If the same combination is issued multiple times then no, they don’t work as intended.

The issue here wasn’t that the license plate was too colorful, it was that the missing national standardisation allows for over a thousand cars with the same plate.

Then make it 7 or 8 characters like most countries have. Its not like that wouldn’t fit on plates. With 8 chars you could remove 2/3 of all combinations and still have an order of magnitude in reserve.

improve a workers productivity when you compare two workers of equal skill.

It makes you seem more productive in most metrics that corporate america seems to measure, but that doesn’t really mean anything. Even if most of what the current AIs produce would be good quality (and it’s not, its mediocre at best), one hallucination costs you more time than everything it saved you.

It’s not an offense to drive on medications unless it impares you

Its not that its no offense, you simply can’t be prosecuted if no one knows about it. But that doesn’t equal legal. If you get into an accident and anyone finds out that you took opioide, even just medical painkillers, you will be attributed most of the blame in court.

That also means I could drive whilst high from my cannabis prescription if there was no imparement.

A prescription only provides defense in court, not an immunity to prosecution. It still is in your responsibility to prove that you weren’t impaired by your medication, which is nearly impossible. If your tolerance is high enough that your reaction time doesn’t decrease, then its nearly useless either way.

If with “here” you mean anywhere close to the EU market, then I have to dissapoint you. An SOS button is mandatory which then also includes a GPS module.

You also cant make a totally dumb ICE anymore with safety and emission regulations. If you buy a new car, it will have all the necessary tech in it to track you and send telemetry. It doesn’t matter how barebone the car looks unless you personally stripped everything down to the metal and remove every electric component that’s not 100% required.

There is no evidence as of now. There are scientific hypothesis regarding this exact thing that sound plausible as a standalone thing but there hasn’t been any observational evidence regarding it.

They are pretty much equivalent to our hypothesis regarding dark matter. We knowthere must be something we can’t see and them work backwards from there to fill the gaps.

That’s… pretty much my point.

For the steam deck where 99% of people will use it with steam, selling at a loss is acceptable, so they do it.

The steam machine is just a pc, so they can’t make sure that people use steam, hence the normal market price.

That’s not even the issue, it simply isn’t worth it for chip manufactors to ramp up production.

Chip manufacturing is so expensive that machines have to run at 100% capacity to make reasonable profit margins from consumer hardware. Investment in new factories is only worth it if the demand stays high for 10+ years, which simply doesn’t seem to be the case. Most AI companies will collapse in the next few years and while AI in itself will probably survive, the hardware craze will eventually die down a bit.

With the current hardware prices there isn’t much profit to gain here.

The main difference to other consoles is that they don’t sell at a loss to keep you in their ecosystem like PlayStation and Nintendo do. Valve could afford the cheap prices of the steam deck since its a bit tricky to use as a normal PC, but the steam machine is literally just a PC, selling it at a loss would be stupid for them.

They do though. The point of captchas isn’t to block all bots, that’s never going to happen. They are there to block the low effort bot army that’s rampaging across the internet which is effectively a DDOS stack on smaller servers.

Big AI companies throw petabytes of Data into their models. Instead of crawling and saving it once, they just index each site worth using and scrap the data each time they train a model. As a server owner you either block the scrappers with a captcha or you blanked ban IP ranges that are known for scraping.

90% of SpaceXs assets are in AI Datacenters that are running grok, I wouldn’t call that any good stuff, even in terms of AI. Apart from that they grifted a lot of money from the US government to produce rockets that are worse than what NASA could have delivered with the money.

The only “good” thing spaceX made is Starlink, which has about 12 million subscribers and brings in a revenue of 11 billion each year, with about 4 billion in profits. That’s nothing compared to big network companies.

He didn’t deliver on any promise except the stock price itself that’s pumped up by lies and idiots believing in it.

Teams is anything but a basic messaging app. Over the last few years Microshit kept integrating most of their office suit into it instead of keeping their standalone apps working beyond Excel and Word. Now you have chats, teams, calls, calendar, SharePoint, planner, to-do, power BI and a million other things in one place, and only 90% of them don’t work properly.

Besides, the new™ Teams is pretty much just an instance of edge with 10+ tabs open den being on the amount of addins your company has. The entire app is literally just build in edge webview, its a reskinned browser with slightly more privileges.

Why does everything have to be an AI agent, I don’t get it.

If you desperately want AI to do your trades then the best options are one of the trading algorithms that are around for ages now, at least they don’t hallucinate.

People really lost the plot a while ago.

It doesn’t matter how we view them as long as they work.

Nah, not even the basic “its capitalism” excuse works anymore for that idiocracy. Capitalism may force companies to increase earnings, which is already stupid enough in itself, but the timeframe that’s measured in got reduced so much in the last few years that even short term goals are impossible without cutting costs.

Ten years ago monthly earnings were at most an indicator, what mattered most were fiscal years. It slowly evolved to quarterly earnings and now we are at a point were a single “bad” (as in, not as much profit as last month) can plunge your stock prices by 10+%.

Yes capitalism always fucked over the working class, bit it wasn’t made to force big, profitable companies to self destruct for 0.5% higher monthly profits.

One candidate was waivering between 13 and 17…

Pleas tell me that’s a joke. Or were they trying to switch fields and were a baker or something before? I just can’t accept that someone that would struggle with that question, even in a stressfull situation, ever took a single comp science class.

I could have made some insane cash selling this but no amount of money will stand between me and my determination against Microsoft.

There is no better motivator than pure anger and spite.

The problem is that they kept on forcing stuff into it till it became a bloated monster.

When teams was the replacement for Skype, it was pretty much just that, a chat and call app.

Now you have chats, calls, teams that are automatically their own SharePoint (not to confuse with the SharePoint sites themselves), contacts, calendar (synct with outlook, but completely different ui and functions), planner (not to confuse with to-do, stuff in the planer can show up in to-do, but not vice versa), power automate integration, power apps integration (that only work half the time cause of missing user rights), OneNote integration (at least that one still has its own app), and a plethora of different apps you can link.

The files in the individual teams take ages to load, the UI changes every few days for the sake of it, basic features break for no apparent reason, calls randomly don’t connect, sound in and output breaks repeatedly.

Its a slow and cluncky mess of different apps tacked onto each other, just so MS can say that they have an app for that instead of forcing you to use the browser interface.