So the nanometer lathing of tungsten steel is no longer needed. We'll just print it at the milimeter level out of resin!

So three Irishmen enter a bar... How are we to take this seriously?

I bet the doctors are talking about appointment management, appointment reminders, even auto medication refills, and NOT diagnosing patients.

WTF are google developers doing using Windows? Of course the "D Drive" disappeared. Window's been doing that kind of shit for what? 40 years?

I'm not talking maintenance of the actual reactor. I'm talking dials, valves, switches, even light bulbs, sensors, data collectors, etc. etc. And yes, that kind of stuff is on the daily "to fix" list. These are big complicated machines. You don't drop it in the ground and forget about it. They said they were going to run them remotely, which is really what I call shenanigans. Sure, you can put a couple of PCs anywhere in the world and "remotely control" any reactor, but you need access to all the piping, wiring, etc. and that means a big crew down under the ground.with the reactor.

Considering any kind of nuclear plant that we currently use requires daily maintenance, there are a lot of pieces to break not to mention fuel cycling, this is completely spurious.

So, you mean sugar. No, Ultra Processed Sugar!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE DO NOT HAVE AI. We have an expert system that is very efficient at weighing data and making random choices. THAT'S IT. We ALL KNOW it does not "think." It "wants" nothing. It runs on computers that we CAN SHUT DOWN. I'm so sick of this BS. Most "AI" projects are failing because the scammers who convinced idiot corporate heads to buy into it big time and to make more money off the hoopla IN THE SHORT TERM. How many times do we need to go through this. Quit spewing the propaganda that give to the billionaires any remaining pennies that the poor and uneducated need to just survive.

Does it keep out the entitled people carrying their little rat dogs into the store. I saw a god in the store in San Jose where we were staying at least every third time I went to the Safeway. I wish I had recorded my arguments about unsanitary conditions. Even the staff said "it's up to the manager." And the workers would often pet the rat dogs. Dog shit to their fingers to produce. No, no health issues at all. They of course claimed they were service dogs. Well I have a friend with a service. It smells her sugar level to alert here when she is close to a seizure. That is a great dog. That is a dog she can take anywhere she needs it. Those bitches (pun intended) and their rats think their prestige items are service dogs? "Oh he improves my mood." Fuck you bitch. I eventually went to another brand that was 10 minutes away by car, and gave us on the unsanitary shit hole.

Bu isn't this the same as when Apple had a 4%, 5% of the desktop market, and so many people here called them a dead company? Here, I'll start your comment to this for you ..."But it's not the same!" Just follow that up with whatever double speak you need to do. Yes, I love hashing up 20 years old frustration.

I thought so.

Well that's just "good business." You pump up stock for the quarter so half of the board can cash out on inflated revenue figures. Who cares about "long term viability?" Get in, fire everyone, raise prices, kill R&D. PROFIT.

Remember when the film War Games came out? Half the audience were enamored, "COMPUTERS!" The other half grumbled "turn off the modem." I think we at the same threshold. The solution to your AI servant? Turn off the computer. You might have a more productive meeting.

Does this kind of anti-Apple click bait still work? There was an argument about the Mac, and some for the iPhone, but EAR PODS? Who the fuck repairs ear pods?

I've seen languages come and go. At college it was Pascal, which led to a job using Fortran, which led to another job using C, and then my career took a left turn to system/network admin. The point is, Python has been preferred teaching language at universities for, what, a decade now. A vote for Python is NOT a vote AGAINST perl. The vast majority of coders, developers, architects HAVE NEVER USED PERL. Projects will be based around Python because it's best sell in the corporate environment. So of course perl's low on the list. That being said, yeah, my last coding project was in Perl, where I replaced a $100k Infosystem Java project with a week of part time perl coding. Anything with strings, oh, databases, web sites, application integration, are ALL DONE BETTER ON PERL. Sorry, I know the flames heading my way, because people don't want to be proven wrong. Anything to keep the reality distortion Python base happy. Hell, I'd bring back Fortran if I could. Still better than Python. I'll give a nod to C. It's excellent for code where speed is needed. Ever worked in a development environment where one coder optimized apps by dumping the executable to assembly and look for the unused loops? No. You just worked with Python and all the warm fuzzies. I say if you are in a Python asylum, see where you can replace a page of type matching and string to integer spaghetti with a couple of lines for perl hashes. Drive them crazy.