Because at this rate, by my math, the number of AI cores Google requires will exceed the number of atoms in the visible universe within about 120 years.

ChatGPT, you have a typo there. That should read:

"A worker who handles a radioactive rod without protection will die in days regardless of any chiropractic treatments."

Haha, only serious.

At it's root, it's a fundamentally stupid design choice. The Start Menu, Explorer, Settings and a few other critical parts of the OS have been written so they're basically Microsoft Store apps. They're modular, and they're therefore much more susceptible to being damaged.

The number of times I've had a customer who's got a Start Menu that just doesn't open, or Settings won't open, or similar behavior should be zero, but isn't. These high-visibility, high-criticality parts of the OS should be rock solid but aren't.

I'm sure it's the same clowns that signed off on the decision that UI elements are allowed to move after a window starts drawing. It's moronic. I see what I'm looking for in a menu or something, and I start to click on it but poof... five more things get delay-added to the view and I click on the wrong thing because what I wanted moved. No. Not okay.

Finally, performance. Whoever signed off on the Start Menu not being utterly instant needs to be fired. It is almost always faster for me to press WinKey+R, type "cmd", hit Enter, type "notepad", and hit Enter than to get the Start Menu to find and display it. Note: I only add a command prompt in there so I can keep it open for launching other stuff. The Start Menu is BAD at being the place where you start. Too many useful things are hidden, and too much cluttered shovelware hides what users need.

The XAML side of things is only part of the problem. The shoddy programming, logic, and management who allow this are the others.

You are right.

That? Sure, amazing I guess though I'm unfamiliar with any of the tasks described there.

But as an MSP, the rising number of times an end-user includes "ChatGPT says" in their ticket and the recommendations are a} wrong, b} out-of-date, c} incomplete or d} misleading approaches 100%. Some of it is a customer not expressing themselves well, granted. But most of it is that the correct answer is complicated, has a consequences, and bears considerate thoughtful review and research.

"Ask your administrator to disable important-security-setting" and "ask you administrator to enable deprecated-feature" or "get your admin to go into vCenter" when operating a KVM environment is the kind of stuff we get. That and "here's a massive pile of Python code that doesn't work... fix it... I've already done the hard part for you."

I'm glad something about LLMs helps you. But we have yet to find one AI-enhanced tool that saves us time and effort.

What I typically do is leave in the no-name AAA alkaline batteries that the remote came with, and it works for a couple of years until I move on to newer gear.

Then after I've left it idle for 15 years, I'll come back and open the remote to discover that the batteries have leaked all over the inside and destroyed it.

Horseshit.

To learn maths properly - enough to do middle school math - you need to be taught it. You don't have to love it. You don't have to enjoy it, even. You just have to be taught.

Sure - it helps if you love it. But we're not talking calculus, here; we're talking algebra. Geometry. Not even trig. You don't need to love math to learn that.

This seems to have been an investment scheme. Who hired an architect who is this insane?

"One recalled warning Tarek Qaddumi, The Line's executive director, of the difficulty of suspending a 30-story building upside down from a bridge hundreds of metres in the air. 'You do realize the earth is spinning? And that tall towers sway?' he said. The chandelier, the architect explained, could 'start to move like a pendulum,' then 'pick up speed,' and eventually 'break off,' crashing into the marina below."

That level of nonsense is usually restricted to a flat-Earth message board. But these folks were hired? They had no intention of delivering this project. If they wanted to deliver it, they wouldn't have hired people from the local psyche-ward.

Anyone who voted this up is disgusting.

OP is also disgusting.

Since when do people who read "news for nerds, stuff that matters" advocate for racism? Good, old-fashioned racism? The kind that started in the 16th century, and should have died there?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

That this is a post and was moderated up is disgusting. What the hell is wrong with you?

"1) Canada has already lost its status. Its hard to see how that is Trump's fault."

It is the fault of people who cause other people to hesitate or not vaccinate. We call them anti-vaxxers.

"2) Trump has only been in office for less than a year. Its unlikely the measles outbreak is a result of any of his policies."

Trump appointed an anti-vaxxer to head the CDC. This is his policy. His actions drive this as much as RFK and other anti-vaxxers. No one seems to disagree that the folks who vote for silly policies view his silly policies as legit, and legit policies as silly. That means they are the same problem -- ignorance masquerading as a relevant choice due to people's fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The same things any flim-flam con-artist would brag about.

"3) The outbreak is all along the southwest border with large populations of people who lack access to regular health care."

Yes, it is truly sad to see how terrible healthcare is in the United States. Why do you view that as a reason to not try anything new, and give up what little is being done? We seem to agree that what exists is not satisfactory.

"Blaming anti-vaxxers is attributing way too much power to a fringe group."

