I suppose at least they didn't ask AI to fix it as well. Although who knows how many contractors are using AI to do their jobs for them now.

Years back the company I worked for had a contractor who did PCB layouts. He was crap at it too, and I'm fairly sure he just used the auto-router for everything. Caused no end of problems which went away when I started doing the PCB layouts myself.

I prefer GoG. Just download an installer and play the game that way. I don't need a launcher or game manager.

It's an external requirement in many cases. For contractual or legal reasons they need AV software on all machines, if it makes sense or not.

It's how utter crap like McAffee survives. It may be shit, but it fulfils a business need. Checks the box.

Because they will become even harder to identify due to polymorphism and constant evolution than the 80's worm viruses.

It depends on the scope of the model. Don't expect a ChatGPT model, but a model designed for self-replication, vulnerability utilization and information theft/ransomware.

What many forget is that a lot of automation today is done using PLCs, but they aren't designed well for security. Their goal is to be reliable and have architecture designs from the 1980's that haven't changed much since.

The Trump era has now put the US on a blacklist for many new investments.

It's a slow move that takes time, but it's there. It will take decades for the US to regain trust.

US bonds are also seen as less reliable today so lenders outside the US are slowly leaving them, which means that more bond buyers have to be found in the US. This in turn lead to the US$ to be less trusted and trade values like US$/barrel for oil may end and be replaced by other measurements.

The US inflation is already rising, which is another sign that it's not well in the US.

There's also a worry that the midterm election is going to be compromised by Trump. If there's suspicion that it has been compromised then that will also hurt the trust between the US and Europe.

Cheating is a business. A pretty large one. People will pay entirely too much money for the ability to cheat in online games. Streamers and want to be YouTubers especially because viewers expect them to be able to carry on a conversation and parasocial bullshit while playing at top level

So you need ridiculously complex and sophisticated and unbreakable anti cheat to make online games playable with anyone but a small group of friends. And it isn't really practical to build a online game Community around the small group of friends who can't all game on the same night every night.

Do you have something that can operate above kernel level and that is difficult for professional engineers to break? It would be one thing if it was just hobbyists writing cheat software but it's been professionals for quite some time.

And if you want to have alternatives to Windows games are essential. That's what's going to start moving people away from windows.

Kind of Trumps the rest, pun intended. Europe could cheerfully look the other way at America bombing the shit out of a Middle Eastern country God knows they have before. And the tariffs wouldn't be expected to last past Trump's administration. More nuisance than anything else. Remember Tara tariffs are tax on the local population, Europe doesn't care if Trump raises inflation on American citizens. They know damn well that the factories aren't coming back.

So I think the main problem is the whole threatening to invade a NATO Ally in order to snag land from them. Land that they have to know some people here in the states are planning to use to launch an invasion.

It is strange to watch parts of Europe gradually realizing how batshit insane Americans are and then they're response to that isn't to try to get our Insanity under control before we start nuking people but to try to take advantage of it so that they can make a quick buck.

But I guess that's just how the Epstein class thinks.

With the recent interference with Starlink in Ukraine, it's pretty clear that there are many powerful people in America who are Russian assets.

They are telling you to fuck off. They are putting in unreasonable cost onto the cost of doing business in Europe with the expectation that you will try to pass it on to them and then that will give them the push they need for homegrown software and data centers.

Next time you want to do business outside of the United States don't allow a known pedophile and rapist with clear signs of dementia to become president of the United States just so you can get some tax breaks and a little extra corruption. Long-term the trade-offs probably aren't worth it.

We put a pedophile rapist in charge. This was entirely predictable. Literally the king of debt who bankrupted every single company and his sales pitch to us was he would run the government like a business.

I can just barely forgive people for 2016. There is no excuse in 2024. I would love to ask Trump voters what the fuck and then get an honest answer.

Shit it's only going to get worse because the Democrats are on track to barely take the house and probably lose the Senate. If there is a fuck ton of voter turnout, so much that over suppression can't counteract it,, the dems will just barely take the Senate but there's not a lot they can do with a micro majority like that except stop the worst of the bleeding and of course voters will blame them in 2028 when things don't turn around even though they gave them barely a majority in a political system where a supermajority is needed to get anything done besides making things worse.

That's the real problem. Our political system lets the Republican party crash the economy and sabotage our lives and jobs but it doesn't let the Democrats fix it. So it's like a ratchet. And every time the voters blamed a democrats for what the Republicans did

It's because of Trump. He threatened to invade Greenland for fuck sake. They do not trust America anymore and frankly I cannot blame them. We elected and known rapist and pedophile to be president twice.

One of the things Americans do not understand, and the number of things Americans do not understand could fill volumes, is that we are a military empire and that your standard of living depends on that military empire extracting tribute from the rest of the world.

We have mostly been able to get away with that by leveraging our military bases in a way that makes them appear and even at times b useful to the locals in foreign countries. Look into the Petro dollar if you're confused about what I'm talking about here.

The Epstein class over in Europe does not like this. They would like to be the ones with a nice big military empire that gets to extract tribute. And it doesn't help that increasingly the regular Americans do not see much of that tribute, although you do still see some of it.

What I'm saying is that you can't break all these complex systems that were built to build up the American economy at the expense of the rest of the world without consequences back home. Even if you're not really getting any of the money from that anymore because we have allowed the Epstein class to take it all that Epstein class is not going to sit idly by as they lose access to that wealth. They are instead going to try to take it from you because if they can't get it from parts of Europe and Asia your next on the menu.

It's a classic case of a chesterton's fence. We took the fence down and we didn't know why it was up

You are making the same mistake. Language isn't intelligence, but that doesn't mean that an LLM can't be intelligent.