The United States is the world's largest producer of natural gas and of helium. Qatar and Russia are the other top helium producers.

In the near future, I fully expect a new Trump announcement about how we're getting a bunch of helium from Putin, and as a result we're giving Russia Most Favored Nation trading status. And maybe Zelensky's head on a platter.

Coward, it sounds like you have never lived. I mean really lived. Nothing beats the trifecta of a Firefox crash into a BSOD and disk corruption on reboot. Have you seen my grey hair? I earned it.

Speaking as an older employee (not at Microsoft though) - I suspect it will probably work. I mean, a lot of the older employees will realize what's going on and feel hurt and/or angry, but they'll also figure "it's not an awful offer and I don't know that I have the energy for a years-long lawsuit".

Fortunately I haven't had to deal with anything close to that scale of importance, but over the past several years I have found myself in certain situations doing those mental calculations... "do I really want to put the required time and energy into fighting that?"

Maybe it was hardware acceleration. Firefox crashing was real, perhaps mostly from plugins, mostly.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.mozilla.org%2Fen...

I saw one of these ads yesterday while watching the Seahawks absolutely destroy the Kansas City Chiefs. My only reaction was "why on earth is Firefox running a television ad?"

I dunno. Maybe I'd prefer something new.

Was IE "the good old days"?

Was Firefox crashing every 5 minutes "the good old days"?

Was dial up "the good old days"?

I'm all for fast, mostly static, sites like we used to see a lot. But most of "the good old days" can stay in the past.

There's absolutely no way Walter Koenig could be 90. Nor Takei 89. Nor Shatner 95.

That would require that I'm not a little kid anymore, watching Star Trek and dreaming about being in space. There's simply no way I'm an old man now.

Well I kept trying to see Sydney Sweeney in person, sit in the same room, breathe the same air... but she's slapped a restraining order on me now.

Sears tires used to be very good as well.

The people who will quickly jump on this will largely be their best employees - the ones who are confident they can walk into another job. But I'm sure the company knows this, so it must be part of the plan somehow.

The last time I interacted with turnitin, I could easily see its shortcomings. That software is made to look for cheating and plagiarism. That works well for essays, but for math you're looking at a square peg - round hole problem. There are a lot of different ways to write a paragraph on an historical figure. There are only so many ways to solve a given practice math problem. It's easy to show that a history student copy / pasted from wikipedia, it's very difficult to show if a math student came up with the correct math answer on their own or googled it.

The proper way to asses learning in a math class is a live in-person test. Homework should be for the students to practice their learning, and if they choose to not learn while doing it that will be seen on the exam.

Why should I care?

Maybe someone can give a cogent explanation of why I should care about this. But, on the face of it, I couldn't care less whether software I write can be easily ingested by an AI agent. I'm not writing code with a goal of making myself, or anyone who follows me in my role, redundant.

(Actually, regarding myself - I really wouldn't care if I got laid off at this point - it would just mean retiring now instead of sometime next year. But don't expect my help if the AI that's supposed to replace me sh*ts the bed when trying to understand my code or the reasoning or why I set things up the way they are)

The educational consortium InCommon switched from Sectigo to CertiNext (backed by eMudhra) this past summer. We've had to deal with a couple stupid cock-ups at their end since then. I'm annoyed at the extra work that's upcoming, but I'm just as happy eMudhra is exiting the business.

Of course, what's unmentioned here is that Gmail repeatedly prompts you to turn Google's AI on for the flimsiest of reasons.

Fortunately for me, at least, the vast majority of the time I don't touch their web interface - I access it via IMAP. But things like setting up new filters, or setting a vacation autoresponder, require using the web.

The ad networks already seem to think that I'm a 21 year old Hispanic female from Alaska that likes Celebrities and Cats. I would hate to disappoint them.