I've only ever had one COBOL class, and that was in the late 1990s. I was sure I was going to hate the language before ever setting foot into the classroom. After setting foot into the classroom for a couple days, my concerns turned out to be unfounded. COBOL was much worse than I could have anticipated.

That aside, isn't COBOL's ability to process vast amounts of data quickly due to the massive I/O abilities of the mainframes it tends to run on? I have been told over the decades that a mainframe's I/O abilities dwarf those of even high-end Intel/AMD server. If that's true, then COBOL isn't fast due to any inherent strength of the language, but rather is fast because of the I/O abilities of the hardware.

Your analysis is absolute correct. It's funny how many people in this conversation have been affected by the very thing they are raging about.

We've had such a system for thousands of years: parents.

If you want those things, you will stay as far away from the public school system as you can manage. The public school system hampered my education and employment prospects, and nearly shut them down entirely. My mom taught me all the useful stuff at home, before the public school system started undoing it all.

I was semi-proficient in the three R's by the time I was 5. My learning pace slowed as I proceeded through the grades, and my desire to learn was all but dead by the time I graduated from High School. The public school system killed it.

My major learning interests focused around computer programming, which I had to learn completely on my own. Even the programming classes in High School (which were experimental at the time) discouraged exploring programming beyond the course's tiny box, and taught students NOTHING. I had to teach the programming teacher how to program. It was ridiculous, and was par for the public school course.

Homeschooling can hardly do any worse than public schooling.

Humans are answerable for their misdeeds. LLMs are not.

You can't treat it any other submission, for a variety of reasons. Some important ones are:

1) AI did not create the code. It lifted it from somewhere else, and it will be contributed without proper attribution.
2) There is no way to know if the lifted code has a compatible license, since there is no way to know where it came from.
3) If (or when) the rightful owner is identified, the lawsuits will fly.

Nuke it from orbit, then destroy the galaxy from which it originated. It's the only way to be sure.

Have you watched the release video, or are you just shooting from the hip?

You have not watched the release announcement. Even if, for the sake of argument, you are correct in your claims, it would be massively incorrect to judge the Frame by those past experiences, assuming Valve's claims are even partially accurate (there is every reason to believe they are completely true). Valve has seen all the complaints about all prior headsets, and addressed the all.

Maybe, and maybe not. But it WILL be locked down all to Hell, and will be stuffed to the gills with crapware and spyware. The Steam Machine will not. My next living room PC will definitely be a Steam Machine. The form-factor and openness have me sold.

Judge: Why don't you want to turn over the chat logs?
OpenAI: Because it's devastating to our case!

You are definitely in the terribly small minority of VR players who want wires on their VR headset. Tethered VR is dead, and has been for quite a while. Unwired VR is what 99.9999999% of players want.

The Steam Frame is a Quest-killer, and has tons of potential to which no other VR headset even comes close. I expect to see a firesale on used Quest 3s once the Frame hits the market, if the Frame is price-competitive with the Quest 3.

Sure, but you had to sideload it, which made it essentially nonexistent. And Android would still throw up the, "Beware! There be dragons here!" warning. All of that is now gone.

They didn't undo it. It was a localized feature before. Now it's global.

The AI bubble bursting can't possibly make things worse for the world. It will continue damaging the world until the bubble pops, then recovery will be swift, painless, and glorious for most of us.

That will be a HUGE improvement. Thank you, Epic!