I switched back to Windows after using Linux for years, simply because the promises of better software never emerged. Maybe AI reverse-engineered apps like that Adobe Creative Suite clone in Rust will start to change things, but I don't really want to hang my hat on an app that could go away at a moment's notice.
Some people really love tunnels. Personally I always wanted a house with two basements. Or maybe more. Probably inspired by the 2002 movie Resident Evil.
Yeah this feels like what I call the "scientific method for journalists". Step 1: create a hypothesis Step 2: google for evidence supporting that hypothesis Step 3: write an article about how it's definitely happening
Data centers could avoid the whole water usage debate if they just collected rainwater on the roof or something. Most places that are getting datacenters are heavy rainers.
Like a virus, that little fact slipped into your brain and set up shop there.[1] Would you be interested to know that it isn't true (in the sense that you think it is)? Would it make you sit up and strengthen your mental defenses? I hope so.
I just picked 8 random states [2], picked a random suburb of major cities, and looked up the laws around rainwater collection. It's illegal in NONE of them.
[1] - Not only that, it became strong enough for it to easily overrule the idea of data centers, which are by their nature given concessions by the government, could every conceivably collect rainwater!
Can't speak for the above, but for me it's a hedge against enshittification and sudden shutdowns. If I had a dollar for every community archive that suddenly went offline, I'd have several dollars.
This is the archive of the Video Game History Foundation. They’re properly setup legally, have overwhelming backing from the industry, and a pristine reputation. They’re basically the Smithsonian, or more accurately the Isabella Stewart Gardner of the video game world.
It will cause mass unemployment, which will cause demand for goods and commodities to plummet, as everyone cuts back to just what's necessary to survive, which will cause anything that isn't a bare necessity to become a high-priced luxury item, including the very oil and chips that AI needs, and AI prices will go up, and no one will be able to afford it, so AI companies will fold, or be absorbed by the government, and then the government will be the only buyer of AI, and they'll only buy enough of it to maintain a stalemate with China and Russia. Human labor will become valuable again and we'll all laugh at this weird roller-coaster ride.
Or, you know, microcosms of the above, until AI ratchets down to a low hum.
This feeling is exactly what led to people leaving Europe to found what later became the United States. The Bill of Rights is basically a laundry list of things the King did to his servants - staging troops in their homes, rifling through their papers, stealing ideas, taking property without compensation, trying people in secret trials without a jury, trying people over and over until they got a conviction (or an acquittal if the accused was a friend of the King), levying huge bail amounts to prevent the accused from working so they would agree to plead guilty, CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT (one of the King's favorites), and laws being made/removed at the whim whenever they benefitted the King.
All of that is coming back, probably. So enjoy that!
You're getting downvoted because you didn't anticipate and properly defend yourself against angry people who don't understand the is/aught fallacy. They mistake "is this true?" for "this should be true". Actually, it's not even the is/aught fallacy, it's something weirder. I have yet to figure it out. Still working on that one.
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