This is why I set all my timers to a prime number like 59 or 61s, 29 or 31s. You get the same relative frequency, but the timers sweep across the clock regularly.

I did this too, in less than 11 days, and mine runs on bare metal on a raspberry pi. You can download the image here. It also runs it's own busybox, and sbase (suckless.org rewrite of busybox) and kubectl and quake, doom, helm, duck db, ffmpeg etc etc I did a write up about it here back in October: Bluetail OS you can download a copy of the 0.0.1 release here https://bluetailos.s3.us-west-... runs in qemu of course, on a raspberry pi 3 A+ profile on 512mb memory
 
Lots of progress since then, refactored a bunch of stuff runs a lot better on bare hardware and has better usb mouse/keyboard support. Oh and it has a usb network adapter as well.

I used to SOMETIMES visit reddit to go check things out. Now they throw up a "ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! GO SIGN UP RIGHT NOW YOUNG MAN" interstitial ad thing if you use if for more than 20 seconds. I would rather not know the thing, than click on the reddit link and see that ad again. Reddit was a fun 5-10 min a week time waster, and useful for super obscure stuff, but lately it's unusable, especially without being logged in.

Much like Twitter - what on earth do you need that many employees to do, exactly? Ebay has more traffic, but the core product scales horizontally, and they haven't added any new customer facing features since about 2005. Much like craigslist they could have frozen the core product 20 years ago

>The new MacBook Pro models are expected to be "significantly lighter" than the current models.
 
This is the exact opposite of what I want. A macbook pro needs to survive a fall from the passenger seat of a chevy suburban (more than 3' high) onto concrete. Today you get about one drop per corner before the aluminum deforms too much and can't take the beating and the display breaks. Maybe the new OLED are less prone to cracking. At no time in my life did I look at my work issued MBP and think "I wish this were lighter" particularly the 13/14" models

If I were, perhaps it's because I'm not seeing any of the real stuff here.

As Eric Raymond (ESR) says, AI is a force multiplier. My elaboration: If you are good at what you do, it will let you do accomplish more good stuff faster. If you are not very bright, AI will let you be not bright more efficiently, but it won't make you bright. It's just a tool. It needs to be utilized correctly. There is no shortage of things in this world that can do tremendous damage if not used properly. AI is nothing new in that regard.

"AI slop" is so 2024. That argument isn't valid any more.

I'm surprised you didn't use the word "slop". Spewing a bunch of slogans that would have to be more clever to make it on to bumper stickers makes you look like the people you are complaining about. There are legitimate criticisms to make about AI, and ways to support and defend those arguments. You are not doing that.

Building your resume to go work at the thought crimes division, huh?

Sounds like you're not defending Access so much as ODBC.

It's mighty convenient for you that your claim makes it impossible for you to provide evidence of this outrageous claim.

... is not let AI get into the hands of people like Bill Gates. That, however, is impossible.

So your argument is, "broken window theory applies to highly regulated nuclear waste"

The people who dumped it there are long dead, or will soon be aging out of life anyways. It's everybody's problem now. Being on the literal bottom of the ocean and "missing" for many decades it's probably not doing much harm down there. If the ocean evaporates enough that a human can get within 2 miles of the stuff, we'll have bigger problems to worry about anyways.