Well it certainly wasn’t the gas tank if all those burning refineries are any indication.

He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?

Simple. He’ll wish it away the same way he did Covid. When that fails he’ll have RFK start telling the world that Ivermectin kills them.

It will be like the dot com bubble in many ways. Back in the late 1990’s every other TV commercial was for Pets.com, Ask Jeeves regularly had a balloon in the Macys Thanksgiving parade, and Lycos was pushing to be the home page for everybody. They never recovered after the bubble burst, and companies like Google quickly took over.

In a similar vein I think a lot of the AI big hitters will vanish once this bubble bursts, leaving one or two lucky/cautious ones still around to scavenge the pieces. But I don’t think companies will be so hung ho about using AI for everything once that happens.

First time I ever hoped for a tornado to strike a specific location.

Tesla now offers insurance. Wouldn’t surprise me if this is all self-insured: https://www.tesla.com/insurance

Time to start with one PR per line of code…

Didn’t he brag about solving something like a dozen wars, and thus deserved the Nobel peace prize? This isn’t even a full fledged war, so why can’t he solve this?

Yeah, but that would require raising taxes, which the billionaires have convinced the masses is a terrible thing because socialism, and look where that’s gotten third world socialist countries.

The only solution, according to the billionaires, and the brainwashed masses, is to give even more money to the billionaires so that they can privatize things even more and throw cutting edge technology at the problem instead of proven solutions like light rail, etc.

Public transit in the US simply isn’t good enough in many cases. Years ago I lived in a suburb north of Boston and worked in another suburb west of Boston. It was about a 40 minute drive during rush hour. Trying to do that same commute by public transit likely would have taken me 4+ hours and involved a bus to a subway into Boston followed by a commuter train and another bus. It would have been a nightmare.

I’d consider search engine bots from the likes of Google, Microsoft, etc. to be benign. They provide a useful service to websites and honor robots.txt directives.

Bots that impersonate Google etc. and/or ignore robots.txt are considered bad bots.

Many consider AI bots as very bad because they ignore established guidelines when crawling a given site. There is a well known and respected way sites can tell good bots how to behave, called robots.txt. Any website can create one and expect good bots (Google, Bing, Facebook, etc) to honor it. For example https://lemmy.world/robots.txt tells bots what paths it should NOT crawl, and the maximum speed at which it should crawl the site.

Many AI bots have been seen completely disregarding this established standard.

Our TV picked up ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and one or two independent TV channels from New York. Our antenna was on a rotator so that you could point it in the optimal location for each.

Born in 1967. I remember as a kid during the summer that pretty much every afternoon 10-20 neighborhood kids would get together to play games like hide and seek or kick the can. We were in a semi-rural neighborhood so kids could live up to a mile away or so. The parents were more than happy for us to be somewhere random with a bunch of other kids.

When parents had to call kids home for dinner they’d use bells, whistles, or other noisemakers. Pretty much every kid recognized the different sounds and knew which kids it applied to.

My grandparents lived in New Hampshire. Their telephone was on a party line shared with 4 or 5 neighbors. We learned to answer it only if it rang twice in quick succession.

My Honda CR/V was recalled (twice) due to software bugs that would randomly prevent the battery from charging properly. The only risk I faced was being stuck in a parking lot somewhere and having to get the car jumpstarted to get it going again. Once the car was running it ran fine. There was absolutely no safety risk, but they were formal NHTSA recalls.

A recall is actually a formal process mandated and managed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). When a recall is announced, the manufacturer is required to inform all impacted owners of the defect, and keep NHTSA updated on the status of the notices and all other aspects of the recall. Depending on what the recall is for the fix could be pretty much anything to an over-the-air software update, to having a software update applied at a dealership, to a full replacement of faulty hardware. All at the manufacturers cost.

If it wasn’t for the government managing the recall process then most manufacturers wouldn’t admit that these sorts of faults were very widespread, and certainly wouldn’t fix them for free.

I’m a DevOps engineer and my employer runs a lot of Linux instances in AWS. I’d love for these politicians to explain to me how age verification of Linux web servers should work for auto-scaling environments where instances are spun up and terminated automatically based on traffic volume. I’d also like to know if I should be using the age of our CEO, the age of our company (thanks to Citizens United), or something else.

Haven’t you heard the price of memory is skyrocketing?

It damn well better remain an exception. I help manage a few hundred Linux systems in AWS for my employer. We patch those systems on a quarterly basis, which in some cases means building up a whole new instance from scratch. I shudder to think what it would mean if we somehow had to prove our age for each one of these systems. And whose age/identity would it be? Our CEO? Me? My boss?

Senators that are unable or unwilling to do their jobs should be fired. From a cannon.

Juries often have one or more alternates. Those are jurors who sit in the jury box for the entire trial, but under normal conditions they aren’t in the jury room during deliberations. If a juror is unable to remain, for whatever reason, then the judge replaces that juror with one of the alternates. I sat on 2 days of a 3 day trial but tested positive for Covid the morning of the third, so I was excused. The judge replaced me with one of her alternates.

If the judge got wind that a juror was disregarding such an order then that juror would likely be kicked out & replaced with an alternate. If the transgression by the juror was severe enough the judge could potentially also refer the juror to the Attorney Generals office for investigation and possible charges.