I saw what you did there...bravo!

Signed,
Tux

I'm in agreement with you re: typing vs. handwriting. I've tried to go paperless several times in my work notes, but always go back to the black Moleskin notebook and flags to highlight to-do items. Even with search functions in apps like OneNote, I tend to remember where I wrote something and can find it faster ("it was halfway down on the right side page back in Octoberish...ahh there it is.").

What basis did this Thayer guy claim he could claim copyright? The AI system allegedly created the "art" "spontaneously" without his input so why does he think he can claim copyright?

I also tend to doubt either word applies here, "spontaneously" or "art."

"Trying the ad capability out" is testing it in a lab under controlled conditions.

This is "seeing what we can get away with."

Who didn't see this coming?

Or explained explosions caused by anti-ship missiles and/or torpedoes.

Make it very clear to the ship crews: screw around with the cables and it will be the last thing you ever do.

I was thinking the same. "If you need a free office suite, you could just use LibreOffice and not worry about ads."

CowboyNeal would approve.

Isn't "tedious, undifferentiated tasks such as learning codebases, writing and reviewing documentation, testing, managing deployments, troubleshooting issues or finding and fixing vulnerabilities" part of development? I don't do much coding anymore, but developing code involves all these things, not just entering lines of code into a project.

There is already an optical form of archiving--print.

Archive copies of data should not be working copies. Archive copies are meant to be put somewhere safe so they can be recalled if needed. Want searchable digital copies? Those are working copies, meant to be poked and prodded and searched. If they get corrupted or run into a technological dead end where they can't be converted to a new format, you carefully re-scan the archive copies. The archive copies go back into protective storage and the new digital copies go out into the world.

Printed forms of the data aren't convenient to search that's for sure--but properly made (archive-quality ink and acid-free paper, etc) and preserved they can last centuries. And you don't have to worry about the file format being impossible to read by future technology. We have already seen that digital archives can disappear like a fart in the wind.

Paper isn't perfect but in my experience proves to be a better archive vehicle of anything that can be preserved on paper than anything digital.

I'm in America and I'd say it is an issue but not as much of one as you might think. Yea it takes a little bit of planning but we've taken road trips of >250 miles with our EV. Now that Tesla is opening up the Supercharger network to mother brands, it will get better. I'm even planning a cross country trip in our Tesla, and the charging stops nicely align with my planned rest breaks.

Out of curiosity, where do you live that EV charging seems so easy?

That's like putting a Starbucks inside a Starbucks.

But aren't those executives whose bonuses are affected the very same ones who would have to enact the change?

As an (electrical) engineer myself there's no way I would want to be in upper management. If I did I'd be a manager not an engineer. But that's just me.

It's the "interesting offers" that are my biggest turnoff. I do not need the OS provider using my platform for their advertising. The only time I use Windows is in a VM for the few apps that I use that are only available via Windows...and even then I'm starting to use Coherence mode (I use Parallels on a Mac) so I don't even see the Windows desktop at all, just the application.

Airborne=aforementioned