That’s sucks. Best of luck to you!

I’ve been unemployed for going on 18 months. It’s awful and the market is the worst it’s been since I’ve been working (15 years or so).

Depending on when in the 90s you were a teen you may be remembering when they used to use beef tallow (fat) instead of vegetable oil for frying. In addition to all the other enshitification you mentioned.

I do. But, I recognize that preference is personal so I try not to shame people for the desktop environment they prefer.

I’ve tried KDE, and others, multiple times in the last 20 years or so and it’s just never felt as polished to me as Gnome does. When Gnome 3 came out I spent quite a bit of time with Mate because I didn’t like the new Gnome. But eventually I got used to it and it got better.

Typically, for new Linux users, I recommend Gnome for Mac people and KDE for Windows people.

So are you just shaming people based on where they live or what?

As opposed to what? The number of places that have a store that sells Pepto-Bismol is far higher than the number of places that can afford public transit.

That is what Heroic is for.

Exactly, that and the “we are a [insert product name here] shop” mentality. The things I have had to fight for over the years are mind boggling.

All of my degree was in C, C++, C#, Java, etc. and the one class I had that did web applications did Java backends and middleware with PHP frontends. It wasn’t until I got into the industry that I had to learn Angular, Electron, React, Django, etc.

I don’t think it’s the devs making these decisions.

3 or 4 days of day-drinking, eating like crap, staying up late, being outside in the sun on probably one of the hottest weeks of the year while probably not drinking enough water

That’s pretty much what I figured was happening. Dehydration is no joke.

Did you? They said they won’t release it and gave no timeline for release and their stock went up…

You are just moving the goalpost now.

Anthropic just proved you wrong on that one.

What does being American have to do with getting special treats while out of school for rare events?

I’ve never been to a music festival. It’s always been too expensive. But, having been other places, I can’t imagine what could possibly be so tiring about it unless you just aren’t taking care of yourself.

They won the prize for an AI they made in the early 2000s.

I can’t tell if you’ve totally understood what I meant or are trying to make a joke. For the record I meant egg soaked bread with no sugar or cream would probably be really gross. I do eat plain eggs, but this would be the first time that I’ve heard about savory French toast if that’s what you meant.

I didn’t say it was finished. I said people had won a Nobel prize for having done it. It takes decades to win a Nobel prize. My point was that it had been done years and years ago, not recently.

Watson beat Ken Jennings over a decade ago. Protein folding was already done too, the people who did it even won a Nobel prize for it a couple years ago.

LLMs being the most visible part of AI after over 75 years of AI, isn’t because they’re the biggest or latest or greatest or whatever, it’s marketing. Plain and simple marketing.

I think we might be splitting hairs on what counts as a custard at this point. But I suppose as a Canadian you are slightly more French adjacent than I am.

Yeah, I’ve never seen French toast served dry. Personally I like to add peanut butter as well as syrup.

American style French toast is scrambled egg and some form of cream or milk and vanilla, which is basically a custard.

Just egg by itself would be super gross I suspect.