1941 to 1990

You mean 1939?

Oh yeah wait a mo America only "came to its allies aid" after being attacked. That my man is not being a reliable ally, that's being purely self interested.

US hasn't been a reliable ally to anyone sans maybe Israel in decades.

When has the US been a reliable ally?

Since when did product longevity matter?

Parents no longer parent and expect the schools to teach their unruly and coddled child.

cool.

Why?

The computers sat in a lab, and the kids would interact with them a couple times a week in a structured (instructed) setting.

Good grief no!

All the value I got was in the non structured settings where you could fart around on the computers without interference from teachers who by and large didn't know much about computers at all. Of course there was no internet at that point so that was mostly programing. I always did best in the least heavily structured subjects.

I do not know why Americans hate nuance so much but it's pretty deeply ingrained in our culture.

Puritanism.

Murder a bunch of toddlers? Murder is a sin and you're going to hell.

Steal a loaf of bread to feed you starving kid? Stealing is a sin and you're going to hell.

The end result's the same and equally bad either way, regardless of the sin. This strips away all nuance. If you're good you go to heaven, if you sin you go to hell.

Are you human? Please complete the following captcha:

What's 0.1 + 0.2.

If the answer is 0.30000000001 then you failed.

Seriously, it's a pretty common metaphor. People don't literally mean the physical objects known as screens are bad per-se. It's what's on the majority of them in the hands of kids the majority of the time. It's much easier to say "screens" as opposed to specifying particular kinds of social media, and particular genres of short form videos and etc. Because we both know that if people didn't be 100% fully precise then you'd be complaining that forums are technically social media and some of those are fine etc etc.

A nerd might say "well akshually it's what's on the screen" whereas most people know what's meant by the phrase.

People don't use pedantically precise language all the time, fully caveated and cited as if they are having a particularly obnoxious internet debate. People use slang, jargon, shorthand, metaphor and simile in order to communicate.

Iâ(TM)m betting during the boom of the gold rush there wasnâ(TM)t any pickaxe vendor lagging behind in sales. Not even the biggest ones.

It isn't. They are doing very, very well with stock nearly doubling in a year. That's mad crazy levels of growth. But they're doing incredibly well from a solid base. Intel spent a decade fucking up so they're a long way down which means they have higher to climb.

Since when did employees matter?

I'm amused at how petty that billionaire's make-money-fa$t schemes are. Selling steaks? Tennis shoes? Bibles?

What other billionaire does this to get richer?

Ah, binary.

I simply can't imagine why it wouldn't be orders of magnitude cheaper and faster to just use short segments that don't need to be aligned so precisely.

So having 100 times the number of segments but now all with poorly aligned joints would be better?

I used to think that maybe I, a simple country ignoramus, just wasn't equipped to understand the Wonders of the Modern Age. ...

> /qh->0,uzLCb!51Wlcha4:a?@4Nmr:&^

Well, it's not secure any more!

Tabilizer, do NOT use that password!

> Of course, you'll never be able to remember it. Which is why you store it in a password-keeper, encrypted with a strong passphrase (the only thing you do need to remember) and using a strong encryption algorithm like AES256.

That's the theory. The part I love is that you practically have to store all your passwords in the cloud to make this feasible for most people, which is its own can of worms.

In practice, weaker passwords coupled with TOTP tends to be a better solution, if you can persuade people to use TOTP. If your passwords are compromized, change them before your TOTP keys are, and vice versa.

Kind of difficult to use as the storage for a website like the Internet Archive.

Totally get it, but assuming the bubble bursts and most of the LLM companies just end being sold for pennies to Google and Microsoft, or go bust, what can you possibly do about it?

It's not even as if you can boycott them NOW while they're functioning entities. You can decide you want to, but then Google ensures you can't do a search without AI, your boss refuses to let you code Java or PHP without AI, you're basically fucked.

It's Big Tech we need to rally against. More self hosting. More ad blocking. etc. Switching to GNU/Linux. Encouraging the use of federated social networks, and individual BBSes over Reddit. But look at the anger and hate you get when you suggest any of that.