And this is it: Many of those "AI will be so smart that it can solve these problems for us!" arguments refer to problems where having a "smart" enough solution isn't the problem... Getting people to care/notice/participate/get out of the way is.

And no, no one really uses this or an ICE truck in a way that would require them to have one. Even people who haul shit in the back would usually do with a more sensible roofed vehicle, but that would be less "cool".

Wait, no one has a legitimate use case for a truck? Like transporting building materials and tools? Large furniture and appliances? People who live along an unpaved mountain road, or work somewhere similarly remote, like forestry? Towing fifth-wheel trailers? When it snows here, I'm stuck at home until someone with a truck comes by to plow... They have large dedicated snowplows for the highways and stuff, but for out-of-the-way residential streets, the city contracts private pickup truck owners with their own plows. I'm glad they're around.

Like don't get me wrong-- The majority of truck owners pretty much never do these things, and it's an extremely wasteful vanity display for them. That's bad. Most people who buy Cybertrucks will not be doing truck stuff with them. That's bad too.

But I think some people have a good reason to own a truck.

My comment isn't anti-corporate or anti-work though...? It just isn't that strange that Google is more efficient at generating revenue (as dollars-per-kWh) than Finland is.

Opt-in is only meaningful if users can make an informed decision. I think explaining a system like PPA would be a difficult task. And most users complain a lot about these types of interruption.

In my opinion an easily discoverable opt-out option + blog posts and such were the right decision.

So you see, because the users can't meaningfully give informed consent, their consent is therefore uh... [checks notes] not necessary.

Bullshit. Everyone knows that it's because if you actually ask someone "do you want to be creepy tracked, less-creepy tracked, or not tracked?" they'll pick "not" every time.

If your efficiency function is centered around revenue, then yeah, of course... No surprise that one of the world's most successful for-profit companies generates more profit per watt-hour than a nation, which encompasses all sorts of non-revenue-generating activity like running hospitals and keeping street lights on.

I'm gonna rewrite this baboon in Rust.

Okay but can you please explain how it is not for sits, given that it is unequivocally made of warm?

Sounds like they've already got a POS, just higher up on the org chart.

I think what annoys me most about "the "sonic hedgehog" example is that it has nothing to do with sound.

There are two wolves in my heart: A meme wolf, and a pedant wolf. Today they fight, and I know not which will win.

Rockity rock and stone!

They should make the versions UUIDs instead of integers so that we don't make assumptions about their ordinal relationships.

It talks extensively about On Bullshit, lol.