Probably true. Regardless of the fate of Stack Overflow the current replacement seems to be online chat tools. The advantage of Stack Overflow is that despite the issues with it all of the questions and answers can be read by anyone, even years after the initial question. None of the chat tool sessions are publicly accessible unless the user chooses to publish the chat. Ongoing it currently seems that the entirety of the next decade of technical question and answer sessions are going to be owned by various private equity groups who own LLM companies. This may be bad. An open source public LLM chat site would be useful, especially if other users can add answers to the chat.

And those programmers are currently creating programs that the rest of the market will be using everyday in a few years time. I can't speak for others but I am very much interested in hardware for running a local LLM. Getting strong market share in that sliver is very much in the interest of hardware manufacturers.

So what?

Maybe it is time to retire the term now that the corporate world has latched on, embraced, and extended it. Should we not consider a new term that encompasses both the software and the essential data embedded in it? Is it not time for a new modern open source initiative based in this century?

It seems likely that future AI tools will be able to remaster to individual tastes, perhaps even on the fly.

I can't, my phone has overheated!

Imagine the potential for gridlock if large numbers of vehicles are driving in holding patterns either looking for parking or attempting to avoid parking charges.

So just don't buy it if you value security or privacy

Or if you are part of the Slashdot audience just wait until the wearable device is being dumped on eBay by people upgrading to the latest shiny thing. Then if someone has written a library for the device you want that provides access to the data stream buy it at a significant discount. You can then allow it to only pair with a secure device at home, avoiding the manufacurers crapware and keeping your data private.

I think one of the reasons is that it is possible for fire fighters to manually move the winding drum in the event of a power failure to move the lift car to the nearest floor. Without a drum and cable any rescue attempt during a power loss would require lifting equipment and would involve climbing into the lift shaft to reach the car with all the related falling from height issues.

As someone who did not study math in higher education but now wants to learn more it is quite difficult to find out which math text books have the best content. Would someone please suggest some books and authors of great texts I can then search for?

I would ideally like to build up a bookshelf of great maths texts to go alongside the computing books I already have.

If the entity serving the content does not refrain from allowing advertisers to annoy users then they are unlikely to have either users or revenue. I think that the key idea behind the browser extension I linked to in TFA is an interesting one. It could be used as a kind of RBL blocking the most unpopular advertising practices. In time advertisers might find this an important type of feedback when AB testing.

There still is another way, there always has been. If browser extensions such as the one I linked to take off perhaps it will occur to advertisers that their reputation is important. Despite running AdBlock I still do see ads, just not the attention seeking disruptive ones. I really do want the sites I like to make money. Real time black hole lists forced those using email to advertise to think again. I expect this browser extension idea will make online advertisers rethink their approach. Eventually. In the mean time break out the popcorn for the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

While I am not the developer of the extension in TFA I did find the idea interesting. Even if this implementation fails it seems likely to me that this idea is a logical escalation in the online ad arms race. If the idea gains traction it will be just a matter of time before a decent implementation emaerges. The reaction from Google should be interesting if a Chrome extension appears.

The thing about this point is that advertisers seem not to have understood this basic concept yet. I have no idea of the quality of the browser extension I linked to in TFA. However the idea that an extension could be used to automate the deliberate poisoning of advertisers collected user data seems to be a powerful one. In my view this is a logical next step in the user vs advertiser arms race.

I'm entirely happy that drugs such as Flunitrazepam (AKA Rohypnol, roofies etc.) with limited use outside of hospital inpatients are restricted to prescription only. While it is reasonable to desire freedom to put what you want into your own body it is also reasonable for society to restrict some classes of drug that are often used to assist with date rape and other crimes. This is not statism and is quite different from the control of recreational drugs. Regardless of where the recreational drug debate ends up there will always be some restricted drugs.