u/Zardotab

Suppose there is an AI bubble and tomorrow the bubble burst. As a guess, what is your ordering for which company is most likely to bite the dust? #1 would be highest risk. I'll ask for 3 to 5 companies. I'm also curious to know your methodology, if you don't mind. Thank You!

Common contenders in no particular order are: Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta.

The right is understandably upset over the murder of Zaruska, but I'm having difficulty understanding how conservatives want the system to prevent such in a way that's practical on a large scale. What kind Federal rule should have existed that the perpetrator would have triggered before the murder to get him off the street?

In hindsight the perpetrator probably should have been locked in a mental institution, but that costs tax-payers roughly $250k per year. Not every ranting mental patient is actually dangerous, meaning a lot of money to prevent relatively rare crimes. How long should such people be locked up? And should Feds contribute to incarceration costs? Otherwise, it would be an "unfunded mandate", which states & conservatives often complain about.

Since title bars on windows fell out of use (for unknown reasons), I've yet to find a consistent way to grab and move windows around. Each app uses a different spot, and if you grab the wrong spot, you can mis-click a feature. Maybe I'm going about dragging entirely wrong? I miss title bars; can they forced back on via registry setting or something? Thank You.

Donald is in a good position to curtail patents on software if they are not helping our economy. I've sampled the patent database & lawsuits, but most resemble word-traps intended to snag victims, hoping to coerce settlements. What fit the hardware world may not be applicable to software. What's your view on software-related patents? Keep? Toss? Amend?

In this question to Ask-an-Atheist I asked for suggestions about finding a peaceful non-meddling faith for those who crave having a faith and are open to suggestions? [edited]

I've met such seekers personally, and there is some indirect evidence that some naturally gravitate toward serving a faith. But I got a highly negative response, which baffled me. Talking a seeker out of any faith may likely fail, so I figure one might as well guide them toward mild faiths. The atheists answers didn't seem practical.

I've been programming CRUD (biz/admin) apps since the late 80's. I notice tooling and stacks are growing ever more complicated and layered, and wonder "does it really have to be this way"? It takes more labor per CRUD feature; colleagues have noticed and agreed. While I agree newer stacks have more options on average, most biz's rarely use these extra abilities, especially "but what if it later needs web-scale?" Reality is 99.999% won't.

There is usually a way to get the same thing in older tools when needs do come up, it's just a little more work. YAGNI as a guideline seems dead. Nobody seems interested in pursuing parsimony in tooling, rather want to stuff their resume with as many buzzwords as possible like they're Pokémon. Thus, the bloat is possibly up-sell, ego, and greed; or, am I missing something? Is there a Bloat Industrial Complex, or do I have Geezer Goggles?

Tombstone vs. Bronco made me wonder. Ray did time the final hit against Bronco such that if something went wrong it would be too late for a count-out. Still, it was a silly gamble, as Tombstone's guts burst forth from its own energy.

In an extreme hypothetical case where TS completely exploded into metal confetti in the final seconds, I wonder if the judges would have scored it differently? And if so, could it ever be enough to lose? (Bronco was a banged-up mess and could barely move near the end. Tombstone looked in good shape until that final dumb move.)