They started with the mobile division only, and eventually bought the whole company out.

Still wouldn’t trust them. They had installed a Microsoft-aligned CEO prior to their acquisition.

We had a bunch of tree huggers recently bully one of our fox saviors into suicide. Please don’t let the harassment get to you or anyone under your employ. You’re doing good work, never let anyone else convince you otherwise.

Doesn’t Microsoft (an American company) fully own Nokia now?

I just went back to pirating everything using the *arr platform. No ads, I don’t have to worry about which service has it this week, and I’d rather pay a VPN company than media conglomerates.

Oh man, continuous 500hp, 1k short burst at each wheel. I think my car caught fire just thinking about it…

Every person is their own corner case. Cars solve those corner cases. And yes, droll. If all you do is work, home, work, home, work, home…that’s droll.

I can pay $3 to ride the train to midtown in ~40 minutes. Or I could drive, and deal with all the pain points of traffic and parking and take… ~40 minutes.

That’s great if your life is so droll that anything and everything you do fits within a 20sq mi radius.

You can’t take a train to go spelunking a mountain cave. Cars win in point-to-point flexibility, and freedom of travel on your schedule, not the trains.

If I want to go somewhere at 3am, I can hop in my car and go. It’s more common for trains to run from 5am to Midnight, and I’m a night owl.

Everyone who argues against cars always forgets that not everywhere is a densely packed city. Many of us like to travel much broader ranges. Sure, some NEET doesn’t care about that freedom, but plenty of us do. Many of us live in mountain ranges and trains aren’t exactly some great solution here.

Obviously the second half was being sarcastic.

I’d be okay with people being ticketed for driving trucks with only 1 passenger and not using them for hauling anything. I’d love to see smaller cars on the road that were designed to only hold a single person and be as efficient at that task as possible.

Trains, and busses, are a huge tradeoff in time savings. And have you seen the types of people who take trains/busses? No fucking thanks.

The tradeoff is time waiting for the train, and destinations available to you. I hate people way more than I hate cars, so cars it is. Personally I drive 2 cars to work with my left butt cheek in one car, and my right butt cheek in the other car just to be extra inefficient.

There’s all sorts of reasons taxing all compute over a certain threshold is stupid. I ignored it because it’s ignorant of the facts at hand.

At one point or another, compute was scaling exponentially for customers - one day that might begin to happen again. Laws move slowly - and will stupidly end up at a point where the average joe has that level of compute in his phone. Congrats, now you’ve decided to tax everyone because of “compute over a certain threshold”.

Being written in C++ doesn’t keep it from being reverse engineered in exactly the same way. All code can be reversed. It’s a little easier with Java because java isn’t turned directly into machine-code at compile-time.

You have to tax something that they are doing that an individual is not. If you tax “all compute” then they’re just gonna pull the same shit they do with straws and blame the individual.

You have to tax the action that is replacing a human worker. If a human job is displaced, it gets taxed. Want to AI generate some massive image through prompts? How much would it take a human to complete the job? Take some % of that, and charge it. Play it somewhere along the lines of “Intelligence deserves pay”, and since it’s artificial intelligence - it doesn’t have rights to spend its own pay (or the need to) so put it into a universal income fund.

We’re reaching a post-scarcity society now. We should be making lives easier for everyone.

Imagine legitimately believing Bedrock is “ahead” of java in any way, lol - There are “features” that bedrock has, which are the REASON Java is better. None of the coins bullshit, better and more developed mod scene, none of the desyncing issues where you fall to your death on the server, but it looks like you’re standing on a pillar on your local client, etc.

In my opinion, every AI “worker”, should have to be paid …maybe half minimum wage, and that wage, goes into a universal income fund to be dispersed to the citizens directly. Adjust “half”, for how much pressure needs to be applied to corporations…

Maybe laws adjusted so the amount of work AI does would be on-par with how much a person could…and then billed as such.

It is, but that code is run through a scrambler that makes it more difficult to read for a human, but basically a trivial task for a computer to undo anyways.

So we’re just burning CPU cycles by scrambling it, and then just unscrambling it anyways – so Microsoft is just saying “why scramble it at all then?”

This should, in theory, make it easier for people with less experience coding, to read and understand what’s going on.

AI to remove jobs from workers. 1000%. That’s what the hype is now. Capitalist see workers as an expense. They’re working on getting rid of you any way they can.

Viral infections don’t typically last over the course of several months. I get that there’s a lot of people who want antibiotics for viral things, I don’t take them when I don’t need them.

https://aafa.org/allergies/allergy-symptoms/sinusitis-sinus-infection/

Many viral sinus infections are followed by bacterial infections if they go on long enough.

Yes, but almost every viral infection I’ve ever had…comes with bacterial infection as an additional “feature”

It helps with the bacterial infection that I get and my sinuses are BLOODY RAW from sniffling for the last week!