Bad form, replying to self, but there you go.

I happen to agree that Universities shouldn't be vocational colleges and should teach how to learn. But that hasn't been the reality for a couple of decades now (in the UK at least). The students pay the fees and expect to get the skills to get the job. Sad.

So I'm more inclined to say "Bad government, making education a profit-driven industry", "Bad students, expecting to be hand-fed knowledge for interview questions" and "Bad company, for pulling the rug" than I am to blame the teachers.

I was systems manager for a university in the UK for a few years. Nothing annoys lecturers more than changing software under them.

Other than the coffee machine running dry. Or the car park being full. Or any one of a million annoyances.

Nope, yesterday's story had "the Sunbird app, which Nothing Chat is a clone of, was put "on pause." in the summary.

YEAH! And preparing syllabuses is zero-effort so they should just stop whinging. They've only got to rewrite their course materials in all their free time. Bad teachers. And the school's tech people (if they have them) have only got to find a whole new platform to teach with. No biggy.

Was this all a cheap way for MS to get all of OpenAI before it got a large concrete valuation? Bit of a whispering campaign in the ears of a board member or two?

Page 31 of the report considers scenarios including 3C.

You have to search for the degree symbol.

Since there are approximately four nerds left on this site, I'll slap you on your back and congratulate you loudly for this quality humour. Don't forget Mercurial.

Schadenfreude is being updated by Merriam Webster as we speak.

... you have 20 seconds to comply.

Not saying it's not true, but I can't find a source for the "Apple pays Adobe" comment, can you help me out?

For once a story that does what this site says on the tin, and the comments are all "so what", "not really running Linux", yada yada yada. Show us your repos if you're doing anything equally ingenious and joyfully useless. I for one welcome our beowulf cluster of these in a bowl of hot grits and Netcraft confirms it.

I was getting used to post-truth. Now I've got to embrace post-intelligence as well?

Half of content is AI-generated. The other half is critiques of AI posts, probably written by humans.

Just used up my mod points, can someone throw swillden a few Interesting and Insightfuls, please?

It can backfire though - they sent me a bottle of Omega 3 oil packed only in one of the bubble-wrap bags. It obviously smashed en route. Refund issued, I'll buy it elsewhere where the packaging is appropriate. So they paid to ship it, then for a customer service rep to talk to me (website said it was ineligible for return) then for some system to refund the money to my account. Kerching, or not