Typical /. comment - you spent a lot of time talking about your HW setup, optical drives, etc. but negated to even mention the time machine you use to visit the video store. What I want to know is what happens if you screw up and return the video before you rented it?

No mod points, but ding ding ding, this is exactly it!

We had the hamster dance page! And we LOVED it!

Right, because when people think of AI they think of average human intelligence.

"Today we'd like to announce the dawn of a new sentient AI with average human intelligence."
"OMG, what's it doing? Curing cancer? Developing new materials? Extending our vision of the universe?"
"Well, no. Currently its drunk, watching TikTok, looking up pictures of computers with their cases open, and binging The Bachelor.. But we're sure we can get it motivated to do all that tomorrow. Got to go, the AI just discovered QAnon!"

And this raises another question: does the AI have a gender identity?

Its a computer program. By this logic, anything built with a spreadsheet must be public domain, along with anything written by a wordprocessor, compiled with a compiler, etc etc etc. Of course the people who built the machine to help them calculate the end result have rights to it.

"Apple invented this new thing called RCS. Its pretty cool because you can now have the features we've had for years!." (TMTMTMTM)

What are you talking about? There's at least 5 comments here already saying that this was already known, scientists are proving the obvious, the research was all done in the 80s and they didn't even bother reading it, etc etc. These scientists are wasting their time when they could just post to "Ask Slashdot"

Do you think you're smarter than MS lawyers? Really? The second you do that, oh, its a magical support update. What's in it? "Fixes bug in Notepad, Theme change in Paint."

Problem solved.

Now what's your next play? Have the judiciary (government) decide what the proper level of support to qualify support is? Why not, they're already forcing open source at gunpoint.

If you want open source software, use, create, and support open source software.

Look up what people who restore old or damaged paintings do. At some point its all guesswork, but educated guesswork. As someone above said, for art (assuming its tunable) this is perfectly acceptable. For figuring out who's really under the mask in that old bigfoot footage, not so much.

Look, I'm right. I'm not going to argue with you or be "under the burden to show proof" because I'm right, and what's the point of any of that when I'm right, right? Trust me bro!

In chrome its the Menu -> Settings - >Search Engine, select Duck Duck Go from the drop down. It's not exactly hidden if you want to do it (first place I'd look), I guess figuring out you _need_ to do it is the hard part.

Most modern consoles in the past 15 years, including 360 and PS3, also include audio output that compliments the video aspect of the games. You should give that a shot and see if it solves your issues.

Yes, because in 2023 the pinnacle of computing, the standard by which all other lesser OSes are judged is......printing stuff out? I know I for sure have cursed the lack of display postscript every time my airport boarding pass comes out slightly different than the web page. Not that I'll be showing it to everyone, I have a phone for that of course, or could just use a kiosk, but even backups deserve crisp margins!

Take a look at Herb Sutter's C++ Syntax 2 experiment he's been running (https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront). In this case for C++ type inference the "auto" keyword was employed, thus you have lots of code like

auto foo = ...
auto y = ...

Auto everywhere because most types can be inferred in many cases. With CPP2 he's switched, such that its

foo : int = ...

but for everything else its just

x = ...
y = ...

with the auto as the default, and assumed. Much more readable.

The other reason is that grammars are MUCH easier to write for this type of language.