Wrong. That's like saying the person who drove the car off the cliff isn't responsible, because the other people in the car could/should have wrestled the wheel away from the driver. The driver is responsible. It is ridiculous to claim otherwise (you sound brainwashed).

"Perhaps we should look at years of neglect of public health in those states instead. With millions of people lacking access to basic health care what did you expect?"

Yeah, normal people have decried the terrible state of public US health policy. The only improvement in the last 2 decades was Obama Care. What's with the Republicans taking that away? How far into the dark ages do they want us to go?

""Trump did it" has become the standard excuse for the widespread failure of our political class. You can just point the finger at Trump and pretend the problems will be solved when he goes away. So his rival politicians will spend the next three years talking about Trump instead of addressing how to make our lives better."

Like you are doing? This "point" seems weirdly self-antithetical. Trump is one part; there's also Justice/SCOTUS, Senate, Congress. All aspects of government are in government, otherwise it's not government. Seems tautological.

"Its not that there isn't a lot to criticize about Trump. Its that most of the criticism is directed at minor sideshows like this one. And I say that as a former community health worker who spent a couple years knocking on parent's doors to increase the level of MMR vaccinations in local schools. I may have run into one parent who opposed vaccination. The rest just lacked the personal resources to get their kids immunized. They had a hard time making sure their kids had breakfast and got to school."

You know, programs that provide food to those in need + vaccine resources were cut by Trump and his cabinet of doom? This "point" also illustrates that this problem is big and has many factors at play, like problems that humans have traditionally banded together to face. That's why most developed countries (just the USA abstaining) use socialized healthcare policies.

Frankly, your confused post just shows why the problem seems intractable to the occupants of the country most victimized by their own medical policies -- the current USA medical policy is rake-stepping! You have people who make more money than god from medical care profits which are in the bleeding-from-your-eyes-numbers of over ,000 markup, because no-one shops around for things like bullet extractions. It's not a service that does well in unregulated capitalism (unless you own the company selling heroin, in which case you're billionaires and don't care).

Trump is also a promoter of that. It's valid to mention the toxic effect his cabinet and policies have had during *BOTH* of his terms, because that is literally what's happening now. These are the issues we agree on, and these are things driving those issues. The learned helplessness and unwillingness to challenge ignorance you seem to suggest isn't helpful, in my opinion.

If it was a reasonable balance of risk and payback, then they could get a private loan like everybody else.

Why should he stop exactly explaining the situation?

Lenders take on the risk of a default, and when the government lends money, the risk is socialized.

The loan is being made to a private, for-profit corporation, who will be able to keep any profits generated by this scheme (however unlikely that may be).

Whatever activity the loan is for is irrelevant, whether it's for cranking up a crusty old nuclear power plant, or for bailing out a Wall Street firm during a market panic.

I don't think I'd mind if important sites went:

Requirements are a minimum of ten characters containing two of blah blah categories of characters, AND IT CAN'T BE STUPID.

Then checked against a list of the top couple thousand well-known passwords and just said "no".

But maybe there's a good reason to not do that. Dunno. Designing security isn't my job.

As it happens, I live near a major stopover in Ontario and almost 50 years ago I had a school field-trip to the provincial park they use. It was wild. I get it, we'd feel completely different if they weren't pretty, but... they are. It's shaming to think about what's happened to this very visible species and realize we've done it to countless others who don't happen to have massively visible orange and black wings.

I do understand environmentalism pushback. I mean... if we only occupied 1% of the world's surface and only made extinct one species, that'd be one thing. If we occupy 100% of the world's surface and kill everything that isn't food, that's obviously insanely unacceptable. So... where in the middle is "okay"? How many humans costing how many non-human species is where it's sort-of okay? Different people have different answers. For some we've gone too far (I buy into this), and for others we're far from over the line. Shrug. And sigh.

You're right. Scientists are ill-equipped to figure out that ~400 specific butterflies died out of 200,000 is due to a transmitter and are instead left fabricating a cause. But an Internet anonymous coward is up to the task. Sure.

If developing fine motor skills is the actual goal, I'd be all in favor of a class designed specifically for that purpose, rather than haphazardly developing them as the by-product of learning a skill that has little practical value. Or, at the very least, shifting the curriculum to teach a useful skill that also has the side-effect of improving fine motor skills.

Look, I get it. I'm old. I learned cursive in school and wrote entire papers that way. (I also learned to type on a manual typewriter. Get off my lawn!) But these days there's about as much call for cursive as there is for calligraphy. In fact, that's the best way to think about it now. It's a form of calligraphy, a stylistic choice. The proposed bill is simply someone's knee-jerk response to seeing their own hard-learned skills fade into irrelevance. Sorry, dude, the world's moving on.