The fact that your horrible replacement interface is becoming even more expensive to ship isn't my problem - I didn't ask you to replace time-tested physical interfaces with glass surfaces designed by morons.

It's not clear that anything we'd be able to send out there would be able to find out more. The Oort cloud is SUPER low-density.

First, they can cut their staffing.

Second, they don't have to deal with any of the problems their products have because they have no avenue to receive feedback (*).

Winning and winning again!

(*) a few decades ago I made a habit of periodically going and grabbing someone from QA or support just to chat, because they had been FORBIDDEN to talk to engineers. I'd almost always discover a completely fixable bug or misfeature that we could have fixed six months ago if anyone gave a damn about quality. For sure you can get lost in the weeds over it, it's just depressing that management is willing to have an ass product because of "metrics".

Google Maps sent us through Kingston Wilderness last winter because I40 was going too slow (due to a holiday). I kept pestering my navigator until I got yelled at about how it looked valid. It was not valid, in retrospect I should have taken the hint when I saw the Lincoln Towncar turn around. It was definitely the start of one of those "Idiot follows Google Maps and dies of exposure" stories, except there were so many other people also taking the route that we'd have had to work really hard to actually die.

When I got back I went online to rant, and ended up not bothering because there were so many past rants on Reddit from people sent on the same route.

Why? Isn't bitcoin perfectly self-policing? People should have done their due diligence on how they stored their keys, and if they didn't that is just the invisible hand of the market at work.

This is amazing. Hopefully by breaking new ground like this, Musk will be able to bring natural gas to the masses. Can you imagine if they could just build natural-gas pipelines on demand, pretty much wherever you wanted to? This kind of cutting-edge development will truly open new vistas of human endeavor.

This is probably costing Canonical $42B/year to keep operating. Better to put their resources on other options, such as putting more packages into snaps.

Don't know what to add to that. TurboTax is a UX atrocity, in fact some things are kind of impressively bad. Though I suppose it's possible that they just put their good engineers on QuickBooks? They definitely didn't put them in Quicken before spinning that off.

Years ago I was an adult leader on an event where we took a group of teenagers to a remote island with no services (we took our own food and water and used composting outhouses). When we got back to civilization, the kids all engaged in a bunch of physical activities, variations on tag and simon says and that sort of thing, while the adults all huddled around the wifi access point. It was disturbing to the point where I put my own phone away.

The kids are just doing what their parents taught them. As those parents were taught in turn.

You are right, but also ... someone who is half-assing everything and gaming the system is not going to learn more from two hours than from fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, someone who is actively engaging with things, might spend the fifteen minutes and then go on to do two hours of additional exploration - but maybe not in the same direction as the specifically-assigned homework. You can't beat learning into people, but you can beat the love of learning out of people.

The crazy part is in assuming that a piece of paper can successfully keep a student's attention for two hours when a living human teacher can't even keep that attention for 45 minutes.

Society is dumb, that's just the way it is. The problem is normalizing it so that everyone thinks they are educated when they actually aren't.

But even if we fix that, people are still going to be dumb.

In order for a product to upgrade to newer kernels, they necessarily have to build their system so that you CAN upgrade it to a newer kernel, and then you have to have a team periodically rebasing the product onto the newer kernel - with a ton of testing to figure out if things still work (hopefully mostly automated, but you still need proper real testing behind that). This is just not the case in a lot of embedded systems, because building your system to those standards takes proper engineering capabilities in the first place and an ongoing engineering support team. Generally they ship with the kernel they were using when developing the product, and they have a bunch of half-assed patches against that kernel to customize it to their hardware. If you're lucky they'll pull in some patches backported from later kernels, but often even that is asking too much.

Hmm. Let me invert the entire point - as a result of this change, we aren't going to see tons of i486-based embedded systems only upgrade to 6.19 or whatever and then be orphaned. Because there were likely still running on 2.0.28 or 2.6.16 or something at the point where they stopped releasing firmware updates 12 or 15 years ago.

A large proportion of existing meetings aren't really necessary, and yet we have them. Often you're only having the meeting because someone in a position of power over you requires it of you. In many cases because they simply couldn't be bothered to simply review the information available to them, so instead they optimize their time by requiring everyone else to update them every week forever. Why would they stop requiring this farce just because there is a different way to package discussion?

Non-meeting contacts with colleagues are to exchange information. In many casese, non-meeting contacts happen because your colleague is a dumbass who would rather waste 30 minutes of your time to solve something than spend an hour of their own time figuring the damn thing out for themselves. Or just reading the docs. Again, why would they stop doing this just because there is a different way to waste your time? Them having an AI assistant doesn't make them any smarter or more diligent. They'll ignore your AI assistant just like they previously ignored the design docs and other documentation, because they still are trying to leverage your time to accomplish their goals.

Maybe their children can have a little neighbor desk to live under?

For instance, which OpenSSH private key types should be used, and which types should be removed from circulation? How often should they be rotated to help prevent issues? Are there tools to point at a site to query whether it is following best practices or not? I'd ponder a browser extension, but ... obviously that's how the malware would be carried in, sigh.