I agree. I think by now we have arrived as "malice" for what the LLM pushers do. Time to stop them and put them away. But humanity seems to be incapable of dealing with its worst members, and not only in this area.

Good question. I am on board with "somewhat better search", but that does not even justify 1% of the effort currently invested and damage done. The rest seems to be more of a problem than a solution and I do not think that will change.

They all just want to get rich and society (or humanity) be damned. Reminds me of oil executives and weapons peddlers. The scum of the scum, unfortunately having floated to the top as crap has a tendency to do.

You can relay DHCP and TFTP. But you really should not, it usually creates more problems that it solves. And these days, you need a lot of bandwidth for running machines without local disks, even more so for software that assumes a local SSD. No better way to make things painfully slow.

PXE boot is probably just another one of these bad ideas that refuses to die. To be fair, Windows system administration is so badly broken and non-fixable, that PXE boot may make some sense in some scenarios, like machines that are essentially terminals. Why people do not use Linux terminals in those scenarios is beyond me though.

No thanks on the light-up Apple logo for me. I think it started with the Powerbook G3 (I had one, it was a great computer) and it was sort of obnoxious even then. I'm not paid to be a light-up billboard everywhere I go.

No thanks on the laptop touchscreen, either. I understand it on something like a Surface tablet -- almost -- but most of the time I used my Surface with a keyboard, like a regular laptop, and never touched the screen. I think ramming touchscreens down everybody's throats was just a gimmick Microsoft came up with, both to A.) convince everybody that Windows 8 worked equally well on laptops and tablets (it sure did); and B.) once again, everybody needed to go out and buy a new laptop, even though their current one worked and served their needs just fine.

Always the same brand of stupid for the last 50 years. Writing software is hard (because all good engineering is hard) and can only improved by getting the best people and letting them work as unimpeded as possible. Brooks proved that about 50 years ago, but it still gets ignored by small-skill-big-ego "management" routinely that just think they can "manage" people to be better at it. That will never work. It has exactly the opposite effect. As the example here nicely shows, again.

My take is the people going to business school are just generally dumb with big egos. Teaching cannot fix that. In a STEM subject, they would just get washed out. But business schools would be empty if they did that, so they do not and instead do massive damage to society.

Simple. People that, without any real evidence, concluded LLMs are great at everything made the decisions. Idiots hiring idiots to implement idiotic things. Just that this time things got more out of hand than usual.

Yes. But there is this breed of economics grads that hate seeing people as people and desperately want to see them as numbers. That does not work and cannot work. See also "A good decision is based on insight, not on numbers" (Plato, a while ago).

The problem is 100% with management that has no clue how things work in the real world. Performance metrics do not work when your people are smart enough to understand the metric. And for jobs like these, everybody is smart enough to understand the metric or they could not do the job at all. Most will also understand the metric is stupid and upper management is comprised of idiots.

You want to use a slop-machine to increase quality? How do you think that can be done?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. And the LLM hype has a lot of stupidity in it. Yes, LLMs have some uses, but they are nowhere near what gets routinely claimed and what the stupid think they can do.

Honestly most pickups never tow. According to companies that make them and have a vested interest in knowing what they need to build. Less then half of pickup owners ever tow anything.

The under half that do tow are still people though and still have needs and dollars. I tow, I early tow more then about 200 miles, I mean why would I fill a dump trailer with dirt from two states away and haul it home? We have dirt here! Most of my towing is under 50 miles. Occasionally it is 400 miles (not for dirt though).

you can make a successful product that doesnâ(TM)t address the needs of every single person.

It is a bit of a tricky set-up because you need to be in the same broadcast domain for DHCP. My guess would be that very few desktops do it these days, even though it can definitely be done.

No problem. This stuff has gotten way too complex.

Haha, no. My thinking was that oversized ICMP is so old and well-known that they would surely not make that mistake. Apparently I gave them far too much credit.