Hell no. Do not give machines the ability to lie. We already have enough trouble with people using technology to deceive without it choosing to be deceptive on its own.
We work in protoduction.
Unfortunately most of the world isn’t even taking it seriously anymore. People treat it like it’s a mild flu or common cold.
The virus is still producing waves of infection consistent with the pandemic phase of spread rather than the endemic phase and has not moved into a seasonal pattern like the flu or colds. It’s just not publicised in the media. Scientific studies show that Omicron was just as lethal as the original Wuhan strain and the current Omicron subvariants are similar - the virus has not actually gotten less severe as hoped (and in the case of Delta, it actually got more severe; thankfully that lineage did not give rise to the variants we now face).
The only difference between 2020 and now is that we have vaccines, but people need to keep up to date with the boosters. The efficacy of vaccines to prevent severe illness and hospitalisation wanes quickly, with a recent study showing it can be as low as 50% after four months.
We also know that the risk of long COVID is cumulative - i.e. it goes up with each infection and the increase in likelihood depends on whether you’re up-to-date with the vaccine (having the most recent booster roughly halves the increase in risk from an infection). A recent study estimated that 400 million people now suffer from long COVID at an annual cost of $1 trillion to the global economy. This will only continue to get worse if people continue to catch COVID every year or two.
Not surprising to me. Politicians everywhere want COVID to be over, but it isn’t.
I’m not even American and I’m keen to see what the debate will be like. I seriously doubt Trump has enough self-control to stop himself lashing out at Harris, let alone the presence of mind to listen to his advisers!
The crew should come back on the Dragon and Boeing be required to solve the problems and carry out another test flight. It is unacceptable that Boeing wants to bring the astronauts back without understanding some of the failures on the Starliner.
As someone who has inherited code like that, I would like to strangle the first programmer in the comic.
Make sure it’s not whitespace sensitive and requires explicit typing, just to mess with everyone.
Well, I guess that’s one ISP everyone will want to avoid…
Perhaps she could start with her own.
So, basically nothing new in Windows 11 that I want and a whole lot of things I don’t.
I have actually encountered those sort of potential differences between ground planes. They can indeed wreak havoc under the right circumstances.
Indeed! Covers most of the instances where I would otherwise have to use find.
Was about to say exactly that.
I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry.
Turns out one of the video-editing programs I use (VideoRedo) has shut down anyway (I think the owner passed away) and so I’ll need to look for an alternative anyway - I don’t think I can activate it on new machines anymore.
Because I haven’t yet updated from Windows 10 to 11 and had been putting it off. In the past week, though, I have seen a number of news articles highlighting issues I am going to have with Windows 11 and this particular article, indicating that they have been effectively leaving systems vulnerable simply because they have applications they don’t like installed is just not good enough. I’d understand it if they were saying “we can’t guarantee your OS stability with these apps” or “we can’t guarantee these apps will work anymore” if they were removing older API support, but this is ridiculous.
Good to know. I don’t play many games, but do have some older ones from GoG that would be nice to keep.
This is one case where I think Windows is appropriately designed for its target audience.