Pay me in gold, not paper.

from a KPI point of view, yes obviously.

Most of these models don't have a reliable way to extract confidence. There's a lot of false positives unfortunately. So we've all been hiding any sort of explicit confidence feedback to the user instead of giving them a random number generator.

It's an algorithm that does not view confidently feeding the user false information as a type of failure.

It's a case where doing nothing would have been better than this.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. ... How about a nice game of chess?

Too many old people (my age) still vote for that sort of campaign to work.

There was a time when the people who complained about soldered RAM (and I was one of those people) were a significant enough proportion of the community that manufacturers would pay attention. This was the age when gaming PCs were constructed from high end pieces from the wild-assed cases to the heavy duty PSUs to overclocked CPUs and next gen GPUs.

But overall, that segment of the consumer market has dwindled. Most folks just want to charge their new machine up, connect it to their WiFi network and get going. On the corporate end of things, save for pretty niche areas like engineering and R&D, a cube you can plug a keyboard, mouse and camera into and will last through a few upgrade cycles before it's sold back to a refurb outfit is all that is needed. Nobody in IT departments is pulling RAM chips anymore, particularly at RAM prices right now! Even the folks writing operating systems are starting to get it, and have rediscovered the glory of native apps that don't required bloated Javascript engines just to select a few radio buttons.

Yes, Windows 11 is really that bad. It's cluttered, slow, inconsistent. I've seen it on pretty high end hardware, and it's a dog. And that's before we even talk about how they tried to insert Copilot into everything. It's a shitty version of Windows and even Redmond acknowledges it. It was the impending EOL of Windows 10 that lead me to buy an M1 MacBook Pro, and I've never looked back. If I want to run Linux, I've got servers set up to do that kind of heavy lifting, but I have absolutely no need for whatever it is MS is trying to sell me these days.

ideally you'd want to print aluminum oxide but I'd take some tough glass instead.
and if you make your chips outside of the crazy design, you are then stuck having to assemble a possibly impossible jigsaw puzzle.

No, I think in the far future there would be no point in doing traditional photolithography for a low performance consume device that's sub-100 TOPS could be a lower density chip-on-glass or flexi-chip design and much thinner than your typical substrate and packaging.

This is all supposition and armchair futurism on my part. I'm offering entertainment more than a serious solution.

I consider a free country to be one where the people govern. The absence of regulation is not a step towards freedom. But the removal of authority of a more representative government of the people is a step away from freedom.

This should be about state's rights. The modern interpretation of the commerce clause has gutted the Constitution. And instead of everyone living in a state were they have some potential representation of their regional demographic, we have a nation where only the ones that can afford to support 9 figure campaign budgets get a voice.

The hope of those that pull the strings of our government is that young men saddled with debt will fight our wars.

I had a 186 in my palm top. But building a fully IBM PC compatible with a 186 was impossible as the integrated hardware was different. You could run modified versions of MS-DOS on it and get the vast majority of programs working, just not 100% of them.

There's throwing away working code, and there is hording old bits even though nobody is even testing them before making changes. Don't be a hoarder. And feel free to hand any important 486 code to any other GPL kernel project. Or switch to NetBSD for your 486 needs.

What is even better than being able to brag to your friends is to be able to complain to your friends and family. So this is the gift that keeps on giving.