As a dev who’s been unemployed for 18 months your last sentence was pretty much my first thought when reading the article.

No women in pants: check

This is correct, lots of places that were 9 to 5 would give people a lunch half hour or a lunch hour that would technically be on the clock. When lunch hours became mandatory employers went well fuck that and made it so you didn’t get paid for your lunch. Most people don’t realize off the top of their heads but 8 to 5 is actually nine hours.

Bamboo is native to more places than people think.

The number of times that I have been downvoted into oblivion for pointing out that the Internet is not the World Wide Web is too damn high.

I have one and it isn’t that hard to read. The top is still 12 but the bottom is midnight with 6 and 18 in the 9 and 3 place respectively.

Honestly it kinda looks more like a North American Saturn than a Genesis/MegaDrive or Master System. In which case the batarang controller would be slightly more accurate.

There is no model that can be trained in real time currently, and one instance isn’t going to offer anything to the model as far as new training data goes.

It sure seems like the kind of thing they would do. The only doubt in my mind is that we’re talking about an administration that is so utterly incompetent that it’s equally likely that there really has just been a few assassination attempts that have gotten through security. Hanlon’s razor and all that…

Also the human Nabooans are colonists from coruscant, so the gungans might have been forced to live in underwater orbs the humans can’t reach.

Wait, is that actually canon? Lots of other sci-fi franchises have in universe explanations for why there are humans everywhere. In Stargate for instance they were slaves that were taken everywhere in the galaxy. But I didn’t know there was an actual in universe reason in Star Wars.

I am from a very humid place in parts of the year and I still disagree.

I also feel that 68° F is still jacket territory.

We are talking about a user base that had a panic attack when the Start button stopped saying “Start”. To say nothing of the button moving to the middle of the task bar. The main tools have already agnosticized though. People are already using Google Docs or other collab versions instead of Office. Given that KDE can already look and behave almost exactly like Modern (the current Windows interface unless they changed the name again) I don’t think companies are as locked in as you think. The last place I worked for had upped their Red Hat licensing from server only to site licenses specifically so they could start switching some machines to RHEL.

We have been there for decades. Quite famously Princess Fiona in Shrek over 20 years ago had to be stylized because her original model was too uncanny valley.

Honestly given that a large part of their customer base is corporate and uneasy with the changes being made to Windows 11 it wouldn’t surprise me if they did something exactly like that but also kept Windows around to go back to having separate corporate and personal versions.

Also, ARM laptops were Steve Jobs’ last big idea. He put in place Apple’s last 10 year plan before he died. The first M series laptop came out nine years after his death.

The reason being that Apple is actually considered to be one of the founding members of ARM so they have unique access to the core. Moving to ARM was always the plan after moving to Intel. Apple was the first company to produce a portable ARM device, the Newton back in the early 90s before Jobs’ return.

So even that innovation isn’t exactly new.

It’s already been pointed out in multiple threads that the terms of service specify that even if it uses the on board model it still sends your queries to Google.

Fair enough. Best of luck to you!

What kind of machine is it? Typically you will need to tell it to boot to the USB by hitting F1, or F2, or F12, or Del, etc. immediately after you hit the power button.