The insiders might as well run a backroom prediction market and just manipulate the public market.

And even with bigger sums: you never know if it isn't just a variant of the shell game. There are no real signals.

Time to remove all involved companies from European markets.

How much is that currently? $600M?

I switched back to ChatGPT out of necessity, because Claude stopped working after two queries, where it gave overly elaborate answers (about a simple web app config).

But Claude isn't alone. It seems a recent (subjective) trend that Claude and ChatGPT give very lengthy answers, with a lot of repetition from the original query on the free plans.

I got used to add "answer briefly", to keep the noise in check.

Installed LTSB for a conservative superior. He just wanted to work, without changes. I supported that happily. Until we had to start using Office 365.

Or did they revert that restriction?

To me "unaccountability" -- or whatever naming fits better -- needs its own circle of hell.

There a enough apps that keep old files open, but also (re)open updated files that do not fit to the old, open ones, thus have all kind of issues. (Subjectively Thunderbird has major issues with not restarting if libs it depends on get upgraded.)

I stopped answering support mails and tickets from users with long uptime with anything else than: reboot first. And it was >>80% the cause of problems. And yes, most times a logout would suffice, but with our users having >100d uptime with desktops and laptops, the occasional kernel update is done /en passant/ this way. (The impatient could kexec and have the advantage of both. Or look at the output of "need restart" or "checkrestart". But I couldn't care less in case of end user devices)

Well, must be the brain damage of years of drinking.

The whole idea that someone who couldn't legally enter the US, gets easier clearance than any tourist, or foreign academic with an opinion about the current gov that seems uncomfortable to them baffles me.

Not the first time some priorities seem out of touch with reality.

And only than those benchmarks would be more interesting to me.

E.g. even the mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamps criticized for their mercury content brought _less_ mercury into the environment compared to a classic light bulb. Because nearly every country's energy mix had so much coal, that the pollution by the excess usage covered landscapes with more heavy metals than the miniscule amount in the energy savers.

Doesn't make sense. Esp. since the "Bundeswehr" already lacks personal and the resistance against conscription is huge.

Delaying things has become a typical German thing. They always "check" what to do, debate endlessly without results. (Like with their cartel office: no other European country has seen gasoline prices rise as fast and they're still "checking" if there's an illegal cartel agreement -- and their only solution is to lower taxes on gas, which already didn't work back when Russia attacked the Ukraine) They are still able to improve during disasters, like when they raised the LPG terminals within two years. They have to have their -- as they phrase it -- "Arsch auf Grundeis" (ass on ground ice) first, before anything is moving forward.

It's a crude mixture of conservatism, corruption/euphemism: "lobbying", laziness and old fashioned know-it alls blocking real, obvious innovation.

On the other hand, nobody can help a clueless web dev.

And I say that as somebody who wouldn't consider any device with less than 16GB RAM as a daily driver. (Apart from being a glorified terminal. Which the Neo might be perfectly fine for.)