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... to move to old-school open solutions like IRC and such and result in them learning a thing or two about computers, networks and administration. And perhaps they'll learn about anonymity and it's importance just like we did in the 80ies.

That generative AI is voiding 90%+ of jobs in media production should be obvious by now. What's interesting is that these jobs, just like software development, are only a (very) small portion of the workforce. I am just some wide and far between senior webdev getting ready to move into marketing or customer service and taking a ~15k hit on my income. No huge impact to society.

Just wait until the robots start driving our vehicles and replacing drivers. That's when the real fun starts.

It tries a tad to hard to be hilarious and is obnoxious in that way but overall the whole short film does lean into the major system level difference between W1ndows and macOS. It also shows how someone might actually solve the problem by quickly switching to macOS. They cleverly plug the Mac Mini as a gateway device for this. Which it actually in reality often is.

It pushes the diversity shtick/fad a little hard (the masOS geek that saves the day is a women - because of course _she_ is), but she is exaggerated in a plausible way. And they lean into the geek speaking vs. ords listening dichotomy rather than anything boss-baby. At least. All protagonists and situations are goofy enough as to provoke some laughs.

As a European I did notice how nearly all protagonists were (notably) overweight. I guess that's an accurate representation of the US population.

The 8-minute add is quite neat for such a thing and not a CWOT. Which is good enough I'd say.

... that by and large there is absolutely no lack of USB cables.

I don't use the ones that ship anyway. I have long thick ones with fabric isolation and little LED lights on the plugs that tell me if they are live or not.

... I love the UK and lived in Scotland for a while as a teen. It's sad to see the country go down the loo like that.

... about how epically f*cked the UK is. I mean we all knew that Brexit would hurt and the British who were in favor of Brexit would quickly get their doubts if Brexit was such a good idea, but looking across the canal right now I have to say "Holy cow, talk about screwing up even worse after leaving the EU." After all, the pro Brexit message was that they were going to fix all the problems they now have 5x more of.

Here's a good expert analysis that perfectly summarizes the UK situation.

We'll be fine, then. There's lots more gold than Sarah Conner clones.

Precisely.

There are 1500 genes involved. As effects are likely not merely down to specific genes, but gene interactions, you're going to need a model that can handle 2^1500 different permutations. That's simply not something that is classifiable.

As far as gene therapies are concerned, since autism seems to involve combining elements of Neanderthal neurology with homo sapiens neurology, the obvious fix would be to add further Neanderthal genes where combinations are known to produce adverse effects.

What did you expect from an algorithm named after the Roman Empire?

There are 1500 genes associated with autism and nobody has them all. This gives us 2^1500 different forms of the condition. So, yeah, more than one.

Autism is definitely a complex phenomenon. The number of people diagnosed today in the US is about the same as was being diagnosed in Europe 25 years ago, so no, I don't think anyone is jumping onto bandwagons, it's just Americans are being less stupid.

It is common knowledge that the planets Albedo (Level of light reflection) has been dropping. The mean reasons are less snow and ice (a large portion of Albedo loss) and fever overall clouds. It's one of the runaway cascading effects of man-made global warming. This really isn't news anymore. Well, perhaps for some, I guess. ... Errrm, nevermind, carry on.