I would take an AI hallucination over level 1 support any day. At least the advice would sound plausible.

And way less capable than a random end user at hitting the most bizarre edge cases by doing things that don't make any sense at all.

This explains a lot, too. They have been pushing consumer Windows to be "passwordless" and after signing into your Microsoft password and setting up a PIN and/or biometrics, the account has no password login option (if you didn't sign into the Microsoft account with a password). But I do wonder if this password option hiding glitch was a carryover from that hiding and maybe you can still click the button there too.

The quote from the summary says it all:

When today's AI models are just as likely to pull real data it has access to as to hallucinate, you can't rely on it at all. Just like self-driving that you have to have your hands on the wheels for, just in case.

The most today's tech is good for is guided automation - mostly through a chat bot. And who is going to pay for that when they can get most of what they want for free from ChatGPT?

One of the most insidious OS prompts I had ever seen. A dialog box with two choices. Update Now or Schedule for Later.

At the bottom of the window in tiny print was some blue text that said "Don't Update" and closing the window or clicking that tiny non-underlined hyperlink would not take any action except wait to pop up again.

Really, the fact is that 7 was supported through Windows 8's whole run so it was easy to skip to 10.

Even if 11 has no major new features worth caring about it isn't such a dumpster fire of a GUI vs 8. It's functional.

I just hope the firmware is stored on SLC because it sure likely isn't stored on a ROM chip. I have several SSDs that have been powered off for more than a year but with no data on them. They are used spares and have no data, but I don't want them to just stop working.

Or with treatments, because it isn't really relevant. No part of your spine is going to prevent ionizing radiation from damaging cells and DNA. If your body loses all of its bone marrow, your spine is not going to be able to create new stem cells.

Also, doing so requires yet another layer of bureaucracy, which is exactly what you are against in the rest of your post. We probably do need extra administrators to reduce waste, but they aren't being used or they are utterly useless at their jobs.

We need both learning styles for most of this. You keep phonics but you don't discard whole word reading - that's what adults do. They see a word and recognize it without thinking through it. Teaching the method and then adding rote memorization on top is also better for math - you need to know what multiplication actually means to build on it in higher math, but if you can't do 9x2 or 13+14 in your head, then you will take too long at everything that comes later.

Still, our society is built around requiring a large number of low-knowledge/skill workers. I would prefer these workers to still be educated and vote. They aren't mutually exclusive. Education has intrinsic value even if it's not your career.

Isn't that because the people who were homeschooling were mostly trying to shelter their kids from not just the education system but the whole world around them?

Really? I went to school in a small town and at the elementary school I don't think people really had the freedom to just bring things into the classroom, regardless of what it is or where it came from. Zero independence to even make those choices.

Looking around me, there are mountains of deferred infrastructure costs that can't be delayed anymore. New buildings, major refurbishing of buildings with asbestos, etc. That is the situation in a relatively suburban area. If you look at urban areas, you have a higher concentration of poorer people. If funding isn't redistributed from the top, the most expensive urban classrooms have the least funding. At the local level, some areas need to spend more than they can take in - but it's a net societal benefit and that's how it should be done.

Efficiency and power are two sides of the same coin. A GPU can accelerate graphics rendering by offloading some of the rendering logic to hardware. Google Maps can run fast with barely any battery drain. But a AAA game is still going to drain your battery. It can just look prettier while doing so.

Nothing wrong with giving these things names. They don't have formal names and they are probably more standardized by textbook publishers rather than known by mathematicians.

What they are bad at is providing parents with a definition guide and explaining to the students that the names aren't universal.

They are teaching in many different learning styles, which helps with understanding but some schools are holding back on teaching the rote memorization part (which is still important). You need to know 4+5 from rote memory, but you also need to understand why. Most homework is about demonstrating the why.