The same cast of barely competent fake it till you make it characters that use AI as an appeal to authority already did that with white papers, best practices and whatever blogs they could google. Good job you can read, now model the fucking problem.

It's the same people, same mentality, and it gets the same treatment. When I present a well researched technical solution to you, and you white paper me, unthinkingly quote some best practice blog or a reference architecture diagram, or type what I'm saying into Gemini and pro-tip me, you go on the shit gets done while you're on vacation list and not invited to future discussions.

That's how you deal with those people. Them using AI as their latest appeal to authority crutch doesn't make it AI's problem. Quoting AI is just the new link to a PDF.

Lol, cogent conservative responses here get modded to oblivion.
Frothing leftist flamer "Insightful"

Slashdot is so ideologically captured.

Did you think the benefit of being the 'only surviving industrial infrastructure' faded what, a week after ww2? /huh?

You people have gone insane.

Stop trying to control every atom of existence and every move people make.

You're sick in the head, not visionaries, not thought leaders.

Go plant a garden and get back in touch with the real world.

No, NOT FARMVILLE!

"We used to have super high taxes for the wealthy and corporations."

Did we?

Because what I see is a high marginal tax rate really only in the postwar years. ... And anyone who begins their economic model in the late 40s is a moron or a liar.

Remember anything important that happened, say, midcentury?
Something that may have left the US fabulously wealthy, particularly relative to all the other industrialized countries who were shattered & left in ruins by the same event?

Anyone who points to that time and stupidly says "durr, we should do it THAT way" conveniently disregards the (hopefully unique) economic environment resulting from multiple, cataclysmic, economy shattering wars and the luxuries available to those left standing thereafter.

> genuine question - why was this code pushed now

Zuckerberg has aggressively been bribing politicians to enact this at the State level.

Several news stories about it though you have to search for terms like 'lobbying' and 'Meta' as fig leaves.

>arguing it unfairly advantages startups

Way to say your dealers suck.

Simplify. The best part is no part. The parts omitted never fail. They don't require maintenance, supply chains, continuous improvement.

At the same time, "but I don't like this law" isn't going to protect you from punishment if you break it.

Fight unethical laws with every fiber but you're going to be far more effective if you Chesterton's Fence than if you just stomp your feet and whine.

An exception is the Zeropatch technique where they dynamically update machine code of the OS in memory on the fly for folks who can't tolerate downtime.

It's certainly not common on unix systems.

Or an IoT device running a 2.6 kernel that is never going to be updated. :)

Did Dolby break any countermeasures of Snap's copyrighted code in what would appear to be a significant reverse-engineering effort to make this determination?

Or do they only have a suspicion?

This scenario reminds me of the SCO lawsuits when the progress of technology made that company obsolete.

That already happened, under Biden, and it wasn't a bloodbath, it was four perfectly boring years of nothing to talk about but egg prices.

Man, everyone would take "centrists" a lot more seriously if they'd actually NAME the polarizing hot-button issues of the day when you do the hand wavy both sides schtick, and stop acting like "centrist" is an excuse to not have a rational opinion on anything yourself.

Just come out and say it, windmills, vaccines, egg prices, bathroom governance, confirm everyone's suspicions. You have to say it though, your own words, what did Biden do, the great divider of hot buttons.

Both sides think centrists are fucking idiots. They're two adults yelling past each other, one wants what's best for the family, the other is balancing limited means with reality. A centrist is the kid eating nuggets wondering which parent he's going home with and if that means he can stay up late. We both care deeply about you, now cover your ears and go back to your cartoons.

From a parent's view you mean, why go out of our way to block it? Are you serious? It's extremely unrealistic for one thing. This is a tech site for old farts, it'd be like letting your kids program in BASIC.

Imagine your kids all got to some age where they all started thinking about programming every ten seconds. Then you find fucking JavaScript on their computer. It is not educational in a healthy way.

If we consider that at the same time Reddit is going to be having user-validation issues, it feels like this is a match made in heaven (for the rest of us).