As long as investors believe in it, it keeps going. Just as with any other bubble.

A few years back every child in the public schools in our town got a Chromebook. My now 10 year old got one in 2nd grade, but in 3rd grade everyone had to hand them in again. Also, somewritten exams are without computers in high school again now. In short: computers and screens are bad for learning (in the lower classes at least).

Yes, but you need a quantum oracle to coherently calculate if a state x is in S or not.

Many banks happily replace IBM with Microsoft. They don't care about vendor lock-in.

AI can translate code the same as humans doing a lot of mistakes, just faster. You need a torough test to verify the translation no matter what. Unfortunately, making automatic tests was not Cobol's strong side. It wasn't that common back then, and even now a lot of software projects lack even any automatic test suites.

The Norse, who settled on south west coast, died out in Greenland, when it got colder and their farming and coastal fishing didnt work anymore. Contact between Norway and Greenland was lost around 1400. The Danish-Norwedian king tried to reestablish contact in the 18th century expecting to find christians, but still catholics, up there, but found Inuit, who had come in from the north. Denmark lost Norway to Sweden after the Napolian wars, but kept Greenland, Faroe Islands and Iceland.

"Rocker science" is really "rocket engineering" - which is hard by itself due to the extremes of it, but not science as such. There can be pockets of science, say, material science at cryogenic temperatures, in there, though - but 60 years ago, when the technology was invented.

AI != expert systems. The later is based on hardcoded rules, the former on fitting a complicated function to data points and hope it at least interpolate well enough. Sometimes it wont.

He wants the Linux install to compete head-to-head with MacOS. But Apple disigned them to fit together and havent released details. Without those details, no chance Linux can do as well as MacOS. Windows in many cases also performence better that Linux wrt. power management on laptops, because the hardware most vendors only support Windows. He also states that most software isnt compiled for ARM. Which? Why if it is open source? But he has a point: Why run Linux on Mac when MacOS is already a Unix? If you want Linux, there are plenty of other options. If you have a mac and need Linux, run it in a virtual machine. PS. I cantfigure out how to make paragraphs in Slashdot comments.

Devs shall not test the code by running it manually, CI shall! You learn to run some tests locally before pushing to avoid waiting for CI server and to be able to debug the test, but you rely on CI pipelines to do the actual testing. But actually open "the program" and run it as an requirement before pushing??? Only if you do GUI programming, and want to see it, what you have changed. A developing process relying on all developers knowing what to test before merge is faulty. A developer knows the task given and writes automatic tests as part of the task, hopefully stopping the next guy from accidentially braking the feature/re-doing the bug again on master. It is part of the review process to ensure there are tests enough. QA testers should only cover stuff very hard to test automatically: GUI.

If it was ICE, they wouldn't have tajen him TO the US.

Change to Eton Rules.

Knocking your heads aginst each other at 4.8 km/h can still give you a concussion, I think.

Only if you have really, really good integration tests, which are expensive to build, maintain and run. As AIs are making mistakes just as humans, testing is equally needed. We are not used to random errors from say compilers, but LLMs and other ML models make a lot of mistakes. They need to be verified independently. Just as humans. Large changes are really hard to verify.

And make inexperienced ones produce more crap. I tried it a little and it could really speed things up, but it is like outsourcing to junior developer, except it is much faster and cheaper. In general it is good at scrabing examples, produce templates code, fixing some bugs, but it makes quite a few mistakes.