I's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

By this logic Trump's administration is centerist.

None of that requires AI. Heck, it doesn't even require computers.

If you had a time machine would you go back in time and kill the Wright brothers?

All of this stuff starts with "A person uses AI to do X" I mean no doubt but you don't actually need AI to do any of it.

I'm still not convinced AI destroying humanity is not in the same bucket as Linux taking over the world. Could Linux take over the world? Sure but I don't think it means what the statement might seem to imply.

There will be resource constraints. Who prioritizes within those constraints?

I'm not opposed to the use of AI in programming but sometimes it seems like there's a direct relationship between the amount of thought and understanding that went into a project and the reliance the coders had on AI to build the thing.

Yes, we need transparency. And it needs to be brutal. We need a new conventional, agreed and respected model for all OSS contributions. Any creator of anything shared publicly must adhere to agreed standards - they should explain the vision, design and their thinking in the "human-readable", simple, digestible form.

When the machine occupies the entire cycle of SDLC, why should living, breathing people bother to be the consumers, if there's no proof of human involvement? What if the entire "product" got generated within a loop that started from a tweet. Which was posted by a bot.

Ah NEC. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I used to have an NEC monitor.

They're usually sold as Sharp in the states, but the model numbers are the same, etc. As an old fogey of a nerd it's neat to have a NEC-branded remote/screen when I sit down to watch a movie.

I think it's somewhere in the process it was asked "what's the most compelling written text?" The answer was things from great speeches "Ask not what you ..." and so on.

And that really is great and compelling. However. Great and compelling is not what I'm looking for when my question is, "Systemd-networkd is pulling an ip address for a bonded interface that only exist as a 802.1Q trunk. How do I make it stop that?"

Not the main point at all, but what was it? Pattern matching rule nestled deep in /lib/systemd/network? Some kind of mysterious netplan / NetworkManager compat layer?

Nah - the fix was some config in the unit file that would bring up the bonded interface but not try to get an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

What you're saying is exactly the question isn't it? I've seen polling on opposition to data centers and "I hate AI" isn't a majority reason. It's more like 15%.

The reasons people give are higher electric bills, water shortages, and environmental damage.

I think that those reasons are spurious but I also think that for some issues facts don't make much difference. People will have opinions about things that are totally at odds with facts.

Do they? I mean so much of learning (certainly of school) is along the lines of "this is the way it is, don't worry about first principles just accept this"

If there's learning how to think stuff going on I'm not sure I want the schools doing that, it seems more like the job of parents.