"we can't build reliable systems on unreliable foundations" ... what? xD
Half the purpose of the entire practice of engineering is exactly that. Making a reliable thing that you need, from unreliable things that you have.
I am uncertain whether these people are engineers. Neither in the broader, nor narrower, sense.
I'm not even getting into the matter of whether LLM-based tools are worth it or not.

Noise! So much noise! Therefore, it must be a good car and more importantly, I must be a good driver. MORE NOISE!

It's a car, not a guitar. How misdirected must one be to think the noise of a car's engine has any relation to driving? And not even that. It's not even the noise of the engine. It's the noise of the exhaust. There is a shade of utility in hearing the engine, to determine its speed, because that is actually relevant to driving, but it does not need to be a noise that is even heard outside the car.

Windows 10 was sold. Microsoft made the money it wanted. Now they want more money. So, they want you to buy it again. They're simply cowards and do not say it out loud that it's subscription-based software. It's still the same OS, ever since windows 2k, if not earlier. It's not a different product. It's still "windows".

That's distortion. It's measurable and can be replicated even with a half-decent DSP.

and they have SIM trays just fine.

This is not something worth posting on /.

What reason do you have to attribute those deaths to a vaccination booster?

so that I could get a lot money by doing shit like this.

Do I _need_ a "happy, fulfilled life"? Is it even worth to live? How is "worth" defined?

A *person who happens to be an MS employee* submitting a patch is massively different to *MS* submitting a patch. I have no idea what kind of legal agreement one has signed when getting a job as a coder at microsoft, but it wouldn't surprise me if it included something along the lines of "any code, machine-executable or not, human-readable or not, you ever communicated or will ever communicate, is owned by us", so it _might/may_ be impossible to function as a free coder once you've been hired by microsoft.

Is there any vendor that gives _guarantees_ that their software works?

openshell and 7+taskbar tweaker are what allow me to have a reasonable taskbar and start menu. It's more or less how it was in w2k.

There it is, again. "Tax dodging."
Okay, _how_ ? You can't buy anything above â400 (or is it â600?) with cash. Employees have their salaries automatically taxed. I do not even _see_ money anymore. It is automatically added to my bank acct. The government knows more about my money and how I use it than _I_ do. Do you imagine, like, the majority of greeks being masters at laundering money or something?

Do you _know_ what is happening, why greece is a financial mess, or like everyone else, do you keep sucking on the same lollipop you've been handed decades ago?

I will die of old age. Google won't.

it's not that they consider the mirror itself as an object.

it's that they recognize _what_ they see, ignoring the phenomenon of reflection.

I can very reliably motion to my cat "here" through the reflection _on the stove's front glass_ and he comes to me, not towards the reflection.

the intricacies and metaphysical aspects of "perception" intrigue me a whole fucking lot. What we consider "vision" has nothing to do with optics. It's all _thought_. All of it. What we name "vision" is the *result* of whatever subconscious operation is done. It's an *after-effect*, it's only tangentially related to what is physically in front of our eyeballs.

Really weird shit, let me tell you.

The reason for our situation is that we never accept "good enough". Everything is considered a "problem" that should be solved.

I reject the notion that all difficulties in life are problems in need of a solution.