That matches my stance. Unfortunately, it often is the second kind.

Indeed. The question is why now?

Context matters. Read more than just the three words _and_ realize that the first three words were a relative statement to the previous comments.

Seriously, this is not kindergarten.

I don't understand the nature of your comment. Are you confirming that you were 11 or 12 at the time?

Hint: Have you checked my /. ID?

Yes. I really do not get the anti-AC sentiments here in Europe. Yes, 20 years ago, there was zero need for AC, but that has very obviously changed. The only calculation I did was how long I have to work to finance the AC electricity and AC itself for running it for a day. Came out to less than 10 minutes and that, I think, is entirely worthwhile. Also, obviously, solar brings in more power when the sun blazes, so....

Nope. And where did I say "not a problem"? Please provide a citation.

While it does cut down on time, there is a massive problem here: Experts need to maintain their expertise. With the use of LLMs to replace them, that does not happen anymore or happens less. As we clearly already have to few experts, any LLM use is too much.

What happens long-term is that we will not have the experts that create the data the LLM was trained on anymore and no updates happen. This then leads to complete stagnation of the discipline, which is much, much worse than slow discoveries. Typical "next quarter will be great!" thinking at work, that overlooks that short-term optimization quite often leads to long-term catastrophe.

So, not "good news" at all. Exceptionally bad news instead. Although it will take a while to become obvious.

For some of them, yes. But why the denial in the others?

Nice! That is even worse than what I thought and I try to keep current on MS incapability and non-caring. And yes, I have an idea how much effort such a recovery is.

I think we really need liability when a vendor pushes out crap like that. Of course, this would kill Microsoft fast and hence it is probably not going to happen soon. In the meantime, the enshittification will continue.

No reason why actual antibiotics requires long and careful testing to make sure they are reasonably safe. We can do away with all that now!

Not a problem. Heavy equipment has a tendency to run for a long, long time. Sure, there will be problems, but they will be possible to manage. And do you really think there is a choice? The US is actively self-destroying these days. Do you really think the rest of the world can do anything about that?

Agreed to all of that. But there are enough fake professionals around to keep Windows alive and MS getting richer on it, even if Windows is more and more crumpling in reliability, performance and security.

Probably. The only explanation why they are even doing this is that the technological superiority of Linux is now so bad that Windows simply cannot compete anymore.

Same. About one of the few real use-cases for containers.

Containers already need almost full system administration, even is many people are in denial about that. Running Linux containers on underperforming, unstable, insecure Windows is about the peak of stupidity.