“Remember that time we didn’t say Roger? Roger.”

“Nah. Roger.”

“Me neither. Roger.”

I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.

Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.

Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.

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I don’t necessarily disagree with anything you just said, but none of that suggests that the LLM was “manipulated into this outcome by the engineers”.

Two models disagreeing does not mean that the disagreement was a deliberate manipulation.

It’s not even manipulated to that outcome. It has a large training corpus and I’m sure some of that corpus includes stories of people who lied, cheated, threatened etc under stress. So when it’s subjected to the same conditions it produces the statistically likely output, that’s all.

The phrase in question has no verb.

No dialogue is ever static; every conversation offers an opportunity to reassess and refine one’s viewpoints in light of new insights. In coming to genuine agreements, we learn not only about others but also about ourselves, gaining awareness of how our internal values align with the broader spectrum of social beliefs.

with price increases a frequent occasion in recent times

Good grief this article was padded for length. Who speaks like that? How hard is it to write “with recent price increases”?

Honestly I’ve daily-driven Fedora, Mint, and Ubuntu and I can’t say I saw a fraction of the problems that you did.

I will say that I struggled with PopOS – despite claiming to be the most Nvidia and gaming friendly distro, it gave me endless trouble with the Nvidia graphics in my gaming laptop. Mint and Ubuntu, though, never had a whiff of trouble. I’m on Ubuntu now with no complaints.

Small steps are how engineering gets done. It’s a rare technology that proves its value overnight.

For real, go to a library and ask a librarian for help.

They’ll have various books aimed at different levels of maturity and reading levels. Get a book, read it yourself, then ask him to read it and talk about what you learned.

Absolutely.

I hate to say it, but the only solution to bullying (and it’s not much of a solution) is to escalate the issue to administrators and parents. Over and over and over again, until the administration realizes that allowing these kids to be near each other is exposing the school to risk.

Sounds like the friend is absolutely “negging” your sister, trying to convince her that she’s defective and can’t expect better treatment.

Of course, you can explain this dynamic to your sister – that her friend is trying to build herself up by convincing your sister that she’s terrible. But sadly many people subjected to such behavior internalize it and are unable to fight it.

No Muad Dib, it’s not like that!

Conservation of mass in chemical reactions still applies, though.

Thanks to Miracle-Gro™ lawn products.

I think the real answer is that we end up kind of like the UK – going from the worlds ultra-dominant superpower to a sort of slow regression to the mean, as China, India and others take the spotlight.

When you look at what China is doing with their Belt and Road Initiative, and their move to dominate the transportation infrastructure of developing nations – the US isn’t anywhere near equipped to counter that. We’re still in a cold war mentality thinking that we will dominate as the world’s police force.

Meanwhile, all the actual economies will be run by Chinese companies operating with state support.