Oh if I had the mod points...

Absolutely.

It's kind of ironic because my dad, a boomer, drank the cheap stuff like pabst blue ribbon and old milwaukee, because he probably just wanted the alcohol content cheap. When I came of age and shared a few cans I hated the stuff, even when going to college parties and drinking beer it was still something like Budweiser which I can drink but don't like either.

It wasn't until I moved states to start my career that I went out with some coworkers and they introduced me to Scottish Ale and Guinness' Stout which are far more tastier to me and I LIKE to drink. Though these days not as much as I try to avoid carbs as much as possible!

My 5 year old PC, which is perfectly capable of running current games and productivity software isn't supported by Windows 11 because it doesn't have TPM (or TPS cover sheets... or some other such nonsense) so it's running on Windows 10 and that's where it's going to stay when I build my new PC.

My new laptop came with Windows 11 and, not wanting, copilot, I went in and forcibly blocked Windows 11 updates.

Now I'm probably going to have to update SOMETIME as software and games drop support for older OS but, like Windows 8, I can afford to wait a few years.

I've been using a couple of different AIs integrated with various IDEs for about the past year.

They all, to a T, suck for actual solutions. Yes, they scarily generate code that has my style and naming conventions but for anything more than the most basic/common requests you get AI Hallucinations (a major failing in AI generation that they have to actually NAME IT and hold seminars on how to "fix" it... har har, It's not a bug, it's a feature!).

On the flip side, there's 2 areas where it's actually helped me.

1. Rote/grunt code handling. We had a minor API change in one library but it involved me going through about a dozen files and having to change about a 100 lines to pass parameters by a different naming convention that wasn't easily doable by grep/replace. To its credit, the AI in the IDE figured out the pattern after the third change and started offering it as a solution for code completion for the next 20 changes, even appropriately using different naming schemes when the context changed. I was impressed... But then it "forgot" and wouldn't offer the change... then after I hand fixed another dozen lines it suddenly remembered and started offering up the solution again. Regardless, it's gotten better at this grunt stuff over the last few months and it really helps with the coders block when you don't want to write yet another routine for massaging the data objects from one thing in a set to another format to patch up an API call! and the AI will just do it for you.

2. Error analysis of existing code. This seems to be a new feature as I hadn't observed this yet, but the AI found a configuration error in my code's makefile (not really an error per se but something that could've come back to bite me in the butt someday). The IDE I use is supposed to catch this too but didn't.

TL;DR - I was getting worried for my job as a programmer but then found the emperor had no clothes but that the AI can be helpful in some areas.

Apes together, strong!

Hear F-ing hear!

Those LED projector lights (great if you're driving) will completely blind you coming from some other cars. Either that or people are just flat out running with their brights on.

You understand there's a difference between the judiciary which, y'know, JUDGES the crimes and the police and prosecutors who do the arresting which are directly under control of the executive branch?

And I'll reiterate again - Macron can order him freed NOW.

He didn't cite the law, he didn't explain the legal process that took place, he just came out and in Krusty the Clown style said "Don't blame me, I didn't do it!"

Well yeah... maybe you didn't order the arrest. But you can certainly FREE HIM... and you didn't... further confirming this is political.

Seems to me Apple could generate SOME interest in the Vision by putting all those 3D movies made around the 2010s into their catalog and playable on it. Would certainly generate more interest than this.

That's what she said!

Why do I have a vision of Max Headroom-esque AI replacements of me in Zoom.

Or some vTuber like experience.

Looking for a Windows Update... or installing one...

You can use something like Brave with ScriptSafe or NoScript

But this goes completely away with Google's Manifest V3 which blocks these blockers and enforces tracking.

Don't be evil my ass.

I "smoked" a few Athlons in my early builds! :)