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Not just Altman, but also Amodei, Pichai and Nadella. These guys are desperate now.

Yes but the main thrust of his criticism is the fragility of the whole 'AI' stack, where every part of the stack is unprofitable, unstable and inter-reliant - if any one of those p…

Actually I think it's 52% :-)

You've got to remember that the average IQ is 100. There are a lot of people in the UK below this, just look at Brexit and who we elected, sigh....

I would love to see an article about how people pronounce some of the strange names and acronyms we have ended up with. Quick survey? 'etc', 'gif', 'uefi', 'wget', 'cifs' ?

Yes it was real. My fav phrase to describe the work was 'KY2K Jelly - helps you insert 4 digits where only 2 would go before' :-)

PDF is, without a doubt, one of the worst file formats ever produced and should really be destroyed with fire... That said, as long as you think of PDF as an image format it's less…

Totally agree. I worked on a project that had to try and extract tables from PDFs. It is much harder that it would first appear.

Agreed. I discounted that becuase of the cost but I guess there's the community edition!

Actually a very good alternative would be Java and JavaFX, maybe using Eclipse as the IDE.

Positive reasons: 1) It runs out of the box without and Internet ocnnection. 2) The IDE is extremely good. 3) It teaches OOP and memory management (something often forgotten by tod…

I am a professional programmer and I still use Delphi. It's great!

Agreed. I still use Delphi (7) to write Windows apps (and Lazarus to port them to Linux MacOS). Not everything is web based.

They may be slightly safer for the occupants of the car, but the height factor kills 30% more pedestrians and in actual fact accident fatalities are up as a result of SUVs as they …

Yes of course. But nobody would ever argue that a van is a better vehicle than a normal sized car for moving people around (unless you have a massive family). SUVs are a profitable…

Yes true, but I was really referring more to SUVs. Worldwide there is a real problem with this trend, and it is nearly all marketing. Certainly the average school run in the UK doe…

It looks like something my son would have designed when he was 5.

The problem is, they're just bad vehicles . They don't handle well, they guzzle fuel and they kill more pedestrians. There is no point in them unless you're a farmer.

A classic example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY&feature=youtu.be...

Ha! Superb! That neatly describes the state of politics in the USA and the UK at the moment....

Just to add that Musk was not a Paypal founder either. In fact they absorbed his company and promptly fired him for making stupid decisions.

"These guys are working on something No one has EVER done in the history of mankind" - erm people were making electric cars before ICE ones!

Let's face it, it would have been called 'The Dildo', not 'The Tulip'.

GDPR is a good question as I'm not sure they can 'waive' the GDPR rights. There is an ongoing court case in the EU at present.

OK, under most circumstances that is a fair point, and I personally hate astroturfers, but in this case I feel the comment was equally valid as an answer to two threads that were p…