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Comment Good for Airbus (Score 3, Funny) 18

Airbus scenario:
- Airbus: "Hey, there might be a problem, let's recall 6000 airplanes."

Boeing Scenario:
FCC: Hey, one of your plane fell down.
Boeing: Fucking thrid world pilots don't know how to fly.
FCC: Hey, one of your plane fell down once again.
Boeing: Hmmm? What?
FCC: We ground all of your planes
Boeing: Ok, we will do a recall. See?

I'll take Airbus scenario any day.

Comment Only 8 years and 12%? (Score 1) 57

Logically only 60 or so years remain before AI can take over 100% of jobs. Assuming that we're all replaceable cogs where every job and every worker are equivalent.
The other factor, a constant rate of growth in AI's capabilities, is probably less of a hand-wave than you might think because we're going to be constrained on the sizes of the models, computational power of the servers, and of course electricity to run it all. We'll probably see a very brief exponential growth of AI then a slow as physical constraints kick in, we're already see exponential money burned on the problem with a likely linear pay off. Jensen's "The more you buy, the more you save." will probably work out as "The more you buy, your more you spent." for most AI bets.

Comment Re: Linux as a kernel, yeah, it's everywhere. (Score 1) 79

/bin/bash is still installed, so people's typical shell scripts like command-line installers and whatnot still work.
I think the default being zsh is that it's less buggy and has some nice interface features.
The real question we should ask is not why Apple includes zsh by default, but why Ubuntu makes you install it before you can use it.

Comment Good luck (Score 1) 185

Starting your career as a barely literate dumb ass isn't going to be stacking the deck in your favor.
I managed to get pretty far in life that way, but I have spent years playing catch-up and reading like a fiend because everyone around me is better educated, more knowledgeable, and often smarter than me.

Comment Re:Who uses MS file Explorer? (Score 1) 67

If only I had to do it once. But no, most updates (especially dist-upgrades) have me do that all over again time after time.

Also, the fact that I gave only one example doesn't necessarily mean there is only one. I could talk about having to troubleshoot grub in busybox because an update borked the config. I can imagine my father in front of the busybox shell all day long. He'll just buy another computer.

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