> I hated testicle exam day at school.

Depends who's doing it. I had a teacher who was quite hot and quite shapely, and I tried to rig my schedule so she'd have "ball duty" at the right day.

My desk was wood and finished with a simple oil finish...he believed anything connected with oil was a carcinogen.

This seems like a contradiction.

Yes, that's what they do.

The more I diet the hungrier and grumpier I feel. Some claim that feeling eventually goes away, but I'm skeptical. As soon as I smell bacon or fries while dieting, my body throws a hissy fit. At my age fries can feel better than sex, or at least make me happier longer.

There's a reason fat people are more jolly. A dieting Santa would shout, "Git your own damn presents! I'm not your slave!"

Gimmie knockoff skinny pills and tell the regulators to shove a fry up their bacon!

Indeed! Substring search with rudimentary Boolean would be good enough for me the vast majority of the time. The UI could be like this:

Find documents with words that
[Contain|v] [_____________]
[And|v] [Contain|v] [_____________]
[And|v] [Contain|v] [_____________]
[And|v] [Contain|v] [_____________]
[_] Case Sensitive [_] Search file name only

"|v" represents a drop-down list. The left-most drop-down would be And, Or, & Not, and the middle would be Contain, Start-With, End-With, & Equal. The Or's would be grouped together. For example:

Words that [Equal] AA
[Or] [Equal] BB
[Or] [Equal] CC
[And] [Equal] DD

Would be "show all documents having the word DD and at least one word of AA, BB, or DD."

I've coded UI's like this multiple times, and they rarely confuse users (after experimenting a little).

If MS merely perfects bicycle search science, we don't need rocket science. Industry is too eager to shove in buzzwords rather than improve what mostly works, making bloated buggy messes. The most annoying excuse is "but it's not enterprise/web-scale". Most projects are not giant. Why bloat up the 98% for the 2% biggies? The web-scale thing is probably not AI-related, but you get the idea. Like AI, web-scale trigger's me-too-ism. I'm putting your whippersnappers on a buzzword diet until you git off my lawn!

(This is Monday, so there's probably a Major Typo. Yes, that is partly a military joke.)

In the land of F's, D is king.

I'm going to create a popular language called TOIBE just to bleep with the TIOBE index readers.

My indirect point wasn't that they all should be shut down, but rather this smells like China bashing or boogymanning (boogytizification?).

I haven't seen how this alleged breach is related to the origin of TikTok, but maybe I missed something? It's something China can do to the other sites also.

Betcha 100 bucks Xi also grabbed Facebook and Xhitter user info. Most commercial sites are not fortified against deep-pocketed state-sponsored hackers, only typical private hackers.

Bob, you lived a DRAM good life!

Dammit, I told them to STFU about it; I need free laundry, with the expensive tuition and all. Next ya know, they'll spill the free Top Ramen and condom dispenser bugs. Those are show-stoppers for me.

What "fundamental" AI research requires $30 billion? I'd like to see the proposal first, otherwise the gov't will waste it on silly crap if it's too open-ended.

In other words, I don't trust gov't with a 30b blank check, and I'm a liberal.

No, I'm saying it was a lucky coincidence due to the way the domain changed, or didn't change. We can't expect lucky coincidences to happen often.

Where the gov't often does help is with forming standards to reduce vendor repetition and incompatibility. It may take R&D to test such standards, with the help of industry.

But hiding such research is only allowed for secret projects. Commercial AI wouldn't be able to use it. So who are you expecting it to boost? I don't believe Space X got special access to secret info, but don't quote me.

The Cloud business is kind of like the nuclear power business. Even though the average risk is probably lower than the alternatives, mistakes make the news and quickly damage your reputation. All the big cloud vendors will probably suffer at least one embarrassing outage or breach.