even if [LibreOffice] does feel a little arcane at times.
That's a matter of what you are used to and know. I can navigate LibreOffice much more readily than in Microsoft Office, as LibreOffice has been my standard for a long time.
So I take it you stood up for yourself and found a better job, right? Right?!
What on Earth gives you that idea? Did you read what I wrote?
The surprising thing here is what the actual cost is.
Why is that a surprise? We all predicted it from the very beginning. It's like being surprised when Christmas arrives every year.
...blame remote work because their commercial property might decline in value.
Yep. The Fed report is total nonsense. It's yet another opportunity for the business real estate owners to try sabotaging remote work. I remember when my boss converted us from fully remote during the pandemic (which worked wonderfully!) to a hybrid schedule after the pandemic. His justification was that our office space was going to be reclaimed for the executives if we're not using it. A few months after we went hybrid, the executives reclaimed our office space for themselves anyway. They moved us to a dungeon at that point.
When we brought up that being present in the office didn't save our office space, and that going back fully remote would benefit us all, we got shot down. The new excuse was that the customer-facing employees were angry that they didn't get to work remotely, and we needed to appease them so they didn't quit. When we brought up that they were completely unskilled labor, and we were highly skilled professionals, the boss just shrugged it off. He never liked the idea of remote work, but is at least somewhat afraid of a revolt. However, many of us are close enough to retirement that he's betting we're not willing to rebel. However, he's not completely certain of that, so we "get" to compromise.
But yeah, the Fed report is complete and utter bullshit.
I knew what I meant!
We haven't even perfected the "do what I say" interface, and I don't think we'll have the "do what I mean" interface in our lifetimes.
If billionaires want something for us, it is most certainly bad for us. The whole notion of a universal income is the stupidest idea in the entire history of stupid ideas. If you think you are a replaceable cog in our current economic system, you haven't given any thought to how much more replaceable you are when your income is dictated by Government.
The AI bubble will deflate (or suddenly pop) at some point, and we will be close to where we were when this whole insanity began. The technology won't go away (and it has a few genuine uses), but knee-jerk reactions like Universal Income are a much bigger problem.
Real software development requires design.
I agree in principle, but real software development almost always runs afoul of real deadlines.
Never time to fix anything, only time to cover garbage up.
I agree completely. This happens regardless of development methodology. This is standard market practice. There is never enough time.
Agile has gotten a bad name from how much useless cruft has attached itself (including having a formal definition). Worthless metrics are a real problem, but they have been around for far longer than Agile has had a name. Actual agile development can be done on very few principles, but managers think that micromanaging is effective managing.
My understanding is that he doesn't object to the porting of the source code, but rather the unauthorized use of his trademark and the misleading association of the port with his work.
Don Ho is correct about his trademark (yes, it's registered), and Andrey Letov appears to be showing the proper respect to Don by renaming and rebranding the port.
AI speech to text and text to speech would be a great addition for the accessibility subsystem. The current screen reader software voice sucks really, really bad. AI speech would be a great improvement. But that's the only place I can imagine where AI would be a benefit. Scratch that. If AI could do great handwriting recognition, that would also be a great boon.
It is not that hard to make good coffee. Leave it alone.
Coffee has approximately the same natural flavor profile as the stuff that comes out of my dog's ass. As I tell my coffee-drinking wife: "Anything can be made to taste good with enough honey -- even dog shit and coffee." Coffee needs a honey or sugar to coffee ratio of about 1:3 to overcome the shit-taste inertia inherent to coffee.
This will be believable if they can do the same thing for Closed Source software. If they can't, then they are lying and infringing on copyright. If they can, then they will be the biggest software company in the history of software.
...then why is everyone freaking out over the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons?
Because Islam WANTS everyone killed, including themselves. That is their entire objective. They think it will bring them, and only them, eternal sex. MAD does not apply to their idiology, because they really are insane.
It can. Reasoning according to the dictionary is "the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way"
Compilers and assemblers have been reasoning for nearly 80 years, by that definition.
Superintelligence is uniquely qualified to convince churchgoers that what they believe in largely nonsense.
You don't need a super-intelligence to do that. Just look at any church, synagogue, temple, or mosque. The general IQ of the targets already barely exceed room temperature.
All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score. -- Henry Tyroon
