That the infamous Windows BSoD, at least since the WinNT era started, are almost always caused by dodgy hardware, is common knowledge to anybody who has spent the least amount of time as a support tech on Windows machines. It's true that they could be better at communicating this.

I've never used ECC in my personal machines - I'm sure it's great - but since the early 00's or so, BSoDs are just not a thing that regular users experience unless they have bottom-tier or broken hardware, and people that buy low quality stuff are not likely to want to spring the extra cash for ECC anyway.

Since Tripel Karmeliet is a favourite of mine, this comes as no surprise. When you pour the contents of a bottle of Karmeliet into a glass, you have to do so _very_ carefully, or you will end up with mostly foam.

Without the government subsidies Trump took away Tesla is not profitable.

I very much doubt that. In the past I have spent quite some time going over the financials of Tesla. My memory is bad, but I recall that the subsidies were way, way less than the actual net profit.

You probably made that comment as a joke, but if I had mod points I would certainly not mod this as 'Funny', but as 'Insightful'.

This.

And the actual damage of calling ppl communist or nazi when they are not, is that when an actual communist or nazi stands up, too few will be reacting to the real 'cry wolf' since they have been desensitized by all the false alarms.

As to a: probably. You will probably not fool most Bach-fans with generated Bach-like music. With the risk of being compared with someone who buys 1000$/meter speaker cable: AI 'Bach' just sounds ... weird. It 'feels wrong'. Bach seems too complex for AI. But for other types of music: I did hear some almost decent AI generated techno. Techno is a lot simpler than Bach, but even there the result sounded a bit far fetched for me.

I do think that most techno-heads could enjoy AI generated techno though. So for me the answer to your question would be a counter-question: is Bollywood music closer to Bach or to techno?

In this case I side with: ridiculed. Does a hijacking or another action of bad faith depend on a pair of scissors from a shop? I doubt it. There are far more useful tools than scissors. And there are ways to get them onto an airport.
So the whole cost of this risk mitigation, including this false positive, is far worse than the cost of what it is mitigating.

Reminds me of that case where a team wrote a piece of software in a couple of months. That software automated 4 hours of relatively simple and easily verifyable manual work at years-end.

As someone who also worked in several companies that were heavily Microsoft-ified and thus used Team Foundation Server for source control, it wasn't the worst. The norm at the time was CVS or SVN, to be honest TFS felt like a step up from those, with pretty smooth Visual Studio integration.

It was a tool of its time and I'm sure it's still used today, but I don't recall anything too offensive about it, it just isn't really needed anymore now that almost the entire industry has standardized on Git.

I can already tell from the comments posted so far that nobody reads TFA, so let me explain what this actually is.

It is not a speed limiter. It does not limit your maximum speed. Cars in the EU can still go as fast as they did before. The now-mandated tech is a system that ingests speed limit data and notifies you that you are about to exceed it. If you want to, that's still your choice.

Doesn't sound as bad now, does it? In fact, I'd bet a lot of cars sold in the US have this same feature, it's just that it's either off by default or you've been happily ignoring it. Every car I've owned for the last several years have had it, even though it wasn't a requirement then.

Mass media platforms and politicians... Ok. So off course there were scientific papers or articles in media outlets (respected by boffins) that showed the mass media and the politicians were wrong. Correct?

They were there, these articles? So you could reference them in an argument like this on /. for instance? Because without respectable science to back up your extraordinary claim, you run a high risk of simply looking like the town's fool here.

So the boffins at NASA and all sorts of organisations world wide are either wrong or deliberately lying (on the Dupont payroll) when it comes to atmospheric ozone? I find that hard to believe.

That is one very valuable tool for SkyNet.

That's really interesting, thanks. Probably explains some of the weirdass trace routing I've observed on older boards, sometimes going the long way around.

Back a few years I was wondering why Mint, being glorified Ubuntu, ran so much better than Ubuntu. Turns out Mint was running (by actual count) 1/4th as many processes. Gee, I wonder how that could impact performance...

I didn't much like Devuan until they borrowed the PCLOS desktop and general way of doing things... now it's a lot slicker.

348 square feet per person.

To power all of India, 20,000 square miles (if I didn't slip a digit).

If any of we peons proposed such mass environmental destruction, even of the middle of nothing and nowhere, we'd be jailed.