United recently started announcing at the beginning of flights that using your phone with sound on the speaker is prohibited, as a new official policy.

his point is that it's useful, and there's nothing special about planes that make it important for them not to have internet, compared to any other mode of transportation. If you want to get away from the internet, you could have a dedicated space for that.

Also, nobody forces you to use the internet on a plane...

Yes, but why is he responding to me? I didn't say there was something special about planes and I didn't say someone was forcing me to use internet.

the effect in this example fine though, and not obnoxious like OPs? I don't get it

I'm sure it's coming. I'm in Mexico this week and was surprised to drive by not one but two chinese car dealerships. Looks like almost 10% of cars sold last year were EVs

It's been great - I work on a lot of projects that are essentially prototypes, to test out different ideas. It's amazing for this - I can create web apps in a day now, which in the past I would not have been able to create at all, as I spent most of my career on the backend.

>I am yet to successfully prompt it and get a working commit.

May I ask what you're working on?

This seems to be a team problem more than anything? Why are your coworkers taking on your responsibilities? Where's your manager on this?

Could be an emergent team problem that wouldn’t have had cause to exist before AI.

they continue to build more solar, more wind, but also more coal power plants.

No, they are not building new coal fired power plants at the same rate they are expanding renewables. This is several years out of date.

China is also replacing old, inefficient coal power plants with new ones.

such a great meme

LOL - yes Sam, AGI is near indeed. (sarcasm)