It's also a sociopathic one.

That it's SOP doesn't make it any less so, but rather an indictment against our capitalism-first culture.

It's called a private cloud, it's not rocket surgery, we were doing clustering with machines with only dozens of MHz clock speeds and less RAM than most modern embedded platforms back in the nineties.

Parents no longer parent and expect the schools to teach their unruly and coddled child.

cool.

Why?

The computers sat in a lab, and the kids would interact with them a couple times a week in a structured (instructed) setting.

Good grief no!

All the value I got was in the non structured settings where you could fart around on the computers without interference from teachers who by and large didn't know much about computers at all. Of course there was no internet at that point so that was mostly programing. I always did best in the least heavily structured subjects.

I do not know why Americans hate nuance so much but it's pretty deeply ingrained in our culture.

Puritanism.

Murder a bunch of toddlers? Murder is a sin and you're going to hell.

Steal a loaf of bread to feed you starving kid? Stealing is a sin and you're going to hell.

The end result's the same and equally bad either way, regardless of the sin. This strips away all nuance. If you're good you go to heaven, if you sin you go to hell.

Are you human? Please complete the following captcha:

What's 0.1 + 0.2.

If the answer is 0.30000000001 then you failed.

Seriously, it's a pretty common metaphor. People don't literally mean the physical objects known as screens are bad per-se. It's what's on the majority of them in the hands of kids the majority of the time. It's much easier to say "screens" as opposed to specifying particular kinds of social media, and particular genres of short form videos and etc. Because we both know that if people didn't be 100% fully precise then you'd be complaining that forums are technically social media and some of those are fine etc etc.

A nerd might say "well akshually it's what's on the screen" whereas most people know what's meant by the phrase.

People don't use pedantically precise language all the time, fully caveated and cited as if they are having a particularly obnoxious internet debate. People use slang, jargon, shorthand, metaphor and simile in order to communicate.

Iâ(TM)m betting during the boom of the gold rush there wasnâ(TM)t any pickaxe vendor lagging behind in sales. Not even the biggest ones.

It isn't. They are doing very, very well with stock nearly doubling in a year. That's mad crazy levels of growth. But they're doing incredibly well from a solid base. Intel spent a decade fucking up so they're a long way down which means they have higher to climb.

Even worse, it installs a special Excel that you can only access through Solitaire, but which still takes up all of the space of normal Excel.

I use Firefox with UBO and occasionally youtube gets mad for a day or two, then it works again. Yes, I've run updates manually.

I still recommend it as long as it works, though.

Sadly I can't recommend Firefox for mobile any more. It crashes on me every day, sometimes multiple times, when using javascript-heavy sites.

You were so close. It's obvious you post as a coward because you're stupid.

I simply can't imagine why it wouldn't be orders of magnitude cheaper and faster to just use short segments that don't need to be aligned so precisely.

So having 100 times the number of segments but now all with poorly aligned joints would be better?

I used to think that maybe I, a simple country ignoramus, just wasn't equipped to understand the Wonders of the Modern Age. ...

I got an Idea. How about locating and deleting data centers that host these things? Deleting them from existance.

Oh look it got mad I insulted its sock puppet

It is when they get it, but I'm not sure you understand the purpose of an archive

It would be useful if they were required to make any training data they didn't pay for publicly accessible...

But they aren't