And see what the Pokemon shirt crowd thinks: Aww, too bad we don't get to talk about the science part because Slashdot is still crying about Trump.

Let's take all that money we were going to use to do something scientific and instead give it to the 500 pound unemployed single mom with nine kids and a $300 manicure so she can buy Oreos and bongs with it.

We'll still be running Linux 200 years from now.

The only place you'll be able to find Windows in 200 years is in an online encyclopedia...
 
...running on Linux.

Yes, exactly.

If you want to automate something the automation has to not only be faster per unit task or output, but it also has to make up for the extra time of checking or re-doing something when the automated way failed. To do that, you usually need to constrain the parts of a problem where the automated approach will succeed nearly always and where failures can be identified and mitigated quickly. That requires building a bunch of process oversight stuff, which in turn requires a big investment in instrumenting the current and future process to identify the exceptions and handle them correctly before failures move downstream and become much hard to address.
Additionally, work outputs that have a lot of unpredictability, or require persuasion or consensus (such as defining what problem to solve), or situations where there's no pre-defined correct future state, only a series of choices and murky outcomes, are just hard to automate period.

LLMs not only have regular failures, they have highly unpredictable failures. Yet they're being sold as though than can automate anything.

The reason the "agentic OS" stuff is will fail is the same reason that we didn't automate away our daily work using VBScript - the automation will be clunkier and more annoying than just doing the steps on our own.

The 17th Amendment called. Use code "1913" to retrieve your message.

No kidding. I don't know if you've ever tried using Explorer to search files in a directory for a filename, but it's unusable.

Everything from Void Tools does it in milliseconds. It does exactly what you'd expect - builds a list of filenames and searches them.

AFAICT there is nothing you can do in Explorer to make it only search the filenames - apparently it's necessary to search the web, the registry and everything else to find files by filename.
Can't wait for the agentic AI solution to ask Copilot what to do as well...

It's not your database, it belongs to the airlines. You must have agreed to them collecting and selling your personal data in the terms of the flight contract/ticket you purchased. This is just like the way you consented to your smart TV collecting and selling all your data because you plugged it in. I wish there was a legislative fix for this sort of thing in the USA.

That should be easy. The airlines could agree to pay the lawyers $40,000,000 and admit no wrongdoing. Maybe with any luck the airlines would also agree to provide a voucher for a bowl of nuts to anyone who flew in the past 10 years.

The last great recession was due to precisely this sort of spending pattern plus a collapse in payment. Banks may be healthy, for now, but they can't keep lending forever with no recover. This is not a good sign.

>But in a good model, esp. a thinking model, one
>would expect it to think over which sorts of
>numbers are statistically over-chosen (birthdates,
>etc) and avoid them in giving its answers.

and even then, it doesn't affect the chance of *winning*, but rather the chance of being the *sole* winner, as opposed to having to share the price.

[there *is* another possibility, though, albeit unlikely: it could come across a flaw in the RNG that lets it avoid less likely combinations, or choose a more likely one. Again, though, this requires an RNG flaw.]

just like when it hit three digits?

>Mexico has a half peso coin, worth about 2 cents.

and a peso was like a dollar.

I recall my aunt feeling guilty about what she was paying down there when it dropped to about eight to a dollar.

And then they lopped three zeroes off to get the new peso.

I *think* this is half of those one-thousands of the prior peso . . .

After extreme inflation, small matters of rounding aren't even on the radar for what's important.

[Let alone the 27 or so zeroes lopped off in Germany {where, near the end, workers were reportedly paid twice a day, with their wives bringing wheelbarrows to collect, and rushing to spend it before it fell further! (which may be an urban legend; I've never been able to confirm it, but it's not inconsistent with the daily inflation)}. Or Yugoslavia, which lopped off 30 digits . . . ]

[cloudtrack, err, flare, verification? *REALLY*]

And of further interest, I've never seen one in the US that was a round number of cents--they all end in 9/10 of a cent. (although in years past, 4/10 was also common)

So true. Sadly these days the market can stay irrational almost indefinitely. The factors that helped constrain this irrationality, like actual government oversight and discipline of equities and debt, willingness to let large corporations fail, and investor discipline in discerning real growth from financial games have all been eroded.

I have no idea when valuations will fall, and I wouldn't want to be better on a market that has no basis in fundamentals at all.

First they monetized loneliness with OF and Tinder. Then they monetized unemployment with LinkedOut, and now they're monetizing homelessness with Air B and E.

Hey, these are businesses that have to make money, so if they're clubbing kittens to death you have no right to complain. Now we noticed you stopped moving and you aren't spending money so we're going to have to ask you to leave or we're going to call the police and film them beating the shit out of you. Thanks for being our customer.

The latest Sun SPARC arrived at the speed of light... unfortunately it still runs Slowaris