I kid you not, I bought a DVD player over this nonsense. Now my kids watch the same few used Disney movie and show DVDs however much they like, and I’m not paying these clowns monthly to be abused by them.

As long as our health is perfect, of course.

Linux, MacOS and Windows have been completely rewritten multiple times across their existence.

So it’s not like the original decisions are all still in play.

Windows and Mac OS were rewritten under some particular weird duresses of closed source profit driven engineering; so it has been a mix of improvements and seemingly illogical setbacks.

Linux developers still need to eat, so some of the same (corporate) influences are there.

But the average engineer who sets out to create a brand new completely modern operating system - usually decides to reuse any components of Linux that they don’t have any concerns with…

Which usually gives us yet another cool new Linux variant.

But sometimes we get…

• Agentic AI: A list of traditional IF THEN statements that do things based on the output of the magical LLM and then create a new prompt that they feed back into the LLM in a never ending loop, with the aim of consuming as many tokens as possible.

It’s so much worse than that. We use the pleasant answer predictor to predict what function calls and arguments passed to those functions might be the most pleasing.

It can provide all of the capabilities of piping curl into sudo with none of the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing I’ve turned over control of my computer’s fate to a stranger on the Internet.

Instead, I’ve turned my computer’s fate over to a statistical approximation of the slurry from mixing together the outputs of every stranger from the Internet.

Exactly. And they need to make back the biggest up-front loss in the history of investment, and probably - even adjusted for inflation - in the history of currency.

And all that on a product that people don’t want.

I agree! There’s no shame in being a forever- Ensign.

“You’re absolutely right. I did hallucinate sending an ambulance, more than once, earlier. Let me correct that and dispatch an ambulance to your location.”

I had to read that twice, but yes, exactly.

Let’s not give the idiots more ideas. haha.

Yes. And perhaps, given time, accessing the wrong version of certain sensitive historic events could even be tracked that way.

Strictly speaking, we only have to govern the billionaires if we don’t just eat them…so it’s kind of a run-off between how easy to govern they decide to be, and how they taste…

(This is solely meant to humorous, officer, your honor.)

If I were to hazard a guess - probably just different interesting and worthwile things.

The result gave lloD his first major title more than two decades after he began competing. It was also the first time a Peach player had won a Melee major since Armada claimed Super Smash Con in 2018.

So close, damn it.

I hope Dr. lloD respects their moral obligation to crush people - at least in casual games - while playing as “Dr Mario”.

Thought about a couple cases of his favorite beer. Still might do that. Any other ideas?

Consumables that the person already likes make great gifts, since they will get used up and not sit around.

I usually avoid abusable substances, just in case the person has a carefully balanced relationship with that substance.

But you know your friend.

Sometimes I just ask first. No real reason this needs to be a surprise.

“I know you said you won’t take cash, but I’m going to grab you two cases of X as a thank you, on my way back.”

Then they get a chance to call me off, or redirect me if it would be a problem.

And I’ll always let them call it off with even a mild “no thanks”, since they might not want to say to me “I have a real problem with X and I can’t safely have thay much on hand.”.

Yes. And we know Microsoft was drooling over the day when they shut down that server, and everyone’s library stops working 30 days later, allowing Microsoft to re-sell them all the games they previously bought.

Learning to quit vim will get them very far in life

How dare you?! q:qwqEscEscEscQ!

I wouldn’t wish what I suspect is coming for some of these greedy robber baron assholes on any living thing that can feel pain… but I kind of hope it gets caught on film for future generations to learn from.

I wonder if we could collectively push the funds to divest from closed book financial companies

If we don’t, there just won’t be a market, anymore.

I stopped telling colleagues to “invest at least 10%” and “at least get the 401k match, it’s free money” about three years ago.

After this bubble bursts, I’m honestly not even sure the concept of 401ks will survive.

The future of common people’s investing is very possibly only in gold chains and under mattresses.

Some of them will lose, and some “investors” will go dead broke.

It’s never everyone one would wish it could be, of course.

The web didn’t go away when the web hype bubble burst. But it changed a great deal, and a bunch of suckers got to be very broke.

This bubble is much bigger, and will hurt much worse when it goes.

Meta just took a 11% stock price drop for saying “we still think AI is a good idea”. This bubble is right on the precipice.

Maybe it can stay irrational for a bit longer, but it doesn’t look good at all.