Depends on the comercials, but most likely it’s that most things vary by location. Food and services they are running a national comercial when each individual store has pricing ability. Other products, probably still the pricing changes. IE lots of factors may cause them to raise or lower the price. Comercials only goal is to subtly get into your brain so you are biased towards them when you make the decision later.

To me it’s going to wreck the economy one way or the other.

either it matches it’s hype and it recoups it’s trillions of dollars invested via taking half or more of the countries jobs for only half our sallaries. Or it’s going to implode and all of us are going to end up desperate for work when the financial crash wrecks everything 10x harsher than we’ve ever imagined.

To me the AI fear wouldn’t be as bad, if we were further dipping our toes in. UBI or an economic system where we didn’t have to work to live. Of course in america we’re seeing the opposite as they are adding work requirements to food stamps, medicaid etc…

If it worked that would be nice, I’m not an artist for me gimp does everything I want it to, but from what I’ve heard from deep photo editors there are limitations in gimp. More than just learning the UI. Theoretically an application could surpass it… however in this case I’d say gimp (especially with like the gimpshop skins), is considerably ahead of vibe coded photoshop. Though hypothetically it could be the door to note that it’s possible it could surpass it in the future.

in fairness though, photoshop is the worse example of this theoretical concept to begin with. From what I’ve seen from everyone who’s used it, vibe coded photoshop is basically buggy, unreliable. doesn’t really do a good job beyond the most basic features, mimics the interface pretty well and that’s about it.

Now there certainly is a factor to note, IE from what I’ve heard it’s ability to plagerize games is actually getting close enough that several developers are canceling previews and showings of their games, out of fear of AI clones of their game beating the real one to market. Not really sure in the examples of AI clones happening it’s that engines are easier to de-compile and actually fully rip off, or perhaps just the concept that in the game world workable ideas designed in a good way is the hard part, the code itself is often fairly simple, at least assuming they don’t have the budget to write their own engine from scratch.

https://newrepublic.com/post/202064/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-tie-your-mom

https://newrepublic.com/post/202021/karoline-leavitt-attacks-reporter-your-mom-comeback

Unintentionally accurate.

in fairness, at trump we already know all the options are ridiculous. I mean after the entire whitehouse pubic staff co-ordinated to answer all questions from reporters with “your mom”, when the whole administrations strategy for appearing before congress is burn books of personal attacks to deflect questions.

I heard quite a bit about it, maybe it was that it blended in with the McConnel having a stroke and going MIA for months before returning to congress as a vegetable?

Well mainly what I’m meaning is of the suspicion side. Yes the fact that you can’t have an election while bombs are dropping on your soil is logical, But there’s an additional caveat there, The implication is that a leader could start a war. IE if a country attacks it’s neighbor, then declares the they can’t have elections because their neighbor may be dropping retalitory strikes. You’d conclude maybe the leadership started the war just to avoid elections.

and whether it works that way or not, he seems really to miss the idea of to my knowledge of the “they were invaded” an enemy is specifically attacking them on their soil.

Even if we 100% give the anti ukrain group on here the full benefit of the doubt, say they are all nazi’s etc… there’s no form of the story that implies they were going to attack russia.

I do have to question the core concept though, consider this just me trying to make sense of the logic. I’ll admit I’ve only understood the 2 ends of the camp, I was raised a fundamentalist, and really didn’t have much of a mid point from that to atheism.

To me the idea there is like saying “I’m a big fan of Darth Vader”, but I’m not a fundamentalist, I know star wars isn’t literally true, I don’t consider him to have blown up planets or built death stars.

IE then comes the question. There’s only star wars materials to even imply a vader ever existed, and if you don’t believe in that… in what meaningful way does vader exist? Or more importantly how do you know ANYTHING about him. IE what does it mean to “believe in darth vader”, but I don’t think he did most if any of the things in star wars.

I could see “I believe in a god, but don’t think there is any way to know anything about him, I just feel like the world was made”, that I can understand. But the second you slap the label of an existing religion, how do you not inherit the baggage as well. Because well what else is there, why would I assume the bible has more godly information than the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. If I’m not ascribing something in it to be believed to be true. Whether you go with the moral parable or literal truth, say a story where god tells his people to go into a city and kill all the men women and children, and they refuse and god punishes them until they do… whether it’s true or not, the moral of that story is “do what god says, even if your personal morals tell you it’s horrible”. The message is what’s awful today.

Honestly not everyone will agree, but personally I can’t see any flaw in using AI to read through your code and point out security flaws. It’s going to happen regardless of whether you initiate it. It’s not like us sys admins are going “well I’m not going to patch the dirtyfrag vulnerability because it was discovered with AI”. I’d say knowing if AI can find a vulnerability in your code, is just a requirement right now.

