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I did once a few years ago and one example of wtf were they thinking...

They bothered to have heated seats in the back, but no way for a rear occupant to actually control it. You had to ask someone in the front to adjust it for you using that stupid touch screen

Hell, put any two people on a "knowledge" task and even if both were capable, there's going to be a person that pretty much does the work and another that largely just sits there. Unless the task has a clear delineation, but management almost never assigns a two person team a task that's actually delineated enough for the two person team to competently work.

If the people earnestly try, they'll just be slower as they step on each other, stall on coordination, and so on.

The only chance to show him a better way probably over by the mid 80s. He had cemented a sense of superiority by then and whatever humility he might have had was completely blown away when he managed to sell Zip2 for millions, before anyone knew who he was.

The only way to "resolve" the "culture war" to Elon's satisfaction would have been for Vivian to deny her identity and keep trying to be Elon's son. There's no fair or equitable resolution that caters to Elon's sensibilities.

Guy has been at least been privately documented as an asshole for decades.

During his dance at his first wedding reception, he informed his wife that he was the "alpha".

When his infant son died in 2002, he largely ignored it and said his wife being in pain over their baby dying was just her being "emotionally manipulative".

He constantly demanded her to act and look a certain way, and berated her for being a bad wife.

He was not a better person back then, he just had a more carefully curated online and media presence. His ego has brought him to the point of dropping all pretense.

You can't just keep assuming the best of someone acting badly and hope that support and understanding will bring the person around.

photoshops

I assume you meant photoshoot..

He will never ever be in the gutter. I'm sure he has enough liquidity that he will be very wealthy no matter what his stock does, even if he couldn't extract another penny out of his stocks somehow.

He had one kid actually die once, and at the time he didn't even bother showing up while the baby was on life support and getting mad at his then-wife for being sad about the kid dying, and accusing her of just using it as an excuse to make his life slightly inconvenient.

Then later lied for sympathy points and claimed he held his son as the son died.

It really can't. It can take your original prompt and fluff it out to obnoxiously long text. It can take your visual concept and sometimes render roughly the concept you describe (unless you hit an odd gap in the training data, there's a video of image generation being incapable of generating a full wine glass of wine).

A pattern I've seen is some quick joke that might have been funny as a quick comment, but the poster asks an LLM to make a "skit" of it and posts a long text that just utterly wears out the concept. The LLM is mixing text content in a way consistent with the prompt, but it's not mixing in any creatively constructed comment, only able to drag bits represented in the training data.

Now for image generation, this can be fine. The picture can be nice enough in a way analogous to meme text on well known pictures is adequate. Your concept can only ever generate a picture, and a picture doesn't waste the readers time like a wall of text does. However if you come at an LLM with specific artistic intent, then it will frustrate as it won't do precisely what you want, and it's easier to just do it yourself at some point

They went to great lengths to explain that and why a trailer load may transiently exceed it and used a 20 year old wrecked truck as a reference.

The other concern they mentioned was aluminum characteristics over time. Brand new strength will not equal strength over time. So 10k pounds is the trucks strength at its absolute best, but it will degrade over time. Also the mix of metals may cause a galvanic reaction to degrade it over time. No one else in the industry will use aluminum for the frame, for good reason

They even admit it fared better than they thought, but it's another example of Tesla ignoring engineering principles and the predicted consequences being demonstrated.

Shareholders in a company whose entire business is around being well liked globally thinks it would be a bad business move to cancel a program that is part of a good public image in favor of placating a relatively small chunk of Americans that would both be paying attention and against DEI.

They could still be pro-Trump, and not really caring about DEI, but they know the value of optics in the context of a company like Disney.

anti-DEI is pretty much code for "only white straight cisgendered males welcome". Whatever criticisms may make sense against select DEI initiatives, the anti-DEI move by the government basically involved erasing all acknowledgement of any minority or woman ever being honored for accomplishments, no matter how obviously well earned the honor was.

