I've said it elsewhere but...

At least one electricity company in the UK (Octopus) is already doing this.

Last year I had about a dozen "fill your boots" sessions from them, where they tell you a timeframe and in that timeframe not only is all electricity "free" (they only charge you for what you would have normally used in that period, any extra is free) but they enter you into prize draws, etc. for participating.

I used them to not only do all my chores, heating, cooling, cook dinner, etc. but also to fill my solar battery bank from the grid (which I then used to reduce my grid usage over the next few days). In fact, that's how I discovered what the maximum draw I can pull through my main consumer unit is before the main RCD trips.

I even did things like charged up all my cordless tool batteries and the like too.

This isn't new, but making it "official" and widening it to all electricity suppliers is just obvious.

I don't know what the electricity companies will think about it, because they seem to be largely profit-making worthless privatised entities, and asking them to help people reduce usage of their own product is nonsensical (I remember schemes were the water companies were supposed to encourage less water use, this involved sending you useless tat to drip-feed your plants and suchlike, and similarly for electricity companies, which involved sending you a free lightbulb).

But I suppose with the right incentive (e.g. penalising low usage or offsetting the extra usage against their later energy purchases, etc.) it might prompt them to take up the scheme too.

It's largely irrelevant, long-term, though, because as far as I'm concerned energy production is not democratised. I myself intend to be utility-independent by retirement, and electricity was the first and easiest to achieve, and I'm way ahead of schedule there.

Well, what are you waiting for? Step on it!

(The idiots may also have been algorithms.)

Nope. No such thing when I paid to have that button first time around.

I don't use companies that try to monetise my use of them, especially if I'm paying for their service.

On that note...

Why the fuck am I seeing huge ads on Slashdot now for "bolt.new" and other shite when I paid many years ago to "Disable Advertising"?

Not sure what you're referring to. Let's try it this way.

Imagine you are a manager or a CO and you have an employee who keep spending an enormous amount of time working on the exact thing you hired him for. He gets frustrated when he finds stuff he CAN'T explain, wants to research further, and you just brush him off because you really hired him to NOT find anything.

Largely nonsense.

They are defaulting to PREEMPT_NONE but nothing to stop you changing that.

Newer versions of PostgreSQL already avoid certain spinlocks that hit this performance issue which is, as stated, doing something dumb in PostgreSQL which kernels can't have insight into, and which the new kernel defaults now penalise.

And nobody, with a brain, would just be running anything critical on the very latest kernel without testing it first.

By the time 7.0.1 comes out, PostgreSQL will have sorted it and nobody will ever remember it was ever a problem.

If he thinks he can, then he should.

Because then we can just ignore him, put an unpaid AI in his place.

Let's do this to ALL the billionaires.

Go always seemed like something of a niche language to me. Some DevOps folks, and especially people working on cloud-native infrastructure like Docker and Kubernetes, and the tools designed to run on top of them, seemed to love it. I never really heard of it catching on outside that niche, though (except within Google).

Correct. The TIOBE index is currently compiled from results from 25 search engines. You see this in the way the rankings bounce around each time they report them, seemingly with no meaningful explanation. That's why TIOBE always has been and always will be a crappy indicator of which languages are the most used ... especially now that more people are using AIs instead of standard search engines to ask their questions.

However, the index looks like statistics, which makes it attractive to journalists who cover tech. That means it's useful for getting TIOBE's name in the press. (TIOBE is a software quality measuring company),

Everything 365. Literally.

I agree. Sure, there was no shortage of YA material when I was a kid ... the Hardy Boys, John Christopher's Tripods books, the Chronicles of Narnia, and even The Hobbit come to mind. But I also liked The Lord of the Rings, Asimov, and plenty of other adult fiction besides. I didn't need Luke Skywalker to be a six-year-old to relate to him when I was six myself.

But the thing is, I bet it's just more "audiencing" by the studio execs. They want all movies to appeal to the broadest possible audience. And what do all potential audience members have in common, whether they be make, female, LGBTQ, Asian, European, Black, etc.? They were all young once.

Thank you for taking the time to read all that! You are right, of course. It is something of an unsolved problem with the design. The question of "exactly what work are these draftees contributing?" is something I'm still working on; it may not literally be core parenting or teaching work, but actually more like e.g. hanging out with your cool uncle on the weekend who helps you learn life lessons. Maybe said uncle isn't exactly teaching or parenting material, but he still has something to contribute to building a child's character, and is assisting the parents just by being around to lighten the load. The Big Brothers Big Sisters charity seems to indicate that this is a sound principle with incredible ROI.

There would also be mandatory training to teach people the skills needed to do this work (critical to figure out what goes in there.) Also I'd like to hope that the system would "even out" over a few generations; if we assume the root cause of dangerous personalities like BPD or NPD is being trapped (or in an echo chamber) with a toxic parent figure, the practice of this "socialized parenting" is essentially guaranteeing kids have alternative support networks that can soak some of those traumas. Efficiency would never reach 100%, of course (does it ever?) and there would always be some difficult people for whom alternative credit would need to be devised, but in any substantial system there's always other work to do—maybe a truly broken person contributes by grading homework or something.

You can just say openly that you're an edgy, racist teenager. It's fine; the first step to self-improvement is admitting that you need help.

It seems the pressing the key actually generates Win+Shift+F23... and also function as a Right Ctrl modifier at the same time? It may or may not function normally if you're outside of Windows.

Like there's a guy who's moderating the ads?

I've previously reported any amount of utterly illegal, misleading, out-right lies, etc. ads on Facebook in the past and nobody cares. They take your report and then a month later they tell you that they found no violation.

The only moderation they do for advertisers is "Enter your credit card details".

It's kind of the reason they're in this mess in the first place.