Yes we’ve begun to track “token use” all over my company so it doesn’t spiral out of control, as it easily can do when you have agents managing agents connecting to MCP servers that themselves use the models to generate responses. The engineers around me say that they basically have multiple agents cranking full time and just keep an eye on them every so often. They will even queue up things to run overnight to make use of the time. They never actually close their laptops. This is an insane amount of usage, well beyond what anyone can do in the ChatGPT application by typing with their fingers, and there’s no way it can continue like this.

Even setting aside the deceptive propaganda around this, “they” meaning right wing voters of modest means, still have two problems with tax funded services of any kind. The government may not be “taking money away” as in making it vanish, but they are taking away the choice of how that money should be spent. Conservatives see a moral hazard here where their taxes will pay for the poor lifestyle choices of others - and actually they are right, just not the way they think they are. It’s not abortions for slutty brown women they should worry about but metabolic syndrome brought on by their own white neighbors horrible diets that will burden the system most.

Their other problem is they don’t want to benefit from this kind of public good themselves. They see it as “taking charity” and although white people accept plenty of advantages, they like to stay proud about it. It doesn’t help to say “look, you’re getting something here.” So there just isn’t any way of making them comfortable with the setup, even when it isn’t being grossly distorted to them.

The whole “I don’t take no charity” is a very old American value and part of a complex system we have for giving people ways to feel superior to others. We don’t have a formal class system in this society but we service the same instincts in a hundred other small ways. Farm subsidies? Of course! Do you know how important farmers are? Healthcare supports? What… so I can pay for abortions for some illegal immigrant who couldn’t keep her legs closed?

We’re terminally stupid here and everything is about feels I don’t see how we’ll ever get past all this.

True that’s how I get my flu shots and such. It’s often extremely modest accommodations. Once my feet were resting on a pile of discarded coat hangers and other detritus from the drugstore’s retail floor.

Yes I mean nothing is free if we try to be strict about it. The word would have no meaning. I think we all understand “sold at zero price” but there are always people in the crowd who want to pop up and say “it’s not free! someone pays!” Typically their next move is to start breaking down who pays and why it’s unfair. I have no patience for them.

There are so many health services that can be delivered en masse at very little cost. I once lived in a “3rd world” country with state sponsored healthcare. They had an army of nurses in shop storefronts delivering vaccines and basic meds for common illnesses. Just walk in. Nothing fancy - one of them literally reused hypodermic needles after sterilizing them with a bunsen burner. But how fancy does it actually need to be?

Learning is good for the brain at any age. Picking up a new skill, traveling to a foreign land, starting a new job with new people…

Fiddling with an app on your phone…. Not so much.

I understand the suspicion but you might want to keep some daylight between “qualitative data” and “bullshit.”

I completely understand that quant data is always more certain to work with, but to totally discount qual data leaves you utterly blind in a lot of fields where quant measurements are impossible to standardize.

You have to hand it to NVidia. People only have two complaints about their products: that they cost too much and are constantly sold out.

Agree or not, he’s correct. You may be a teenager trading virgin jokes with your friends but I’m a dad in his 50s and not into that shit even one tiny bit.

Not even a little. I’m not talking about sex here at all. This is about what it’s like to be a parent.

No, it’s more like “if you have the time and money for things like this, then chances are you are not giving almost all your time and money to children, as parenthood tends to require.

Oh so you mean it’s an “artificial problem” as in they are “solving” a problem they created themselves. Not that there isn’t actually a problem.

I love the relief work around the eyes. It’s so much nicer than if the entire top was just flush. I’m sure it was a lot of work, too!

My first thought was death trap for children but if this client is commissioning artisanal pieces based on his favorite anime characters then I’m guessing there are no children in the picture.

I might support this point of view if the last 20 years of lifespan promises with new light bulb technology had actually been true.

I thought we all agreed there is a problem with headlights these days? Is it just not because of LEDs specifically?

I’m a LOTR nut and we actually look at it as a good outcome if no more LOTR shit can be made, period.

I guess Trek is not like that, though a lot of people seem to think some shows/movies should never have been made.

Just trying to offer a positive spin on franchise death.

There’s an active onwers forum for these on Reddit if you’d like to see what more people think.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoltEV

Chevy Bolt - first American car I’ve ever owned and we absolutely love it.

I hope to never buy another. We have an ICE minivan as a second car and it compliments our compact EV well. But 10/10 I prefer driving and maintaining the EV. I always knew EVs were quick, but I didn’t expect how quiet they would be. I can actually hear my music.

that attracts garbage articles and clickbaits.

So it is clickbait. I understand that it’s our fault for being filthy numbskulls who want quick solutions. But we agree it is clickbait.