The thing I like about Linux is that if your thing doesn't work you have a way better chance of being able to wrangle it into working (odds increasing as your technical skill increases)
Meanwhile on Windows if something doesn't work you're generally SOL.
What do you mean?
If i google "{Insert issue here} Windows" i get clear and easy solutions.
1. You reboot.
2. You try sfc /scannow
3. You try Dism
4. You reboot again.
Doesnt work? (like 99,99999% of cases, like with a pc i had to fix yesterday)
5. Reinstall windows
Doesnt work? Have fun trying to get information from microsofts documentation where the same thing got documented 3 different ways 3 different times, and when you change from/to your native language you get another 3 different documentations. All telling you entirely different things, each screenshot showing a ui that doesnt resemble yours because it gotta change every month.
It makes it suspect when combined with the obvious incentive to make the fact that IBM is basically non-existent in the AI space look like an intentional, sagacious choice to investors. It very may well be, but CEOs are fantastically unreliable narrators.
No, I don’t trust a word Sundar or Satya say about AI either. CEOs should be hyping anything they’re invested in, it’s literally their job. But convincing investors that every thing they don’t invest in heavily is worthless garbage is effectively part of their job too.
What is more convincing is when someone invests heavily (and is involved heavily) and then decides to stop sending good money after bad (in their estimation). Not that they’re automatically right, but is at least pay attention to their rationales. You learn very little about the real world by listening to the most motivated reasoner’s nearly fact-free bloviation.
> What is more convincing is when someone invests heavily (and is involved heavily) and then decides to stop sending good money after bad (in their estimation).
Commercially, Watson was a joke from beginning to end. If their argument is that Watson’s failure indicates a machine that can at the very least convincingly lie to you will definitely fail to make money, that’s an insipid argument.
Yeah I was going to say the same thing ha. I get what they’re (the commenter) saying, but one could also argue IBM is putting their money where their mouth is by not investing.
I suspect the reality is that they missed the boat, as they have missed tens of other boats since the mainframe market dried up. I guess you could argue they came to the boat too early with their pants on backwards (i.e. Watson), and then left before it showed up. But it’s hard to tell from the outside.
Maybe that will turn out to be a good decision and Microsoft/Google/etc. will be crushed under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in write-offs in a few years. But that doesn’t mean they did it intentionally, or for the right reasons.
Yep. When a brand has tarnished itself enough, it makes sense for the brand to step back. Nowadays, we interact with their more popular properties, such as Redhat.
I do still write assembly sometimes, and it's a valued skill because it'll always be important and not everyone can do it. Compilers haven't obsoleted writing assembly by hand for some use cases, and LLMs will never obsolete actually writing code either. I would be incredibly cautious about throwing all your eggs into the AI basket before you atrophy a skill that fewer and fewer will have
as a casual observer living in the uk, what brexit has done is stopped the influx of highly educated and economically contributing people from the EU, and instead replaced them with people who are claiming "asylum" from asian and african countries
As a long term Brit I kind of get that impression too although there has been a lot of regular immigration also. I bet the brexit voters who tended not to be keen on immigration have been pleased with that.
Also a lot of regular Brits have moved abroad. Dyson who famously advocated for brexit to help Britain moved to Singapore, my friends have moved to France, Portugal, Spain and Dubai.
Downvotes because while you're right it has reduced immigration from the EU, the vast majority of post-Brexit migration to the UK has no been asylum seekers, and most asylum seekers have not been Asian or African.
Screenshot this when the iPhone Pocket is the hot new product everyone must buy, but somehow I don't think these are even remotely in the same category. I don't think Ballmer laughing at the iPhone's price is in the same category as this or the wheels, somehow. Maybe I'm just not enough of a thought leader.
I’m not saying it’s going to be a hot new product that everyone must buy, I’m pointing out that “Apple product ridiculed online” is a completely meaningless non-event that it makes no sense to report on. It’s going to happen for excellent, incredibly successful products; it’s going to happen for bad products; and it’s going to happen to all the products in-between.
Except for all the young, fit people that want to track their workouts and health. Maybe the time of watches that just tell time has passed - I would argue even against that with the continuing existence of Swiss luxury brands - but watch as a small health monitor is still in full force.
To be honest I usually wear a cheap Timex even though I have an Apple Watch because charging is a task. Wear for hiking. Care less about regular fitness tracking.
People that care about battery life probably use something more sporty like the new Suunto's (I get about 2weeks+ of batter life). However the smart watch health features are nowhere near as good.
Those are generally not the same anticheats with the same levels of functionality. As an analogy it's like saying Excel supports iPad. Or a gaming example that used to be way more common: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 is supported on Game Boy Advance.
It's a game and it is Tony Hawk, but it's not really comparable as Tony Hawk on PS1.
Meanwhile on Windows if something doesn't work you're generally SOL.
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