So what you're saying is your average American is a fucking moron.

I can get behind that.

I've done quite of work on Calc, and never had much of a problem. It's not a one-to-one match with Excel, but I've had few issues. I don't really use Powerpoint or Impress, save to view presentations, and haven't seen any significant issues.

I have used Writer *a lot* (I've written a novel and several proposals and projects). Once I got it used to it, I actually prefer the way I can work styles in Writer to Word, and every time I'm forced back into using Word, I find it just a huge pain in the ass. In general it doesn't molest docx files too much (unlike Google Docs which horribly mutilates styles).

I'm pretty much using LO full time at work now, and only use Word and Excel when I log on our Terminal Services server. I'm not sure I'd ever be brave enough to completely abandon Office, but I'm definitely not looking at further re-entrenching myself.

So, like Dungeons and Dragons and Judas Priest before them, AI models are now blamed for underlying mental health issues that they have nothing to do with.

Bring on the AI moral panic. As if we didn't have enough of those these days.

Can't wait for the groovy A flat, Asus4-G sharp-sus5, F sharp add11 song, with the C minor dim7 root for the bridge.

The French have an interesting record with tyranny, including lopping off the head of a tyrant, and then lopping off the head of one of the tyrants that was instrumental in the first tyrant's head getting lopped off. The French Revolution makes that puny American War of Independence seem like a stroll in the park.

And perhaps we can also mention how there wouldn't even be a United States if France hadn't given the Continental Congress significant financial and military (particularly naval) aid.

Macbooks are affordable? Not compared to Windows laptops.

Right now,, I can find a Lenovo with an i5 for $650. If I wanted to go cheaper, they have an AMD Ryzen 5 for under $400.

It looks like the cheapest Mac laptop is $1000.

That's a $350-$600 difference.

That's not pocket change for many people. You are seriously underestimating how much free cash some people have.

And why should they spend more? 90% of people are just browsing the web, reading emails, and doing some light document editing. Most laptops work fine for that.

That seems an extraordinarily high efficiency rate. I am very dubious.

Yup, just another example of the Carbon Capture Perpetual Motion Machine Scam. The thermodynamic uphill problem with atmospheric capture is so extreme that if you had enough free energy sitting around to make it worthwhile, you wouldn't need to do any of this.

I'm amused by those who imagine that the laws of physics can be defied merely by looking the other way. It makes me ponder how unbelievably moronic humanity is, how pathetic, and how deserving of what it is come.

Indeed. Replacing half a century of collective experience with a new language in an entirely different and far less tested environment to write low level code, where all the memory safety features have to be disabled at all the same failure points where C and assembly have been used... for reasons.

So, in other words, it really isn't any better at bare metal development than C/C++. If you have to direct memory and hardware manipulation in unsafe blocks, then really, it's just the same thing as doing it in C.

It's quaint that you think the United States is still a republic. It's a monarchy, and Trump's handlers are likely moving currently to make sure that when Vance succeeds him, that the Executive branch and a Congress that will be, through the use of naked force if necessary, remain filled with Republican paper tigers to complement the paper tigers in the Supreme Court, settles into the oligarchy the Framers always really intended it to be. The military will largely be used to recreate the American hemispheric hegemony. The National Guard and ICE will be used as foot soldiers within the US to "secure" elections.

The morons that elected that diseased wicked and demented man have destroyed whatever the hell America was. As a Canadian, I can only hope we can withstand this hemispheric dominance and the raiding of our natural resources to feed the perverse desires of the child molesters, rapists, racists and psychopaths that have already taken control of the US.

Doubtless, I will be downvoted by the remaining MAGA crowd here. You know, the guys that pretended they refused to vote Democrat because Bernie wasn't made leader, but are to a man a pack of Brown Shirts eagerly awaiting the time when they imagine they can take part in the defenestration of American society.

Win9x and Win2k (and the other NT descendants) are fundamentally different operating systems. In general, NT had a much more robust kernel, so system panics were and remain mainly hardware issues, or, particularly in the old days, dodgy drivers (which is just another form of hardware issue). I've seen plenty of panics on *nix systems and Windows systems, and I'd say probably 90-95% were all hardware failures, mainly RAM, but on a few occasions something wrong with the CPU itself or with other critical hardware like storage device hardware. There were quite a few very iffy IDE cards back in the day.

The other category of failure, various kinds of memory overruns, have all but disappeared now as memory management, both on the silicon and in kernels, have radically improved. So I'd say these are pretty much extinct, except maybe in some very edge cases, where I'd argue someone is disabling protections or breaking rules to eke out some imagined extra benefit.

Perhaps you should just grow up.

We know it weakly interacts electromagnetically, which means one of the ways in which it is posited planets form, initially via electrostatic attraction of dust particles, isn't likely to work. This means dark matter will be less "clumpy" and more diffuse, and less likely to create denser conglomerations that could lead to stellar and planetary formation.

What this finding does suggest, if it holds true, is that some form of supersymmetry, as an extension fo the Standard Model is true. Experiments over the last 10-15 years have heavily constrained the masses and energy levels of any supersymmetry model, so it would appear that if this is the case, it's going to require returning to a model that some physicists had started to abandon.