Agreed, we don’t know that they are racist. Like most anywhere, you are very likely to find a mix of both racist, anti-racist, and everyone in between. However, given relatively recent historical context, they are likely to have a higher proportion of racists with a higher degree of severity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

Isn’t that congress’s choice, not the white house?

It also pulls double duty by making math look hard, ambiguous, and untrustworthy. Anti education, poor reasoning skills, and an implicit distrust of mathematical models and statistics.

That’s actually what the dots represent, values in a ratio when written in a sensible notation

Whatever makes you feel big, buddy

Why are you choosing to be so confrontational?

What do you specifically mean by putting people in quotes like that?

Congrats on your child killing it at figure skating :)

Those are a different set of questions though. The question shouldn’t be if someone is concerned about AI use. Frankly, everyone should be. It has a huge capacity for harm in a growing number of areas in modern society. The question should be about who is using it. Additionally, what are they using it for? Novel problem solving, new automation, replacing older automation, or just for fun? That is what I’d personally be much more interested in finding out.

So this water that gets used, what happens to it? Does it vaporized into elementary particles, or… ?

I’ve worked with data centers and super computers. They do use a lot of water! But is used for cooling. It runs through a pipe, absorbs some heat, and then gets pushed back into the original water source. That or it is put into a closed loop system which only keeps the water trapped for the lifetime of the project, and is then recycled back into circulation.

NLP interfaces are nice. It’s also great at reformatting data.

As someone who has had to work with PDFs from a technical perspective, PDF is hot mess of a file format. The fact it works at all is as much a testament to mankind’s arrogance and stubborness as the city of Phoenix existing.

ODF (Open Document Format) for those who don’t want to search up “ISO 26300”

I’m not sure about your living situation, but after reading that back and forth, I gotta say, you haven’t metaphorically left your mom’s basement. Capitalism has a specific meaning, and capitalism is when markets exists is not it.

This is my new preferred term!

Maybe not a great example. I mean, most companies riding the dot com bubble went bust, but many if not most of the big players from back then are still around today in some form or another. Not to mention that the idea of the world wide web changing the physical world and the commerce that takes place on it wasn’t wrong either.

Around what year was this issue? Both windows and Linux were pretty unstable until - someone correct me on this - 2012? Windows 8 was the last unrecoverable crash I had. Oddly never had an issue with Linux, but I know it happens, I’ve just been lucky.

Silverwing was a show that used to come on Disney XD at like 2:00am. I remember watching it on nights I couldn’t sleep. I remember nothing about it other than it being pretty good, at least better than anything else on at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverwing_(TV_series)

You didn’t mention “20 FOSS Cigarettes.” A typical pack of cigarettes is around 20, and FOSS stands for “Free (and) Open Source Software.” This generally means that people can view, edit, distribute, and sometimes even sale programs they didn’t themselves create. Many prominent FOSS projects use a fair bit of Perl code.

The fact that it launched and didn’t have a shopping cart for 3 years is all it takes to know that it was never intended to be a serious competitor. A simple shopping cart is trivial to implement with modern programming tools, and even if it wasn’t, it should be part of the minimum viable product for any digital store front.