I often have multiple programs partially overlapping, and dragging the cursor from side to side raises the middle app(s) when that's not where I'm going. I find that distracting and annoying.

It may be my ADHD. There are several other newer UI features that I detest and spend stupid amounts of time figuring out how to squelch. "Smooth" scrolling? To me it's just the opposite - I call it jerky scrolling, and it drives me nuts. I kill that fucker wherever I can.

Then there are scrollbars that are pencil-line-thin until the cursor hits them; at which point they widen to Sharpie-line thin, which is still too narrow to be usable. Give me a scrollbar wide enough to grab, with steppers, then leave it the fuck alone so I don't have to play whac-a-mole to use it. Ditto for window controls.

I have nine different text files describing how to get the UI (mostly) the way I want it, in a folder called Fix_UI_Fuckery. Not that I'm fussy or anything...

It's not as if one couldn't do "laundry folding" while watching a documentary or hearing some music... and not sitting still during such media consumption is even healthy.

Google certainly isn't the best search engine now anyway. The result quality isn't even the worst of it, it's the UI, as shown here.

Plus using a non-private search engine is basically a security risk in itself in case of mis-clicks. I stopped using Google search long, long ago.

You actually have no way to know whether or not Astra "figured" it out, and the evidence is that it could have- if you had been bothered to read.
Was Qwen's model card in Astra's weights? Probably.
Can Astra also design networks *from scratch* to solve problems? Yes. Can it troubleshoot other problems using mechanistic interpretability? Yes.

So no, it's not like saying that. Your analogy is as dim-witted as you are.

Yes, they just edged out a flight of pigeons....

Somewhere the moans and cries of a thousand tape drives forced to store all those zero-effort Youtube/Instagram/TikTok AI slop videos could be heard, if the data centers around them were not even louder.

DLT with a chip for random access was what we were using when I retired.

Exactly my first thought when I read this, too. "Let's include a window-manager in our application, because the user cannot be bothered to know he already has one running." - just crazy.

That is what people also said about the Internet when it was young. Then came for-profit companies and enshittified it. And neither the people who are after your money nor the ones that want to rule you consider "answering your questions" beneficial, they want you stupid and obedient, not asking questions.

I've been a Doom player since it came out. I map for UZ/GZDoom and Bethesda opened a mod repository and locked it down with their ID system. I've seen my own maps available there but I can't get one unless I suck Bethesda's tiny little cock. They've sucked up huge profit off the open source engine without contributing ANYTHING and I won't support them in any fashion. SteamUnlocked or FitGirl for this one for sure....

Waiting for "Illegal in Germany" man...

Been stealing copyrighted works

One thing everybody wants: quick and accurate answers to their questions.

Of course, no publisher wants to provide this. They want to make you pay for a subscription and/or buy books or articles and also assault you with ads as your route around through their site trying to find the answer you care about.

I can't blame the publishers....their business is selling information. If they can't profit on that, then there will be no publishing, and that would clearly be worse.

I can't blame Google for trying to circumvent this; their business is giving you quick access to information (in return for behavior tracking and their own ad viewing, of course).

Personally, I think the world would be a better place if we could get quick and easy answers to all of our (legal) questions. A better profit model for this is clearly what is needed. I am just hoping they can invent one as a result of this clash.

Aside: Gemini's answers are often harmfully inaccurate, and it will directly contradict itself depending on how you phrase the question. In theory this means the publishers shouldn't have to worry, because everybody will realize this and just stop using Gemini. In practice, the promise of a quick answer often overrides people's skepticism and prevents them from demanding references and proof, thus sending them astray. That problem needs a solution too.

Sure, it's not always true for house flippers, and it's not always true for PE companies. But in both cases, it is the norm. VERY few builders, even of new houses, use the best materials and processes, unless the buyer is willing to pay upcharges for it.

Really? What was this guy thinking? Clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.