every advance in technology comes at the expense of "rotting our brains"

example: calculators caused our brains to "rot", because we no longer are good at math

computers caused our brains to "rot", because we no longer need to manually process tons of data

AI will cause our brains to "rot", because now we have someone do our work for you.

yes, AI WILL replace some jobs, and at the same time it will help us do things that we couldn't do before. a bunch of new jobs will be created, as humans still need to code and train the AI. Will there be a time in which AI will be self sufficient? probably yes.

i'm also concerned about the environment impact. I'm really hoping this pushes humanity to develop and advance clean energy (solar, hydrogen, wind, etc)

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...

And DARPA has a whole program for it:

https://www.darpa.mil/research...

modern safety features and modern fuel economy.

OK that may mean a 2020s car with a 1970s user interface. Minus the 8-track, I don't need that.

Multiple places in the USA. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

Back in the early days of cable, I sometimes switched to dialup because of high packet loss on the cable connection. The dialup might have been slow but it was as solid as a rock.

A decade earlier I would sometimes throttle my modem to a slower speed for similar reasons.

... for slower technologies!

https://www.wired.com/story/fl... (may be paywalled by the time you read this).

One person's "OMGTHATSSOSTUPIDYOUAREANIDIOTIFYOUTHINKTHAT" is another person's "hmm, I haven't thought of things that way, tell me more about what you think so I can contemplate it."

We need more people in the second group.

I don't know how IPOs work in China but if this happened in the US, it would indicate the IPO price was set way too low.

The idea "IPO spike" is about 0 or maybe a little bit above 0.

If it drops on the first day that's obviously bad.

If it's goes up it means the company left money on the table. Sometimes its good to leave a little money on the table to give the IPO underwriters an others a reason to stay excited about your company.

Um, yeah, if you say so.

They did back it up.

They forgot the other part: Keep the original.

Or to put it another way: Have two copies that are extremely unlikely* to be erased/rendered useless by the same event or series of events.

*if a planet-killing asteroid hits, well....

Some people can heal minor loss of enamel.

Sometimes when a "big gorilla" (Microsoft) has a bug that is breaking you, the only practical thing is to code around it.

Especially if competing software isn't experiencing the same user-visible issues that your software is.

You may be morally right but shaming the gorilla without putting on your own band-aid is going to cost you users in the short run.

Besides, Microsoft's coders have their hands full finding and fixing security bugs before AI-equipped Black Hats find and exploit them.

Seriously, root is needed for software installation and updates (and not always even that) and that should be IT. Done. finito.

Yeah, individuals may have root access (but in corporate situations, even THAT has some limits to it - e.g., I can't see the that the 'spyware' I know is on my work machine actually exists. I know it does (because, for example, it is blocking me from screen-sharing to my AppleTV even off the firewall)).

But on a shared machine like old-school Unix minicomputers, that stuff is off-limits except to admins. This actually proves why that was the case - individual users can't be trusted with 'root'. And now we know that extends to non-sentient 'users'.

So this may prove that the bots are going to abuse their powers and therefore shouldn't be given any...but it also proves that the admins of these boxes that the bots are running on have about as much concern for real security as they ever did...which is to say, next to none until the exploitation is already out there.

This is a task that only required standard 'user' access - get the original software, get the dev tools needed for the new language, and have the tools for running the original to check parity), and that's it. They needed nothing more. They didn't need root, they didn't need email, they didn't need the ability to write commits to the others' repos. They needed the tools to do the job, nothing more.

Just like real users.

Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.