Is A.I. on the same path towards en-stuffification as search?

Google search was once really good, but then it became less capable over time, maybe because of more Web content becoming paywalled or perhaps The Algorithm was tinkered with to help those with money to spend, e.g., pay-for-play in page ranking?

Is A.I. going to end up the same way, eventually becoming useless because all it will do is serve ads?

You just won the thread, if not the Internet.

Stop reading my chat history! You're worse than Zuck!

Nowadays, that cool kitchen cabinet is made in a factory, ordered from a catalog and installed by your carpenter.

Does anyone whose net worth is less than a cool billion hire someone to make a custom cabinet onsite?

I call it a collision.

I don't call it an accident because it is a likely, forseeable consequence.

Goofing off at work posting to Slashdot.

Publicist faces stunned fans and tells them, "Calm down everybody. That was the "evil Captain Kirk" from Episode 5."

(Fans restart their chatter and demand for autographs as if nothing has happened.

The "word on the street" is that statins, medicines that lower bad cholesterol although I think it is hope over experience that they raise "good" (HDL) cholesterol, don't do much of anything for people who haven't had a heart attack. Once you have had a heart attack, their benefit to living longer is unmistakable.

Someone point me to a source saying this is wrong.

cardiac patients are being treated differently than when the original trials were done.

The time a ball takes to drop off the Leaning Tower in Pisa, not as much.

I am prescribed metoprolol even though my ejection volume was measured at 60% during the hospital stay, at 55% two years later when I reported an episode of chest pain.

I was once taking an ACE inhibitor for blood pressure control 30 years prior and went to the ER when my upper lip puffed out making me look like a duck. They told me this was angioedema, but at the time, no one thought the ACE inhibitor was the cause. Since then, ACE inhibitors are said to be the leading cause of patients going to the ER with angioedema.

I rather like my metoprolol. Combined with following the cardiac rehab instructions for 30 minutes vigorous walking each day, I am getting both reduced resting heart rate and lower blood pressure. I fall asleep at night much easier. On the other hand, I get sleepy mid afternoon and would take a nap if I didn't have to work. I also feel like the moving truck I once rented that had a governor on the motor in that I max out in my exertion for heavier activities than the fast walking.

Back on the day, someone commenting on Slashdot would make the pendantic reminder that it is properly called "GNU/Linux."

Oops, I guess I just did. And you kids, get off my lawn!

BMW charges a sub to not have functioning turn signals.

If the service (even a good one) is priced too high, piracy is the inevitable result.

If a service is too expensive for what it offers, too little value, then I'd argue it's no longer a good service. Other than that I'm in complete agreement.

I know it is a little bit more complicated than that as is the case with every natural language, but I thought the characters in written Chinese are highly stylized drawings of physical objects.

Why don't we standardize on the Chinese character for these different functions and operations instead of inventing a writing system and then changing it with every hardware release?

PN junction?

Forget it, he's rolling.