If someone wants to argue merit then I have a long list of cabinet members who are grossly unqualified for their positions.

You're talking about efficiency in the same breath as the guy who is currently building a $300 million whitehouse ballroom while the government is shut down? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/p...

The same guy who spends 25% of his time golfing? https://didtrumpgolftoday.com/

Debian used to just require old school Unix stuff plus Perl, which is pretty old school really.

Then they started requiring Python for some tools.

They just keep adding more requirements which bloat the base install. This is the opposite of the right direction.

The source code is the most important documentation about the source code.

Clearly this not even even being done by an automated tool, let alone a human. An LLM which is given access to a database of actual cases could reasonably be successful at checking whether the cased cited even exist which isn't being checked now!

Because I can't imagine anyone writing that of their own volition.

AI looks like slop because it's just grabbing a bunch of shit and stuffing it all together without any actual creative work.

The prompts have nothing to do with that. You can have the best prompts in the world and the technology is still going to produce slop because it's just slapping together something based on a large data set. There isn't going to be any individual creativity because there isn't any individual creativity it's just a mess of other people's work jumbled together by a computer algorithm.

The result is the most watered down garbage because it's a little bit of everybody from everything mixed together by a computer. It's not just about human creativity it's about individual human creativity. When people talk about the artist's vision that actually matters.

AI is just copying somebody else's work. Worse it's copying the work of a whole shitload of other people together. That's always going to make crap because there's no real effort in it.

All this is a moot point. The real purpose of AI is to replace employees. Everything else is just a goofy tech demo in order to get some data for the long-term goal of eliminating White collar work. Some blue collar work too since this AI technology is being applied to robotics.

And our species is very much not ready for a world where at least a quarter of the population has no purpose and no reason to exist.

Using non-local AI in any way in court filings which are supposed to be confidential until filed is glaring lack of professional conduct right up front. Allowing AI hallucinations to get in to your court paperwork even once is the same. They should lose their license for one year the first time, five years the second time, and permanently the third.

Slashdot is such a shithole

DEI is woke which is sjw which is PC which is just desegregation under a different name.

Like Gavin Newsom said and he woke is just anti-black.

If that makes you uncomfortable, good. Now get out there and enjoy some good trouble.

Speak for yourself. Some of us own hardware that can run this.

A lot of people chose Chrome long before this. Back then, the time you were talking about, Firefox while a capable browser ran like absolute dogshit. It was slow to load, slow to render pages, and riddled with memory leaks. That button may have driven a nail into the coffins of the alternatives, but those coffins were built on the back of V8 - a blistering fast Javascript engine which showed the world that it wasn't their modems that were slow, but rather the browsers they were using. It was almost a decade before Firefox even got back into the same league (Firefox's Quantum project in 2017).

Many of us migrated to Chrome long before a nag button appeared on Google's home page.

So please go through Mozilla's financial reports and show us where they are underspending on development. Also show the costing of having an artistic team (which exists and represents a fixed cost, and is a necessary component of any company selling a product) is impacting development ability.

You don't seem to understand how costs or effort is allocated. If you wanted to discuss a development team focusing on item A in the bug tracker instead of item B, then you have a point, that is a zero sum game for fixed developers. But a completely different existing department doing something different has zero impact on development. They not creating a little mascot would result in not one second of extra development time on bug tracking.

What's the point of developing an app if you users don't know about it? Marketing teams exist for a reason.

And have the marketing team do what? Wait ... are you suggesting we should get an expert in Adobe Illustrator to start ... doing ... bug fixes? That would be a disaster.

Fun fact it was created by a marketing person at Mozilla, not by a developer, and not by the community. But they did offer guidelines on how to draw them. Maybe you should pull your weight and start drawing wallpapers of Kit? Seeing how you're so desperate for this community involvement.

And they all have the same ability. Just open up the Windows Volume Mixer to redirect an application to a different output device.

Actually they don't all have this same ability. The "creator's" and "artistic's" OS, the audio engineer's OS of choice, the dominant OS in the music industry in the 90s, ... Mac OS doesn't support this feature. You need a 3rd party app for that.

The person who can't get their parcel doesn't care how many ton-miles an aircraft does. If we follow your logic and assume the mileage on other air frames is higher, and you use a different airframe to replace what the MD-11 was doing then not only is 9% not a "pittance" it would actually be a far bigger impact in capacity loss for UPS than just 9%.

I had to look this up to double check but it would seem that we are currently discussing UPS flight 2976 out of Kentucky in 2025, so yes it very much is off topic.