This comparison overlooks the fact that, in the original folktale, the stone soup remains a soup —- it never turns into a ribeye steak. Similarly, in the AI version, an LLM will always remain an LLM.

But everyone benefits by eating the soup and has a good time partying together.

The last page of the soldiers running away before the town realizes they were tricked is interesting though.

Even in the DOS days, you still had to park the drive heads before shutting down. DOS even had a PARK command for that.

Yes, the GP is a more recent advancement. Before that, you had to set the hardware for turning off.

There was a brief moment when the hardware was advanced enough to reach a safe configuration by itself, and the software was not advanced enough to need to synchronize state with everything.

But maybe there's a lesson there, and the software should be able to shut itself down in a couple of seconds in the background, just like the hardware did.

Only on early hard drives that used stepper motor actuators.

...but most people got their systems from their job in those days and so wouldn't get told this little tidbit for obvious reasons; You Must Park Before Swithing Off. I did get unlucky somewhere begin 80s when my father brought home a luggable, I didn't park, he lugged it back and the hd was damaged.

True, that was a good idea with some early hard drives, but only required if the PC was moved. In that period hard drives were a luxury, many pcs just had two floppy drives. One for the operating system and applications, the second one for data.

Not all H1B holders have advanced degrees, and the reason some of them do is because that’s one of the immigration pathways —- pay for a 1-2-year Master’s degree so you get a better chance of landing an H1B after you graduate. Most citizens don’t go for advanced degree because there’s no utility in them, and not because they aren’t smart.

I know this. But it is a measurable differentiator in qualification that H1Bs are way more likely to have than citizens. Many young men don't see the utility in college compared to women in the the US, but employers do.

Then it’s all the more difficult to explain why such “advanced” applicants would accept low salaries. Unless, of course, we accept the inevitable conclusion that companies are using foreign labor to suppress domestic wages.

So if you look at the flip side, the on call engineer is being misled by AI ~60% of the time. The question is does this slow them down more or less than the speedup they get when the AI is right the other 40% of the time.

Probably for collecting donations and moving them through the SWIFT banking system.

I don't think crypto wpuld help in this instance, they'd still have to turn it into fiat to do anything with it.

That's hard to trace if using monero however

A lot of medicines are taken sublingually, because absorption is expected to be higher than through the oral route. Does fluoride not get absorbed that way?

Not higher, but faster into the blood stream

Well, they got Martha Steward so there’s that…/s

In many companies you have to already be performing at the next level to get promoted. Maybe that wasn't the case in her company.

It's entirely possible to be performing at that level but still not know what the actual (as in written) job requirements are until after you're formally promoted into it. Actually, I'd say it's quite frequent.

I think it's fair to say there's a conversation to be had about this in general, not coming down on it either way... but there's zero reason to throw that particular grenade here.

If you ask your employer to work from Lisbon as opposed to SF, you'll likely get a 3x-5x reduction in total compensation. I doubt Cloudflare (or any other) CEO's compensation will get the same readjustment for cost of living if he moves from the SF office to the Lisbon office.

Maybe they just wanted to avoid having an actual layoff in Sep, hoping that some percentage of people will leave.