The UK issued silver dollars once. They were dated 1804 and considered “bank tokens” as they had less silver than their denomination required at the time. They basically stamped a new design on Spanish colonial 8-real coins and passed them as five shillings.
The UK had a hard time with coin supply for most of the 1700s until 1816 when they finally downdized many coins.
His figures should be like “office worker” and “poodle” which are exotic fantasy in a reakm of cyborg dragons.
I expect the hype people to do hype, but I’m frustrated that the consumers are also being hypemen. So much of this stuff, especially at the corporate level, is FOMO rather than actually delivered value.
If it was any other expensive and likely vendor-lockin-inducing adventure, it would be behind years of careful study and down-to-the-dime estimates of cost and yield. But the same people who historically took 5 years to decide to replace an IBM Wheelwriter with a PC and a laser printer are rushing to throw AI at every problem up to and including the men’s toilet on the third floor being clogged.
It feels like we’re being delivered the sort of stuff we’d consider flim-flam if a human did it, but lapping it up bevause the machine did it.
“Sure, boss, let me write this code (wrong) or outline this article (in a way that loses key meaning)!” If you hired a human who acted like that, we’d have them on an improvement plan in days and sacked in weeks.
Stop selling it a loss.
When each ugly picture costs $1.75, and every needless summary or expansion costs 59 cents, nobody’s going to want it.
It does. It’s on a historic registry I think, so thry put a packet into restoring it.
You might look into the Kailh Box switches. The click leaf adds a distinct tactile bump, plus the sound factor. The Box Navy is almost painfully tactile.
A $87,000 dinette set and a 97-cent roadster.
I wonder if it’s just so far outside the scope of what capitalists know to risk model that it’s not a compelling bet. The “it’s 20-50 years on” timelines are also a hard sell.
If you win by delivering a reactor, you unlock so many knock-on effects.
Does your business immediately get subsumed on national security grounds? Does a massive reshape of the energy market cut off your current gravy trains? How do you monetize “too cheap to meter”?
Researchers don’t care. They’re in it for the cool project.
Try RiscOS for a glimpse of a world most of us missed.
I’d also suspect there are things that may not be “learnable” – if you don’t have great spatial perception or colour vision, that might not really be a skill than can be practiced.
Copaganda drama with pop-up analysis from real legal experts. Includes corny Blind Date style graphics and bell that goes off every time Constitutional rights are violated.
Shark Tank, but the panel is four minimum wage workers and the guests are VCs who have to justify their current wealth.
A McLaughlin Group style panel discussion but one guest each week is an intentional novelty (reads ChatGPT responses verbatim, foreigner with know knowledge of local politics making it up on the fly, Marjorie Taylor Greene)
South Sesame Street, from the writers of The Wire.
“Destroying a nation” does not inherently mean “genocide”.
That was the historic norm. If you lost a war, you ended up under the flag of the conquering country and were expected to adopt at least some aspects of their culture. But in general, much of the civilian population survived. A thousand states vanished from Europe in the last millenium, but only a handful of times did it result in their entire populations being slaughtered/displaced.
I suspect much of the time, it was more valuable to have more subjects than a lot of empty land with nobody to work it. Not like Russia has that problem already…
The worry is that it feels like we’re moving past a consumer-directed economy and not in the wholesome Soviet five-year-plan way.
The almighty market has figured out how to collude and cram stuff that people don’t want down our throats (what consumer wanted everything to turn into an enshittified subscription?)
Real people may not want AI slop, but if there’s enough of a sense it will make line go up, we’re getting slop.
On the other hand, this factor might be the salvation: the current AI market is full of 2000-era-dot-com business models based on selling at a loss and making it up on the promise of global domination later. If the VC money dries up, and every “delve” costs whatever the actual amount it costs to drain the oceans and oilfields to pump into an array of Quadros plus sufficiently reimbuse all the ghouls that bankrolled the project, maybe the line doesn’t go up anymore.
Is it the same Raymond Loewy known for the Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 electric locomotives?
It’s nifty that’s what’s worth the BOM price hike.
I wanted something like Memtest or advanced diagnostics, or a recovery tool which could mount popular filesystems and fix partition tables, or a burn-in suite. Or hell, boot-to-Tetris.
I wonder if there’s a gacha aspect to it too, the way it says “pulled firat try”
You used to at least specifically choose the soulless gumball-eyed character you wanted
Four ears is a problem. It’s so hard to get four-channel headphones.
I read an interesting book recently- “Paved Paradise”- that basically blamed a lot of urban planning problems on there being too high mandates for parking:
Rejumper that LED panel to boast about your actual 33, 40, or 66MHz CPU!