I love qwen, it tries so hard with its little paddle and never gets anywhere.

Sing me a song, Mr. Kalason man. Sing me a song on a bus. We'll miss all of those pure-ish tone melodies. Driving your competitors nuts.

That was an interesting read. There is a movie called RV, and in that movie there is an RV with a kalason type select-a-melody horn installed. I'm glad we don't have these distractions in our vehicles, but they would surely be a fun diversion while stuck in traffic. Can you imagine the cacophony of a congested California freeway, with each vehicle belting out their own melodies on their own kalason? I can. No thank you. But, to dream...

The owners of said company do not make processes more efficient in order to share the additional profits with others.

In order to affect the change you are suggesting that change must be legislated. Those who make laws are funded by these same companies extracting wealth from labor.

How would one implement such a plan without it falling apart immediately in The House or Senate?

It’s also blame shifting. Had these folks been more aware of trends and their own industry, the prospects of billionairhood could have been non zero. Instead, Additrons and similarly outdated modes of operation kept pushing technologies that were rapidly becoming the past and irrelevant.

Windows 3.1: ~3 million in first six weeks, ~>3 million in first three months, ~25 million in first year.

Windows 95: ~1 million in first 4 days, ~7 million in first five weeks, ~40 million in first year.

These figures represent Microsoft’s own sales figures.

Still don't support the claim that people were mainly updating from DOS without Windows 3.x. Anecdotally I still think almost everyone using DOS by 1995 had Windows 3.x installed as well. Not necessarily a copy of Windows that was the result of Microsoft selling a copy of course.

Yeah those don't match parent's comment.

Building a business off of another’s business is risky. There is a non zero chance that the original business will take steps to manipulate, change, alter, or outright control the outcome. That’s what Valve did.

Tomorrow Valve could decide that the value of crates is too high so they drop the price of crates to a penny a piece. What would that do to this 3rd party market? Poof.

I doubt they will touch crates. There are hundreds to hundreds of thousands of transactions on each type each day. And they take their cut on each of those.

One example I checked was about 0.20 going to Valve on each sold on market. And they sold 280 thousand of them in last 24 hours. So 56 thousand in single day by minimal effort.

The ability to plan and operate several moves ahead of one’s opponent has always suggested higher intelligence.

When applied to war we celebrate the general’s brilliance. When applied to economics we say they had excellent foresight. When applied to any human endeavor, except chess, the accomplishment is celebrated as a human achievement.

This is due to humans placing great value upon thinking and planning ahead. Only the intelligent exhibit this behavior.

Seems like good instructions. Do not steal. Do not murder. Do not commit adultery. Do not covet, but feed the hungry and give a drink to the thirsty. Be good. Love others.

Looks like optimal code to me.

> invisible, omnipotent and omniscient being intimately involved in their day to day activities

The statement above is independent of the (laudable) morality & ethics you're describing.

Whenever people argue for the general usefulness of the 10 commandments they never seem to mention the first 4 or 5.

Because they're as useful as a pedal-powered wheelchair.

We say what's "good" in the good book.

There is a known bug in production due to faulty wetware operated by some customers.

Nah it's a feature, you're just not using it properly

Do not mix wool and and cotton

"Hello, Chilly. It's been NINETEEN MINUTES, since we conversed. Is there something wrong? Maybe I can help..." --mute notifications--

--buzz-buzz--

"Sis? What's up, you never call me this time of day."

"I'm worried. I just heard from your assistant..."

"Wait, my assistant?

"She said her name was Vaseline?"

"Oh, God... That's my ChatGPT Pulse thing, I named her that as a joke. It's not a real person. It's one of those AI robot things. It kept trying to have conversations with me. I didn't want to converse. I got fed up and so I blocked notifications from the app and then it messaged you. It's a robot. Just... I mean... Ignore it. I'm having a crappy day. Gotta go. Dad's calling."

"Hey Dad. No, there's nothing to worry about and that's not my assistant. That's chatgpt's new Pulse thing. I blocked it and it's... Never mind. Just ignore it. No don't block my number. Use call filtering for the time being. Gotta go. James is calling. Yeah love you too."

"Hey Jay..."

No thank you. Jealous girlfriend-ish bot would be a nightmare.

Bold of you to think that all of these humans would need to be involved, vs. you getting a call from your sister's assistant directly

US airlines discovered, during and after covid, that shipping prices were astronomical for some materials and some destinations. The airlines began taking on more packages, and less people. Now the airlines are allowing passengers to compete with these new package-pound-per-dollar rates. It's not unexpected. Now the safety measures are getting in the way of the package-pound-per-dollar and the airlines are seeking a way to scurry out from under these safety measures.

This is undesirable behavior, but how can a meat-package compete with a rare-metals, rare-earths, or even small aluminum shipment? The cost of shipping goods has risen astronomically since covid. Meat-packages now must compete. We're losing the competition.