Those ancient 360s are probably doomed to hardware failure however. They didn't seem to fix the issues with the 360 being essentially disposable until very late in the release cycle.
"Cut the cord and stop paying $80/mo" Funny how that was just representative of the money left on the table that was to be snatched up anyhow before long.
If it is so certain that will happen this year, why didn't it happen already last year, or the year before that? By most peoples measures the codegen hasn't improved. Some believe the newly released models are even a regression on the old in favor of saving costs.
The tooling for autonomous programming agents are still improving and being iterated upon. Developing integrations with various systems and learning how to most effectively make use of agents is an ongoing and open problem. Adoption has actually been reasonably fast.
The medical industry has not helped itself either. It seems to have jumped at every opportunity to erode public trust.
As just one example, my cardiologist recently scheduled a rigorous stress test for me. The day before the test, I got an unexpected call from some woman at the hospital, who told me that the test would cost $1,700 if I paid right then and there on the phone. If I waited and paid in the morning, it would cost $2,100.
It was like I was dealing with a used car salesman!
I canceled the test instead, deciding on the spot that I'd rather take my chances. I refuse to fund an industry that wants to use my wellbeing against me as ransom.
> I canceled the test instead, deciding on the spot that I'd rather take my chances. I refuse to fund an industry that wants to use my wellbeing against me as ransom.
I'd cancel because I don't have $1700. But then again, if I get a treatable ailment (that risks my life otherwise), I die. Me and millions of other Americans.
You don’t really need a degree to take care of old people. I mean, perhaps some of the staff in this kind of facilities need a degree for certain select procedures, but most of them don’t.
The way they fly you can tell they don't have a lot of flight experience. Really low compared to news choppers following the same pursuit. Juvenile even, at times (1-4)
People know what to do to get away from the helicopter and they have been successful at it. Two chases in one week this past august the suspect shook off the helicopter and got away. It is as easy as driving under an overpass or into protected airspace. In one case this past month, they followed a suspect all the way into san diego and allowed them to cross the border into Mexico where they were lost.
Unfortunately standard practice for LAPD is to engage in a dangerous police chase along with the helicopter, not to simply follow with a helicopter.
They don't really use them for hit and run. How could they? Think about how fast that crime occurs and how much time will pass between that incident and vectoring a helicopter, which might be tied up on other work.
Less than 20% of hit and run cases are even solved in California (1). I'm sure the rate is even lower in a city like LA.
LAPD flies quite recklessly especially downtown, where they aren't even clearing the buildings. News choppers fly much higher, well over the skyscrapers, and have no problems getting very tight shots on whatever subject there is down there.
If you follow them on ADS-B you see they really aren't used that frequently at all for calls and end up in holding patterns with nothing to do really before flying somewhere else for a new holding pattern, until their shift is up presumably.
