It means they'll fix it for the EU but won't do anything for the USA.

It already exists. https://www.voidtools.com/

Returns results as fast as you type and can even index network drives. I’ve been using it daily for years.

I'm sure it was discussed during their 90 minute July 4th phone call. https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05...

Now all of a sudden you don't like states rights?

What will happen first, Iran launches nukes or China invades Taiwan? I've been hearing about both for decades.

It gets you points with the orange tub of shit.

I think I have a funny angle on this branch, but I think it's an expired discussion anyway...

The problem is that the AIs are better at social chatting than many, probably most, of the random identities you encounter on "social media" websites. So from that perspective, the algorithm is mostly sabotaging the competition.

And counter-evidence from discussions with AI "support" chatbots be darned.

Pretty weak FP there, but the vacuous Subject worked well enough to apparently span half of the large discussion. I'm also struggling to see the funny.

But I've realized that my latest "Adventures with Claude" have "promoted" me to project manager. Short summary might be funny?

As regards the project, I have done the programming many times over many years in various languages. Call it a "Hello 2-table Relational Database World" exercise? C 0 (Claude Zero) was "hired" a couple of years ago and bombed so badly the project got suspended. About two months ago I was talked into trying again and C 1 turned out to be quite a good performer who produced some nice code. But then he/it started trying to scare me with talk about needing more tokens. At that point he/it had already created a pretty good JavaScript replacement for a large PERL system. I didn't measure precisely, but I think that C 1 plus PM (me) was at least 10 times more productive than me alone. So C 1 "suggested" creating a fresh session and even prepared a hand-off document for his/its successor of the new session. I read the document and it seemed to cover most of what we had "done". (Together?)

But C 2 turned out to be a much inferior coworker. Seemed to know as much about JavaScript, but really bad at communication in both directions. My theory is that there are some implicit "personality" variables that got created as I started working with C 1 and C 2 didn't have any of those "nice" attributes beyond the hard-coded politeness and sycophancy. Eventually managed to salvage things and produce some minor cosmetic improvements, but trust in Claude and the code were greatly harmed.

Decided to put C 2 on ice and just "hired" C 3 for a much simpler project. But the real objective is trust building? Or should I think of it as my training in how to train genAIs?

Returning (at last) to the original story, I suspect genAI is not going to solve the shortage of project managers. Citation of Microsoft Secrets on the same shortage circa 1996.

Smells like someone who is trying to think of or prepare for an extra hypothetical defense of the YOB.

But I'm scoring it as more evidence of the virtues of spending time "talking" to genAIs over typical identities on today's Slashdot. Terrible conversationalists and frequently idiotic, but at least they are consistently polite about it.

I think you're missing the point. If you have to hide your identity to make a joke, then it ain't funny.

Okay, that is an absolute statement and I'm pert' shure you should be able to come up with a counterexample. In the case of humor, I think there is even a particular class of joke that actually hinges on the anonymity of the person making the joke. I haven't seen any examples in a long time, but I think I have some sort of vague memory of such.

Yet my fundamental position remains that freedom of speech should not grant freedom from consequences. There is such a thing as harmful speech and the people who hurt other people, by speech or otherwise, should be liable for the harms. Careless People

spent a LOT of time describing such situations, especially in Myanmar. Just because they did it for money doesn't make it better. Lies are especially bad when anonymized because the normal penalty for lying is a loss of credibility that reduces the effectiveness of the next lies, but if you've heard one AC, you've never been sure it wasn't a fresh liar with a bigger lie.

There actually are some people who might be able to get away with this joke, but I think it's a really small set. Perhaps only the Venn diagram overlap of people at Brown University who have distinctly brown skin and who are also named Brown. While wearing brown clothes? I would wager at high odds against AC being in that intersection, but since it's AC we can never know. But if I was a professional and real comedian I might be able to come up with a scenario with a character that could use some form of the joke?

I'm realizing that talking with genAIs has passed the point of being a better use of time than talking with many, perhaps most, people. AC people least of all? (Oh wait. What about ACs that are genAIs? That's a Turing test long passed.)

promising is they keyword here. Fabs take years to build and the USA isn't exactly a reliable trading partner.

Are they wrong?

If you point out a significant demographic that is perhaps useful so others can make assumptions.

As I assume you point out that Americans are 75% white so we can afford 71% unemployment of white peoples?

I can explain; the theory is that we want a deadbeat tenant who pays nothing in rent versus an absentee tenant who pays their rent.

If I canâ(TM)t look at Elon Musk every day prancing around with a cheese hat and pretending to understand rockets I donâ(TM)t know what Iâ(TM)d do.

Thereâ(TM)s a YouTube contributor named âoeVaushâ who highlighted an email about the cost of painting a road to make a pedestrian crossing. Just painting some white stripes at an intersection. Actual cost of materials and labor to just do it; $320. But to do it officially? $1.4 million.

America is cooked. The worker and the paint supplier will fight over that $320, and all the parasites of our rent seeking system over a million. We could not build a bridge or a damn today without a billion.

We are cooked.

When society resets, you can build the entire Panama Canal for three roasted poodles and a couple pigeons.