Oh cool. Now its not just chat bots, but chat clients can take our jobs too.

What a world to live in.

Yeah the prices have gone up. But thats due to input tarifs. The thing thats squeezing US farmers, other than losing all their export markets, is that all their machinery and fertilizer costs have skyrocketed. A combine harvester is a huge investment, not just in initial outlay but continued maintainence. Couple that with fertilizer costs soaring (some of that is due to the ukraine invasion but most of its tarifs) and the loss of an affordable workforce due to ICEs rampage, and its really bad days for farmers.

It's quaint that you think the United States is still a republic. It's a monarchy, and Trump's handlers are likely moving currently to make sure that when Vance succeeds him, that the Executive branch and a Congress that will be, through the use of naked force if necessary, remain filled with Republican paper tigers to complement the paper tigers in the Supreme Court, settles into the oligarchy the Framers always really intended it to be. The military will largely be used to recreate the American hemispheric hegemony. The National Guard and ICE will be used as foot soldiers within the US to "secure" elections.

The morons that elected that diseased wicked and demented man have destroyed whatever the hell America was. As a Canadian, I can only hope we can withstand this hemispheric dominance and the raiding of our natural resources to feed the perverse desires of the child molesters, rapists, racists and psychopaths that have already taken control of the US.

Doubtless, I will be downvoted by the remaining MAGA crowd here. You know, the guys that pretended they refused to vote Democrat because Bernie wasn't made leader, but are to a man a pack of Brown Shirts eagerly awaiting the time when they imagine they can take part in the defenestration of American society.

Why are you trying to get new programmers to write code? Isn't vibe coding supposed to be taking over that niche? I'm not sure if I'm serious or not, but it seems a valid question in this day and she.

Win9x and Win2k (and the other NT descendants) are fundamentally different operating systems. In general, NT had a much more robust kernel, so system panics were and remain mainly hardware issues, or, particularly in the old days, dodgy drivers (which is just another form of hardware issue). I've seen plenty of panics on *nix systems and Windows systems, and I'd say probably 90-95% were all hardware failures, mainly RAM, but on a few occasions something wrong with the CPU itself or with other critical hardware like storage device hardware. There were quite a few very iffy IDE cards back in the day.

The other category of failure, various kinds of memory overruns, have all but disappeared now as memory management, both on the silicon and in kernels, have radically improved. So I'd say these are pretty much extinct, except maybe in some very edge cases, where I'd argue someone is disabling protections or breaking rules to eke out some imagined extra benefit.

I'd say don't give him any ideas, but republicans have already suggested it, and after demolishing the east wing, all bets are off. He's just meglomanical enough to try.

Israel should be able to do war crimes because america does war crimes is lizard brain logic. both countries need to cut it out.

Maybe I'm just a weirdo but I am very annoyed at them for trying to take away the option of local-only accounts. Why do I need to let them be a third party to everything I do starting with logging in? Nobody asked for this.

At this stage, the best way forward is to apply the "Debian" patch to your system to restore local accounts, and strip out the all the daft AI guff

Perhaps you should just grow up.

I saw an interview with Linus Torvalds the other day, and he seems to think Nvidias getting better behaved with its drivers now (although my understanding is he's not as fussed by closed source drivers as others are in the industry).

Nvidia are shits though. I know they used to maintain a CUDA implementation for macs. Now? Nope...

As are the GPUs on both the mainstream major gaming consoles (PS5 and Xbox). AMD GPUs arent going anywhere, especially now that their AI picture is starting to come a bit more into focus

Eh. To some value of yes and some value of no.

The library aint nearly as large, but surprisingly a lot of it is there. But don't expect it to be equivelent to a frebreathing 64 core Ryzen 9 with 5090 GPU. Obviously.

If Googles teeth-grindingly stupid AI is what it takes to kill this stupid bubble, well I'll grit my teeth and go along with it.

Because I really feel like I'm in the stupidest industry right now. And thats not what I signed up for 30 years ago.

In a foreign country, you have to follow their laws, just as foreign businesses must do in the US.

I generally agree with this. But I dont think apple is saying they will break the law, but rather that they'd just wIthdraw from the market if forced, which has been their approach in the past.

Plus, while india is a big market, apples 10% of it probably isnt a huge segment of apples revenue, and they have the warchest to just sit it out until Gen Zs flip out hard enough to force the govt to back off.

Yeah I wanna know this too. This is pretty alarming.

Guess thats what happens when you trust a google project.....