Then if these loyalty programs went away we would see cheaper air fares?

Did you learn arithmetic when you were young, or are you old enough to have yet ?

The coast of Maine is still well booked. Then again, even Bar Harbor isn't a big draw to the global elite. Maybe Boothbay Harbor, but nobody goes there to enjoy anything.

But when Reader dies, I went to Netvibes, which wasn't intended to be an RSS reader, but it had one. It died.

Now I've gone back to an old option, Inoreader. It's tolerable.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes that number. It's called the employment-to-population ratio. Since there many different opinions on how to interpret the data, the BLS publishes it every which way. Most press reports what is called the U-3 number because most economists agree that it is the most useful one.

Do you mean that the three-body problem hasn't been solved because we have insufficient data and/or computational capacity to some of in real time, or for meaningful spans of time? Because I suspect we could solve a three-body problem for a minimal time span if we cared to. It's just not very useful.

And uncertainty leaves us unable to define even a hydrogen atom's state unless we accept that observation has left us with 'this state', realizing we cannot reliably define it's past state either.

It's frikin' cats all the way down...

Schrodinger never explained what happens when you take the box away from the cat...

So maximum solar energy increases panel output, but the higher temperatures reduce panel efficiency.

But lower temperatures are associated with lower solar energy, and lower panel output.

Are you arguing we're damned if we do, and damned if we don't? Or just that we need to discount PV panel output and not assume we will operate them very efficiently, more likely at a slightly lower output overall?

Notice not much discussion of nuclear... Cause that wrecks the environmental movement.

Orderlies are on the 'least affected' list.

I am actually kinda surprised at that one. It seems like it would be fairly easy to automate that one, not even sure you need AI.

It is just scheduling and some image processing/lidar/sonar/etc to make sure crafts are clear of, properly positioned in the lock before raising or lowering.

I don't really know, I am not lock operator and I am not belittling what they do but it seems to me it should be simpler automation problem than trying to do say, Self Driving for a car.

SE did not really simplify much. It was just Windows but they intentionally crippled / broke some stuff.

Much of the bloat, none of the value; does not a product make. Meanwhile by '21 Microsoft was all on o365 as the future anyway. If that is vision what is needed is well ChromeOS essentially a web browser with a bundled HAL.

This is the same problem with that version of Win2k8 server where you could chose not to install the desktop experience...Reality is that did not mean much more than setting the shell=cmd[.]exe in the registry in actual practice. Windows just isn't modularized and does not lend it self to stripping down. You need "a lot' of hardware/storage just to get a basic UI up.

The common Linux stack is much easier to cherry pick just what is essential to run chrome and little but have it all still work right. That is where the heterogeneity of the Linux world is a strength. Various system components and user-land software a like does not get to make so many assumptions about what else will and won't be there.

You said 'a long time ago' so you could be forgiven for the lack of NAC etc, but no dhcp/helper and snooping?

Even with access to wire closet, no DSL installer should have been able to get off the ground in the first place, not in the last 25 years anyway.

LOL - and here I have just been using an upside down can of air-duster..

You had an answer...Are you sure it was correct?

I remember that; there was a ton of hype around Google's internal search thing. I never saw it do anything better than basic full text search already present in SQL/Sharepoint/Exchange

The problem is software or hardware it is 'how' do you do it in a useful way. Page range for all the fancy academic writing about it boils down to don't actually do it, let humans do it, and pick up on the fact the content is interesting by how much linking to it there is/was.

One kind stupid but maybe not stupid approach I could see Reddit taking is actually

1) train an AI model on all their content and refine or retrain it pretty frequently with their new content.
2) Have users write a query and generate a completion using the model - but -
3) Rather than send the completion to the user, use existing similarity algorithms to locate actual posts / threads with human content that shares the most in common with the generated response
4) send the user the links.

Obviously this is over simplistic and would need some refinement and experimentation like if you don't find many posts that clear some similarity threshold, its a good indicator the generated response was trash, and then what ask the user for a different query question? Not sure..

But I think there could be some value here rather then serving up often garbage AI summaries that get important details wrong, generate the summary and use that to the locate the best original resources or discussion that provide the most coverage of the topic or question.

I think the only answer here is that we need a far less 'global' orientation to these platforms.

I don't know about you, but half of slashdot cheers for EU when they punish X for carrying what they consider 'hate speech' and make arguments like their country their rules..

Fine exactly. Youtube should probably implement different policy and perhaps even different features in East Kerblickistan than they do in the US, and different ones for Oz and EU etc. If other places are to small, to onerous to deal with and won't accept uses being routed one of the existing subsites with the most similar rules then:

youtube should just tell East Kerblickistan, well its on you to police you people and keep them from visiting our site, for our part we will not do business with anyone who has an address in your shit hole. Then our state department should tell Kerblickistan to STFU if they try any legal enforcement against a US person or business; warn them if they grab anyone or something like that 1000000000% tariffs and no visas for any of their people.