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There are still LANs going on around the US. I still go to Quakecon every year. Now everyone there is in their 40s+ and bringing their kids.

When Covid was ending and we started returning to office, it was on a biweekly rotating basis in order to keep less than half the people in the building at first. After my first shift back I thought, "oh, yea... I didn't realize this works a lot better for me." I then made arrangements to stay permanently.

Not as long as new features are being written.

My sinister side wonders if part of it could be that if you found it via AI but it turns out to be a hallucination, then you must accept the public ridicule for not thoroughly vetting the AI output.

Absolutely. If you need any signal to know where Big Tech's head is at, just look at how quickly they became arms dealers.

Forums ban people all the time.

Whether they did this or not, I think the exponential demand for memory would still be there. So there would still be conditions that encourage new competing manufacturers.

My wife and father-in-law used to use Skype all the time, and when it shut down, the stars aligned as I suggested they try Signal and they both loved it.

Probably the concentration of a too-big-to-fail percentage of capital into a single digit number of tech companies, many of whom are engaging in circular financing deals between one another while also ransacking the entire consumer electronics space.

I appreciate your optimistic view of it. What I got out of it was that Covid was a sort of dress rehearsal for a far worse outbreak that could eventually happen, and we (Americans) failed miserably.

Sounds like a mighty fine watch. Simple, cheap, fulfills requirements with no scope creep.

I've always enjoyed the question, "how many layers of profit are between you and your doctor?"

This past weekend I was flying on Delta and my first flight was delayed such that I was going to miss my connecting flight, so I rebooked onto a later one. During my layover I visited the gate agent to get a boarding pass with a seat assignment.

"Do you have the Delta app?"

"Nope."

Then he pressed a few keys on his keyboard and printed out a new boarding pass for me within five seconds. I couldn't believe he was trying to kick me over to the app if it was that easy.

They could prompt the AI to scroll up and copy their previous prompts for them.

What if we build our whole economy on that belief?