After Amazon made so many ads in my paid subscription that it became unwatchable, I used one of the old laptops circa 2012. Installed windows 10 on it and firefox with UblockOrigin. It does not do 4K but who cares as I can't see it anyway. It works perfectly and there is NO ADS at all. Regret not doing it sooner. Interface is not remote friendly but wireless mouse does the trick. If they block Windows 10 as they did Windows 7 recently, I will install Linux on it and keep going. Next laptop will be recycled in to video player if this one gives up to ghost.

What do you mean by "stealing"? When I want to develop a linux kernel driver, I would go and look how other drivers are implemented. Is that stealing? AI companies do the same. Models are trained on the available source code and can write new source code.
Disney re-using public domain stories over and over is not "stealing" but AI companies using OSS is "stealing". The knowledge is there to build upon. You stole from all of the people before you, who figured out all the math and chemistry and physics that you learned in high school. Why don't you go and discover all of that yourself from scratch?

I don't know what tools you use but the frontier models used by Cursor are very good. You can do in a few hours work that took you weeks before. And in a week you can do work that would take you couple of month before.
It is different type of work, you do not need to figure out details of the API or data format. You just need to know what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it. You still need to know what you are doing though.
Someone already said that AI will make smart people smarter and stupid people even more stupid. If you don't have to think your will loose that ability.

The fact that this is moderated insightful is a testament to how low quality of slashdot is fallen. This used to be a site for technology people.
AI is already a game changer in many professions. It changed software development drastically. I think it will change diagnostic medicine and chemical research and many other intellectual professions.
As AI develops further it will be applied to civil engineering and mechanical engineering and other engineering disciplines. AI is just a tool, like excel or CNC machines. Can a person do a spreadsheet on paper? Sure, but who does it today? Can a person use manual lathe instead of CNC lathe? Yes, and some people do. But people who are using CNC are much more productive.
Only a person that has no foresight at all can think that AI is just a fad that will go away.

people love to point fingers at another party. At least gp looks problem in the eye, where you just point fingers.
https://freakonomics.com/podca...
Listen to this podcast from freakonomics. It clearly shows that both parties are responsible for the current situation. I doubt that it will stop you from pointing fingers at the "other guy".

To blame only right leaning population is at a minimum disingenuous. In CA, which is by no stretch right wing, public schools are abysmal. There is more politics in the classroom than actual education. My kid is at UC Davis and some teachers there just as bad as in public schools. US should take politics out of education and concentrate on academic excellence for people who can achieve it. Nothing is wrong with separating high achieving students from low achieving and pushing them harder. "No child left behind" bullshit means in reality "no child can be ahead". US will loose technology field to China in not so distant future if things keep going the way they are. But I doubt anything will change. US population is too busy hating one another for being the opposite party.

Between then and now there was 2 democratic and 1.5 republican administrations. And it did not get like this overnight in 2012. So it was trending in this direction for many years before regardless of who had the power. So we should stop pretending that the next "my" candidate will fix this. This will never be fixed by a president. And it is unlikely that taxes will fix this as the "representatives" are in that 1 percent that everyone loves to hate so much.

If you are exposing web management interface to the internet you are an idiot. Majority of the routers have this not enabled by default. My personal Archer router even has a white list for mac addresses that can manage it. My older asus router has ability to only enable management from a wired interface so you need to be physically connected to the local network to manage it. In the end security is only as good as the end user. Correctly configured router should present a non existent device to the internet. The CVE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/deta... says that the issue in the web management interface.

Clearly stated by a person who has no managing experience. Managing well takes a different skill set than "technical skills". Try sitting in the meetings 8 hours a day.
Good manager enables his employees to be more productive and provides whatever support is needed for them to do their job. I had a few good and a few bad managers over the span of my career and there is definitely a difference. Good manager will gather good team around him/her and will be successful together with the team. Bad manager will gain a reputation and people will leave them for other managers or other companies.
I am not a manager nor I would want to be one, but I would not want to work for a bad manager.

That is a total BS statement.
I do most of the plumbing myself and it only requires me one trip most of the time. Unless the store does not have the part I need. Household plumbing is extremely simple comparing to software development. It usually takes me longer than it would take a plumber to do similar job. I usually do it better and don't have to come back to fix things as it happens with plumbers. That is because I care and want to do things right.
The only time I would hire a plumber is where I tried it myself and I can't undo the fitting. If the job needs heat or pipe soldering in tight spaces. Any time two fittings come apart I can do the job myself. Replacing toilets, valves, faucets, etc., I can do myself. Highly recommend learning this skill, saves a lot of money and you get satisfaction of doing something yourself.
I replaced washing machine just a few weeks ago and it took me one trip to the store to get the new hoses because I did not want to use cheap hoses that come included with the new machine.

US is turning into idiocracy with every legislative proposal. Yay for "freedom" and "democracy"!

I am sure you have done really well for yourself, talking smack.
However Brodacom stock did not do that bad either https://www.google.com/finance... . 426% increase over 5 years only can be done by self destructive company.

This is quite a dumb statement and it was moderated as insightful. Just look at the earnings call transcript https://www.fool.com/earnings/... . The management highlights earnings from VMWare ($3.8B) as major contribution to the revenue. Hock Tan is a numbers guy and spending $68B for this acquisition for internal consumption makes no sense.
It is more likely that Broadcom wants to keep highly profitable customers and dump the rest. There could be a high maintenance customers or or VMWare products that provide little revenue for a lot of cost. It only makes sense to dump such products/customers.
Broadcom will likely to do just fine using this strategy. If they see that revenues are dropping, there is nothing that can prevent them for adjusting the pricing and the model. This is a business and they don't have to retain every customer at all costs.

When Trump implemented travel restrictions, Biden and democrats called this xenophobic https://www.nbcnews.com/politi... . This is from NBC news which is hardly republican outlet.
Trump can find cure for cancer at this point and you will spin it as killing the human kind. Same it true for republicans in regards to any good thing democrats will do.
Under Trump however the covid vaccine development was funded and pushed forward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

Any computer/laptop that must be opened with spudger is hard pass for me. I open my computer at least twice a year to clean the dust out. Even in the cleanest of environments computers accumulate dust from sucking air.
I also open all laptops in the household once a year to clean out the hair and dust from them. Make computers last so much longer.
Apple products are not designed to be serviced. Or usable for that matter, like a mouse with the charging port on the bottom. Or making a touch function key line. A dumb trend that unfortunately getting picked up by some PC manufacturers.