"Because I can tell you with 100% certainty that when *I* use it, *I* get clean, functional, sometimes beautiful, well designed, and well implemented results."
That's what everyone thinks. Thinking that doesn't make you special.
That's the problem with statistics and more importantly the reporting of statistics. It's not possible to know what it means.
Is it individual characters? Is it the plates? Is it the letters and numbers of the alphabet, 96% could very much mean the software works perfectly 100% of the time unless there's an O or 0 in the plate too, that would be 96% of the characters too. Are they talking one off? Maybe they mean errors per frame and through all frames the 96% character level error rates get corrected but 1 in a million slip through.
Comments like the on in TFS are useless.
You see, Linus has embraced transhumanism and is testing out the new kernel as a supplementary brain function, using MOSIX to offload all of the irritable comment generation at yet more nonsense on the mailing list to an Elizabot that he has written specifically to do this. This saves his actual brain for real work.
AI is not currently capable of performing any meaningful conceptual abstraction, it is only capable of very basic mechanical abstraction. Abstraction is itself multi-dimensional. Nor is there any indication that AI could ever perform multi-dimensional abstraction or multi-dimensional decomposition. Precious few humans are capable of it either, but some can.
No, AI would need humans because the best system is not a pure system but a hybrid system, and that means transhumanism with AI operating as an additional brain function rather than as a replacement for a brain.
Tool calling is, yes, but the current approach to it is (a) overt not transparent to the user, (b) not designed for the purpose I've outlined, and (c) not remotely good enough for the AI to be able to manage data through such tools.
Yes, you can connect an AI to a PostgreSQL database. Whoopee. Not even close to an AI detecting via classifiers that some of the data is relational in nature, transparently setting up its own PostgreSQL database in response, and using that proactively as an additional way to examine the data. You would need to explicitly set up the constructs, explicitly set up the databases, explicitly tell it when, where, and how to use the database, and if that particular usage conflicted with a way the AI actually worked, the AI would not be able to use it effectively. That's not remotely close to what I'm talking about.
What I'm talking about is much, much deeper than that. AIs lose focus when there is too much information currently in the system. Absolutely nothing stops an AI from using a document database as a virtual memory in which it can page in and out conceptual spaces so that the focus on any given step of a problem concerns just the problem. Other than such a concept not existing yet, which is kind of a limiting factor. But you need to know what connects to what. The AI could use an ontology reasoner for that, or a relational database, or an external graph. But you cannot provide those tools and you cannot configure them, for the simple reason that the AI is the only entity with any detailed map of how the underlying neural net is connecting those ideas up.
The AI itself has to select the tools, has to configure the tools, has to do all the work. Which means YOU cannot use any sort of API. YOU should have no involvement in the underlying mechanisms needed for the internal NN housekeeping.
And that's your other error. You're assuming this is about user data. No. It's about housekeeping operations within the NN itself to maximise functionality, it has nothing to do with the user side of things at all. If the user was capable of setting up dynamically structured databases that mutated with each step of a decomposed analysis, you'd have done everything the AI would be doing and you wouldn't need the AI to begin with.
You cannot do this work, you cannot even assist in this work, it has to be dynamic and it has to be utterly invisible to the operator.
I have to uninstall it and make sure that none of my files have been forcefully moved to the OneDrive before I remove it.
Precisely nothing is forcefully moved to OneDrive unless you've explicitly enabled it to do so (maybe in the past). Even if OneDrive is installed the worst you get to experience is an app that pops up a window asking you if you are going to use it.
But it is annoying that they push it with Office, however cloud syncing is a core feature of Office so it's not surprising that they do so. It would be the equivalent of shipping word without the spell checker at this point. If you don't like this core feature that is integrated in every app of the suit and underpins the sharing and collaboration features then you really selected the wrong Office suit for your use case. Consider LibreOffice.
Implying that having the source code gives you ownership?
The number of people who actually compile their OS from source is so close to zero as to be meaningless in the world.
Additionally users fall into two categories:
1. Those who do auto-update, or apply updates quickly.
2. Idiots who think they own their computer whereas it probably belongs to someone in Russia or North Korea.
Precisely no one in the world audits all code going into their computer via updates, and given that a rollout here happened, was immediately uncovered and then hit the news, there's no reason to believe having source code available would in any way have sped up detecting the problem
And we know quite well not auto-updating leads to more active zero days exploited in the wild, so that's not something you should be striving for.
So... is your computer owned by someone in Redmond, Cupertino, London, Moscow, or Pyongyang? It most certainly isn't owned by you.
