I'm still salty about the switch to SystemD in the first place. I grew up on the simplicity of Linux's three tenets:

1. Everything is a file
2. Everything should be kept as simple and discreet as possible
3. Text (ASCII) based files wherever possible for configs and logs

SystemD came along and just blew all three of those out of the water and made it look and act more like Windows with its complications. And now it's pushing non-needed items like Birthdate into the core functions.

Can't they do like Slime does for tires, and release an aerosol to see where the air current is going, then put some clumpy/powerdery stuff into the air near the leak to let it seal itself?

Don't threaten me with a good time.... seriously though, it needs to happen as it's a fake market anyway. We will recover.

So maybe i'm missing something, but it's my understanding with most blockchain based applications the big thing is calculating "proof-of-ownership". However as the size of the chain increases, the calcuation power and time required to do it also increases (I don't remember if it's linearly, logrithmically, etc.). For a low volume application, this is feasible. But how would this work with things like HFT and massive volume changes in terms of time and compute power required.

"draws on Stack Overflow's own corpus for training data" -- and just where is AI going to get its training data on future issues that come up? You can't exactly feed it a manual and hope it will understand and be able to extrapolate answers, it just regurgitates what's already been posted with a certain degree of "confidence". So if SO goes, because everyone is relying on LLMs, it becomes and oroborous situation.

From my understanding, a metric ton of code in Windows is actually multi-threaded. They started doing that with multi-core systems and then with the introduction of E-cores, took it even further.

The actual application refuses to discuss specific topics even for research and test purposes . This is wrong. The actual engine should not be programmed to limit speech. It classifies preprogrammed topics. If it doesn't like it it will refuse to participate. This is not an LLM issue. You can change LLMs and it will respond in the same way. The government should not be using it.

How much has it shrunk? 5 billion units remaining? 5% of that is large. If just US users then considerably less.

What you might not understand is that most people that have linux have many computers running linux and hence most aren't counted. Most households have more than one Windows machine too. Those can be tracked tho independent of website visits.

Didn't the post intro state which entity tracked it? Switching back and forth to browser the web doesn't cut it first me. I use mine pretty much just as an on the go gaming device.

This is exactly what happened with cable. It started off as the "ad free" alternative to over the air, and since you paid for it, it helped offset the ads. Then they started sneaking them in little bit little and upping them.

We've come full circle.

As more sites start seeing a drop off due to people getting their answers from AI, where will AI get it's data to train from if it has nothing to scrape? (Legalities and morals aside). It feels like it'll become self defeating over time or hit a wall of not having any new things to reference.

Even if it doesn't, it still provides a great baseline in a modern day language that can then be maintained. Think of how you could bootstrap old COBOL and FORTRAN apps to a modern language and then have your devs maintain it from there. Yes it may not be 100%, but if it gets you even 80% of the way there in 5 minutes, that can potentially be months and months of saved time.