You can remove your license plate, you will get pretty far before it actually gets you pulled over.

Actually, that won’t work. The flock cameras don’t only rely on license plate information. They use “AI” to determine the make model and color of your car as well as any outstanding features, such as bumper stickers or roof racks.

It works if you just add a magnet sticker somewhere when you remove your plate.

Leaving a cellphone behind is legal still. Removing a license plate is breaking the law.

Drawing an equivalence is foolish.

Those can be replaced. The damage to US reputation and influence will last the rest of our lives.

A decade or two from now your children will be dropping thousands of dollars to go to a concert to hear AI generated music from an AI generated artist.

And they'll "go to" the concert at home with their VR headsets

And the parents will scream that they need more healthy hobbies and they should use a real screen instead.

No way, even in this future VR still won’t catch on with the mainstream.

Today is the worst it will ever be.

The one thing that still should give you hope is that the Idiocracy is reversible, unlike other things such as climate change or nuclear Armageddon.

Silicon Valley probably wouldn’t work as well today since they would vibe code everything and a lot of the drama would be removed that way.

That'd leave even more room for drama. I'm imagining Gavin hiring thousands of cheap, unskilled laborers ("Hooli's industry-leading AI research team") to mash keys until they rediscover the prompt that generated middle-out compression with a patent-free clean room process. He never reproduces it because Gilfoyle's self-hosted LLM improved its own memory efficiency when when Dinesh got upset and started unplugging GPUs.

I actually think it's ripe for an extra season because the stuff that happened in last few years is comedy goldmine.

LISTEN/NOTIFY is not brittle, we use it for millions of events per day.

I agree! It should be very stable, IMO. If not, then please send a bug report and we'll look into it. Also, now it scales well with the number of listening connections (given clients listen on unique channel names): https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...

The LISTEN/NOTIFY feature really just doesn’t get enough PR. It is perfectly suitable for production workloads yet people still want to reach for more complicated solutions they don’t need.

It's not the feature itself, it's how/what the llm tries to use it for. It uses it to cross any and all architectural boundaries.

Also most people’s way into poverty.

All those serving hard time in prison for sport gambling crimes should be pardoned.

It would be interesting to make that sort of thing generic. A law couldn’t legalize something without backporting the legalization.

Pete Rose: reprehensible pariah or radical pioneer?

> All those serving hard time in prison for sport gambling crimes should be pardoned.

That is certainly on the table... as long as they have a couple of million stashed away to put into World Liberty Financial and the charges are federal.

The unwashed poors though... they are SOL.

If the crew were to be lost into deep space or something, is there a protocol for self euthanization?

They will be in a free return orbit so that can’t happen - just other bad things.

What’s the margin of error on a free return orbit burn though? Isn’t there a scenario of being pointed slightly in the wrong direction or burning for too long throwing them off?