So they can do the exact same thing? Maybe get out of the AI race entirely.

Too little, too late.

I moved on to better OS when you started messing with stuff and REFUSED to even give me an option to put it back how it was.

Modern Windows UI/UX literally and actually hinders my workflow because of enforced nonsense that I don't want.

They're having a horrible time right now keeping tabs on Kash Patel, who goes on random road trips without notice and is often too drunk to answer the phone.

No. There are settings to turn it off entirely.

I noticed recommended content could be turned off in Win11 long ago. Maybe they are making it easier to do so, but its always been there.

FYI -- Common Core math requires memorizing multiplication tables, more on that later ...

Memorization of something like a multiplcation table is a proven tool that lets one do more advanced math. Its a tool that helps with performance. It helps not be dependent upon a calculator.

We have memory for a reason, sometimes its convenience, sometimes it critical, its to avoid having to continuously relearn or rediscover things.

From Google: "Common Core math does use multiplication tables. While it famously emphasizes understanding the "why" and "how" behind numbers, the standards specifically require third-grade students to "know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers" (which directly equates to recalling multiplication tables up to 10 times 10)."

Also, traditional techniques taught the concept of multiplication being a series of additions just like common core. Matter of fact, applying such additions was an integral part of deriving and memorizing the table. We did not just stare at a page in the book memorizing numbers, we did the repeat additions in our heads and memorized the resulting numbers.

For real. Why do people buy this crap?

That is nominal GDP based on a very weak currency.

In PPP terms, Iran's GDP is about $1.2T, about the same as that of Illinois or the Netherlands.

I wonder when it's gonna start making more sense to start opting for land routes for new cables, when possible. The bad actors can still try to attack them, of course, but they'll be easier to monitor and repair. When conflict erupts, you could probably protect a land cable reasonably well with drones.

The author likely wasn't even alive in 1993.

The "tortured artistic soul" can be found anywhere; rural, suburb, or city. It doesn't change the fact that suburban and city kids are choosing to voluntarily isolate themselves in the real world and focus on the online.

The apprentice can use the tools of his (grand)parents rather than the current inferior tools.

Neil has an outlier position there, the "big city" providing the bigger live audience. ;-)

Apologies if I was not clear. It "works" only in getting past the legislation.

In short, the legislation being discussed is just another well meaning but superficial solution. One where unintended consequences have not been considered adequately.

https://xkcd.com/712/