On a global perspective, the American flavor of "anti-DEI" panders to a relatively small group of folks at the expense of offending the vast majority of the world's population.

He and Trump are very similar. Both managed to make a bunch of other people's money tied to their personal brand and both had a whole lot of interests trying to help build them up while simultaneously running interference to keep them from making actual decisions about businesses because those folks realized what a moron that he was, until it gets out of hand and they can't control him anymore. It's a perfect storm to just make the most insufferable people, idiots who have been told their whole lives by everyone how great and smart they were by an 'in crowd'.

Even expecting Trump’s narcissism and corruption, some of his choices have been rather bizarre…

The bizarre is just being all over the place with stuff he doesn't care about, while pandering to a bunch of interests that don't make that much sense as a whole (Musk, Project 2025, Putin, Netanyahu, traditional GOP, other random folks).

I assume there's a large amount of people who do nothing but write pretty boilerplate projects that have already been done a thousand times, maybe with some very milquetoast variations like branding or styling. Like a web form doing one to one manipulations of some database from user input.

And/or a large number of people who think they need to be seen as "with it" and claim success because they see everyone else claim success. This is super common with any hype phase, where there's a desperate need for people to claim affinity with the "hot thing".

Moscow has been very friendly to him consistently since the 80s. All flattery and benefit, with zero demanded of him.

Ukraine is that country that declined to make up stuff about Biden in an incident that blew up into his first impeachment.

So I didn't have high hopes

And because a friend insisted that it writes code just fine.

It's so weird, I feel like I'm being gaslit from all over the place. People talking about "vibe coding" to generate thousands of lines of code without ever having to actually read any of it and swearing it can work fine.

I've repeatedly given LLMs a shot and always the experience is very similar. If I don't know how to do it, neither does it, but it will spit out code confidently, hallucinating function names or REST urls as needed to fit the narrative that would have been convenient. If I can't spot the logic issue with some code that isn't acting correct, it will also fail to generate useful text that would describe the problem.

If the query is within reach of copy/paste of the top stack overflow answer, then it can generate the code. The nature of LLM integration with IDEs makes the workflow easier to pull in than stack overflow answers, but you need to be vigilant as it's impossible to tell a viable result from junk, as both are presented with equal confidence and certainty. It can also do a better job of spotting issues within things like key values that are strings with typo than traditional code analysis, and by extension errors in less structured languages like Javascript and Python (where 'everything is a hash/dictionary' design prevails).

So far I can't say I've seen improvements, I see how it could be seen as valuable, but the resulting babysitting carries a cost that has been more annoying than the theoretical time saves. Maybe for more boilerplate tasks, but generally speaking those are highly wrapped by libraries already, and when I have to create significant volume of code, it's because there's no library and if there's no library, it's niche enough that the LLMs can't generate either.

I think the most credible time save was a report of refreshing an old codebase that used a lot of deprecated function and changing most of the calls to the new method without explicit human intervention. Better than tools like '2to3' for python, but still not magical either.

There's a small chance that this time could be seen as different as Putin broke a "deal" with Trump.

Putin breaking agreements with other people, ok, but Trump considers himself different and those don't count.

Having Trump be directly involved in a broken deal might be enough of an affront to bother Trump.

Long shot, more likely Putin rationalizes it away to Trump somehow

Yeah, it does some tricks, some of them even useful, but the investment is not for the demonstrated capability or realistic extrapolation of that, it is for the sort of product like OpenAI is promising equivalent to a full time research assistant for 20k a month. Which is way more expensive than an actual research assistant, but that's not stopping them from making the pitch.

There is fog and rain, which it also failed at.

Also, their cameras have missed light colored trailers, mistaking them for sky. So it doesn't take much to be like the fake painted wall.

Nearly every homeowner has unrealized gains in their house value.

Edit: Also, all these unrealized gains of the very rich would also be taxed when transacted, like the retirement funds, but there are loopholes. They can leverage that wealth without "realizing" the value.