Running a distributed OS seems better than allowing a web browser to access hardware.

My experience with Philippino work ethic is in direct opposition with your comment.

I have worked for the same Canadian IT management firm for 26 years. My team has always been 5-10 Canadian residents, doing operational support for storage and data management.

Sometime around 2010, the company began hiring internationally to perform "mid-tier" work. More involved than an IT helpdesk, less involved in one-off and "shiny" or "sexy" project work. Now my team is more like 4-7 Canadians plus 10-15 Philippinos.

Outside my team, the whole department is 100-125 people: unix, windows, database, network, etc; and it's the same breakdown for them.

For certain: more onshore workers are lazy excuse makers than anyone from the Phillipenes. 10:1 or better, the Philippino workers deliver consistent effort.

In any case, I am of the impression Waze's purpose is to plot the minimal-time route between two points across a network. Speeding or not, it still helps to avoid congested or stalled traffic.

Just follow the rules and "the powers that be" will stop making more rules.

Who needs a language at all?

Cowboy Neal codes in machine instructions, AI should too.

Even C gets translated to assembly before the assembler makes the binary that gets modified by the linker.

Point is: all human-accessible programming languages are _at least_ two degrees of separation from machine language executed by the instruction decoder in the CPU. The only thing that matters is the final binary executable in RAM.

Become competent on 3 platforms, then use the right one of those three tools to get each job done.

Never go into the forest with only a Swiss Army knife. Take a utility knife, a machete, and a hatchet instead.

and that time he flushed himself down the toilet to save Nibbler.

... and do it well.

To do a complex thing, string together multiple simple things.

I agree. I live in desert climate, I can easily differentiate "dry mud" from "dirt". Dirt moves more freely, in the wind and underfoot.

I honestly think that is the real motivation: Let the foreigners die faster, so there will be less total competition for resources.

... use chips made by just 3 companies.

EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!

Make it very appealing to amass lots of debt now, for a short time; then jack up the rates after you have them by the short hairs.

It's very close to the drug dealer business model: the first hit is free, after that you pay full price.

Both methods fuck the customer, and consolidate wealth in the hands of a a few.

At least, that's what appears to be going on with my perspective looking in from outside the USA.

Totally agree.

Also, where will AI gain new knowledge after authors & content-generators stop creating "novel" content, and stop applying the real intelligence that feeds the artificial one?

I used to give free IT Support in yahoo chat groups in the 1998-2003 era. People stopped asking for help in those html-based real-time chat forums sometime around when Stack Overflow was getting started.

I think this news is just evolution that has no "right or wrong", only "kill or be killed, eat or be eaten".

I'm replying here about a much earlier statement: "everybody" benefits from roads; unless a person homesteads and manually grows/picks/slaughters all their food & water; then I agree the general tax fund seems a good place to get money to pay for roads. Also tax the personal automobile, so that people who use roads more, pay via more channels.

Did the master race disappear when I wasn't looking?