Thank you. Once upon a time, tech companies were run by techies. Remember Hewlett-Packard before the suits took over?

\Why is the update not reversible? How about they make it available for download. People copy it to a thumb drive and insert it in the car. Before the new version is installed, the old version is saved on the thumb drive. If there is a problem with the new version, the user has only to restore the old version.

I'm not sure you understand how venture capital works.

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

I spend quite a bit on Discord server services, but I'm out.

GFY, Discord and governments, for mandating this bullshit nonsense.

Yes, but that's a _later_ problem.

The CCP is incredibly good at kicking the can down the road. I mean, most governments do a fair amount of that (not necessarily with regard to stuff in space specifically, only a handful of countries even have stuff in space; but there are other kinds of cans to kick down roads), but China is on another level. Short-term thinking is pretty much their whole modus operandi.

Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.

Tax funded?

Not private property anymore.

This actually is news. That air pollution is in various ways bad for people's health is not news. The news here is the effect specifically on frailty in elderly people.

This illustrates why host countries should not be given too much power. It's one thing if Brazil or some other country wants put on a unilateral show, but when an international organization is going to have a meeting, it should have an organizing committee that has the ultimate say. Obviously it has to work with the locals, but if the locals propose something stupid like this, the organizing committee should be able to say no, either fix it or we move the meeting elsewhere.

Anywhere in Saudi Arabia would be problematic given the country's restrictions on freedom of expression, persecution of gay people, limitations on the rights of women, etc., but Mecca is out of the question since only Muslims are allowed to enter the city.

something about cats?

The cable didn't fracture due to the movement of the sea floor. It was broken by a large mass of rock and other stuff set in motion by the volcano smashing into it.

Why do pigs require a large area? Pigs are typically kept in small enclosures and do not wander over large areas like cattle.

The link in the post is bad. I think this is what was intended: https://www.theregister.com/20...