> He says that it wasn't very hard to find people who were breaking the law,
I sure bet it wasn't! I accidentally happened to spend the fourth of July in LA last year, and that city's commitment to fireworks abundance was unparalleled. I have never experienced such a glorious, nonstop, 360-degree rumbling fireworks spectacle before, and I loved it.
It's interesting to ponder whether people equipped with large, powerful mortars launching explosive projectiles might find any way to disable loitering drones meant to spoil their fun.
I think the mortars are fucking ridiculous in densely packed suburbia.
They weren't always this big either. If you want to fire increasingly larger bombs out of a tube in the middle of the night, I think at some point the authorities will need to start pushing back.
Many years ago, I knew a family who named the three squirrels who regularly visited their back yard "Bubonic", "Pneumonic", and "Septicemic". The squirrels did not respond to these names, but the family sure did find it amusing to use them.
There is genuine value in having it all set up out of the box, and not having to figure it out yourself.
I have been using Linux since the '90s and haven't used anything else in at least a decade, but I struggled to understand what all the pieces were and what I was supposed to do with them when I wanted to play a Steam game with my kid several months ago. I'm still not sure I did it right; I think I probably did install Lutris, maybe, but I have no idea what problem it is meant to solve.
I think it is quite the opposite: what is novel is that this has come before the court at all. Nobody would have dreamed of expecting children to stay inside and be quiet all day during my childhood, nor that of my parents, nor their parents; rather, we were often made to go play outside.
Of course: this kind of thing has happened over and over.
Reality will settle in, the giddiness will fade, the market will overreact, fortunes will be lost, people will lose their jobs, and attention will move along to something else. At least a handful of solid new businesses will survive, though, and even thrive. Twenty years from now, whatever it is that the new technology is actually good for will seem obvious in retrospect, and the present breathless excitement will seem comical.
The book is the context! It was published, it has a presumably influential vetted author.
Maybe I am coming off too flippant. I'm just trying to say there's a spectrum between fluff and context. If the AI's literally just gave us answers and list of recipes, it wouldn't be as useful as with the context backing up where it came from, why this list, and so on.
Perhaps it also depends on one's approach to cooking. I often read recipes not because I intend to follow them, but to understand the range of variation in the dish before I make my own version. "Somebody liked this enough to bother writing it up" is enough context for that use.
I sure bet it wasn't! I accidentally happened to spend the fourth of July in LA last year, and that city's commitment to fireworks abundance was unparalleled. I have never experienced such a glorious, nonstop, 360-degree rumbling fireworks spectacle before, and I loved it.
It's interesting to ponder whether people equipped with large, powerful mortars launching explosive projectiles might find any way to disable loitering drones meant to spoil their fun.
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