Depending on state, healthcare applies to spouses but may not for long term partners. You can’t do that with a will or trust

You also get tax benefits

Getting married should only be expensive if you want it to be, although too many people fall for the peer pressure.

• For me I was overwhelmingly in love, ready to declare it to the world and willing to pay anything for the one big party of my life. That may not have entirely worked out, but was how I felt at the time
• My best friend just got married for reasonable cost. Still had a big party, but it was 40 people in a park, and we went to a restaurant after.
• Another friend got married inexpensively, maybe. Was it the $100 actual cost, or do you count the week in Vegas?

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Right. I don’t care much about his alignment or even that he’s come out as a Nazi. While it’s a huge red flag, I guess it’s his preference. The important parts are how he acts on those beliefs, who he hurts and how many, how his actions hurt our society

Since we’re talking stock value here …. I don’t believe he actually does have an insane salary. It’s all stock

He’s selling to himself to get out from under that:

• https://apnews.com/article/x-musk-sale-xai-b245f463076ac9b72c41f92160dc77eb

While I’d want to turn off biometrics if I thought I was in a risky situation:

• pin required on restart
• Lock Screen is pretty fast
• must importantly sensitive apps and settings use a secondary authentication, including in app switching

So they could force me to unlock it, but probably wouldn’t take the time to hunt down all the places there’s secondary authentication. So damage would be partly mitigated

It doesn’t even have to be a derailed boom, but simply

• a maturity transition where the dilettantes fall out, concentrating on the biggest players
• more efficiency. There’s been a ton of research on efficiency and that’s a great profit multiplier so will be rapidly taken up

Aside from the obvious questions everyone else is posting …. How is this even relevant? Saudi Arabia mainly exports oil, but US uses almost no oil products for generating electricity. Unless data centers start installing their own generators (please no) for full time power, it’s a non-starter. What electrical utility does s going to build an oil burning generator plant?

History we’ve used a lot of coal and natural gas, so that’s the most likely fossil fuels to increase. And those are fuels the US has tons of

A lot of choices don’t seem to be available in the US - Hyundai/kia seems best of what else is available in a lot of ways. I originally hoped the legacy American manufacturers were getting their shit together but it looks like they’re crawling back under their rocks.

I guess my biggest hope is that Lucid or Rivian are able to break out into mass production of their next generation

Yeah, it’s unfortunate. I bought mine when we could still ignore the red flags and it’s still my favorite car feature wise, there are still so many things it does better than any car, still so many features not available on other vehicles for any price. The comparisons with Apple are apt - I could have been a lifelong customer. But wtf mental illness happened here? For the first time ever I’m embarrassed by what I drive. I don’t know what I’ll do next time I need a car, but it won’t be a Tesla without radical changes in leadership - and that Nazi is only the start. Every board member and executive who thinks that’s ok has to go

If only people saying that were aware of their logic flaw of also cutting funding to fusion research

It’s probably as simple as we already have something successful. Why spend time and effort overcoming the challenges to create new reactor technology with many of the same benefits and shortcomings as we already have?

I know the arguments for thorium and can see that being a huge benefit to places without a mature nuclear industry and without developed fuel sources.

Sure it would be somewhat better for us as well, but the biggest limitations will be the same. You’re still impeded by fears of radioactivity even if it is less. You still have radioactive waste to handle even if it’s less and less long lasting. You still have legal and regulatory challenges driving costs and timelines through the roof. Thorium hasn’t won the war of public perception, so is no better in the things that actually impede its use

There were video games before NES. Do t discriminate against old gamers

Yeah my kids are 1/8 and I encouraged them to learn about that part of their heritage but no, they’re just American.

You have to start with local laws. They’re different depending on where you are. Including city.

I’m with all the advice about consulting a lawyer to figure out where you stand legally, but most likely a lawyer is too expensive for the amount in dispute. Definitely also investigate small claims court in your area or any tenants rights organizations

Wow, that was quite a read, thanks. Amazing technology

To be fair, it’s a huge cost to the company and they need to justify that there is value. Forcing you to make regular use may be an petty, but getting you to learn it improves your skill base and getting you to use it justifies the cost

It doesn’t reuse code that already exists in the project

I had a pissing contest with one of the junior guys over this. He didn’t seem to understand why we should use the existing function and had learned so little about the code base that he didn’t know where to find it. He’s gone

The more interesting flaw in his ai code was it hallucinated an entirely different mocking tool for unit tests

I think of ai more as an enhanced autocomplete. Instead of autocompleting function calls, it can autocomplete entire lines.

Unit tests are fairly repetitive, so it does a decent job of autocompleting those, needing only minor corrections

I’m still up in the air over regexes. It does generate something but I’m not sure it adds value

I haven’t had much success with the results of generating larger sections of code

At least some are legit. I’ll also add onto the doctors office example. Their main number probably has caller id, but the numbers they call back from tend to not. I assume it would be true of similar businesses where they might call back from multiple lines but are too small to use any sort of switchboard