Here's where the summary goes wrong:

Artificial Intelligence is in fact many kinds of technologies. People conflate LLMs with the whole thing because its the first kind of AI that an average person with no technical knowledge could use after a fashion.

But nobody is going to design a new rocket engine in ChatGPT. They're going to use some other kind of AI that work on problems on processes that the average person can't even conceive of -- like design optimization where there are potentially hundreds of parameters to tweak. Some of the underlying technology may have similarities -- like "neural nets" , which are just collections of mathematical matrices that encoded likelihoods underneath, not realistic models of biological neural systems. It shouldn't be surprising that a collection of matrices containing parameters describing weighted relations between features should have a wide variety of applications. That's just math; it's just sexier to call it "AI".

You don't need IPv6. You can just NAT the NAT and put NAT on top of that in the form of CG-NAT. Who needs end-to-end connectivity anyway. /s

What happened to IPv6? We did. The "experts" who decided to not push it because we didn't understand it, mistake NAT for a firewall and thing an IP address is a security risk, and bitch and moan because they think they need to remember a complex hexadecimal address (which is rubbish).

You speak with the bias of a person who has experienced a life of multiple hobbies and multiple possibilities and dismiss very legitimate concerns. For people who are actually addicted to shit like social media things can get very nasty indeed.

Bonus points for the article being about Australia, yet another car dependent place with cities designed by morons who produce people in servitude to someone who can take them somewhere for their hobbies. The "go out and play in the park" that would easily apply in many places may very well just turn you into a private chauffeur. Hope you didn't have any other plans this summer.

Why switch at all? You're promoting an ideology to a technical problem / solution. What benefit does your approach bring?

Again you're simply clueless as to how things works. Not all spreadsheets are simple datasets. There's a reason they were used in the first place, and one of those is that IT people for all their genius in administrating absolutely suck at doing end user's actual work. Virtually all attempts to replace complex large spreadsheets with something "better" fails.

Saying something repeatedly doesn't make it true.

No other problems. Just performance issues. The cost of having a spreadsheet literally take 15-30min to calculate through it's cells is a minor price, one that can be paid during a lunchbreak. There's a reason Excel allows you to pause all calculation until you manually recalculate.

Congrats on demonstrating you didn't even attempt to understand the fundamental problem. The issue is not how to *store* data. That was never in question. You've mentioned databases, now come up with the 6-7 other applications you need to add to that database to replicate the functionality that you haven't bothered to understand.

Also exporting anything that sizable from a database to an excel sheet takes far longer than simply working in the excel sheet itself. Congrats, you broke the user's workflow, made it slower, didn't try and understand what was being done, and all for what? Because you think you know the answer without asking a question?

Let me make one thing clear, please don't ever work on anything without a project manager between you and your customer. Your complete lack of thought as to what is going on or what is trying to be achieved makes you the kind of IT person who gives the entire field a bad reputation. Do you work for Oracle by chance?

I'm happy for you. But unless you want to donate that computer to someone who currently has an 8GB machine and is finding that it runs like a dog, aren't you doing any more than gaslighting people who aren't as well off as you?

No sorry, the Windows 10 EOL has barely made a scratch in the requirement for memory, a couple of 10s of million PCs are a drop in the bucket compared to PC shipments on a monthly basis (FYI Lenovo, not even the biggest PC company ship ~7million laptops per month by themselves), and quite critically there isn't that much shortage on desktop RAM, the biggest shortages are in actually high performance stuff which a few new 16GB laptop purchases don't affect.

Your solution is a non-solution. But have a mod point anyway because you bashed Microsoft. +5 Insightful.

"Europe" isn't getting in on the scam as much as they are getting in on the scamming. The public investment in these projects is virtually nil except for some back scratching for mates in high places, and investment in these smells like shell companies laundering money.

No, just one of the people who reflect that all people can do crime when you hear a black person shot someone.

In 2025 it's hard to consider Africa more corrupt than the USA.

Uh-hu, that's precisely what an AI would write in a comment.

Not sure what you're talking about. https://www.justtherecipe.com/

That said on the odd occasion (like very occasionally) the verbose part is actually quite useful, it helps to know why ingredients were selected rather than the specific ones since it does give you some indication of what aromatics may be substituted or how to adjust a recipe to your liking.

But really https://www.justtherecipe.com/ bookmark this.

Oh man I'm so sorry you just had to find out what happened in September 11. Spoiler alert, America is about to go to war again.

I know of no Linux distro or browser currently doing that by default, and I doubt millions of people manually set it so. One the flip side I know the site historically counts all sorts of weird bullshit, like a massive drop in MacOS users that explicably was nearly 100% "Unknown" (much to the disappointment of Slashdot), or that time we all celebrated the massive drop in Windows 11, only for it to reverse course the month after (much to the disappointment of Slashdot).

Do yourself a favour, for your own mental health, stop wishful thinking there's some hidden stat that secretly supports what you hope the world is.

This is the site that inexplicably listed Windows 11 market share dropping by some 15 million people in one month (given percentages), which resulted in applause from Slashdotters, only for the following month to add some 16million back to the market share.

The site isn't a reliable judgement of any system. There's no reason to assume Unknown = Linux, when the reality is Unknown can mean anything, including Linux and MacOS which the site constantly miscategorises.

It's a rubbish site for anything other than the roughest stats. The only thing we know about Linux is that it currently has a 3.4% market share, ... +/- 10% given statcounter's error bars.

To be fair they were against the entire world. At the time there was a generalised policy idea pushed by American economists that by enriching a nation it will naturally tend towards a stable democracy. The people most shouting against this were among the poorest and they were dismissed on similar grounds.

Buying Russian gas, investing in Russia, and China, and the middle east, all of this was seen as a way to enrich the people. With riches comes education, with education comes resistance against autocracy. That was the theory anyway.

And it was only a theory.

It's easy to point the finger at Merkel, if you ignore literally everyone else in the world. But the reality was this was effectively western world policy. Merkel's gas policy just happened to seal the largest monetary deal.

That it yadeyaddering a WHOLE lot of history. Europe wasn't so much a kept woman as much as she was married off unwillingly due to a war. Much of the continent was devastated not just by the way, but by the terms agreed to by the losing team. E.g. limiting the amount of armoury, the dismantling of industry, the resulting economic disaster that followed. A "beaten woman" may be a more apt description.

There's a reason LULUCF is included in climate change estimates around the world: deforestation and the use of land is a huge emission source. It's easy to be quick to dismiss Australia's efforts, but the reality is LULUCF's inclusion should be applauded because Australia had a fucking horrendous historical track record on deforestation, and despite still being very bad it's encouraging to see the rate reduce since 2008. Excluding it as a source of emissions doesn't help anyone even if the accounting can be a bit more questionable than direct emissions.