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She got the instructions wrong: Obviously, the Trump administration wanted her to torch the building after the immigrants were inside.

There would need to be a stupid complex network of regulations and inspectors to do it right.

This is how all regulations work (for the most part). Also note that there's no such thing as "too much" or "too little" regulation. There's just bad regulations and good regulations.

Examples of good regulation:

• Car emissions standards
• Appliance energy efficiency requirements
• Safety regulations (all kinds)
• Loads of regulations related to banking

Examples of bad regulation:

• Requiring certification for things that don't need it (e.g. braiding hair)
• Requiring drug tests in order to receive government benefits
• Banning necessary medical procedures and medications based on religious beliefs
• Loads of regulations related to banking

Note: I work for a huge bank and our executives bitch about the cost of compliance all the time. Make them bitch more. Of all the things that need regulation, banking is of the greatest need. Never trust any financial system or transaction that isn't heavily regulated! There's an infinite number of ways to get screwed via banking and if it weren't for regulations they would screw you and everyone else as much as they possibly could. History is full of examples.

This is why web browsers like Firefox need their own AI. Local AI for not only creating summaries but for detecting bullshit like this.

Yes, creating summaries is kinda lame but without local AI you're at the mercy of big corporations. It's a new arms race. Not some bullshit feature that no one needs.

I'm all for it... As long as they get paid as much as their adult peers!

It's a bad idea to get kids socialized, thinking low pay is ever acceptable.

There should also be mandatory training about wage theft and how serious a crime it is for an employer to expect anyone to show up early or stay late without paying for that extra time. Have a great big award ceremony for the kids that reported employers who were caught pulling that shit! Make the employer pay them an amount equivalent to all the lost wages times three.

You want people to have more kids? Have the state give parents tax benefits (or just checks!) for each child's earnings until they're 25 or so.

We do already have poop emoji gas.

...and burns people's homes down due to lack of safety features.

...and children choke to death from easily removable small parts.

...and people get electrocuted because of a lack of warning label telling them not to use it in the bath.

Mongo is appalled!

Free shipping to send him away? I'll pay that subscription 👍

RVA23 is a big deal because it allows the big players (e.g. Google, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more) to avoid vendor lock-in for their super duper ultra wicked mega tuned-to-fuck-and-back specialty software (not just AI stuff). Basically, they can tune their software to a generic platform to the nth degree and then switch chips later if they want without having to re-work that level of tuning.

The other big reason why RISC-V is a big deal right now is energy efficiency. 40% of a data center's operating cost is cooling. By using right-sized RISC-V chips in their servers they can save a ton of money on cooling. Compare that to say, Intel Xeon where the chips will be wasting energy on zillions of unused extensions and sub-architecture stuff (thank Transmeta for that). Every little unused part of a huge, power hungry chip like a Xeon eats power and generates heat.

Don't forget that vector extensions are also mandatory in RVA23. That's just as big a deal as the virtualization stuff because AI (which heavily relies on vector math) is now the status quo for data center computing.

My prediction is that AI workload enhancements will become a necessary feature in desktops and laptops soon too. But not because of anything Microsoft integrates into their OS and Office suites (e.g. Copilot). It'll be because of Internet search and gaming.

Using an AI to search the Internet is such a vastly superior experience, there's no way anyone is going to want to go back once they've tried it out. Also, in order for it to work well it needs to run queries on the user's behalf locally. Not in Google or Microsoft's cloud.

There's no way end users are going to pay for an inferior product that only serves search results from a single company (e.g. Microsoft's solution—if they ever make one—will for sure use Bing and it would never bother to search multiple engines simultaneously).

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So that's why sales were up.

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