SoftTalker

Win2KPro was the peak. Windows 7 wasn't terrible, and you could select the Windows 2000 UI. It's been downhill since then.

Art is by definition a human expression. A machine cannot produce art.

The problem with Muse and similar "run your life" agents is that booking a dinner reservation or signing up the kids for soccer isn't anything that I need to automate. They need to find better examples of real problems for their marketing.

> I remember when Macs used to ship with an encyclopedia preloaded.

That came from NeXT IIRC.

curl and jq is all I've ever needed for working with http APIs and JSON responses.

But they do have a cost, and somewhere a human is still making decisions about spending that money on old bugs vs. new features.

The same could be said of a compiled OO language though couldn't it?

> The people driving science forward in the West are educated some other way than strictly according to a "Common Core"

And they always have been, in addition to just being more intelligent, curious, and motivated than average.

> a life where things actually work out close to how you want them

This is almost nobody, by the way. It's another one of the illusions that has gotten worse with social media.

Likely none, very few reactors have been built since the internet was widely available, and the designs are even older than that.

And if developers were working on the old features instead of adding new ones, perhaps they would have found and corrected those old bugs. Then you could say that the code was "mature." But improving old code is not exciting, and it doesn't get attention.

It's not required. Nor is a casket.

You can be buried in a cardboard box. But the funeral director will be sure to remind your survivors that it's not waterproof.

Postgres is old but a lot of its features are new. You can't really say it's mature software, as much as it has changed over its lifetime.

Truly mature software doesn't get used, because people see low activity on github and assume it's "dead" or see no new features in years and assume that it's stagnating.

But infrastructure is actually made out of concrete, which can be poured almost like water into any mold you can fashion to hold it, and it then hardens into something stone-like.

Exactly, streaming video is so compressed that 4k will just let you see all the compression artifacts more clearly.

"Hey Claude...."

Well, why not?

1080 (even 720 really) is absolutely fine at normal viewing distances for most streaming content.

If you're a videophile you might care. Most people would not notice.

Comcast runs a separate "Xfinity WiFi" on all their routers, any Comcast user can connect to it with their credentials. Would they strike a deal with TV manufacturers to let them use it? It would not surprise me.

Ah well, TIL....

That's a letter you get as a final notice after previous non-response.

Companies can move mountains yes, but a routine request to cancel a service probably isn't seen as requiring that. Especially since the service contract undoubtedly defines the terms upon which either side can cancel.

Yes butcher paper is for wrapping raw meat and being resistant to leaking fluids from raw meat. You can freeze with it but can't cook with it.

I'd be surprised if they all didn't. They certainly have that information.

Exactly, with houses or bonds, prices and rates are inversely correlated.

A big part of why home prices are too high is that money has been too cheap. Most home buyers shop on the basis of a monthly payment. Same with cars.

The same engineers who built the vulnerable systems?

Could not the IRS fix this in one swoop by declaring that "gig workers" are employees?

If you set yourself up as an LLC for your uber driving, can you take the standard mileage rate as an expense?

The IRS generally gives you 30 days to respond to a letter. At least in my experience.

Explain to them that all the commercial products are using the open source code under the covers anyway.

Too bad the congressmen he blackmailed didn't know he was gay. At the time, that would have been powerful information.

One week to respond to a letter delivered by US postal mail isn't really much time. Not that I support Flock or the concept of Flock-style public cameras, but I don't think you can judge them to be "not responding" that quickly.