Chill out, I already had enough reasons to not use those sites.

Professor Leonard. Check the playlists https://youtube.com/@professorleonard

Airline tickets.

Yes. For instance https://www.brennancenter.org/ recently did a tabletop exercise where they looked for all the worst things that could happen during a trump second term and looked for ways to stop them from happening. See (or rather hear) https://youtu.be/9SlnDvGHhBw

You might also be interested in Prodigy’s Dirtchamber Sessions which features the song https://youtu.be/7a1rkOsYn2A?t=230

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151497/tesla-lidar-luminar-elon-musk-sensor-autonomous

Tesla bought over $2 million worth of lidar sensors from Luminar this year

Awesome. How much more time off to google software engineers get? I guess it’s none.

Does this mean “AI was used as a fancy autocomplete”? Because that’s my number 1 use case for AI like copilot, and if that’s the case, over 25% of my code is written by AI. But let me tell you, it still gets it wrong, repeatedly making the same syntax errors no matter how many times I correct it. It starts to get it right, then later reverts to making the same syntax errors, even making up variable names that violate widely known public APIs.

Neal Stephenson has entered the chat.

For a second I read this as “Dr. Strangelove” and was really confused.

OWC instructions for updating their firmware on macOS are basically “Install parallels. Install windows 11. Run the firmware updater.”

https://eshop.macsales.com/support/owc-thunderbolt-3-dock

It may be Shaka, but in Unicode and emoji it’s “call me” https://emojipedia.org/call-me-hand

Seriously! What is smart about these things? It’s smart not to buy this bullshit. It’s 1984 doublespeak just like the “open” in “OpenAI”.

The phrase “these days” makes it sound like there’s more to it than this thread. Obviously after this post nobody would want to buy LG, but it sounds like there are other reasons.

Why? What made you go from favorite monitors to “eat shit”?

It says “Smart Monitor” right there in the pic.

Yes. All the time.

“Dear god, are you sure?”

So less like I, Robot and more like Surrogates.

I picked up some stranded skaters in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night because they flashed SOS with their headlights after I drove past them. They had been there for like 8 hours. I’m sure they would’ve rather had a flashlight to do the work for them.

But I agree that there should be another UI for getting to the emergency flashing. Like hold for 5 seconds or something unlikely to be used during normal operation.

I have a flashlight that has multiple flashy settings, but they are disabled after like 5 or 10 seconds of idle power on time. So the first click turns it on, and if you wait a while, the next click turns it off.