Agreed. It is this kind of overthinking that is being discussed that annoys people so much that they elected a fascist dictator in America. I like your interpretation of thin blue line and will continue to use it and ignore the nutjobs who are trying to ban it.

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Splendid stuff, knew it would come in useful one day.

The ones with actual users ...

These are the sort of self-generating monopolies I've seen in the past 25 years of the internet.

Effectively, everyone goes there because everyone goes there.

A bit more than herd mentality, but makes any startup something which requires large amounts of energy to succeed and then keep going. Never stop.

Twitter has self-inflicted wounds, thanks Elon, but continues to limp along. I find myself less likely to visit because -- not everyone is there any more.

Not all Venture Capital are angels, some come in and kill the fledgling company and take it's IP, others wring it dry over months or years while skimming money off the top. Never occurs to some investors a company could be the next Alphabet or Meta.

My front end iMac with 10.14 lasts about a month or so before a panic. Currently:

$ uptime
16:24 up 38 days, 5:01, 9 users, load averages: 4.79 7.10 6.14

As you can see from the load, that poor iMac is getting a workout. The OS gives up after a few weeks. I just got a new M2 Pro mini... not thrilled with Ventura, considering installing Monterey. But we'll see. Hopefully it stays up longer.

A front-end Linux server that hosts haproxy and other stuff:

$ uptime
  21:24:45 up 528 days, 21:36, 1 user, load average: 0.52, 0.43, 0.33

Packages do get updated regularly, but clearly the kernel hasn't been updated in quite a while. That machine only reboots when I tell it to. I cannot recall when I last experienced a forced kernel panic/reboot other than power related on any Linux machine. I recall back In The Day our SunOS workstations with uptimes in multiple thousands of days.

Banning it is as stupid as banning pocket calculators, They should be teaching how to verify and leverage its use

Math is not sums unless you work in a bar and even then the arithmetic is usually done on a till these days. A lot of "math" now will no longer require you to memorise formula with AI available - but for example you will still have to understand the difference between different statistical tools even if the exact formula escapes your memory.

They do seem to have ignored their manufacturing capability for a while which used to be why they were the market leader.

A lot of good people have left Hong Kong. It is a giant prison camp.

It depends on whether you think misinformation is dangerous really.

Most of us will be dead by his age so most impressive that he is still gallivanting about getting married. Awesome bloke, hope the pair of them enjoy what time he has left.

A cruise control on a vehicle is more "intelligent" than a MAGA voter.

All the producers on TV are 13 because the Executives think that this means their output will be relevant. This is why all the presenters shout with gushing enthusiasm and all drama is overlayed with maximum volume Boss scene music from their favourite first person shooter. Basically you need to swap them out for boomers with wrecked hearing from 80's power ballads and the intelligibility will be fixed overnight.Could someone reverse engineer one of those Karaoke boxes to do the opposite of stripping the vocals out of songs and sell us the results. You could potentially make more money than Musk in a couple of months.

Sometimes the babbling of the brain-dead zombies of the Alt-right conspiracy theory death cult actually have it right. "GRRRR WEF GLOBALIST SATANISTS!!! Charles SWAB says you WILL OWN NOTHING and be happy!!!!" (Apologies to any Alt-right death cult conspiracy theorists reading this if I got the wording wrong).. The fact is that renting is the most efficient method of extracting profits from the marks known to capitalism. Generally speaking the parasitic practise is destroyed by competitors offering a disruptively cheaper product for outright purchase. We will see whether the rest of the market behaves as a monopoly and follows Intel's lead.

He sees that as you do, from the ground and is just as happy to see it as you. What he also sees is that you can climb out of our atmosphere and look at it and suddenly you understand that no one is ever going there in a spacecraft. Meanwhile your body is filling up with microplastics, the climate is tilting and we are living through a great extinction. We have work to do and it is down here, not up there.