Utterly hilarious. You may have sounded out the words of my post, but you clearly did not understand them.

No, not that one.

The one I mean is when the argument switches from "climate change is a hoax, stupid hippy" to "Nothing we can do, climate change. Sucks to be you."

there can be content negotiation

What happened to a sense of professionalism? Hell, of wanting people to not laugh at your work? They expect people to pay money for this junk?

I have to imagine the C-suite at a lot of places feels intense pressure to have "an AI roadmap".

Fine. That doesn't mean you ship not even half-baked bullshit.

This isn't about jerking off to robot porn, it is about performance monitoring - the only thing that functionally matters is the accuracy.

It amazes me that so much simply non-functional junk is passed off as wizzbang magic technology.

I swear that's Microsoft's unofficial motto.

The Copy-Paste mechanism has been a well-defined, widely-understood basic action for personal computers since at least 1984, arguably before.

The defining characteristics are either duplicating or moving one or more digital objects to a new position in a document.

Notice those verbs. Nothing about rewriting/translating/making different. The closest the mechanism gets to that is, for inter-application transfer, there can be content negotiation to deal with format issues.

Just waiting for the first time this "fixes" something in a mortgage or a sentencing memo...

Yeah, there's already one made-for-tabloid-news lawsuit magnet out there.

That explains why you got so wound up over a cheap joke that you ranted at me about things I never said.

Thanks for explaining yourself.

That sig quote is a line from a song.

"which today is an end user tools business, will become, essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work."

It sure sounds like he's saying he doesn't want the desktop anymore. I think everyone should help them with that and drop Windows today.

Argentina's Randian ubermench also got $40 billion of our money.

But if it makes you feel any better, a lot of that just flowed back to administration members and their friends.

You appear to be hallucinating.

People can set their privacy preferences centrally -- for example via the browser

DNT was proposed in 2009, implemented by most browser within a couple iterations. Microsoft famously poisoned-pilled their implementation to kill it by making it the default, which gave advertisers an excuse to claim people didn't really mean to set it, and ignore it.

It always needed the force of law to work.

Note that I am fully confident that the fine professionals in the EC will find some way to make this stupidly intrusive and annoying as well as cost a crazy amount of money to implement. I believe in them.

Somewhere, in a cramped 4th floor walkup apartment in Queens, the last remaining editorial intern is feeding an LLM an editorial calendar of which articles to rewrite on what schedule.

A "token" is a substring. They're usually parts of words or whole short words.

"Processing" "tokens" is fundamentally what an LLM does.

Simplified, It takes input text, tokenizes it (splits it up according to the same rules as the corpus), maps that to a huge sparse network of vectors that serve as a lossy represention the tokenized training corpus, and then plays "pick the next most likely token" to respond.

If you choose to pay money to one of the robot timeshares, you are effectively buying the right to feed it this many tokens and expect back to get back that many tokens per month.

I know a couple long-time Redhatters who left at various points during the digestion process.

I heard both unhappiness about how the company changed and unhappiness about IBM shafting the open source world from both of them.

I assume anything RH-branded is simply demoware now, and am leery of projects with too many redhat.com email addresses in the repo.

It was an excellent example of doing well by doing good for a long time.