Then the future will belong to China.

Better start learning Mandarin.

And how TF is Vbasic more prevalent than Perl?

The very same attitude that closed down the schools "until it's safe" despite some places sending their kids to school in the middle of literal war zones on account of schooling is *that* important.

been an Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability being Actively Exploited!

Yum. I think we can better taste it.

Ah NO! I stopped doing any Microsoft related development work in the early 2000's because of the Microsoft tax.

"social media use was shown to be heaviest among the lowest achieving students"

Correct.

The current war and upcoming $1000/mo typical residential utility bills is what's driving me. And the math on a Carrington Event.

I know of three other people who are off-grid capable in my network of high hundreds of households.

It is especially bad on Wikipedia, where a tiny number of anonymous super admins control the narrative- and they pass their views off like they have no bias. I think every Wikipedia admin should have to declare their name and political affiliation; it would be rather enlightening.

Indeed. I pay $20 per month for Cursor, and it works great.

Why should I pay 15 times that much to be Elon's beta tester?

History is told from the victors perspective often enough to warp accuracy, and politics runs on bullshit. Always has.

In other words, par for the course. We shouldn't expect much better.

Using automation to find bugs was inevitable and comes with some positive potential. But in the real world it makes criminals and individuals with no regard for the chaos and damage they create more dangerous. But it is what it is and only time will tell us how it works out.
Just because you can does not mean you should!

Sentient, eh?

* holds knife up *

(Me) "Alright sweater-meat. Tell me the secret to invisibility cloaks, or the little black dress here gets the cutting room floor.."

Uh, train who/what exactly? The Hallucinator behind the curtain here seems to be doing just fine imaginating it's way into existence based on TFS. What more training is needed? Like it really needs the Hunter S. Thompson module with the DMT plugin and liquid cocaine cooling.

As far as the meatsack smoothbrains "training" themselves off this drivel, probably good for stock prices that social media has some competition. It's been rather Tik or Tok for choices lately. With crippling effect.

But also he doesn't really age, or at lesst he deages on occasion.

Maybe we'll get James Bond and the Philosopher's Stone.