The most effective way to destroy focus is to be in the office. Phone notifications are far down the list of focus issues. I get way more done in my home office than I ever get done at the company premises.

I have a corporate customer for whom I install Linux and VirtualBox on the bare metal, then install Windows in VirtualBox. It works great.

The GPL is not a usage license, so there is nothing with which an end user has to comply.

I have noticed a few website saying the Firefox won't work on the site. I change the user agent to Chrome, and the site then works.

So any resume that lists Washington University immediately goes into the shit can with no further consideration. Thanks for the warning.

If this Superman is the DCCU's last gasp, then the DCCU is doomed. From everything I've seen of the trailer and other snippets, this movie is terrible.

It is not. You just specified an additional condition for receiving the SRPMs, which is a violation of the GPL.

I totally understand the need to feel like you haven't been hoodwinked by the chemical industry, but you have been. They poison our food, and then deny that poison is poison.

Then it gets into your food. Chemical pesticides are unequivocally bad. All of them. I don't care what the corrupt oversight agencies say, all chemical pesticides are inherently dangerous. The best pesticides are natural pesticides: animals.

I have started referring to AI as the Age of Idiocy. It was an accidental reference I innocently made elsewhere before realizing that it applied in more than one way.

I disagree. The human can reason through bad logic, while the LLM merely chooses the most statistically likely arrangement of tokens without regard to whether the arrangement is reasonable.

Even if the LLM usually arrives at the correct token sequences much of the time, it will make you lazy and error prone as time goes on. The inevitable result is that your own error rate will go up over time.

There is no such thing as AI in the current era, or ever with digital computers. There is only pattern matching, regardless of how advanced it may seem. It is still advanced pattern matching, and nothing more.

Results like this are to be expected, and should never be a cause for alarm or confusion. This is the inevitable result of trying to make a pattern matching system appear to reason.

And here's your sign...err...A-License.

That is a ridiculously, tremendously stupid idea (even though I can completely understand the reason for the suggestion). There can never be appointed a group of people who get to decide what ideas are true and false under the force of law. The desire to do so is so strong, and the ramifications so profoundly harmful, that the U.S. Constitution was written to make sure that never happens.

It didn't take long before the Jews took over the oppression themselves.

That is a very good example of one of the many reasons I prefer to see movies at home. Not being able to duplicate that sound at home is a HUGE plus for watching movies at home.

Movie theater sound is just too loud, and always has been. The last time I went to the theater was to take my kid to that awful Minecraft movie, and I was kicking myself for not bringing my earplugs. I could have comfortably heard the movie, missing none of the sound, with them firmly inserted.