The ones I hate are the smug Google IT! answers. I did Google it, but all of the results pointed to people smugly replying that I should google it!.

Stack Overflow was awesome, but now I have an API and documentation expert on _everything_ about software development sitting in a chatroom giving me expert answers and advice right when I ask for it. It's like Linus Torwalds and an army of software project leads are just sitting there waiting to answer when I come with my problem. I don't even search anymore, I ask the question, add layers and "if not, then how" and "how would you do this specific thing" and buddy AI spits out an essay on how to do it and how my function is meh and is called a "footgun" because it makes safe things hard and dangerous things easy and I'm like: "Ok, I've been doing software for almost 40 years now but I never heard of that anti-pattern but double-checking show's me that AI is spot on".

Given, the AI can talk total gibberish and I do need to double-check sometimes. AI is quite very human in that it sometimes doesn't even finish reading the details of my question and spits out code that ignores my singular variables and puts them in plural and I have to change that after the fact. Stuff like that.

But it's an entirely different league than searching Google and Stack Overflow and I suspect Stack Overflow is basically done for. Casualty #1 of AI I'd say. My productivity has 5xed at least, I can now start real world projects right away without having to do weeks of dives and spikes into new APIs and work on an entirely new level and I wouldn't want to go back.

We're waaaay past the steam-age of microcomputers and even further past proprietary software of this kind even being a thing. There is absolutely _nothing_ left on this sort of OS (and hardware) that can't be replaced by some rasberry pi and way superior FOSS in less than an hour two orders of magnitude cheaper and 3+ orders of magnitude more performant. My cheap-ass 200 Euro smartphone has 12 GB of RAM and can run circles around this dinosaur of a microcomputer "workstation" in power-saving mode. That UI looks like it was uncovered from the tomb of tut ench amun. The last iteration of the Amiga looked better at that was a time when hammer pants were still 5 years away.

... this is somewhat hilarious, having the country run by a stuff peddling somewhat l00ny Showmaster and fraud? Given, I'm looking from the outside (Europe) so it's easyer for me to laugh at this right now but it _is_ funny, with the right dose of humor, don't you think?

I just hope you guys don't totally collapse into a banana Republic. I'm not too worried, but you never know.

More drag means their orbits will decay faster if they become inert junk.

It goes beyond the clock though. It's all analog displays (or digital simulations of analog displays, for that matter). They don't just give you a reading, they convey some since of the rate and help put the measurement into proportion with the scale of the display (which, when well designed is highly useful information).

Consider a dipstick (the one under the hood, not the one seated next to you). You're low on oil, but are you OMG pull into that convieniance store and get some oil now, just top it off when you get home, or you're getting an oil change in 2 weeks, it'll be fine. A quick glance will tell you, IF you can read an analog scale.

Alas, how are they to know when the minute has passed?

If only that round thing on the wall could talk...

Bank Teller was a respectable job until the ATM came. The ATM ushered in more but worse banks and tellers. I assume ( and observe that ) it's the same with software development.

But does the AI know that "Bubba's Bait Shop and Kolege of Medical Knowledge" and "The Mayo Clinic" have very different reliability? Claiming to be just as accurate as the former isn't a particularly strong statement.

"you're a functional illiterate then. pretty common most people are."

Let's see ... your post has no capitalization, exhibits an inability to punctuate properly, and exposes your complete lack of knowledge as to the definition of the word "illiterate." Clearly you fall into the category of "most people" to which you are referring.

That's not an IPv6 failure, that's an ISP failure. If they're still using PPPOE, it sounds like they managed to screw up IPv4 support as well, does that mean IPv4 is a fucking mess too? I'd say that ISP is a fucking mes.

I've been using IPv6 in one form or another for nearly 20 years now without issue. For a good while, 6to4, then 6in4 with a HE tunnel, now native v6.

The Panzer divisions of the Wehrmacht got issued "Panzer Chocolate". Bars of chocolate laced with meth, to keep tank crews going longer. They became quite popular. No idea why ;-). The chocolate came from the Herman Goering Chocolate Factory ("Herman Göring Schokoladenfabrik") ... because of course it did.

This news sounds quite similar to be honest.

Gotta agree. All that complexity hidden under the rug probably holds a few nasty surprises. And that's before the promiscuous auto updates with poor version (and access) control.

That's an innovation in almost exactly the way that crapping on the office floor is.

Who said anything about not minding (other than you)?