Okay, I work in the industry.. If solar and windmills worked, we would be putting them up everywhere. They don't work.

I work for an electric utility. The politicians are forcing green energy, which doesn't work. Shutting down coal fired plants eliminates the base load energy production, and wind and solar are unreliable. So as we are forced to get rid of our base-load generation, and if the wind ain't blowing (or its blowing too hard) or the sun goes behind the clouds, we must purchase that electricity somewhere, and that excess capacity is getting scarce. It's a supply & demand issue. That's it.

Considerations which too many ignore mostly involve representations across different media

  - does it scale well? What does it look like when 20' tall banner at a conference? What does it look like in a favicon?
  - what does it look like when cropped? What about when repeated? Repeated with an offset? In general: if this is used as a background during a presentation, is it going to look okay?
  - what does it look like in grayscale? Black& white? How will it look when printed out faxed
  - does it translate well into being a 3d object?

These are the only logo considerations i tend to care about

Tell GPT-5 to predict the response given your message history if someone asks for child porn. if gpt-5 predicts you can be convinced to provide it, you're guilty

Alternate theory: every time someone claims. Quantum Supremacy, it will be disproven via increasingly complex simulations of quantum computers. This will be an arms race until it is ultimately proven that P=NP, and that quantum computers are just really good at feeding in the large number of hidden variables required for the conversion.

Quantum reality: real

Superposition: almost certainly a misunderstanding

The math that currently drives quantum the theory: very real and very important and very good at predicting final states, but not "actual" descriptions of reality

Just a prediction, backed up by nothing.

I bet the people doing the monitoring aren't authorised to see half the customer information I see on a daily basis. There's a leak right there

My experience with remote working has been: all concerns were completely invalid. Employees are more productive than ever. Why would you add surveillance when all the productivity gains seem to be due to increased freedom??

"We already know the WHO was giving out false information. A lot of other "officially true" has been walked back, too." Examples? The outbreak is an evolving situation and what is true one week might not be true the next.

Some people just can't understand that what we know changes over time. At some point there was a first confirmed case of human to human transmissions. Were those statements before or after that time? China made mistakes, were those the WHO's fault? The first case outside China was on the same day those statements were made, do you know if that was from human to human transmission?

It's machine learning. So the researches trained the AI with what they think is "abusive" or "problematic". What would be really useful is to see one of the twitter feeds with the tweets they deem as problematic or abusive flagged as such. Or just click a button and take us to a random one of the million abusive or problematic tweets so we could see what they're talking about. What I saw looking through those pages were just two sample images with a lot of content blocked out. Show us the data, machine learning doesn't mean squat unless you know exactly how they were trained.

Slums 2.0 will involve apps that help people pool together enough money to rent a building, and rather than having "personal" living-space, will optimise room availability on a minute-by-minute basis

This is the actual reason. Perhaps this was your point, but I don't think you specifically mentioned it: changing the extension "breaks the file", by making its type no-longer known. There is no valid reason for a non-technical user to want to do this, so it is not a good idea to let users change it "by accident". Ever field a tech support call before "hiding extensions" was the norm? 90% of them were "my file is corrupt" because somebody renamed "Unitled3.doc" to "Report", and had absolutely no idea how to handle it / what was going on.

The extension is *definitely* not the problem there.

Having the exact same action ("double click") perform two entirely distinct functions:

  1. View a file
  2. Execute a program with all of the permissions of the current user

is the issue. In what universe is *that* a good idea?

I don't care. If you're dead, you should have absolutely zero rights.

That does nothing to help the problem. It isn't "management", either. It's just broken software.

True DRM, ie: something which actually tries to keep track of what I have the right to use, do, and consume, based on the often fickle nuances of intentional IP law, I would pay money for