can't even agree that Russia invading Ukraine was wrong and they shouldn't have done it. You really think they'll come up with meaningful advice on something as new and complex as AI?

San Diego. Here you really don't want to use electricity from 4 PM to 9 PM. Which is when everyone gets home from work and wants to cook dinner, run the dishwasher, and do a load of laundry. Oh, and charge their car.

20 years ago when SDG&E forced smart meters on us they said it would cut costs. I and anyone else who had 2 brain cells to rub together knew TOU wasn't far away.

Why? I changed my default from Google to DuckDuckGo and search from the URL bar all the time. I also use Firefox.

and Windows itself says it won't support Win11. If you deliberately refuse to support recent hardware then of course a lot of people will stay with the old version.

I know there is (or used to be, I worked for a couple) engineering firms where, if a customer wanted a widget with wifi and whatever, they could contract a company to design the hardware and write the software.

Are there similar firms that design silicon? This month you're making a TV tuner/decoder for fred, next month a video chip for sally, and early next year an AI processor for Open AI?

1) China needs to quit threatening Taiwan
2) China needs to quit making artificial islands in attempt to claim a sea
3) China needs to leave the Uygurs alone

In other words, quit being assholes. Do I think China will do any of these? Oh hell no.

This should be good.

AI will finish his book series before he decides to plant his fat ass in a chair and do it himself.

Isn't that like saying the only reason Ford exists is to provide getaway vehicles for bank robbers?

I use Plex to serve my music and movies. I don't allow anyone not on my local network to access it (well, not deliberately).

Ah yes, the old "The Electoral College is the source of all our problems" argument.

Guess what. Every candidate factors in the Electoral College when running. Get rid of it and something else will take it's place. Something that in 10 years will have people screaming "Foo is the source of all our problems";

Me? I'd ban gerrymandering. Make a list of every address and how many voters live there. Nothing else. No age, ethnicity, salary, etc. Just "a voter lives here". Feed a computer a rough map and this list and let it grind out districts. It's algorithm is to pick a center and grow outward, paying attention to things like rivers, freeways, and other things that divide neighborhoods.

IMHO, just doing that will end a good percentage of the shenanigans politicians pull

Ah yes, leave a n00b in front of Vim and ask them to exit the editor. Great source of random input. In vi's defense, when I tried to learn Emacs it was easy to get the help menus. Getting out of the help menus? ^z kill %1 usually did the trick. Been using Vim since I met Linux in '94, prior to that I'd been using vi for 10 years. RIP VIM dude, I still use your code several times a day.

I can see high school kids downloading this, playing with it, and forging future careers. I can't see how this hurts the publisher in any way. If 20 year old tricks and tips to optimize the hardware is where you've put the laurels you're gonna rest on then, well, those laurels dried up and blew away 15 years ago.

I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.

Shit, since Soylent is going away I guess I have to post my opinions here again. Me no like.

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But how many Klingons?

I'm a kid. Please stop monetizing me. kthxbye