Yes, stupid people often believe stupid things. That doesn't mean it's wrong for experts to use their own terms correctly.

I get it. It feels deceptive when marketing uses the term 'AI' correctly, but what else do you expect them to do? Add needless qualifications like "we use AI, but not the chat bot kind"? That's silly. Besides, you really wouldn't want to use an LLM for this application anyway. That wouldn't make any sense.

What a bizarre statement. What on earth do you think that means? Considered by whom, exactly? Not by anyone in the field. What defines "just basic tech"? Do you think that LLMs somehow obsolete everything else? That's not how things work.

AI is very broad and has been so since the the term was coined in 1956. It covers a lot of things that you personally don't consider 'AI', but what you think doesn't matter. The time to object was almost 70 years ago. You should probably get over it.

What's the problem? ML is AI.

Would be good to see other nations interfere in their mining efforts until we have more comprehensive international agreements around mining and we're sure it would not interfere with any current or future scientific efforts.

You're a proven liar. Quit wasting everyone's time with your bullshit.

Wow, you're a dishonest piece of shit as well. Gas fireplaces are not the same as gas furnaces.

What a fucking joke. Fuck off.

So... woks in general are insane?

You do know that a gas furnace still requires electricity, right?

Right?

Your story is complete bullshit.

I love gas stoves. I like how they look and I like how they cook. Still, we gave ours away to make room for a fancy induction model. The difference in air quality is significant, as anyone with a few bucks to spare on an air quality monitor could tell you. While I'd still probably prefer cooking on a gas range, you get used to induction in a few weeks and even come to appreciate its advantages. It is very different from both gas and electric, and different can be scary for some people, but 'different' isn't synonomous with 'worse'.

Nonsense. It's not a problem in other parts of the world with longer and colder winters. With nothing more than a typical 100amp service, there are people in the midwest who get by with just a heatpump and a backup resistive heater (that only runs for a few hours on the coldest 3 or 4 nights over a winter, it's not really needed). The lucky few with geothermal don't even need the backup resistive heat.

But that's the best-case. Baseboard heating is very common in the midwest, adequately meeting the needs of countless people with basic 100amp service.

Why does every Midwesterner act like they live in northern Siberia?

Wait ... fire roasting ... on a gas range? You've completely missed the point. (Hint: no smoke = no flavor) You can burn your pepper on an induction range just as easily as you can on your gas range.

You won't need an 'extra high power' burner because you won't be wasting most of your energy heating everything except your pan. Time boiling a pot of water on your 'extra high power' burner against even a cheap induction burner and you'll see what I mean. It's not even close.

If you really want a cheap range, I'm sure you can find one at one of those used appliance places, though for less than $400 I can buy 3 standalone two-burner induction cooktops, providing more area than your discount stove in terms of pure utility. For a new range, the prices are closer than I expected. Both induction and gas are going to set you back ~$1000 for the average 30" landlord special, though I was able to find a few new gas models in the $700 range.

Having had both, the only reason I can see to prefer gas over induction is if you're used to cooking that way. Induction is different enough for there to be a learning curve, it's nothing like gas or electric, though you get the hang of it before too long and come to appreciate the advantages.

Nuwave has a stand-alone induction cooktop that's curved to accommodate a 'proper wok'.

Elmo just didn't stick around long enough to get the chance. The shooting, kidnapping, and torturing has already started, the beheadings probably aren't too far behind. Poor fellow... he had his chainsaw ready and everything...

Still, history will not be kind to him.

Yes, just ask your local ACLU. The thing that conservatives don't seem to understand is that liberals believe that no one should be "smeared/attacked" because of their race, creed, or color. Even conservatives.

  Muslims have been under constant assault from the right since 9/11, which is probably why it's the only one you've noticed. Many conservatives Christians also seem to think that they're "under attack" when someone stops them from violating the rights of others or when people from other religious traditions are allowed to express their beliefs in the same public spaces. Before you complain about being oppressed, I should inform you that the ACLU also defends conservative Christians. That's what it means to have principles.

Smart companies are moving away from the cloud, smarter companies never migrated in the first place. It turns out that scale is a problem that everyone wants, but almost no one actually has. Of those that do, a sizable portion would be better off scaling vertically, the rest can save an absolute fortune by repatriating. I've often pointed people to this article about the architecture of Stack Overflow. That's from 2016. What would you need to do the same with modern cloud-native best practices? Not long ago, the cloud was all about cost-savings in the short-term. Small companies with a fist-full of VMs might still benefit, but the sales pitch now is all about investing in the future. It's very silly.

The world runs on COBOL. Not just because there's a lot of legacy code out there that's too expensive or risky to replace, but because it's really very good at what it was designed to do. (You mention performance, but you won't do much better than COBOL on big iron.) There's a reason countless multi-million-dollar COBOL to Java conversions failed in the 90's. (In hindsight, we're very lucky that they weren't successful!) There really isn't anything else that comes close, which is why there are still new COBOL applications being developed to this very day. While few and far between, they'll be among the few that won't need to be rewritten in 5 years.

You're kidding, right? You'd have to be. Well, Ruby and Python are probably a real problem, but let's not pretend that modern software development practices produce anything other than horrifically bloated and slow monstrosities. You're unlikely to find any performance improvements 'modernizing' a typical LoB app, let alone a "massive boon".