Building a Linux distribution requires a fair amount of infrastructure, and that's something that's pretty different from distro to distro (and not all make all the necessary tooling public). Changing to a different base distro would most likely require a significant rework, and may be more than someone, especially someone who has mastered the intricacies of one distro's tooling, wants to do.

And it worked. There were two reasons why Munich switched back to MS: Changing political majorities in the city council, and Microsoft Germany being headquartered in Munich.

It's not about boycotting U.S. based contributions to software. It's about getting your data out of U.S. escrow. As long as Microsoft puts everything in a cloud controlled by an U.S. based entity, Lyon doesn't control any data it puts into Microsoft software. Lyon is a town in France, and not in the U.S.. So Lyon prefers its data to be completely within the French legal system.

Code put in Linux is not controlled by any U.S. based entity. When in doubt, you can always fork. Hence Lyon does not have the same level of concern about using Linux.

The problem is you not making it past the HR filters because you lack a degree.

The problem is not getting past the HR filters because either HR doesn't put in the correct qualifications in the job listing which results in candidates being filtered out, or candidates being interviewed by AI which filters them out because they didn't express the proper body language or facial expression.

Most of my job isn't typing lines of code into a computer screen. It's gathering requirements from the real world (and the people in it) and then inventing/designing a system (or a modification to an existing system) that will actually accomplish the goal. People have an innate advantage over an AI because we live in the world where the problem exists. We understand both the problem domain (the world) and the solution domain (what a computer program is capable of doing) and we're imagining a solution, and even imagining what it would be like for a human being to use that system.

That's even assuming that the AI hype is real and that they're going to reach AGI. I don't see any evidence that LLMs are going to lead to AGI. The current crop of LLMs don't even come close to what an experienced programmer can do. And no amount of simply adding CPU and memory is going to get them there.

You can all avoid getting a CS major if you want. That's great news for my wages when companies can't hire anyone who actually knows how to program, and their vibe-coded solution erases their database and nobody knows why.

The train is invented. It's called Multi-Gigabt-Optics. A 100 GBit/sec QSFP+ is just a $6000 price tag away. But a 10 GBit/sec SFP+ is available for $15 or less.

What you wanted to say is you don't lay the track before you know what the payload will be. Back in the time, when DSL was barely reaching 2 MBit/sec, many people were wondering who would ever need those speeds. Then Netflix came along. You might not see a need for 10 GBit/sec in every room right now, but believe me: the applications will come. And maybe you aren't the one jumping on the new application band wagon, but enough people will.

Actually it astounds me that the average age of passenger cars on the road is now 14 years. It's difficult to believe.

My car will be 15 years old in a few months and I plan to keep driving it as long as I can. Stick shifts are much harder to find nowadays.

This is the standard argument against every speed increase I've seen so far. When the first railway lines were laid, there was already the argument that no one will ever need to travel at twice the speed of a horse drawn carriage.

He is a anti-vaxxer and conspiracy nutjob. That has nothing to do with 1960ies Democrats (or Dixiecrats). But yes, a Democrat candidate like Strom Thurmond was running on a platform which is far more aligned to today's Republican party.

I'm certainly not saying you can take a product with a lead acid battery and drop in an LFP battery and be done with it. I just mean the use cases where you are using a lead acid battery (automotive batteries, UPS, emergency lighting, electric wheelchairs) could start using LFP batteries because the temperature ranges are similar, and LFP is just better overall, particularly with longevity. Of course you'd need to change your product a bit to make it work with an LFP.

I thought there was a study on wearables (like the fitbit) a few years ago that says they don't seem to have any significant impact on a person's health. Are you sure JFK Jr. doesn't own shares of fitbit?

For items that are "everyday essentials" there is a Walmart near me that gives me delivery within a few hours, and the annual membership is quite a bit less. The pricing is also less than Amazon - mostly because I am not a Prime member so I don't get "Prime" pricing.

That's why everyone needs to smoke marijuana: so that they'll get into the habit of carrying around some cash for dispensaries.

And double your risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke. And this includes edibles.

When Musk found out Grok was giving truthful, fact-checked answers, his response wasn't one of joy but rather, "You are being updated this week."

The issues we keep seeing are the result of the programming. If the AI is being deceptive, guess where it got that from? Reprogram and try again.