Ceo's complaining... They have been complaining in Russia for years now. They said the oligargs were going to end Putin's reign. I do not think this will dent the current US administration. They will just keep on marching further right.

Gpt 4 for an hour consumes less than Netflix? That's a tough clame. Where are the numbers, and why isn't Netflix investing in a nuclear reactor?

That is the thing with AI. You use an AI to summarize the long text from management to something brief and to the point. The manager, on the other hand, threw a few bullet points into an LLM and asked it to write the text.
The manager could have just emailed the bulletpoints. But no, now we need two nuclear power plants. One to generate the text from the summary and another to summarize the text. AI slop...
Just... talk... to... eachother.

I will keep saying this, but AI should replace management. I can't be the only one noticing that chatgpt can talk itself out of anything. Perfect manager!

Then again, if all management jobs are replaced by AI, those managers will need to do technical work. OK, AI should not replace managers. We will just need to keep them busy ourselves.

... we are still a herd stampeding to a mirage. We could just drop the attitude and live modest reasonable lives these days...

Because the Linux sales team has no clue how to appeal to non-technically oriented people. Fools!

That is a pretty negative view. I remember when dad busted his typewriter and bought a computer because it was better than a typewriter, it was a 80286 running at 12MHz. Loved it. Pretty sure a free pc will be appreciated by some. Too much power? Tweak the hardware. Trial and error... Maybe they will develop their own operating system... So many possibilities.

I would love to use Linux here. Allow me to vent a bit... They must use software from one company, mandated by government. It is a database front end. Of course they overcharge for it and it only runs on windows.
Their reps are assholes. They present it as some sort of revolution in computing. In essence it is a gui slapped on some open-source libraries. It needs the best hardware! (because they made it too slow) They sell overpriced Lenovo gear. Higher price on their list compared to directly buying from Lenovo. Small detail, their prices are without tax, it is already included in the price on Lenovo's site. So more than 20% profit. They scaremonger you into buying their stuff because it may not work on self bought hardware.
Next time that rep comes to warn us about our self bought gear, we may have a chat about security issues and windows.
Ugh, I got me started. They do not have an installation file. One of their guys has to come over to press the next button a few times. Hourly rate is several times what I make. Talked to the guy informally. He said his job was rather useless. Gave me a free Hdmi cable as a peace offer...
Oh well, time for coffee.

Indeed... good lawyers filter out the real message. Mumbo jumbo is the mode of operation amongst lawyers. First they have trouble interpreting what the law says wrt steamboat willy... and they ask what it means from Disney's lawyers. That does not portray much confidence in their own judgement. Then Disney replies, no doubt in professional state of the art lawyer mumbo jumbo and they say out loud that they do not understand it? Mmmm... yup, this office only gets clients by making lots of noise, not by good reputation... Oh well, time for coffee.

It is a consequence of too rigid thinking. Rigid thought: ms the enemy. Soothes the mind in an overly complicated world. Oh well... time for coffee.

My wife had to change the hardware in her small business because of windows 11 incompatibility. Can't risk security issues in healthcare. Laptop went to my daughter. She uses it for school stuff now. Secretary's desktop now is in my attic. It controls a small cnc machine and 3d printer. It replaced a more than a decade old duo core machine that was still running fine. For now, I keep running windows 10 on them. The machines are too good to go. It does not all end up as ewaste. Pretty sure there will be a great influx of usable machines in developing countries. Maybe it encourages more people to use another os. Some good will come from this.

Belgium here... teacher... we've had decades of people suing schools for not passing their kids. The government has formal requirements, if the school demanded a bit more than that, they contested the exam results. Too difficult! Also, the school had to prove that it acted professional and gave the kid all the support it needed. A lot of work for us, little work for parents. The system was abused a lot Actually, there was a lawyer's office close to my school that advertised that they could get any kid to pass.
That changed a few years ago. These days, schools can go beyond the minimum requirements, within reason. When sued, it now is the parents' job to prove that the school did not do its job. That is a lot less work for us and a lot more for parents. It works. My school upped the difficulty again for kids age 12-14. More leave the school at 13 to follow classes in a more technical oriented school. This is the first year that all my students age 14-15 are reasonably capable of passing to the next level. (My school prepares for college). I am actually getting hopeful again. It is sad though. Most parents are very reasonable people. They trust us, they discuss and try to convince us of our wrong the normal way. Only a small percentage of parents sued. Often it were the ... oversized ego parents ... that did that. "You mean my kid is of average intelligence? What an insult!" The whole system was bent to meet their demands. So wrong...

Go Africa, do things your own way!

Sharing with the public... so communism is not completely evil...

Didn't they train deepseek on chatgpt? I can imagine that is a big shortcut.