While I agree that there's a lot of fraud in online advertisement (As someone who's spent modestly on it), ultimately what advertisers are looking for is positive ROI, and how it compares to other spend.

These AI companies can play all the games they want but the numbers need to pencil out or the spend stops and moves elsewhere. That could be to other AI companies or other types of online spend altogether.

>right after you knock down the 100 yro Victorian homes and historic buildings

BS, there's ~400K housing units in SF, and only ~10k of those would be considered victorian. These units couldn't (And shouldn't!) be destroyed for new housing because they're protected, and that's not what NIMBY's or YIMBY's are arguing about anyway since almost everyone loves victorian homes.

More than half of the city's housing was built after 1940, mostly on the west side, and it's where NIMBYism is at its worst. There's little reason someone or even a developer shouldn't be able to build up there.

> “west side”

Build around Golden Gate Park just like NYC’s Central Park! Great idea.

Ah yes, Golden Gate Park, famously the only option for building new housing on the west side of SF!

>Yet the rent in Paris is still too high for an average French resident

It's obviously not just about more housing, but more housing per capita.

3% of the French population lives in Paris proper, and roughly 20% in the metropolitan area compared with 0.42% in San Diego and ~1% in San Diego MSA [1].

More hosing will help Paris along with San Diego to put downward pressure on prices.

[1] Wikipedia

A major reason Snow Leopard was well received was because of how performant it felt along with the bug fixes. What isn't mentioned anywhere near as much is that it dropped a lot of hardware (PPC). The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped.

iOS 26 is slated to drop a bunch of iPhone models. macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs.

A Snow Leopard release isn't great news for a lot of people.

> The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped.

> macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs.

Those two cases are not really comparable though, are they? The last Intel CPU Mac was the 2019 Mac Pro, which was discontinued in 2023.

Aren't they? The last Intel macs were being sold less than 3y ago, and by the time macOS 27 releases they'll be less than 3.5y old.

The broader point is that a "Snow Leopard" release has historically resulted in a lot of hardware being left behind, and many of the devices that could have benefited the most from optimizations were cut off.

they also used to sell 2018 intel mac minis alongside it for a while as well, didn't they?

Those were discontinued in 2023, too.

I still think it's unrealistic to expect 8+ years of OS updates for a computer even if you purchased it 5 years after its launch date.

This is true until it isn't though. Blackberry was doing great with enterprise users until people refused to give up their iPhones even at work.

>I rarely visit the webpages before anymore.

And what do you think this'll do for future LLM models that need to train on new content if web page traffic collapses?

I understand the concern but it's frankly not my problem as a user, that is for the authors and corporations to figure out. No one would (or should) blame car buyers for putting horse and buggies out of business, they're merely participating in the market as a consumer not the producer.

They won't figure it out. It's the tragedy of the commons.

Then that is how it will be, it's a self correcting problem in that if they don't figure it out, their models won't continue improving.

And web sites will collapse along with them. What do you think the 'corrected' state will look like? If you use the web it is your problem.

More people going into insular communities like discord or creating micro sites. Like I said it's a self correcting problem, either it is fixed or it's not. It's not my problem.

You don't. Use various other LLMs to check each other's work.

It's not about preference, but about being able to see the differences in the first place, so any sufficiently contrast combination should work.

If you turn on the color filters in accessibility settings in macOS you can see what the contrast could look like to a colorblind person.

And in the last 4.5y it's up 70% while the S&P500 is up 51% in the same time period, not quite as exciting eh?

Beating the index by 40% after 2 decades as a company? Yeah, still good.

Well we just went from "6x" to "40%" and "good" so, yeah... not quite as exciting.

Of course, Facebook themselves acknowledge that 10% of their revenue is literal scams. Like, people pay them to forward their scams to the targets of said scams. They know this is happening.

Obviously criminality pays. I wouldn’t hold up a drug dealer’s returns as evidence of good leadership

>Where does it stop?

I don't know but macOS is making it ever more difficult to manage storage, with lots of random things under "macOS" pushing ~40GB or "System Data" that gets a crapload of unrelated things like podcast [1] downloads, with no easy way to purge.

[1] I spent too much time hunting down ~250GB of missing disk space, and it turns out it was the Podcasts app's cache, while the app itself reported no downloads. I fully expected this to be managed automatically, but was getting out of disk space warnings. It's a mess.