Yeah, the tech isn't there yet for Terminator, but for Desfogator(tm) it's plenty enough

The only point I was trying to make is the following:

If you tell the population "Starting next week, we will do everything an hour earlier. You get up an hour earlier, your work starts an hour earlier, the supermarkets start an hour earlier, etc..." people's reaction is "What? I don't want to get up so early! I want to get up at 7, I don't want to wake up at 6!

But when you say that next week we move the clocks an hour forwards so now you have more daylight in the evening, most people are enthousiastic about it. While it's exactly the same thing, just packaged differently.

I live at a 54 degree latitude. The changeover to summer time causes a measurable spike in accidents every year, just to mention one negative effect. It's only good for a couple of months during the summer. In the spring, it means kids going to school when it's still dark etc. The negatives outweigh the positives.

When I said "wake up an hour earlier", obviously I meant "and go to work an hour earlier". The two scenarios are identical then: either we tell everyone to start work an hour earlier, or we tell them to start at the old time but move the clock an hour forward. When you give people the choice, many hate the former but love the latter. Go figure...

I'm actually an airline pilot, so I am very familiar with the unhealthy effects of time shifts (extremely early wake-ups or late shifts, night flying on long haul, etc.).

Look at this study: it found a clear increase in cancer risk as you move towards the western part of a time zone. When you cross into the next time zone, the risk suddenly drops and then creeps up again as you continue to move west. You can actually see the time zone borders on the chart of cancer incidence. Every 5 degrees of longitude corresponds to 3-4% increased risk of cancer. Summer time corresponds to 15 degrees...

Yeah, if you ask people to wake up an hour earlier in the summer, they'll reply "no, I can't, I'm not a morning person". But when you set the clocks forward by an hour, they're all happy because they have "more daylight" in the evening which is great because they're not a morning person. Go figure.

GMT wouldn't make a difference. Americans are not going to get up at 7 am GMT when it's the middle of the night for them. So instead of saying "what time is it over there", we'd be asking "what time do they get up there, what time do business open there, 3 pm?". At least time zones make it clear what time of day it is, with business hours being pretty much the same everywhere. Also, having the date change in the middle of the afternoon is not exactly ideal either.

Funnily enough, your very point that plants and other living animals waking to a rising sun don't give a shit goes against your argument that everyone should be using GMT. We should be using a local time that is not too far away from solar time. So winter time.

This is great, Gaumont is already looking for actors, the script is already there and being polished
The action happens mostly in France where the unwilling hero, a scientist really, finds himself having to track a giant frog that eats people instead of being eaten by them !
I don't have all the details, but he will be helped by some mysterious gringo james-bondesque guy in this task.
Turns out, the giant creature is the result of some terrible mutation of some otherwise inoffensive and delicious frog because of the radiations caused bu the US nuclear bombs tests
The mysterious gringo will help the french dude (who would otherwise just give up), explaining that it is his responsibility; as much as he loves his country, sometimes his country fucks it up and he has to fix it !

If you buy an internet connected $5K bed, you totally deserve to discover before anyone else the undocumented 'activate sandwhich mode on yawning twice' feature and have that discovery storm the tiktubes

Let's see if we can know whether or not this is applicable to *any* other code base (I know this is not exactly what you asked, you just pondered about it being possibly useful for *some* other code bases, but this is harder to answer)
I think we could all agree that it not seeing all the bugs, or reporting false bugs on any particular code base should be considered a bug.
So, I guess the answer is obvious (since it is clearly not being applied to itself). That does not mean the thing is useless, it's just clear it' not going to be all powerful ever, but we knew that already because we could have had the simple requirement for some non buggy piece of code that it should eventually halt :)

There is no need whatsoever for ad hominem, the summary is a true gem all by itself
"AI is really used for actual real problem solving like mediating the power grid stress problem caused by AI usage"
That's like the recursive mafia version of the broken window parable...
Then it goes on with being convinced by seemingly logical arguments that are not 100% stupid (what a relief) and concludes with some nice whataboutism, others do it too, Tesla is even worse !
Just wow...

A toxic work culture is the culture you will find in a toxic work environment.
A toxic work environment is the environment you will find in a toxic workplace

The (slashdot's) article's title swapped two letters in the name, not in the summary, not in the article, but in the title yes, a typo you didn't reproduce...

So you took a lot of screenshots of drilling equipment, and then, coincidentally, you turned out being splattered with ads of such equipment just before...
Let me guess, you took all those screenshots with your recallGPT-enabled Windows 12, won't you ?
You might be caught in some sort of time loop, be careful in the past.

Why did you have to resort to those shady ways to get into position ?
You should have told us from the beginning that you would declare clowns illegal, you would have won easily and have popular support too !