You oversimplify. I despise Rust, but it does address real problems. (I'm not sure how well, because I won't use it.) I'm thinking of thinks like deadlock, livelock, etc. As someone above pointed out, there are lots of applications that don't need to deal with that, and subsets can work for them. (The above poster worked in a domain where all memory could be pre-allocated.)

Rust felt like programming with one hand tied behind my back. So I dropped it. Only one reference to a given item it just too restrictive. Perhaps it is really Turing complete, but so is a Turing machine. But multi-threaded programs really do need a better approach. (My real beef with C++ (and C) though is their handling of unicode. So I'm currently experimenting with D [ https://dlang.org/ ], which seems pretty good for the current application (though honestly since it's I/O bound Python would be quite acceptable). )

From Roseanne to Hussein Obama on X, "Remember when you and your wife called Bog Iger to have me fired?"

America was founded in 1916 by white supremacist ideals like slavery, war and genocide. The sooner it comes to do end the better for person kind.

I'm not sure online sales were ever part of Walmart's core competencies; I suspect they contracted all that stuff out to third parties.

The reason I suspect that is that one of my relatives bought a product from Walmart.com and needed to return it, so she called the number listed on the front page of the Walmart.com web site (and dialled it correctly; I later double-checked the call record on her phone against the walmart.com web page), and the representative who answered put her on hold, then forwarded her to a scammer who tried to trick her into allowing him to TeamViewer in to her computer remotely. When she refused, he got increasingly abusive and eventually hung up on her.

So whomever Walmart was contracting for online support, they were at least bribable, and arguably criminal.

My company uses Microsoft for email. Managing users is a mess with two systems ("Admin" and "Entra"). We don't use Microsoft for any Windows logins or anything resembling the cloud AD.

Earlier this year, one of my users lost access to his authenticator app. I followed instructions I found on the web, which went through the "Admin" web pages. Didn't work. I got on a support call with Microsoft, in which they could see my screen. They talked me through the same steps as I had performed earlier. Didn't work, even though it should. Eventually, with lots of searching, I happened on the "Entra" web pages and was able to actually fix the user's log in issue.

It's a mess.

They'd better be giving these refrigerators out for free, or at an insane discount that they plan to make up for via ad revenue. Otherwise, there's no reason for that feature to exist.

It says remove the button preventing you from benefiting from the AI.

It says nothing about preventing the AI from collecting data in the background and sending it elsewhere.

I'd accept a Fridge that had ads if it were free. Otherwise I can't see it. A fridge can last a decade easily and you can get them for less than 2 grand. 2 grand a decade = 200 a year, and that works out to less than a dollar a day. My time is worth more than that.

So unless the ads paid for the entire fridge I can't see paying cash for it.

I cannot imagine any other reason to WANT that brand.

It is synonymous with fraud, deception, and incompetence.

Either someone wants to change that more than they want to make money, or someone made a deal with the devil and the devil said "OK, you can own a big corporate brand, but is has to be an EVIL one. Ha ha ha ha ha"

Worst take on AI, if only because it is common. Everyone misunderstands how AI works and what it does. AI DOES NOT THINK.

It predicts. It is not getting qualitatively better at all. It is getting quantitatively better. They are adding more computers and algorithms that work more efficiently. They are fixing minor issues, like the ability to understand "not", and encouraging it to say "I do not know".

AI has no reasoning. It predicts. Interns are allowed to not think. All of the significant jobs require reasoning, not prediction. AI will not replace those.

Not saying something else won't replace it. But it will require a paradigm shift. Nothing we are thinking of doing with AI will ever achieve AGI, ASI etc. etc. We have learned how to make something that is like the brain of an insect, not that of a man.

The one thing I left out is portion size. Although I did mention 3x the amount we needed. Was not relevant to what I was saying, but it helps a lot.

Mediterranean diets are anti-diabetic because:

1) They emphasize whole grains - which does help. A 10% decrease is still worth it.
2) They emphasize unprocessed foods so they keep the fiber and avoid the added sugar.
3) They are HUGE on vegetables, which significantly reduces the amount of grains you eat. Of course, it is a problem for super-tasters that find vegetables bitter.
4) They have much smaller portion sizes than American typical diet.

Note, I did not mention alcohol because if you are not an alcoholic it is fairly easy to avoid it entirely. In america, it is hard to avoid carbs and we are given them in huge quantities.

Do you people really get fifty cents per post? Surely it's more than that by now.

Never seen such a panda hugger since someone pointed out that we should have responded to J6 like China did to 6/4at Tiananmen. It lacks the polish of using the A-10s to turn them into pink mist, but calling out the tanks to turn them into pink mash worked well. Just a remincer: when you want to overthrow the government, bring guns. Lots of guns.

Solutions starting with "everybody in society must" have a long and celebrated tradition of going immediately (and often horrifically) pear-shaped, as it inevitably turns out that most of everybody doesn't want to, and therefore won't, and in many cases, can't.

For examples, see the Soviet Union's Communism, China's Great Leap Forward, the Khmer Rouge's agricultural collectivism, North Korea's juche, etc.

While some fruit (bananas in particular) are bad for diabetics, a lot are good for us - including apricots, raspberries, etc.

The main cause of diabetes is not fruit. Almost every meal in the entire world includes large portions of:

Wheat (including bread, muffins, pancakes, pasta, etc.)
Rice
Potatoes
Corn

Even knowing about diabetes, it can be hard to find a restaurant that does not include one of these in every single meal they serve. Yeah, whole grain versions are better - as in 10%. That's not enough. Most americans eat 3x the amount of carbs they need.

Worst of all, if the food is processed it removes fiber making it bad for you (and worse usually adds sugar). It's why even unsweetened apple sauce is bad for diabetics - loss of fiber is a major issue.

In America, Diabetes is generally caused as much by wheat as it is caused by added sugar. While it's not hard to eliminate added sugar, it's just too hard to go a day without wheat, rice, potatoes and corn.

Note, even diabetics do need some carbs, but that is NEVER a problem getting.

"C.AI argued that because her son signed up for the service at the age of 15, it bound her to the platform's terms"
Seems like they just admitted there is no contract.