Apple usually won't offer something until it's figured out enough to be done right, while others will rush hokey implementations early to be first.

Political appointees should be public, they are accountable. The rest of civil servants are no different to you doing your job at your place of employment.

Civil servants are paid by the tax dollars. The public has a right to know who their tax dollars are going to.

In my state there is a web site where you can look up the salary of those who work for the government. It includes the person's name and their position title.

Put all bot/agent/AI traffic behind a digital black wall and start Internet 2.0?

Maybe she's not completely out to lunch. Maybe she's exposed to a culture where every whim is catered for by an app and unconsciously feels pressure to create something unique and is finding it a challenge.

OR maybe she thinks there are people who don't know what their children like.

According to the memo, metrics such as AI adoption rates, token consumption, code changes, and code reviews become "deeply flawed" when they are disconnected from actual results. Turning them into targets, Amazon says, encourages wasteful behavior that clashes with its emphasis on "frugality and simplicity" and can raise both compute bills and software complexity.

It's almost as if they're just now realizing Goodhart's Law exists.

[flips through English - French phrase book]: "Oooch!"

and when they came for the psychopathic, greedy bastards there was no one left to speak for them.

Mass consumption of refined sugar is a 500 year long experiment, starting with the mass cultivation of sugar beats in the European low countries and sugar cane in the Caribbean.

I wonder what the results will be?

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

[looks around for the cherry wood mantlepiece]

They're gonna attack Amarillo?

Some people suck more than others.

You brought facts to a slashdot Anonymous Coward rant.