I didn't talk about AI at all. I'm talking about the underlying issues potentially causing the NHS's capacity issues. However, I see an issue in your reasoning:

What is the sunk cost? You rent AI services. There is a nominal cost in integrating it into some workflow, but the main cost are purchasing the service as needed.

Britain's population increased from 56 million to about 60 million between 1970 and 2005, at a rate of about 114,000 per year. It increased from 60 million to 68 million between 2005 and 2020. at a rate of 500,000 per year. That might have something to do with NHS staffing and budgetary issues.

Technically they did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The NYT has a track record of stealth-edits.

https://www.poynter.org/ethics...

Wiping the archive makes it much more difficult to detect this stuff.

Obligatory Barry clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"My Bluetooth isn't paring with the device I'm trying to denotate..."

I have the official developer documentation from NeXT. Sometimes it's NeXTSTEP and sometimes it's NEXTSTEP. I think NEXTSTEP is the newer marque, but both are correct, as NeXT themselves used both.

NASA needs Pu-238. Nuclear warheads use Pu-239.

There is no infrastructure to produce it at scale. There are tons of reactors that use uranium dioxide, so there is a pretty robust supply chain for it.

They must be switching some browser protections off, as well. My understanding is that JavaScript timing loops have some very minor entropy injected to prevent things like this from happening.

No, they'll buy licenses for QNX or VxWorks. Or switch to BSD. A lot of car stereos run on QNX/Qt.

You're thinking of Ocean's 11. Different film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Have you heard of Ocean's Eleven? He directed Ocean's Eleven. And a few dozen other films, one of which you're probably seen, unless you don't like going to movies.

I'm guessing it's a lot of legacy apps. My friend worked with PowerBuilder heavily in the 1990s doing a lot of custom work for niche vertical markets, like municipal water utility billing applications and industrial monitoring systems. I think a lot of that stuff is still floating around, and, similar to mainframe applications, organizations don't want to pay to overhaul the whole thing in Java/Rust/Python/whatever is fashionable at the moment.

The cars are cheap for two reasons. 1. Absolutely everything is subsidized - from the labor to the steel to the rubber gaskets 2. There is no support infrastructure set up - no service centers, no parts distribution warehouses, no support network at all If the US government subsidized the crap out of US car makers, and they didn't have to support their vehicles at all, they'd be cheap, too.

My friend has a fancy hearing aid, and it has a setting where it focuses in on the voice of the person he is looking at. I think it's even called party mode. It cancels most noises except for the closest person his head is aimed at. He can tweak the sensitivity to the point he can clearly hear people talking from several tables away at a noisy restaurant, if he looks directly at the speaker.