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Comment Same behavior for Microsoft365 family (Score 4, Informative) 140

To be fair, Microsoft365 family accounts work exactly the same way. Only one adult can be the owner, the other adult does not have real admin powers. Beyond the situation described in this article, it can also cause issues if your (admin) partner goes into a coma or has an accident that renders him/her otherwise unable to interact with the account.

This is silly and it should not be that hard to have 2 full admins on a family account...

Comment Questions for the CEO (Score 4, Funny) 227

As a Large Language Prophet, I have some questions for the new Chief Evangelical Officer:

- will your Christian AI data center be powered by faith alone, or do you expect to use jet engines and nuclear reactors like everybody else?
- for the data storage, are you still planning on using stone tablets? Sure, long-term storage is excellent, but how will you tackle potential speed issues?
- can you answer our Slashdot poll about when do you think Artificial God Intelligence be achieved? By the end of next year? 2027 to 2030? 2031 to 2035? 2035 to 2040 ? 2040 to 2050 ? When the Rapture comes?

Comment Re:They didn't ask me, so here's my opinion (Score 3, Interesting) 55

Call me old-fashioned, but by not browsing through the 2000 page datasheet while looking for the information you need, you also miss the opportunity of learning other information on the way, which will eventually clarify "why is the datasheet confusing on this or that point"...

Usually after reading and understanding, the datasheet becomes not so confusing anymore - and you gain insight on the microprocessor for which you are writing assembly code, leading you to making better, more efficient code.

If AI does this search job for you, your brain is not exercising, and at some point you'll have lost the ability to browse through large documents, gaining tidbits of information on the way, and progressively getting a better understanding of the bigger picture - which is actually a useful skill to have.

While it's comfortable and seemingly productive to use AI on the short term, I don't think it brings long-term benefits to us as professionals. If anything, it tends to dull our ability to analyze and understand things on our own.

Of course, do we still need to analyze and understand things on our own in 2025? An open question...

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