Back in the late 80's and 90's, I did a lot of porting among the various Unixes, mostly Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, DG, and a couple others. The HP-SUX port was always the most troublesome. The PA-RISC hardware was nice enough, but not HP-UX. It seemed like every time we turned around there was some new quirk or incompatibility. I'm glad it's gone.

Or you are working on a code base that isn't amenable to LLM assistance.

I don't know what sort of development you are doing that an LLM can create "massive" amounts of code that is anywhere near correct, but I wish you luck with it. I prefer to write my own race conditions and lock ordering bugs. I don't need something else to write them for me.

Just 41 years later than predicted.

Trust Mark Zuckerberg? That's a huge NO, and it goes rapidly downhill as one reads the rest of the title.

Ridiculous.

I'd go in a second. It won't happen, unfortunately.

rate -> rare

What a load of bullshit.

Fluoridation happened because statistics (you know, those actual records, not lies) showed that adding fluoride to water helped much more than it hurd.

Fluoride is not a common industrial waste product. Fluorine is relatively rate (compared to the other halogens). Water fluoridation is not cheap, compared to just flushing the dross down the drain or piling it up as slag. Pretending that it's a scam is a scam.

And Utah could become the first US state to subject kids to massive dental issues, while enriching dentists.

I predate fluoride in the water, and I'm sure my parents' bank account reflects it. Multiple teeth pulled thanks
to cavities regardless of how much I brushed or flossed.

If I were a dental student today, I'd move to Utah, because if this passes, it's going to be a fscking Gold Mine.

None of them, and it's going to stay that way.

To trust a half-assed, bogus, pattern matching bot? for anything that I didn't care about, maybe a few tens of seconds to see how shitty the answer is.

For anything that I take seriously, an AI bot answer can go fsck itself; I will NEVER pay attention.

No, my high school didn't have a computer room or any computer access for students at all. This was in the early 70's. Fortunately, in 1975, CMU still had the free access PDP-8 running TSS-8 available, and it took me about 2 days to become entranced. I still have some assembly code I wrote for that machine in my freshman year.

PT Barnum would be proud. (and would promptly come up with an even more hyperbolic and ridiculous claim, no doubt.)

It's ironic that this is from the WSJ - the newspaper with an entire (mis-labeled) section entitled "Money". (It's mis-labeled because if you read the articles, they are almost all about gambling with other people's money, not really about money per se.)

Where were the WSJ articles bemoaning bean-counting over engineering, back when it was starting at Intel and Boeing?

I don't accept pennies as change (when I accept coinage change at all, which isn't often). Pennies are stupid and infuriating, and it would be great for the Mint to simply stop making them. Canada did it with basically zero effect.

Losing a couple cents per cash transaction might possibly add up to a dollar or three over the course of a year. Definitely worth it to stop the materials and cost waste.

I dunno about the US lagging the world (probably true, but I have no figures either way). But as a data point, I can say that both of the taxi's that I took last week from SYX (Sanya Phoenix airport) to our conference hotel 45 minutes away, were electric; and I don't imagine that I happened onto the only two.

I live in a condo in the US middle North East area, and when I suggest that my next car will be electric and the condo really ought to have some sort of charging station, they look at me like I'm from Antares III.

Oil products are IMO too valuable to just burn.