I seem to have had a very similar progression. I still tend to think in "/." replacement operators, but it's been perhaps 15 years since I've really used Wolfram Language.

Do you really say "lol"?

It's modded funny because OpenCL is all but dead for new projects. It got weighed down by industry infighting to the point that the big feature of OpenCL 3.0 in 2020 was undoing everything added to the spec after 2011.

So the idea of using OpenCL as a CUDA replacement, rather than something like ROCm or OneAPI, is funny. It's like rewriting C++ programs to use Pascal.

than the fake shift points in their car CVTs.

Each LMS has some amazing features and some features that make you want to go back to stone tablets.
Canvas was the first LMS we used. They always spoke about report card creation, but we got tired of waiting.
So another platform after a decade. Which swore they could import standard LMS exported content, but nope.
Back then it was a choice between roll-your-own Moodle, branded/hosted Moodle, Blackboard - experienced users said please no - and Canvas.
We were impressed by the test and backup instances, and that they were willing to try moving into K-12.
And that Canvas was built as a project after gauging dissatisfaction with existing platforms. Mostly Blackboard.
Problem? Invoke your backup instance. Not sure how something is going to fly? Try the test instance.
Working with others who have had Google Classroom - still no test instance, backups are third party, no student view.
Yes, the core of GC is free, but you're still getting mission-critical software from an ad company.
I've not kept up since we switched, but as bad as this is, this is an impressively long time to go without a crippling event.

some HOA demigod decides its their job to restrict query contents.

Yeah, let's see how many principled antiviolence activists at Google quit their jobs now that their employer is a military contractor.

1. Do not want garbage AI in AirPods.
2. Do not want.
3. No.
4. No.
5. huh?
6. Do not want.

Plenty of trucks and other vehicles have little or any effective view directly out the back. To be blunt: If you need to look through your rear-view mirror to not kill someone, you either need better side mirrors or you need to learn to drive.

that Amazon will try ANYTHING to avoid paying an actual person a sustainable livable wage.

"Opt out of all FOG DATA SCIENCE data sets"

What -- exactly -- does that do, how quickly, and what are some of the side-effects?\

Underneath, it says "You will be removed from all our data sets." And yet I doubt that very much. Surely there will be an entry in a database somewhere saying "Device identifier ________-____-_____-_____-_____ requested removed date-and-time _____ from IP address _____", etc.
And does that only retroactively remove data? Suppose they snarf up another dataset, bought from someone else or collected by themselves. Is that data also removed from their datasets, or does another removal request have to be made?

"Science is about a specific process: you make a hypothesis, you set up a test of your hypothesis, you test it, find it true or not and based on that your hypothesis becomes a scientific theory or a rejected hypothesis."

That's the junior-high version of science. The one done poorly on cardboard. It's sad that people still trot out the whole "it's a process" trope.

And yet that one sentence makes more sense than the rest of the post.

It still runs Windows.
Windows users are not asking for a slightly cheaper machine.
They are asking for Windows to get better.

Per TFA:

These adjustments stem from Sonyâ(TM)s ongoing efforts to manage backend services and data feeds that support enhanced guide features on its Google TV-powered BRAVIA lineup.

It sounds like Sony is losing (or is not renewing) the contracts with their data brokers who providing the listing services for their TVs? In which case this is not necessarily expected, but it is par for the course.

There is no truly free source of OTA TV listings and other metadata in the US. The stations themselves do not provide this data over the air as an adjacent data stream (which is what a rational person would expect), so the only way to get listings is from third party providers such as Gracenote. Which as a technical solution works, but it means someone is always on the hook for paying for that service. And no one wants to pay for OTA metadata services, since the hallmark attribute of OTA TV is that it's free.

This is a problem that goes back to the earliest days of TiVo. Someone needs to pay for TV listings, but TVs and other STBs last too long; hardware manufacturers eventually tire of paying for an ever-increasing bill - it costs them money they don't get to make back if they give away the listings for free. And thus you eventually end up with required a monthly subscription just to have an OTA DVR.

The eventual death of linear TV should finally put an end to this nonsense. But until then we're all going to keep experiencing the same non-free listings issues we've had since the late 90s.

Huh. I am surprised to hear that Microsoft SQL Management Studio doesn't run. The usual problem children are either programs that are using specific x86 instructions (e.g. games with AVX2), or programs that need kernel mode drivers. MSMS doesn't fall into either of those categories.