It might be good for Fidelity to read this classic tome.
Short version: Adding more people to a project doesn't speed things up.

Parents no longer parent and expect the schools to teach their unruly and coddled child.

You seem not to understand the word AND. Windows 11 gives many users a reason not to upgrade their computers. AND many of them are gamers. AND components are expensive right now. Not once was the word “only” used as the reason.

"Managers are actively trying to slow you down." Managers might be, but if they are I suspect is from sheer ignorance rather than any design to get more workers underneath them. The reward system favors using as few people as possible so they can claim x savings at the End-O-Year Roundup.

I simply can't imagine why it wouldn't be orders of magnitude cheaper and faster to just use short segments that don't need to be aligned so precisely.

So having 100 times the number of segments but now all with poorly aligned joints would be better?

I used to think that maybe I, a simple country ignoramus, just wasn't equipped to understand the Wonders of the Modern Age. ...

And you're still wrong. Duties don't exist in any general case applying to everyone. Specific duties may be shoehorned into specific legal arguments that may apply to a specific example in one specific company. And you can identify if that company and example is you by comparing case law and seeing if you match all the same conditions of a 100+ page judgement against another company.

We're explicitly talking about a local run model, this is the one case where it isn't doing any spying, dumbarse

Except your beef is with the friend who keeps letting them in again. You can kick the friend out too. You choose not to.

But buddies is the wrong word. Buddies implies whole unique different products along side the browser. The AI model is a feature of the browser itself (check the Chrome beta, it's got a button and AI features built in).

An even more accurate analogy would be inviting a friend over, enjoying their company for years, and then at some point they develop a medical condition like Tourettes which you can't stand, but can't get rid of. You don't get to choose the features your friend includes, you can only choose whether to find a different friend.

Hahahaha speaking of rent free.

Global salt is still a risk since you only need to run through an entire database once, but the point is that with a global salt you still need to run the compute cycle once. THAT they can do in under a minute per password. Yes that is a different risk than doing it in under a minute for a large chunk of the database, but the reality is you shouldn't consider *your* account secure with a unique salt per account, because any attack that targets you will start with you - usernames are not typically protected.

I was picturing a woman with a lot of makeup and an affected smile typing loudly, measured. You know she can type twice that fast, but she knows everybody stopped to listen.

Yes, but now you have it too complicated for 95% of the vibe coders. So they simply won't do it. Because skipping all of those steps still results in something that compiles.

They fuck up spreadsheets as well. A truckload of business-critical spreadsheets have errors in them that often go undetected for years.

Most people only have access to that via websites, so checking a new password by transmitting it to a third party would be the worst thing they could do.