The problem is largely the generality. You're right you can't replace a workforce with ML/AI. Management however doesn't understand that AI is a tool, and a tool is used for a specific purpose. AI is not general enough to simply replace an employee, it needs to be used by someone to improve efficiency. The downside is no one discusses this for general LLMs.

There are some parts of AI where this has absolutely already bared fruit. The image gen world has found a niche in photo and video editing. In this regard AI is already paying dividends allowing artists to do something more substantial than sit there painting things frame by frame. Same with analytics (we've been using AI for this since before AI was a term anyone associated with anything other than a shitty Steven Spielberg movie). But general LLMs in the office (e.g. CoPilot) so far is lacking a killer feature.

The features are of course slowly developing, but the biggest problem is that it gets thrown at staff without a use case and without training on what to do with it. I shit you not someone in our training session suggest we use CoPilot to start software by hitting WIN+C and typing the name of the software we want AI to launch. Try it, it's so frigging slow that you can probably locate the exe file manually on your computer faster than that (to say nothing of the fact the start menu has a search feature).

Personally I've found my niche use case for it. I use it for contextual based search through long standards documents (but only search, I use it to find the clauses not interpret the problem), and also generate combinatorics tables - this turns an afternoon of mathing into a 5 minute prompt. But whether that result saves my company more than they pay for the license, the jury is definitely out.

They've extended precisely nothing. In fact their Azure offerings continue to run stock standard releases of Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, and others. The only thing they've done is embrace and sell.

And even if they did extend, to what end? The problem with the original Netware fight was the "extinguish" portion. But Microsoft not only gain zero benefit from extinguishing Linux, the world would completely ignore their attempts to do so and an effort to not allow standard Linux distributions to run on their cloud platform (which currently makes up the majority of their customer-base and the majority of Microsoft's net revenue) would just result in customers moving to AWS or alternate platforms.

EEE makes no sense in this context. We already have 410 species of parrot on this planet, we don't need you to sit there squawking something you learned in the 90s.

In what way is it telling you it doesn't run Linux? So far every Intel Surface Pro model has been able to run Linux. In fact there's even dedicated kernel modules available for compatibility with the Surface Aggregator Module (Microsoft's own custom ACPI interface).

Yeah and my boat is a pale imitation of my car. Seriously so many comparisons you can make and you decide to go with two devices with two fundamentally different form factors.

Just to be clear are you suggesting the people who design hardware should be working on coding in Windows, or are you suggesting that you think Microsoft only has one employee and doesn't do multiple things at a time?

In this case I think you very much may be following the good ol' Bush approach "You can't be fooled again".

I think the answer was "most of them". Fox news put a shitton of effort into scaring people that we're just moments away from another huge pandemic, despite the experts on the show refuting that talking point over and over and over and over and over again.

Be afraid, that should be your natural state according to America's most popular media outlet.

People who were taking ivermectin were not getting the stuff designed for human consumption. THAT WAS THE PROBLEM. Ivermectin was always a safe and effective anti-paracitic for humans. The problem was that doctors didn't prescribe it (because they had brains and knew it didn't do anything against COVID), and so people actually went and bought the stuff for horses which over the counter is quite a bit different. In fact there's a whole lot of approved inactive ingredients for animal consumption which are not permitted in drugs intended for human consumption. Ivermectin itself isn't the only concern.

Although I'm sure there's a joke in there about Americans taking drugs with concentrated dosages intended for 600kg heavy animals being perfectly fine.

I think you misunderstand what is going on here. "Discovery" doesn't mean something you know and chose. It means discovering something that Microsoft arbitrarily loads on to your machine as a link that installs on first use.

For example you may be a perfectly happy user of Adobe PDF reader, so it should be a complete shock to you that your Start Menu suddenly has PDF-Xchange editor listed in it (while this is a good tool in general, it should appear on anyone's computer unless they chose to go install it from the Microsoft Store, yet that is precisely what is going on.) That is what microsoft means by "Discovery" and that's why they mention it in the same breath as their store.

Your braincells never linked together to form neurons huh.

Errr statute of limitations has always been a thing codified in law. Nothing has changed as a result of this case.

Well this is always the case when two oversized rich children have a tantrum and take it to the courts.

It'll do no such thing. No precedence has been set that applies to any case other than those wondering if statute of limitations is still a thing.

Is it though? One of the people involved effectively "stole" Tesla from the actual founders (none of which had the name Elon Musk - he only joined the company years later and then proceeded to call himself a co-founder).

Musk's only upset he didn't get a slice of the pie this time.

There's nothing wrong with the rules of business, this was a contractual dispute between two parties. It is very much about the people involved. "Seemingly intelligent" people understand this is not about what your feelings are about non-profits turning for-profit (a process which has existed for a long time).