Have you considered the possibility that "this reality" might be the only reality? And that the only way to significantly overcome suffering might require technological ascendancy as well as continued evolution?

The only way to make that happen is to keep breeding.

But you aren't required to participate, and the current state of law-and-culture is hostile to the enterprise of family. So, feel free to opt-out.

Your reason for abstaining from producing kids is that they can't (logically) give consent since they don't exist yet?

I must say, you are one of a dying breed.

I have tried pasting chunks of code into AI prompts and saying "where are the bugs?"

The answers included a lot of "this might be a problem if [condition that clearly does not apply]." Or it sees a potential problem that is prevent by an "if" statement shortly before it. Or it just starts hallucinating about common functions not doing what they clearly and reliably do. It has very rarely found any actual bugs for me, and that one time it did, it was an obvious bug I already knew about.

I think an AI bug finder would be awesome. But so far, I have gotten poor mileage from what's available.

Microsoft makes promises for marketing reasons only. Promises don't have any bearing on their actual plans or actions.

A life free of this abuse is reserved for those wealthy enough to afford Apple, or smart enough to understand Linux.

My experience with Fedora, using it for a couple of years, was that it breaks frequently and significantly when updated. Applying updates was always an adventure...what will break this time? The fixes would usually come within a few weeks.

Major updates were a no-go. My system wouldn't even start after one, and it was beyond my technical ability to repair. It became my habit to just wipe the system and reinstall for major updates (which wasn't too bad since I keep all my data on a devoted drive separate from the OS anyway).

Now that I am on Ubuntu, I don't even give updates a second thought. I just click the button whenever it shows there are some, and done. Things just don't break. Though I still do the wipe-and-reinstall for major updates because that feels natural now.

The original version of the phrase is "eat their cake and have it too." Anyone can have their cake and then eat it. But once it is eaten, it is no longer had. So the original formulation actually makes sense.

Not exactly. Wine, you see, is not an emulator. It is just a compatibility layer. So it doesn't fully implement everything that windows does. If you want that, you would have to run a virtual machine (like using VirtualBox). So using wine does not equate to "you might as well be running windows".

But if you demand complete equivalence to windows for your every use case, and absolute perfection, then yes Linux is not for you.

But if you were motivated to use Linux, you might find that you can adapt and find workable solutions, setting your soul free from the tyranny of Microsoft (as I and many others have).

Oh and honorable mention goes to Apple, too. They are evil in their own ways, but differently-evil than Microsoft, so that might be good enough in some cases.

Maybe because obtaining a degree leaves most people in crippling debt, and the skill/knowledge benefits they get from it could have been gotten much more affordably through a self-study program at a library. There's also the problem that a lot of degrees aren't focused on giving you marketable skills, making them scams for people who are told to get a degree in what they love and then expect a fun life doing their passion all the time and getting paid.

The American education system is largely a scam, at this point, so I can see why people might have a vested interest in convincing employers to move away from it. It is POSSIBLE that some schools have good coursework that teaches students a lot. I am not saying they are all scams. But even the good ones cost a fortune, and more affordable means of acquiring an education are available.

Take control of your OS with this one weird trick.

(Microsoft hates this!)

OpenAI originally stated that the links would not be searchable by search engines. The share button was supposed to give you a link that you could give specifically to whomever you wanted to share with, with at least a needle-in-a-haystack's level of privacy.

Do not provide free things in a capitalist society. It will get you bent over a barrel.

Well, the FOSS community won against the frivolous lawsuits and has been providing free things without being "bent over a barrel" ever since.

A lot of charities provide free things without harm coming to them.

People give free money through sites like GoFundMe all the time.

Of course, that doesn't mean that this specific instance is entirely safe. Once his phones are used for crime, there will be issues of liability to sort out. But it's not generally true that providing anything for free will bring harm to a person.

ISPs just burn the candle at both ends, charging those who produce content AND those who consume content, for internet access. Sometimes they find ways to burn the candle in the middle, too.

Instead, content producers should GET paid per web request. And the payor should be the person making the web request. ISPs would just skim off the top.

Automated crawling would suddenly become a lot more expensive (good), but website owners wouldn't mind since they get paid for that instead of paying for that (good), users vote with their wallet simply browsing to whatever interests them (good), site owners have strong incentives to produce stuff that people actually want (good), online advertisement becomes less necessary to fund popular content (good), and ISPs still make money.

Of course it will never happen. ISPs would all need to get on board, and without the ability to burn the candle in three places they simply won't.

Just because we see them used incorrectly frequently doesn't legitimize using the wrong words.

Actually, it does. English does not have a regulatory body. It is an evolving language. So, popular use is precisely what determines meaning and correctness.

This is extremely frustrating, and hard to accept, for certain kinds of people. But it remains a staunch reality.

It's too hard. As such, it scares too many students away. The schools want that student loan money, so they don't want to scare students away, so they water things down as much as possible.

I suspect that all the hype around AI replacing programmers is scaring students away too, so making the ones who are interested prove themselves with C/C++ would be devastating to enrollment.

The words "Piracy" and "Stealing" are both ill-descriptive of "copyright infringement."

Neither the terms, nor the legal definitions, nor the economic impact, nor the moral analysis are the same.