I’m old enough that I took my Computer Science AP test in PASCAL in pencil on paper.

You can absolutely handwrite tests in any subject.

You can also provide workstations with no internet access for programming if you need an IDE/Compiler/etc.

A “mark” is the victim of a scam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam

Oh, my gaming PC has an Nvidia 1080. I have had zero issues.

Yeah, it was kinda frustrating cause I was trying to start a group game. BUT, I just clicked around a bit and figured it out, took maybe 5 minutes (of people watching me).

Before that I used Windows for my console PC, and I can honestly say that CachyOS is easier to use than Windows, and less likely for an update to break something.

Nobody knew how to handwrite before someone taught them. That’s what school is for.

I have two cars made after 2020. Both have a phone app where you can set the internal climate settings in the car. You wouldn’t practically be able to do that from a keyfob.

Both also allow remote starting from the phone, with a setting for how long to let the car run before it turns off again. From a keyfob it’s normally set to 5 minutes with no option to change it.

Both are quality of life features that aren’t really required, but I do use them pretty regularly. If the internet stopped working on either car, they’d act just like any older car that didn’t have those features.

Once the bluetooth stack updated and both steam and the OS were fighting for which one was doing the controller emulation for the nintendo switch pro controllers. I just went in and turned off the OS controller support in the bluetooth settings.

That’s literally the only problem I’ve had in… 9 months of this setup?

Well, most cars don’t REQUIRE it, but most cars lose features if it doesn’t have network connectivity.

Good luck finding a car made after 2020 that doesn’t have at least one or two features that require the Internet to function.

Oral isn’t necessary and can overwhelm even very smart and knowledgeable students.

Just require all work is turned in handwritten. Tests are also done handwritten.

That’s it. It’s impossible to not absorb the stupidity of AI if you at least have to handwrite the answer.

It’s impossible to copy/paste an answer into a test if it’s handwritten.

The only thing stopping this is that teachers are used to the convenience of computer submitted work, remote learning, and disability workarounds.

I run CachyOS on my gaming PC. I installed the OS, installed Steam, and the only regular work I’ve had to do since then is clicking the “upgrade now” button every couple weeks.

A real doctor’s office takes a full set of vitals before even looking at you.

A real doctor’s office does a full set of SAMPLE and OPQRST questions that would probably have revealed more information.

And more importantly. A REAL DOCTOR’S OFFICE CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR MALPRACTICE.

SpaceX was an incredible company… Until Musk rolled in other failing companies into it.

There’s no focus on space anymore, it’s an LLM company with a rocket hobby on the side.

You guys? As in… Who?

Cause it’s not like there’s some magic place that’s doing a great job holding him accountable.

Thinking anywhere is immune from fascism is exactly how it spreads.

The more crises that happen simultaneously, the more likely it is that they all hit harder.

If AI was the only problem, then AI could just have a slight dip and recover. But since the global economy is getting hit from all sides at the same time… that’s when each individual part doesn’t have anything to fall back on. So each part is going to dip lower than it would have otherwise.

Would it? I turned off the AI answers from Google and most of the people I know also ask how to turn it off.

In my circle, most of the people I know are more annoyed by it than helped by it.

Also, they’re getting sued in the EU by giving incorrect answers in the AI summary, cause that’s actual info FROM Google instead of answers Google is pointing to.

Sure, there’s Gemini that people are actively reaching out to for answers, but cramming it into their main product is way more of a miss for me and the people I know in real life.

Feels like this article got too excited about the headline and the actual meat of the text is lacking in context.

First negative quarter since when? Obviously Google didn’t spawn wholesale making money. Had to look around and it’s their first negative cash quarter since 2004 when it went public. (I assume there’s no real public data before then)

The ars article says

To be clear, Google is still profitable—wildly so.

How can something be profitable, but also have negative cash flow?

Legitimately confused here. Is “cash flow” some hyper specific business term for a very narrow type of money exchange, while profit comes from a different line item?

This is a rare miss from ars, but a HUGE miss.

I would never.

The market can be irrational far longer than I can afford.

This is going to be more problematic for less photographed birds.

The more unique the bird, in terms of internet pictures, the more it’s going to be changed with AI.

Which means you’re far more likely to see a common bird in the US or the EU appear somewhere else.

Much less likely for AI to add some crazy unique rainforest bird to a park in LA.