"The query began returning duplicate entries."

My mind immediately went to, "somehow f'ed up a JOIN".

Actually, Apple did deliver that capability but developers pushed-back and didn't want it.

Jobs was indeed a dick, but he did not make advertisements claiming features that do not exist.

Steve Jobs would not release a product until it actually did what they claimed it would do. I don't understand why this is some strangely difficult lesson for CEOs to understand. I suppose with the success of Musk and his ilk that idea seems quaint.

Why does Microsoft care what browser you use? Why do they even make a web browser? Revised: Why do they bother taking someone else's open-source browser and rebranding it with their logo?

So it's good.... except for the bad shit.

When I was in college circa 2000, my undergraduate macroeconomics professor pointed out why the US is so attractive to corporations. "If you want to setup shop in China," he said, "you will need to pay for your own backup generator because the power grid isn't reliable like it is here." He went on to explain similarly about labor - how the US constantly produces a supply of educated people (referring to us in the classroom). So when you incorporate in the US, you have everything you need.

For decades people have predicted this would change, and the time has finally arrived. From 2010 to 2020, the US built 1 new nuclear reactor, while China built 30. Education? While we debate subsidies for solar, China covers entire mountains in solar panels. Foreign student enrollment dropped 15% overall, with big universities seeing as much as 63% decline (DePaul University). The foreign students paid disproportionately more tuition, so universities are going to experience a budget declines next year.

We are digging our own grave.

The solution is to do their own work! Or at least check it! This use of AI is like when people just Google for something and copy/paste the first hit.

What the news doesn't show is the millions of people using AI successfully every day. We know that every day people incorrectly use hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers, drills, cars, and guns. Yet they are not declared useless. AI is a tool, and in the hands of a someone with genuine interest in using the tool appropriately, it is a useful one. The best path forward is to continue to make fun of the lazy fools who use it as a crutch and don't even read their own court filings.

Sometimes ChatGPT does search the web, but I believe it uses Bing not Google. Microsoft has a private Bing search that comes with privacy contracts to prevent leaking of corporate secrets.

I suppose ChatGPT could use Google sometimes too, or it could be that some researcher at OpenAI took conversation excerpts and put them into a Google search box.

...design has become a shit show since they introduced the liquid glass stuff.

Yes and no. Someone on Slashdot a few months back had a great summary of this issue: He said something like

Donald Trump took the worst ideas from the far left and the far right, and combined them.

I love that take! For example, from the far left he took ideas like his anti-vaxx and anti-science views that led to nominating RFK Jr, plus his general fiscal irresponsibility. From the far right, he takes nationalism, racism, trickle-down economics, and yet another source of anti-science views on climate. He combines them with his own bad ideas like fluctuating tariffs and randomly antagonizing other countries.

I wish I had a link to the Slashdot comment that summarized this well.

Also, the parties switch every few decades, although most people don't even notice ("We were always at war with Eastasia!"). For example, prior to 9/11, the Democrats leaned anti-immigrant (because labor unions vote Democrat in the US) and Republicans leaned pro-immigrant (because businesses wanted both cheap labor and foreign Ph.Ds). 9/11 made immigration about religion and culture, so the pendulum swung the other way.

Ooh, here's another one! I recently learned that he promised college debt forgiveness to anyone who signs on to ICE. That particular abuse of power was Biden's idea, but Biden didn't tie student debt forgiveness to violence against immigrants. So Trump really amped that one up.

Just for the record: George Bush (R) negotiated and signed NAFTA in 1992 but he wasn't able to get the corresponding US bill passed before the end of his term, so Bill Clinton (D) signed the US law in 1993. Both presidents supported NAFTA.

Trump himself was a Democrat until about 5 minutes before he decides to run for the Republican nomination. His whole family were Democrats and donors too. His cabinet has Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr, both Democrats until Trump.

Trump has really turned the Republican party quite blue, both in terms of staff and economic policy.

Most Americans will condemn something, then vote for it again in the next election cycle. The Republican party did not shift away from Cheney, it went full bore into it.

You are completely missing the point. This provides no benefit to anyone, and there are plenty of devices that simply cannot possibly do HTTPS. HTTP is a valid protocol, and just because something is not secure is not a reason to have corporations banning it.

I think the "p" means "peak" and refers to the the rated amount of the panels before you include the capacity factor, etc. That's why the 800 doesn't make sense but the 80 does. This term was new to me as well and I had to look it up.