Improved reliability is, ironically a major cause of this problem.

Buyers of brand new cars in the USA keep them for fewer than ten years on average. If most cars can go ten years without needing major repairs, the car manufacturer’s actual customer is not strongly motivated to consider repairability in buying decisions. The second or third owner likely cares a lot, but their preferences don’t matter very much to manufacturers.

You’re absolutely right!

Sorry, couldn’t help myself. Good metrics are hard, but token leaderboards are obviously terrible metrics that will lead to bad business outcomes unless propped up by investor hype. Of course investor hype is a real factor, and it’s often driven by guesses about what other investors will do rather than real business outcomes.

It seems obvious to me that there’s a huge gap between a search result, which is a link and an excerpt where the operator of the linked site is clearly responsible for the content, and an AI overview, which mixes information from multiple sources with generated nonsense.

Google should absolutely be liable if it generates overviews containing defamatory lies.

They weren’t going to let people have it that cheap for very long. The plan was to offer it on subscription plans for a couple weeks, then move to usage-based billing, which is much more expensive for a usage pattern that comes anywhere near the subscription limits.

Keeping a single instance of Fable busy for a full day would probably cost a thousand dollars at standard API rates, and some agentic coding workflows run many agents in parallel. Companies have just recently started to figure out that rewarding employees for how many tokens they use may be a waste of money, but Anthropic is hoping to cash in before they all do.

If it’s true that young software developers are mostly not productive, then employing them hasn’t made sense for decades because staying at the same company for most of one’s career stopped being the default some time around 1980.

I kinda think that if MS tried Palladium today, they could succeed.

Windows does have most of the features of Palladium today, but it’s impact is modest because native desktop applications for consumers don’t have the importance they once did. The main place people encounter it is game anticheat.

A combination of secure boot, DRM, and remote attestation Microsoft proposed adding to Windows in the early 2000s. It was such an obvious corporate power grab that it got critical coverage from the New York Times.

Things like Google SafetyNet have been equally obvious corporate power grabs, but barely got negative coverage from the tech press, much less the mainstream media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base

That’s all kinds of fucked. Anybody who saw Microsoft Palladium and thought it was a good idea shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a computer.

The battery law is “so broad and so restrictive that it prevents the sale of this wonderful, jointly developed, U.S.-European product from being sold in the European Union…”

No. Meta chose to design e-waste.

It’s interesting to read this perspective. In the west, MBS is probably best known for butchering journalists.

I’m curious as to how people were actually using Google Glass in 2013. The only place I saw one then was at a programming meetup. I’m quite sure people weren’t regularly running the camera continuously because that drains the battery in a hurry and overheats it even faster.

Source: I bought a new old stock Glass XE-C this year. They’re $50 on Ebay. I’m working on a navigation app for it because I want heads-up cycling directions.

How to motivate right to repair advocacy in other regions in one easy step…

The policy is mandated for “certified” Android devices. Those have Google apps preloaded and pass Google’s remote attestation.

GrapheneOS is not certified and has no plans to be.

Given that new cars are very expensive, and you don’t want new-car features, you might be better off putting significant money into maintaining your old car.

People usually only do that with collectable cars they expect to increase in value or enthusiast cars they drive for fun, but you can spend quite a bit on maintenance before it’s as expensive as new-car depreciation.

I’m not sure I’d describe it as “bad vibes”, but Detroit has always struck me as charmingly postapocalyptic. It’s the only place I’ve ever seen fires in barrels in the middle of streets in real life.

Yeah, I talked about how assets are different than things we need, like health…

The original comment references luxury assets like supercars. In the USA, the average adult needs a car of some sort to function in society, and often cannot afford the unplanned purchase of a reliable used car (let’s call that $15K). Collision insurance that will cover most of the cost of a replacement car is a reasonable value for many people, and the insurance company doesn’t have any special leverage like access to massive discounts on replacement cars (they may have access to modest discounts on repair services, but nothing like what health insurance has).

You just don’t understand it

I think I made it pretty clear I understand that for-profit health insurance is a scam because providers overcharge anyone who doesn’t have it to an extreme degree. That’s not the case for pretty much anything else.

For-profit insurance for most things isn’t a scam. Insuring against the destruction of a house or car, for example is a calculated tradeoff; on average, you lose money (expected value is negative), but only a little at a time. In exchange, you get a guarantee that you won’t lose an asset you can’t afford to replace.

For-profit health insurance in the USA is a special sort of scam because they negotiate prices that aren’t available to the public, often an order of magnitude lower.

If someone was going to reward me for burning a lot of tokens, I’d feed LLM output into the LLM input until they ran out of rewards.

I am surprised. I’ve run both KDE and Gnome on a Surface Go 2 (8100Y), which is either slower or barely faster depending on which CPU you have, and I’ve had no UI lag.

My solution in the same situation is to use Gnome. I strongly prefer KDE on a desktop/laptop, but Gnome is an outstanding tablet UI and KDE isn’t… except that Gnome’s onscreen keyboard is crap.