Glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed that over time Amazon's search feature has enshitified. If that's the correct verb. It used to be fairly good. These days, nah, unless I'm looking for a book or other product from Amazon directly, as a search for the marketplace it's crap.

And since it used to be better, something must be responsible for that. Greed, most likely.

Not 99% but definitely some of the most useful ones. And yes, stack traces are one of the things that only Linux users send you without an explicit request.

And the advantage of debugging a (this specific exception) error in (this specific file) on (that specific line) over a "hey, the game crashed when I jumped out of the car" bug report cannot be overstated.

The forecasters don't know where you'll be when it matters. That's why it's your job to look up the data yourself.

Why do you say that? TV forecasts are averages over a region. That's by design. Do you really want the TV weather presenter to rattle off rain and temperature and humidity numbers for every block in every city in the whole state you live in? No, they just give indicative data. It's not going to apply to you. It's a guideline.

If you want to know if you're going to be rained on, go get a radar image map with rain data updated every minute, and work out if the clouds will cross your street at the exact moment when you will be standing on it.

The basic rule is: don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

Copyright exists, for better or for worse. It's no excuse to claim you can't determine copyright attribution because of the scale of your stash. This is true for anyone, whether you're a company looking to infringe for profit, a nonprofit looking to infringe for humanity, or a person looking to infringe for personal convenience.

Go kick the butt of the supreme courts who impose rules if you don't like the status quo, or go live in a country where the rules are different. There are some.

All you achieve when you act like a scofflaw and a whiner is that people dismiss you, quite rightly. Generations before you managed to follow the rules,. The problem isn't the copyright law per se, the problem is you are not doing your part in changing the law, citizen. It's your job to leave your country a better place than you received it.

There used to be a time when Java had support everywhere. It seemed unstoppable, there was so much community support.

Then it faded (etymology: early 14c., "lose brightness, grow pale," from Old French fader "become weak, wilt, wither," from fade (adj.) "pale, weak; insipid, tasteless" (12c.), probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, which is said to be a blending of Latin fatuus "silly, tasteless" and vapidus "flat, flavorless.")

As a game developer: Even a few percent are, as the article points out, millions of users. Us indie devs cannot compete with AAA studios in marketing. It's not that the playing field isn't level, it's not even the same playing field.

But in a niche, you have a good chance to be noticed and word of mouth spreading. And that means grabbing as much of the niche as you possibly can.

And it matters to you Windos users as well, because it means games are developed without being tied to a specific OS or driver feature. Which means your new game will run even if you're not running it on the latest hardware.

And finally, it matters because Linux gamers are more useful to a game developer. Maybe 3% of the Steam users run Linux, but for my last game, at least 30% of the useful bug reports came from Linux users.

No, it is not. "Too big to fail" is just bullshit bingo. The reason banks et al managed to get saved by taxpayer money with that phrase wasn't that they were. It was that they had a solidly entrenched lobby and connections at the highest levels. "Too big to fail" was simply the icing they coated the shit with to make the public swallow it.

The man bought a vacuum cleaner that required an internet connection, and that didn't make him suspicious?

Not so clever I reckon...

The pigs using ubiquitous street camera surveillance to accuse the woman, or the woman using ubiquitous in-vehicle camera surveillance to prove her innocence.

No part of this story makes me warm or fuzzy.

That's hilarious, they don't have a *real* military?

I don't know what you consider a real military, but assuming that you think the US has a real military by your standards, I'll point to Afghanistan, where a rag tag of AK-47 wielding militiamen just kicked their ass out of the country. Same in Iraq, which caused a 10-year trauma in the US population as evidenced by the amount of movies produced about the conflict aiming to heal the psychological wound and the political impact. Same in Vietnam, where the troops ran away after years of misery. Note that the French got beaten in Vietnam too, and the Russians got beaten in Afghanistan.

War is not about technology. It is about strategy, tactics, destruction, and politics. It is about bullying the other side into submission, and then punishing them after they give up. Last man standing. There are no other rules.

and the ubiquitous surveillance of large swathes of the internet as well. Woohoo!

Why not? Life is too short to worry about what your CEO is promising, and he's the one being paid to take the risk. Do your thing, polish the resume, and keep abreast of new technology trends.

Note to self: stick to Debian and don't touch Ubuntu or Mint for a few versions until the kinks have been worked out.

You're assuming AI version number matters. It does not.

Programming is an exercise in turning imprecise human language into a precise domain specific language. Once the problem has been translated, it can be solved within the paradigms of the chosen language, but the bugs cannot be detected without knowing the original intent which is not encoded.

An AI with current technology cannot take the DSL solution and judge what the original intent of the solution was. That requires knowing what the problem was, which isn't fully specified, merely partially translated by programmers into the DSL that the AI might see. The translation is done by humans with expertise that the AI doesn't have, because the AI training data is always limited to actual DSL solution snippets from many unrelated problems, whereas the human programmer is given the real world problem to work through.

TL;DR. If you can't solve the problem by piecing together existing code from GitHub, then no AI can solve the problem. Worthwhile software is not simply pieced together from a thousand GitHub snippets