If they've screwed up so badly that even their large corporate customers have been hit by the same thing and there isn't even a good way to undo the damage at the moment, this could lead to meaningful lawsuits from their customers and/or interventions by regulators.
You always shoot first and ask questions later? OneDrive photos works only on personal Microsoft accounts. The accidental rollout for enterprise users has done nothing more than cause OneDrive to display a sync error in the task bar, and flash an error message if someone opens the photos app.
So no, there's no legal or regulatory concerns over this in the slightest. There's some annoyance, but let's face it if anyone tried to sue Microsoft for being annoyed about having to do extra work due to MS fuckups, the company would have gone out of business a long time ago. It's now just par for the course to expect Windows to need to be micromanaged by sysadmins due to MS tinkering.
The real WTF is that there's no simple and quick rollback mechanism.
Except that too much AI slop is the reason why those were brand new bugs.
Except you're making shit up. Many of the bugs identified are quite ancient, most kernel contributors don't just blindly submit AI code, and even when they do it goes through a human review, so calling this "AI slop" is just stupid.
By the way don't take my word for it, just search on Slashdot for the article where Linus Torvalds himself disagrees with you.
Except this time around they're being called "perv goggles" or "perv glasses". I suggest we keep reinforcing that term so that's what the public calls them.
Flatpak, Snap and containers in general need lots of drive space. Good thing storage is cheap these days OH WAIT
The programs I use these days generally don't consume all that much space - even if it got really bloated I'm sure most people can get by with under 200GB of installed programs (excluding things like games).
Most of my disk space is data files - videos, music, etc.
Modern games being so big the extra container overhead is basically nothing compared to 120GB for the game assets itself.
If you have 1T of storage space (something that's been around for a decade and a half now), that's usually way more than plenty for even the biggest Linux distro. (Granted, 1T SSDs have only really been cheap the past half decade or so prior to last year).
I don't think the use of flatpak is going to significantly increase the amount of disk space used. It's all my regular work files that take hundreds of gigs of storage space that really consume disk space.
I would be greatly surprised if you couldn't comfortably install this distro on a 256GB SSD (if you can even find them as most people just threw them out).
Not only don't we but we especially don't need it to be based on compiz. I've already been down that road. It's all but abandoned. It's way too flaky for prime time. Went back to KDE, much better.
Nothing makes sense in gnome
To whom? One of the problems is that people bring their own biases to the table when using any HMI, even if you think you don't. Much like the Office Ribbon many UI studies aren't focused on how to make power users more powerful, they are focused on expanding the pool to new users and how new users interact with systems.
The end result is often a system that is easier and more intuitive, but only if you have NOT been using a computer the past 20 years.
Studies aren't "obviously wrong". They are just obviously not targeted at *you* specifically.
That really makes a dent in the 11.2 terawatt-hours (TWh) per day (bing)
Yeah we should actually not invest in any energy because big numbers are scary and attention spans are too short to actually do things which may take years. Is that your arguement?
How about spare parts? Are all the parts (bearings, blades, generator, control systems, braking system) universal?
How about them? No they aren't universal, but they are common and available, and can be manufactured by after market vendors and changed out by vendors if need be. Do you apply the same whataboutism to a coal generator? The gas compressor station at the end of a pipeline? How about the high flow water pumps in your municipality?
Will any service contractor work on it
No, only the ones who you give the service contract to.
What happens when XYZ goes six-feet under... where are you going to get parts?
Somewhere else. Machinery isn't some magic unique thing that only one person has the knowledge to work on. Hell for generators we often have the service department of one generator manufacturer servicing the generators bought from another. Where I work we've no problem servicing a 80 year old compressor for which the manufacturer ceased existing 60 years ago. When we need the parts we get them made by someone. Usually the biggest issue we have is people questioning the equipment housing given the massive chunk missing after we ground the swastikas off them after the war.
I'd bet the turbines are primarily feeding the big cities, while the poorer villages and mining operations and sweatshops and cheap factories are all on coal and whatever else they've got.
What's your point? Carbon emissions and green energy only counts if some farmer gets a green electron? It seems to be the single dumbest comment posted here, and there are some truly dumb things posted here today.
Or Biden era mandates for the project workforce to make DEI quotas.
RWE has zero problems investing in countries that have DEI quotas elsewhere, including at home, so why would that be a problem? In fact their final investment decision was made knowing what the DEI quotas were. The FID literally took into account all of the Biden era regulations.
"These requirements are screwing everything up," said one senior Department of Transportation staffer who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Yeah an anonymous source quoted by a tabloid so biased they literally state their bias in their own title. I guess you're reading this shit because Infowars is down and you need your daily dose of weaponised bullshit?
This system will self-destruct in five minutes.
