How about a bait and switch? Lure everyone in promising MS-Office compatibility, then switch the default saving setting to a standardized format. People even start getting oblivious to the fact that there are files out there somewhere in the cloud, nobody cares about the extension...

Donotwant. Then the car will bother me all the time about infotainment subscriptions, heated seat subscriptions and the like. I'd like to hover some plastic and enter a pin, thank you!

Funny that you say that. I was looking at a magazine from the 50ies the other day, and those ads were super verbose! I mean, they really had *text*! Whole paragraphs of it!!! So, no, reading advertisements *today* certainly does not involve reading from a historical perspective.

To be fair, the WebEx GUI is a disease. WebEx used to be better than Teams, but now it's the other way around.

That's all nice and well, kudos to your dad-in-law, but you didn't tell us *how* does he actually achieve such good results since it's not the homework? Maybe it's a combination of a lot of factors, including teaching talent, but maybe you have a couple of hints? Or point us to one of his "papers on education"? Honest question.

The wikipedia list is not sorted.

No conspiracy necessary. Norway is a dystopian nightmare in terms of surveilance. Most places don't take cash and everybody is used to pay with a card or their mobile phone. Using a lot of the main roads means paying for tolls, which means all cars have an electronic device for that in addition to the ubiquitous license plate reading cameras for catching the freeloaders. They have a digital ID system that is controlled by the banks (Bank-ID) that you can't take a shit without. The government knows where you are, what you eat, who you sleep with, where you drive to etc, etc. They could just legislate the use of Bank-ID for logging into a computer and nobody would bat an eye.

This looks very promising. Researchers have been complaining since a long time about the fact that publicly-funded, published research was behind paywalls and the alternatives were rather undewhelming when it came to cost for the authors (and their institutions) and peer review methodology. The new approach is quite interesting. In "how it works" it says that the publishing will be immediate after submission and the peer-review will be done *after* publishing, with all article versions being available and linked together. This will be for European Commission-funded researchers, but I hope they will widen the scope later on.

Thanks for the link. This must be the most insightful thing I've read on the internet since a long time, probably ever.

I always get suspicious when seeing such numbers...

Mee too! Next week, I'll replace them with Windows Servers.

You joke, but it's already this way! The prompt on one side would be something like: "write news article about ice carving festival, completed on 02.03.2026. Attached is the list of finalists, their scores and what they carved. The mayor and the sheriff attended. One man choked on their hot-dog in the evening, was rescued by first responders that were stationed on-site". The AI will add fluff to expand this into a two-page article. Then on the reader's side another AI will be used to take the fluff back out and give you the summary: "John Doe won the yesterday's ice carving competition by carving a life-size mermaid. Do you want more details?".

Plumbing is the new coding.

Uhh.... yes?

Yes, it also used to be that you could opt out from appearing in one.