Great. Rated "off-topic" for linking to articles about going back to the office on a post that's about return to office. SMH. Thanks modders.

From the Yahoo link:

And later:

Biden's not talking about federal workers. What I take issue is with your regurgitating nonsense that if I just read something on some web site, it can't be true and dismissing someone's post without checking whether what he's saying could be true and/or have some merit to it. You just summarily dismissed what the original poster wrote just because he "read it on some site". It's because of views like yours that prospects of discussion just fade away before we even have a chance to talk about things and our differences.

Can you just shut your pie hole for a second and search the internet?

Love the sarcasm.

You must not be in a serious relationship or it must be a pre-arranged, open relationship. I can bet every penny I have that my wife will go bonkers with jealousy if I were to get into a relationship with an AI bot and develop feelings for it (something which cannot be avoided).

I can just see someone at NASA sneaking in the middle of the night and using a couple jets from a can of WD-40 to get the job done and surprise everyone the next day.

I think he may had a brain fart typing that first sentence, conflating climate scientists and rich/powerful/elite people. But here's an interesting take on what he said. Obviously not all people believe in the doomsday scenarios being presented about sea levels, especially the rich who buy beach-front property. After all, if they did believe that their beach-front property was eventually going to be covered under water, then why would they invest in it?

How would younguns carve a niche for themselves if they didn't reinvent the wheel? It more than just wanting to rewrite code that's working perfectly under the guise of "it's a better language." It's about redesigning solved problems.

Case in point. The elevators at O'Hare's long-term parking don't have floor buttons inside, but rather just an open door button and a close door button. To select which floor you want to go to, there's a very small LCD in the middle of the bank of 4 elevators with floors on it (no bigger than 6" diagonally). You press "5" on the LCD and it tells you to go to elevator 2. Once you get in, the doors close and it takes you to the 5th floor. This is a perfect example of taking a solved problem and creating a cluster fuck out of it. I have not seen an elevator system like it anywhere else, which would explain all the bewildered users when an elevator door opens and they get in, looking for floor buttons and be all confused. They'd be lucky if they get back out before the doors close, otherwise they're taking a ride to some random floor.

People call me a boomer (which I'm not) for pointing out why change for the sake of change is not good, but it's pretty frustrating living in a world that's starting to believe otherwise.

The deja vu is strong today.

What I don't get is how you keep a project like this under wraps and still manage to spend billion $1-$2 on it. That's a good chunk of change. I get it that they probably needed to replicate what was in Natanz/Iran to some extent for test runs and things like that, but still. Some government contracts got super rich because of this.

The market value of a company has nothing to do with the shitiness of their product and all to do with investors' speculation as to the money the company can bring in. We all know Azure is not great, and heaven knows I'm a Linux guy who's hated MS for the long run, but Azure seems to be working for many companies and Microsoft has indeed integrated as many things as it can so that it can try and sell you their products as a whole. That's more than can be said of any company of the same size.

Microsoft has had 3 newer version of Windows sincer Windows 7. They supported Windows 7 for 10 years, which is longer than what you get with Ubuntu LTS and with RedHat you have to pay an arm and a leg for support in the first 8 years, let alone past that. The reason why they want everyone to get off it has both to do with them wanting you to move to a more current version in case they get to sell you a license, but also to protect you from exploits that'll come to light in Windows 7 after its support has ended. Imagine a whole swat of the world running Windows 7 and becoming infected with some malware. The less of them you have out there, the better it is for everyone.

Someone said the actors were not consulted first by the union. If that's the case, then this may be overturned, but if the actors voted for something like this, they are truly short-sighted. And the promoter of this whole order? From TFA:

He's completely clueless. Copyright laws would stop AI dead in its tracks. Sure. Underground you may be able to use the actors' voices using AI, but good luck making money off it without their consent.

You spent them all on down-modding me yesterday!

That's only because you didn't eat your meat.