You completely misunderstand the business model that Broadcom has chosen to use here. For a primer, see the "Fuck you, pay me" scene from Goodfellas.

They are purposefully imploding their customer base. The goal is to squeeze every customer that cannot move off of vSphere like a lemon in a hydraulic press. They actually do not give a fuck if you migrate to another platform, because they'd rather have 10x the revenue from their captive big fish than worry about the small fish or the ones that got away.

Was it? I thought the whole point was "how do we extract revenue from customers too small and price sensitive to buy vSphere standard?" Anyone who just wanted "a taste of the experience" could run the free ESXi.

OK, I'll bite: why is that a "problem?"

And despite all the faults you listed of the Democratic Party, it was still blazingly clear to anyone who paid attention that Harris would have been better for the country than Trump. But people chose not to pay attention and we got stuck with the looming threat of idiocy-powered authoritarianism.

I don't know how we can put the blame on anyone but the voters. I think you were dead on when you mentioned "moron progressives that didn't vote". If there's one specific group to blame more than anyone else, it's them.

Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about--international flights are not "commonly slightly overloaded." Cargo and passengers are routinely moved around or offloaded when weight and balance limits are not met.

With regard to dumping fuel, it's because max takeoff weights on large aircraft are higher than max landing weights (because the forces on e.g. landing gear are higher when landing than they are when taking off).

Absolutely this. I can't count the number of people I've seen who believe the "mainstream media" is untrustworthy, and then whole-heartedly embrace alternatives that are magnitudes more untrustworthy if they ever cared enough to check. A bunch of gullible dupes who fancy themselves as bold individualists, all the while too edgy by half.

> it still doesn't seem like a meaningful improvement over KDE 3.5.

Have you tried LXQt?

On Debian just install it and uninstall connman and it's pretty good for most tasks, especially low-spec devices.

You'd think so, but the war in Ukraine shows otherwise. The Russians suffered heavily early on due to using cell phones--and they kept using them even after figuring out they'd lost something like four general officers due to them/staff/bodyguards using their phones, causing even more losses. I can't help but agree with the GP, some assholes are always going to come to the conclusion that "everyone else shouldn't do it, but it will be fine if it's only me."

They didn't feel pain, which is good, but I would say that they almost certainly "suffered." They knew they were fucked for some period of time before they died, and they spent their last minutes sitting in their coffin in the dark two miles below the surface. I imagine the father/son duo had it particularly awful, with dad knowing that he killed his kid, and the kid knowing that his dad killed him. I wonder if they discussed that fact amongst themselves while waiting to die.

Some neural nets have been good at solving sticky programming problems. Whether finding game cheats, doing voice recognition, modeling proteins, or other tasks humans haven't done well at.

But an LLM is more of an information retrieval tool, so tasking it with clever algorithm design is asking the wrong tool the wrong question.

Then there are the people who complete in programming challenges. In high school I would sometimes stay after to do the ACSL competition tests - no big deal, the school was a five minute walk, and it helped my buddies who wanted a high team score.

Then they implored me to go to DC on a trip for a national competition our score qualified us for. This seemed so bizzare to me as a fifteen year old kid - I could stay in a run-down motel and take tests this weekend or go camping in a state forest with friends. I let them down, in a way, but the ask was totally alien to me.

I have nothing at all against people who enjoy such things but it's a subset of the algorithm minds.

So we now have the results of some competitive coders vs. the wrong tool for the job.

OK, mildly interesting, but does it tell us much?

Are any of the profits going to Gila Monster conservation?

So every international traveler could be searched to see if their meds contain any patent violations and seized at the border?

This is entirely unworkable.

Didn't they say some rogue VP set up his laptop to torrent all 72TB of Z-Library to feel o-llama?

I wish my laptop had that many drive bays!

Some people so want to believe that a useful information retrieval system is a superintelligence.

The rest of us aren't surprised that an interesting search engine isn't good at chess.

I'm familiar with some organizations that have been feeding their Slack data into a RAG for employee queries.

They're going to be quite pissed if this has been shut down by Slack.

You forgot Joan Rivers.