I once worked with a guy who wrote an entire smallish HTML reporting and graphing application via one big single Oracle SQL statement. I'd hate to do maintenance on it, but it got the immediate job done.

But he's the Chosen One. Jesus Fox Christ says he's Special, so the rules don't apply to him. We muggles get shit

You are looking at it wrong. To eliminate the woketards you would have to eliminate the actors. The personality that makes up most actors is wholly left by nature. They're sensitive and aware of other people and their feelings, unlike most on the right, who are convinced they are the current center of the universe and correct with God's backing in all things.

PaperWhite is a game changer. I can't stand reading the Kindle app on my phone, and my really nice PC monitor sucks too. PaperWhite is a different thing entirely. No eye strain; you can read it in the sunlight. You can read it in total dark. I honestly HATE Amazon, but I've been using KindleUnlimited as a library card for many years now. I've 3 kindles in 3 places. I picked up the Ericson Malazan Omnibus in hardback and it was so heavy, and the pages wouldn't stay turned, and I couldn't read it in the dark. That was the point at which I realized how fsck'n lazy I'd become.

The moon is fake! The woke commie Dims turned the rigged puck-lamp too high!

@%#&^@ FTC not FCC..sigh Today is my birthday, I'm really old and beginning to feel it...

No not at all but the FCC is not the straw pumpkin to be leading the way. This should be FBI/NSA led and criminal in nature. The other folks are correct though, it's all hype and talk, our Orange President is all for AI and he couldn't care less who else gets hurt in the pursuit.

Well, it's been a good run but if the US military is going religious it's soon to be all over.

"Google is reportedly testing a program that pays around 100 publishers based on how much their content contributes to its AI-powered search features."

That's like me reading a book and paying for based on how much I enjoyed it. I don't see publishers going for it. I guess it is better than the current alternative which is nothing for getting your entire catalog fed to an AI. I wish I could get away with what the AI's manage. Operating in total denial they have everything but aren't responsible for anything.

I came to post this but you did it well. Nice sense of history there.

OK you have a point. But I say the last one really needed worked for Xerox at the Parc research facility, and was involved in Xterm.

UX designers don't have anything to do. Standards have been established and nothing has changed enough to warrant new ones. They just keep dicking around in circles because they have low self esteem knowing their job is frosting, and not the good cream cheese kind but the high fructose garbage.

THIS !!!! We created a whole new job...UI engineer, but they were not needed to start with and things haven't changed. They HAVE to redo UI every time or they don't have a purpose, imagine that. They make arbitrary changes based on worst taste case.

A OLD modified Russian ICBM launched a satellite into orbit. The ball bearing payload could go the same way. It's high fantasy but I can write what I want. No one reads the shit anyways.

When does a "terrorist" organization release about 4 tons of nylon ball bearings into orbit ? It would clean out the skies of nuisance satellites while being very difficult to track or clean up. I've been working on a short story with that theme.