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Relevant to the topic, if a company cuts human headcount that can at least mostly (if not entirely) be replaced by AI-driven automation and not backfill the humans at all, then whether or not it's cynical comes down to company performance with AI handling those roles. If financial reporting...

Almost done with Pragmata (fantastic game), and was going to finally start playing the Expansion this weekend, and am rather shocked both the Pally and the Warlock are mid at best. Usually the new classes rule on the relative power scale. Guess it's back to Sorc, which is frankly my favorite...

I never claimed your first bullet - strawman. It's also hard to think of a country that would allow that that also would be a place you could actually run a profitable business on, and not have everyone else block you. My point was not about CSAM at all - it was about holding a company liable...

I disagree with the last bullet (the Edit). Operating a business in France absolutely subjects you to their laws - opening an office, hiring workers, having a SIREN number, etc. Simply having a US hosted web page that doesn't explicitly block citizens of a country from visiting and even...

It's looking like a range of $450K to $500K for an inflation adjusted (2-3% annual COLA) annuity with the same parameters. Considerably more expensive. From what I can tell (I haven't consulted an advisor yet) once you lock in the annuity for the pension the disbursements are all ordinary...

Sigh... I actually have a Wireview Pro 2. Arrived a few weeks ago. My GPU is vertically mounted in a Thermaltake X5 case, and the fan array for the 5090 (Suprim Liquid) is mounted directly above the card. The fan array for the 360mm GPU cooler is mounted on the other top cover long slot, so...

From a societal perspective, yes. There's no way any rational company management could think that way, however, and keep their jobs. Maximize shareholder value is what the owners (shareholders) expect, and doing so is a fiduciary requirement. It's not even that the jobs themselves are BS...

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. We need mentats, though, to make it stick. The question (IMO) is speed of evolution, and the fairly large amount of low-productivity deadwood in companies today. I'll speak from some recent experience - there is a function in my...

I know this is the era of the 10 year + warranty PS, but I don't think I've ever gone more than 5 years on one without replacing it - either due to upgrade power draw needs or just to hand down the old one to the wife or child machine. Usually more like 3 years since that was the standard...

Good point - I checked the funding notice disclosure and it's reported at 103% funding as 1/1/26, and insured by PBGC, and my benefits would be well under PBGC guarantee limits. Right now I'd get $1900 / month (starting next month) for life with 100% survivor benefits to the wife ($2250 if it's...

Yeah, that's looking like it may be the best option. Purchasing an annuity of the same value would cost more than the cash-out value, but to the poster above's question the pension is not indexed to inflation. At 2.5 - 3% inflation per year, that's a big long-term hit. The pension is...

Watched the opening cinema piece and rolled a Warlock, but didn't really play much yet - too many other games competing for attention that I need to finish first, like Pragmata. Is Pally still a top-tier pick or is it completely overshadowed by the Warlock? New classes are always overpowered a...

I'll probably have to break down and seek a financial advisor to really lay out the mathematical pros/cons for dealing with a pension, but I'd also love to see the prevailing opinions here. I have a small pension from my previous employer that I fully vested in before they froze it back in...

Had an awesome tour of the Bendt Distillery in Lewisville, TX yesterday. They run a full tour of the facility plus tasting for $20, and for another $80 you get an (over) filled bottle of the barrel strength (~145 proof) whiskey of your choice, and you get to do the pouring. If you're in North...

Yeah, that was bizarre. You had a car do a full barrel roll on track and up cantilevered on the wall, and a lonnnng wait for the safety car? Wow. And yeah, the Max spin was just him applying power a tiny bit too quick, but that recovery... very few drivers on the grid can do that. I still...

The F2 race was once again extremely entertaining. Wheel to wheel among the top 5 right up to the final turn of the final lap.

Piastri is the master of droll when it comes to radio comms. He sounded supremely bored when responding to the P2 congrats. Have to admire that.

I was under the impression that some of the new ATG and surface-to-surface missiles in deployment could attack targets independently based on visual signature, if the ROE allowed such. Fly to a grid, and anything in the grid that looks like a tank gets hit, for example. Would that be a robot...

Have you tried running the model with a .4 nozzle set to a .16 or .12 layer height HQ preset? For those kinds of geometric shapes you may find the quality loss to be negligible compared to the increased print speed. I was printing a bunch of doll house furniture for the wife in about that size...

This response mystifies me. Did you miss the (unfortunately) one-sided civil war that's been going on in Iran for quite a while now? Unfortunate because the wrong side has been winning (Mullahs, IRGC, SAVAMA, the Morality Police, etc.) I'm quite biased here so it makes me an adversarial...