Quiet unionizing?

Trump supports aren’t real people. Their sentience has been classified as below that of plants. Morals don’t apply.

I am always amused at how normalized it has become that political leaders need to advertise themselves as if they are a bottle of coke or some other brand.

We don’t pick leaders anymore, we pick brands so of course they need vast sums of money because how else does one push brand awareness and convince people they need to choose a brand.

Yeah at this point it’s a question of when the hype ends and it all comes tumbling down. There’s nothing but investor sentiment holding the price where it’s at.

Year over year revenue is down 50%, consistently for several quarters. Three missed quarterly estimates in a row.

The smart money is moving to catch the Nvidia bubble.

That might be their internal reasoning but Apple will very quickly move to have these capabilities in house. Apple has been working on machine learning for a while but they don’t collect data so they are unable to build these LLMs.

For now it makes sense for Apple to leave the liability of basing these LLMs on copyrighted data. If OpenAI losses those court battles, they take the hit for services rendered to Apple. None of that liability transfers to Apple.

Meanwhile, Apple is going about this the Apple way by encouraging developers to integrate their apps into new frameworks being added. This gives them access to user data directly from the source allowing them to build personalized models.

These models will likely be far more useful to the day to day mundanity of life than the hallucinogenic encyclopedia that is ChatGPT.

Yes. I understand the people who don’t use Apple products think they are smarter than those who do. Your list of common tropes is tiresome.

The reality is quite far from what you imagine. People who actually understand technology, people who are in the tech industry use Apple products at a higher rather than those who are not.

Instead of Apples well thought out walled garden, fools happily pay extra to play in Google/Amazon/Microsofts chain linked dirt pit. It’s hilarious what lengths people go to pretend that is a better experience; that rusty chain link with barbed wire is superior to walls

This is why I went with HomeKit devices. I do not understand why people trust Amazon or Google, their business models are not pro-consumer.

If Apple pulled at one of the maneuvers these two have, there would be a flood of articles condemning them. No one expects Amazon or Google to respect you.

I hope he spends billions on it only to resell it for millions after the internet moves on.

This is long and I got bored but skimming it, it sounds like he was being stubborn about returning the items because he felt aggrieved. I can’t really feel much sympathy for his situation.

Amazon has definitely declined but this isn’t the shinning example I was hoping it to be.

Google’s death spiral will take a while but it’s clearly circle the drain.

It will likely never completely die the same way IBM never died but it will stop being the desired placed for new graduates.

It would be easier to record than upload. Since upload requires at least a decode steps. Given the fleeting nature of existence how does one confirm the decoding? This also requires we create a simulated brain, which seems more difficult and resource intensive than forming a new biological brain remotely connected to your nervous system inputs.

Recording all inputs in real time and play them back across a blank nervous system will create an active copy. The inputs can be saved so they can be played back later in case of clone failure. As long as the inputs are record until the moment of death, the copy will be you minus the death so you wouldn’t be aware you’re a copy. Attach it to fresh body and off you go.

Failure mode would take your literal lifetime to reform your consciousness but what’s a couple decades to an immortal.

We already have the program to create new brains. It’s in our DNA. A true senior developer knows better than to try and replicate black box code that’s been executing fine. We don’t even understand consciousness enough to pretend we’re going to add new features so why waste the effort creating a parallel system of a black box.

Scheduled reboots of a black box system is common practice. Why pretend we’re capable of skipping steps.

The real trick there is how he didn’t get sued.

The SEC has held him more accountable than the share holders

His only talent is convincing the wealthy to invest in his schemes. I don’t understand how he does it, hearing him speak is painful.

He got lucky with Tesla becoming a meme stock.

SpaceX is being run by a competent engineer while its competitor, Blue Origin is being run by a megalomaniac. This is possibly Musks only competent move in business.

The rest of his ventures have been failures. To any one not blinded by greed, it’s clear he long ago peaked. He’s playing a shell game now but people will happily invest hoping luck will strike again.

Same market.

I agree.

One can’t claim to love programming while calling the act of writing code being a code monkey. Whatever they actually love about the process may not exist in the industry.

I would suggest they explore alternative roles and perhaps alternative industries. They sound like they are new to the industry so their ability to land a senior role is likely to lead to different disappointments.

The best way to do something, often isn’t the best way to implement something. That’s why this is a senior role. The author does not appear to understand this concept and will be horribly disappointed when their perfect architecture is ignored by the realities of development.

And you’re obsessed with giant cocks. This is very interesting. A therapist could write a book on you.

Hating an operating system such that someone wouldn’t use it in exchange for a million dollars is quite the flex.

Congratulations! You’ve leveled up in the game of life.

CRIME

Diddy’s 2 Miami Beach homes were raided by federal agents as part of probe: sources

March 25, 2024 07:43 PM

Federal agents on Monday raided the two Star Island homes in Miami Beach of rap mogul Sean Combs, better known as Diddy, according to federal sources.

“Earlier today, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our local law enforcement partners,” Homeland Security Investigations said in a statement.

Diddy owns a residence at 1 West Star Island in Miami Beach, which was previously owned by Gloria and Emilio Estefan. He purchased the property for $35 million in 2021. He also owns a home at 2 West Star Island in Miami Beach, according to Miami-Dade property records.

Federal agents raided both.

The raid came a month after a lawsuit alleged that Diddy was the leader of a criminal enterprise that could qualify as a “widespread and dangerous criminal sex trafficking organization.”

In the lawsuit, producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones states that Diddy, his staff and music executives knew about — and were involved in — illicit and unwanted sexual activities in Florida, New York, California and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, where Jones filed the lawsuit, are heading the sex-trafficking probe. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations in Miami are assisting. Sources say Jones is the main witness.

READ MORE: Diddy forced music producer to recruit sex workers at Miami strip club, lawsuit claims

Jones, whom Diddy hired in August 2022 to produce several songs on his R&B album “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” claims in the filing that the mogul groped him and forced him to engage in sex acts with sex workers. He also said he was ordered to recruit those sex workers from Booby Trap on the River, a strip club in Miami, and bring them back to Diddy’s Star Island home.

“Mr. Jones agreed [to work for Diddy,] and his life has been detrimentally impacted ever since,” the lawsuit says.

It’s not the only time similar allegations have come about in recent months. Diddy was accused of sexual assault in four other lawsuits filed by women. One involved singer Cassie, his ex-girlfriend, who alleged that Diddy abused her and forced her to have sex with male sex workers. Diddy settled that lawsuit the day after it was filed in November.

At around 7 p.m., Homeland Security Investigations officers were scattered across the Star Island property, walking in and out of the mansion. A van with flashing red and blue lights was backed into the driveway, about 25 feet from a large trailer.

One officer walked up the driveway with a police dog, stepping past an iron gate that appeared to be damaged.

A neighbor who lives across the island told the Miami Herald that he has often heard parties at the mansion and seen people come and go at all times. He also said he has witnessed many cars parked along the exclusive island’s single palm-lined road for gatherings at the home.

“It’s at all times,” said the man, who declined to give his name. “During the week, and on weekends.”

Really just sounds like they are deploying government equipment. There is no report of it being hardware built by spaceX. That is all speculation and clickbait m.

The company makes money by delivering payloads to space. In the end they are a delivery company moving packages from point A to point B.

That the US government would use this service seems obvious. SpaceX is well known for profiting off government funds.