I salute you sir!

And the wonderful thing is that you have choices that don't use systemd. Or do you want everyone to use what you prefer? MacOS doesn't use it so maybe that would suit! 8^/ MacOS uses launchd. Anyhow, use the OS version that pisses you off the least.

This needs to be at +5 - get to work mods!

I am in utter awe! I laughed until the tears rolled out. Possibly the best thing I've ever seen on the internet, let alone Slashdot.

Out of curiosity, since I've been around long enough to hear about how every technological advance is terrible, and since you believe that AI is a terrible thing - riddle me this, at what year should we have frozen technology? When should we have become latter day Amish?

I think hunter gather times might have been a good time to freeze technology, before the agriculture advances. What is your year we should have stopped? The loom? tight before the Industrial Revolution? During the time of subsistence farming?

You need to work hard to get humanity back to when technology wasn't "harming" people.

Now before you get too worked up, here is why I ask those questions. People have a tendency to believe that the technology they grew up with was the proper point. I recall a time when personal computers were a so called tool of the devil. And yet, they are the tool many of us do our jobs with now.

We can still find people who are pissed off that tube technology is so much better than transistors, integrated circuits and Software defined radios. Seen anyone doing punchcard programming on IBM 360's recently? I did that at one time. People whine about modern cars, preferring ancient ones, yet I remember pulling over to the side of the road to crack open a beer in teh mid 70's when the car my father gave me hit 100K. And at that point, it was pretty well knackered out. today, cars regularly goo 200-300 K miles or around 500,000 Kilometers.

The list goes on, I won't belabor you.

All technology comes with a cost of both good and bad happening. And I get it. A lot of people here are programmers, and that field will change. If I were a programmer, I'd be updating my skillset - I've upgraded mine several times over the years, as technology changes, I've changed along with it.

So your bottom line conclusion is that AI shouldn't exist because some companies don't use it?

I don't even disagree with what you say until you reach that part. So tell us - just because 493 of the S&P doesn't see profit, what is the justification for the 7 that do profit from it.

And this study assumes that AI is some sort of monolithic thing that is useless unless all of the S&P 500 use it. Explain - Is the S&P 500 the ultimate judge of what is allowable. AI is a tool. It isn't a tool for every single corporation. It will have an impact in the industries it is applicable to.

And at this point it is a bubble that will burst before too long - but that's a human idiocy problem, not AI's

Yeah. And in reality, is that a bad thing? I can't imagine a more soul crushing job than call center work.

Yes, this is a monstrous bubble. The concept of what amounts to essentially doubling the country's energy use (although it reads like the end game is exponential growth) of an entire country, restarting old decommissioned nuclear plants, and a data center in everyone's back yard, is one hella bubble.

After the bubble bursts, there are legitimate and good uses for AI, it's just the present paradigm is lunacy.

Oh - you didn't hear about how Linux was destroyed by systemd, and the only functioning distros remaining are free of the abomination?

Me either.

That my good man, is some worthy trolling. Well played indeed!

I don't know if you saw the video I saw a while back. A bear was trapped in a car. Guy was trying to figure out how to get it out. he managed to get something hooked on to the door handle of the car, attached a 50 foot rope and pulled, while ready to hop in his vehicle. He pulls, pissed off bear flies out, but didn't go after the guy. Car was a stinking mess inside, bear ripped the interior apart, and was pretty much totaled.

Most of ours seem to tread some middle ground. I've had only a few things damaged - one pulled over a bird feeder's pole. Pretty impressive because it was mounted in concrete. A week or so ago one discovered our pond and drank all of the water in the bird bath, then apparently took a nap in he garden.

Some people that move into the neighborhood get freaked out the first time they see all the wildlife. Game commission tells them something along the lines of "You live in a forest adjoining one of the biggest state game lands in the state, you'll have to get used to wildlife. Don't feed, and don't treat them like pets."

Our biggest issue is there is a Cooper's Hawk that either loves or hates my wife. Maneuverable devil, he swoops in and veers off inches from her every so often when we're on the patio.

My favorite trick for snotty bean counters is asking "Since we have teh 13 digit job numbers, do I need a special number for using the restroom?

They get very twitchy, because in that world, scratching your butt is removing time from assigned time.

Wasn't Windows 12 prophesied in The bible in Revelations as the end of the world?

Well, a bear can be pretty dangerous, if you surprise them or get between a mother and her cubs. And the species varies in aggression. Our black bears here in PA, are generally well behaved - just don't try to pet them! Grizzly bears and especially Polar bears are a different matter.

And they haven't shown up in my area yet, but Elk are repopulating. Up north of here about 50 miles, they wander all over the place. Seeing a full grown bull elk is breathtaking. Huge and pretty majestic.

I don't disagree about the sensationalist aspect.

As to displaced animals, could be quite a few. We had a similar clearing near us maybe a mile away - even bigger, and we ended up with a lot of wildlife, squirrels, deer, various birds, and black bears. (note, I live in a forested village) I'm probably in a minority, but I enjoy watching bear and deer walking down our streets in the morning.

Yeah, another AI BAD! story. If they are clear cutting and turning large areas into mud, they might need to do a little better protecting the environment.

Sometimes you get it, sometimes not. A former neighbor bought the house next to me, He's an engineer and his father was in construction - a Master carpenter. I liked both of them. They did have a bit of a "We know better" thing going on.

So they set about remodeling the house. It was good work, but they didn't get any permits. Things were going okay until they installed a new electrical drop and got caught after they disconnected power, and reattached it. They replaced the drop attached to the house with a proper conduit ingress. Kinda pissed off the electrical company, and the attention then caused the township to get involved. Took something like 8 months to get everything settled.

The crazy part is that the permitting process is not that difficult, and the electrical utilities are pretty prompt. The neighbors work was very good. But a lot of people who skirt the rules are doing poor work, so their work was gone over with a fine tooth comb.

But that's a different subject. Where was the Finnish Government with permits, environmental impact statements, inspections for compliance?

And contractors will do things on the cheap, down and dirty if allowed. That's why even if you Are building a house, you make certain all the permits have been filed, and you visit the site at various times to make certain it is being done correctly.

Whatever Google is or isn't, the Finnish government is complicit.