It seems to me like they need to massively improve Homekit adoption first into far more different types of devices. That's when Siri becomes useful to me personally.

I want to at least be able to say "Hey Siri, I'm heading home now", and my heating turns on so it's warm when I get back, my lights turn on 2 minutes before I arrive, any robot cleaning to have finished, oven turns on 5 minutes before I arrive so it's ready to have something thrown in it, my indoor plants are automatically watered so they don't die etc. etc.

Or how about "By the way, it's your best friend's daughter's 18th birthday in 10 days time, would you like me to find some options?"

Start with removing chores and friction from my life. If I had a human personal assistant that's what they'd be doing.

Can you say that Jaguar outsources its tech? Jaguar is owned by Tata, as in TCS.

I'd wager it's likely that TCS staff who worked at Jaguar were ordered to do their best work.

So yes the geniuses early retiring problem is a thing, but there could be a way of managing this IF the government wasn't useless - secure phantom options.

The idea would be that you wouldn't own the actual shares but a fully legal option that you can cash out at a fixed age and would be legally protected from bankruptcy etc.

So the idea would be you could cash out say up to £1m (enough to buy a property) before the age of 30, another £1m before the age of 40, another £5m at 50, and then all of it at 60.

You'd have skilled people remain in the workforce for longer but wouldn't overstay into their pensioner years.

I'm certain there's other ways of doing it too.

That sounds like a really stupid idea, for sure one could just take a loan secured with these options and if they were guaranteed by the government the interest rate would be same as gov bonds rate as these will be effectively gov bonds. So one could swap it for cash at no cost.

The dollar, energy and bandwidth savings possible globally from getting this right means it should be a UN/ISO level commitment to get it right, standardised and committed to.

I think we are close or pass the point where new video codec actually makes a difference. Bandwidth cost has continued to drop every single year, with PCI-E 8.0 work going forward, everything from networking gear to optical fibre has a decent roadmap to scale. Seemingly infinitely.

The cost of encoding and decoding as well as adding a new codec to SoC hasn't changed though. New Codec with the additional storage requirements considering storage cost haven't moved at all, makes very little sense.

May be until a 1Mbps New Codec Encoder could offer better quality than a 4Mbps H.264 Beamr encode.

I have a friend who works in the civil service. He's a devout socialist.

His bosses boss, who runs a huge department gathered all his staff into a room and said "You can't be fired" to the staff.

My friend has said it's almost impossible to motivate people because there's zero repercussions. They're supposed to come into the office a few times a month, some of them never do and nothing can be done about it.

My friend has targets to meet and he won't be able to because of his reports not caring. He's getting anxious and even me saying "they did say you can't be fired" doesn't help.

Oh and they're spending nearly £1m with a supplier who the boss knows to build a component you can buy off the shelf for around £7500, and the supplier hasn't even built anything for nearly £1m in 18 months. It will probably be mothballed.

My friend is massively disappointed that the bureaucracy is failing at-risk members of society.

Cummings is right. He may not be a nice person, but he's right.

Someone smart should backtest economist predictions and have a website to rank their accuracy.

I have often thought this of stock analysts too.

With AI and robotics killing off huge amounts of entry level jobs in the next 5 years, the number of young men who are angry is going to absolutely explode.

Western countries are going to reap what they are sowing.

Feel free to copy and paste this question into your LLM of choice:

"What has happened throughout history to countries with lots of young men who don't have work or money?"

He's too nice to call out the real problem, which is hubris.

Intel got arrogant, remained arrogant and despite getting absolutely pummelled by competitors on share price value, believes it is special.

Intel needs to realise it's not going to catch up TSMC and so should focus on cannibalising all other competitors and moving into spaces where TSMC doesn't operate. It's going to be a lower margin game from now on but Intel can survive. Oh and be the nicest folks in town, not the shit on the people we need like Gelsinger did.

Intel is in effect a Will Ferrell movie character. Character is arrogant, becomes arrogant and stupid in defiance, and potentially finally sees the error of its ways and grows a bit.

How much money does this organisation waste on constant rebrands.

The first non-shite thing I’ve seen from the Graun in years.