It’s been common for a while for Canadian doctors to move to the US because they can make higher salaries. I suspect part of the shortage is “brain drain”, but also, COVID news coverage has really highlighted the working conditions to the public, so that could be making potential students reconsider.

The problem with this argument is it’s preventing infrastructure improvements for everyone else who CAN bike/walk/take the train/bus/whatever.
I don’t bike because it’s just not safe to do in my area due to car traffic and a lack of bike infrastructure. I would bike and take public transit more if I could.
The maybe 20% of people who are disabled or have other reasons to need a car (like moving large items) can continue using the now much less congested roads, while the rest of people are on alternative transportation.

Personally I think Toronto should focus on finishing their damn light rail expansions instead of proposing a giant new tunnel for cars under the city that will cost billions and solve nothing.

What the “middle class” can afford has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. Owning a home is arguably “upper class” at this point. The median US income was only $80k in 2023. Pentions are also getting increasingly rare. What used to be considered middle class is now struggling to get by. Middle class is defined by the income of the middle third of the population, not by a particular lifestyle.

Idk, I kind of like knowing how many layers of clothes I need to put on before I leave the house. Especially when the wind chill can make it feel like another -10°C pretty easily.

I agree with this, but I don’t think we’ll ever be able to have that again. AI slop is drowning out all the genuine content regardless of monetization. What’s the incentive to put hours of effort into something if nobody will ever see it because every hour another 1000 AI versions were generated and they’re all “close enough” to fool someone not paying attention?

I’m not sure Sam Altman even knows what labor is.

I’ve seen pretty much the same thing happening in the programming space. In another 10 years there’s going to be a massive shortage of senior programmers who are capable of doing anything more complicated than the AI, and able to sort out the messes everyone’s creating with it.

All the companies not wanting to hire entry level programmers right now is also a big problem for those starting now. I can only hope companies realize AI is not a replacement for a human’s learning ability.

Better content?
Lol
Lmao even.

I think they’ve got 1 person watching dozens of cars though, it’s not 1 per car like if there was human drivers.

It’s easy to think of libraries as evil if they’ve never stepped foot in one.

It doesn’t help that the AI also has no ability to go backwards or edit code, it can only append. The best it can do is write it all out again with changes made, but even then, the chance of it losing the plot while doing that is pretty high.

If that company has people curating the results, then they have a reason to exist and they would have a valid copyright. If the company is just feeding customer prompts into an AI, then there’s no copyright, but also no value added vs just using stable diffusion or a hosted service yourself.

I just think any AI image that can’t be copyrighted wouldn’t be worth buying a license for anyway, since that implies no human was involved in creating it.

You can buy a license to use the work from the original author.
Why would you give a machine money? Just use the generation tools yourself and then you have the copyright. If there was no human input then it’s just worthless AI slop.

No I asked for a definition that doesn’t include property damage.

If you read what they’re saying, they made a pretty good argument for why the definition of violence can include property damage.

You can stick your head in the sand all you want, but only reading answers that match your opinion is a good way to go insane.

I know you meant backups can protect against ransomware, but it would be pretty funny if ZFS included a ransomware password cracker

Can either of those do collaborative editing? I usually think of that feature when I think of Google Docs

That’s actually pretty clever. Make it obvious people have already looked at it and put it back. Even if someone doesn’t care about the place of origin, there’s kind of a subconscious effect as well of “there’s something wrong with that one”

Hard to compete with the megacorp that publishes all books on a 5 year delay and rebrands it as their own, because there’s no rules with public domain.

Well I think in the case of controller remapping, that’s a recall. But an infotainment update should also be free and possible to do yourself. If it isn’t, that’s terrible.