Dude. 10% of the time on Windows I can't get shit to work right.

I suggest:

First offence: Have to watch CSPAN for 5 hours a day, for a week, without sleeping through it - evidence to be provided in court

Second offence: Have to sing Miley Cyrus songs and Baby Shark on TikTok - sober

Third offence: License to practice and all memberships of country clubs and golf courses revoked

As reported elsewhere, the long lead times have made some data centers obsolete at startup, or sometimes before construction is complete. For example, Oracle and OpenAI abandoned expansion of a data center in Texas, because the expansion as planned would not be ready for new NVidia GPUs. TFA doesn't mention the tremendous water consumption by data centers, a statistic AI companies strive to hide, and which many water-constrained communities rightly use to oppose data center construction.

If you can't figure out for yourself what's wrong with ordering large numbers of men to their deaths, then I won't be able to explain it to you.

They could take that one step further: once your computer has compiled the appropriate shader for its particular combination of hardware/driver/etc, the game could upload that particular shader to a repository, so that the next install with the exact same combination of conditions could just download it instead of having to duplicate the work. I imagine there are a lot of people out there running functionally identical systems that would benefit.

I suppose they don't do that because they don't trust people not to repurpose the mechanism as a malware vector, or something.

He's probably not scared enough. Anyone old enough to remember Vietnam knows how the song goes from here. "We must throw another batch of American men into the meat grinder, otherwise the lives of the previous batch will have been sacrificed in vain", and repeat ad infinitum.

They tried that with Apollo 13. And.... that actually did work, sorta.

it depends on which boot you have is running when the hardware survey is pushed to you. They do these hardware surveys by pushing a popup to users every now and then, and users need to actually be bothered to click through the dialog.

If you've never seen that dialog, you were never counted.

There are a lot of community fixes for that kind of thing, but for most people who ain't got time for fiddling, gaming oriented distributions like Nobara are shipping with baked in patches for things like SMP scheduling issues, Wine bugs, driver gotchas, etc.

I've been running Nobara on my PC exclusively for the past couple of years. It's been great - like a fixed version of Fedora that just works. I hear great things about Bazzite and CachyOS too.

The most fiddling I really have to do to get my games to run is to check protondb and look for game specific launch options (there's a place to put that in Steam), and select a compatible version of Proton (a simple drop-down in the Steam console). Most stuff just works out of the box though.

One LLM to examine the code and create the specifications and then another LLM from another vendor to generate new code from those specs?

Yes. Some were quite funny, but a lot were kinda meh.

Can it clone proprietary software and turn it into an open source project?

If so, then I think the tradeoff is fair.

Turning to AIs for a ruling on who is human and who is not is an interesting inversion of the Turing test.

That surprised me, too. TypeScript is a very poorly-congealed ("designed" seems a bit strong) language.

Of the two popular scripting languages - python and ruby - python probably makes more sense as you can compile into actual binaries if you want.

For speed and parallel processing, which I'd assume they'd want, they'd be better off with Tcl or Erlang, both of which are much much better suited to this sort of work.

Then they should have used Tcl.