Mentioned in a different post on that, but I did phrase my statement badly

IE I meant to say I find the concept of a mixed marriage in the case of people who believe, salvation = belief, and those who don’t believe are damned, is crazy. not to imply all religious believe salvation = belief.

I didn’t heard what Francis said about atheism, so I have no opinion on the matter.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/05/29/187009384/Pope-Francis-Even-Atheists-Can-Be-Redeemed

I’ll give a bit more detail there. also looks like I was way off on the year. First off I’ll admit, majority of my knowledge of Christianity is based on American versions. Of which I gotta admit, American believers are a different animal than European ones. IE hence American Catholics are basically considering our current president more authoritative than the pope in spiritual matters. But even so from what I’ve seen of say actual bishops debating with Hitchens etc… It still seems to me that at least a fairly significant portion even at an international level. This ain’t a Jubalee fact check episode so obviously we shouldn’t do it as, oh if 49.9% believe belief = salvation, then you are right and if 50.1% believe it than I’m right. I’m just saying it’s not an insignificant portion. My point is someone who believes belief = salvation, and also marries someone who doesn’t believe. Is either not as convinced of their belief as they claim, or they are expecting their spouse to change, maybe thinking that being around them but not preaching, is it’s own witnessing strategy (IE let them see the light in your life),

First I would like to clarify my words a bit, when I said “judeo christian religions that believe X”

I intended to mean “in the case of religions that believe X” (as in, I wanted to apply my I don’t comprehend how a mixed religion relationship works for people who believe salvation is tied to belief), not to imply all judeo christian religions believe belief = salvation.

However.

At least from what I can see, just looking up different catholic sources. Unless I’m completely misunderstanding, https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/is-there-really-no-salvation-outside-the-catholic-church , more or less from what I can gather, that’s primarally applying for say people who… literally have never heard or rejected the gospel. IE, not someone who’s married to a catholic wife and had a bible in the house and has the choice to refuse church every week.

Sort of the old joke

Eskimo “If I did not know about god and sin would I go to hell”

Missionary: “of course not, if you didn’t know you couldn’t be blamed”

Eskimo: “Why did you tell me then?”

IE the concept of “invincible ignorance”. and from what I’m searching the “inculpable ignorant” in islam. basically applies to people who have never been exposed to the religion. IE if they were around people of the faith… had access to a church/mosque etc… that doesn’t seem to apply.

Pope francis had his line in 2018 that he implied atheists could go to heaven, but the vatican was quick to say taht should not “be considered as a faithful transcription of the Holy father’s words”. In other words, the vatican isn’t fully standing behind that, and that’s very far from anything that the previous popes would have said.

Running a comparison, assuming it’s in use 8 hours a day 5 days a week, looks like a CPC runs around 640-760 a year (just googling quickly checking the numbers). course that’s just basic hourly office computer, meant to be comparable to what normally would be normal office computer. Didn’t bother to look and see what say an 8,000 high end graphics card laptop or something would compare… of course if your company was doing 8,000 laptops “a couple years ago”, those are probably at least 15,000 laptops today.

Me when asked whether I’d date a religious person.

To me, at least with Judeo-Christian religions that believe in hell as the destination for people who do not believe in their god, I find it so baffling that people can have mixed or non religious serious relationships, with the idea “well we just don’t try to convert eachother”.

How the hell do you square.

I love my spouse.

I love my God.

One day my god is going to send my spouse to be tortured for all of eternity. I will then spend the rest of my life happily hanging out with my god.

It only makes sense if you either don’t really believe what you believe, or you are very certain your partner is going to change their view. From the atheist side it doesn’t really matter.

I don’t think it’s going to be an overnight thing, It will start voluntarily, as the price equation shifts. the complications wasn’t worth the savings when office PCs were 1500 a pop, but what about when they are 3000 a pop and projected to hit 5000 next year. After more of them make the switch… then say an announcement can happen that microsoft is lessening it’s support for on prem servers and workstations, patches will be less frequent. and now it’s a risk assessment as well.

The problem is that a native sign-language user would have no idea that two English words rhymed

I do agree it’s a fraud, but I’d also say “native sign language speaker” is a bit of a misnomer. Comparing it to a human we’d be talking about someone with perfect hearing but born mute. IE if they were taught by someone who spoke out loud as they signed, they would understand ryming in ways that someone who was deaf obviously wouldn’t.

If they aren’t rich enough, then they are in the same boat as us. This ain’t exactly new… AWS workspaces, Azure Cloud PCs, Google docs, office 365, one drive. The tech has been creeping it’s way into businesses for the last 10 years. Obviously they are getting hammered right now by the raise in prices of new PCs. As the prices go up, they will have to make decisions.