I know I've found recently that the chat agents are often a superior search engine, as all too often the first page of traditional search engines is all advertising and duplicated results.
Like when I was looking for news on a business forced to honor what the chatbot said, regular search results were all trying to sell me chatbot services or about ethical use. The chatbot gave me the person's name and situation, along with verifying links.

This was just what I was thinking. Spinning disk works better when you have to store a lot of data that you are unlikely to need to access any given section on a regular basis. Something like a home user's movie collection. They want LOTS of movies, but can only really watch 1 at a time.
SSD works better when you are much more likely to need to read any given bit of data on a regular basis. The example here might be a server containing the same movies as the family example, but now it's Netflix or whoever serving it, using a server located in a datacenter. Odds are you have dozens or hundreds of streams being played from the SSDs inside at any given time.
Even if you replaced those SSDs with much larger storage hard drives, it would end up being a wash, CO2 wise, because to reach the necessary bandwidth you're going to need to duplicate the videos multiple times to meet the bandwidth requirements.
I suspect that once you're having to mirror the data more for latency and bandwidth access reasons than backup, redundancy, and reliability, SSDs start pulling ahead.

"So are you are not a parent or a really shitty one?
Parents are responsible for their children."

If they are not really shitty parents, then their children will tell them about their gender dysmorphia, clown.

Unfortunately people go insane from lead before they get gangrene of the testicles which is before death.

There is a third option, set and enforce reasonable limits. All or nothing is a fallacy.

IBM has lots and lots of offices in Texas, so no, that's not it.

Yes, but only to government.

The thing is he might be correct, but *not* for the people the companies are outsourcing to.

Generally speaking in the offshoring destinations, you have some solid tier of software developers who won't go anywhere near offshore work.

Then you have the diploma mills to let businesses rationalize that they hired credentialed people while having absolute garbage.

On the occasion someone in an offshoring context is actually any good, they have quit for better pay inside of 3 months.

Which is certainly a metric of use.

I can remember when Ubuntu was a great distro. Then came Gnome 3 and SystemD, and that killed it.

Optical navigation also works, is proven, as accurate as you want it to be and cannot be jammed either.

That every few years there's a new crop of mass spectrometer/gas chromatography instruments with 10-100 times the sensitivity of the previous generations of instruments. Of course, one of the very first uses of these new instruments is to find toxic materials in the parts-per-billion range and do a shock story about them. Nevermind that the levels have no know correlation with health hazards other than the toxic materials being toxic.

"Something in the liberal policies alienated a sizable mass of people. Think about what it was"

It was supporting genocide, not standing up for trans rights, which are human rights because they are humans.

"There was no point in the Democrats trying to score points with its own supporters furthest to the left, who were going to vote for them regardless."

That's an idiot take. The farthest left supporters stayed home because the Democrats were unwilling to go left enough to condemn genocide.

" Transgenders are not the problem, but the way it is handled. "

The way it's handled is to insist that all people have rights, and that really makes transphobes angry and scared. But you can't except anyone from "all people" or else you're fighting for privileges and not rights.