The problem is not enough RPis. If you get enough running in parallel, you achieve AGI, Nirvana, and quite possibly exit velocity.

Argentina played some of the dirtiest WC soccer I’ve ever seen. Grabbing the English goalie’s arms during a corner kick, regularly shoving opposing players in the back and grabbing their jerseys when they got the ball during a fast break. The referee only handed out a single yellow card, and let everything else pass.

Messi wasn’t doing it so overtly, but everyone else especially Simeone, were just blatant. Have no dog in this race, but that was just gross.

Jabba the Hutt reference.

I did a lot of work in ElderTech. There were a lot of complex psychological issues around caring, connection, and fear of abandonment.

Tech can help, or at least mitigate the harm. But fooling people, or messing with their emotions really isn’t a winning recipe.

Used to drive through there regularly. Yep. It was for real. If the wind blew a certain way or there was a heatwave, it was unbearable.

Felt the same way on a tour of a brewery where they were cooking the hops. Except that had a bit of sweetness. The Tacoma Aroma was just stultifyingly, not as sharp as sulphurous, rotten eggs. More like heavy, warm milk that had gone bad.

All day, every day. Everywhere.

Hey, they could connect the car ‘driver attention camera’ thing, the OBD car speed stuff, and the in-car GPS to the municipality, the insurance company, and your credit card or bank account.

That way, the minute you look away, go a little over the speed limit, or check your phone message, they just gouge some cash out of your bank account. After three of these, your insurance rate goes up. After the tenth time, your health insurance and employer will be notified.

Fun times! 🎉

Edit: every damn step of this is now available via APIs or Agentic MCPs. There is zero technical barrier for this happening. Sleep tight y’all.

Gives new meaning to ‘Tools Lending Library.’

https://www.techspot.com/news/109745-openai-jony-face-major-challenges-building-next-gen.html

Doesn’t OpenAI’s hardware group include Jony Ive’s group? Is Apple suing Jony?

🤩That’s not true! 🚀 You people are so mean. 😤

“On the one hand, this is good news. On the other hand…”

Those are rookie numbers.

I have to regularly jump between Mac, Linux, and Windows. On Mac and Linux it’s easy to make same keystroke shortcuts work, even inside apps.

On Windows, total crapshoot. And now, if on a newer machine, if you hit the wrong button (Copilot) because of muscle memory, you get the damn AI jump in your face.

Lifespan was 20-30 years. Least it could have done was pick up a case of beer.

If the student had a PPL, it’s likely she was training with him (a commercial pilot) for her IL instrument license, the next step up from PPL. Means she was qualified to land in clear weather.

He wasn’t putting her in physical peril. But it’s still a terrible mental burden to put on someone else.

In a meeting, asked a big multinational appliance company what all the connected device data collection was for.

Not a single person had an answer that benefited the customer.

You have X number of OS versions, Y number of different hardware variations, and Z number of applications.

Easy-peasy. What can possibly go wrong?