for extra fingers) before stuffing it in everything.

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I know that Grok went Nazi but Gemini going fundie wasn’t on my bingo card.

I ordered a large keyboard enclosure from JLCPCB’s 3D-printing division recently. The tarriffs were like $48 on top of $45 postage and a $80 actual-goods price.

When I fed the job into Craftcloud (probably not the cheapest but a quick way to read the market) trying to get a US-based supplier would have been like $800.

They can’t tarrif these industries back on shore. At least not in any sort of useful timescale.

But the most frustrating part is just the ever-changing aspect. If they said it was a specific amount eith a clear timetable, merchants could at least build prepayment and accurate prices into their checkout flows. Now there’s the risk that whatever amount you paid 2 weeks ago is wrong, and the couriers seem to be responsible for collection, who love to turn that into an excuse to add penalty fees and hold parcels hostage.

And the reanimated corpses of lawyers will rise if that squid looks too much like Minnie Mouse.

At some point they broke the compact. You come, you get a $30-per-night hotel and a $8 steak dinner because the rest of the money is going into the machines/tables. That’s why so many of the attractions used to be the gawkable buildings and public shows-- you could still enjoy them if you had blown your budget.

I guess they pivoted away, but to what? There are whales who want a $5000-per-night suite but you can’t fill an entire 30-story building with them (especially when there are 50 such buildings within walking distance all chasing them)

I went in May and even cheap meals were over $10, the low-mid priced Fremont Street hotel was around a hundred bucks a night, and the one show I went to was 1/3 full probably because it was $75 for an act that’s been running for decades. I budgeted $1000 to gamble but ended up only dropping 350 because it felt like it wasn’t much I couldn’t see in the local Native-reservation casino.

I will say nothing but good things for the Pinball Hall of Fame though.

I believe the IJK convention comes from an early programming language where those variables defaulted to a decimal type so thry were sane choices for loop counters.

I believe the huge mistake in HTML wasn’t having some sort of element-level addressability.

People went insane over “the page flashes for 15ms because we have to reload the header and footer and it doesn’t look NAAATIVE!” and the response was to SPA/AJAX everything, inviting a huge Turing-complete nightmare of possibilities when 95% of what peopleneed would be delivered with < form action=“blah” replace_with_response=“#foo” >

That and a dearth of native widgets-- a < combobox > and a < menu > that worked like the system menus might have kept JavaScript as the sick oddity it should be.

I’d be more interested in painting my claws if it didn’t manage to smell so. Considring you’re literally smearing it on your body to sit for several weeks, you’d think they’d have developed less toxic formulas that don’t smell like you tipped over the entire Tamiya display at the hobby shop.

Let me stop at the Sunoco and pick up eught gallons of CHIN.