While AI definitely took away a lot of people from SO, most people are relieved that they don't have to interact with that literally garbage community when they have an IT/CS question. They didn't leave because of the website design, but I also believe that the new design wouldn't have chased many away either.

These users' rule hasn't really worked out so far, as demonstrated by the current state of SO. Maybe it is time to ignore that very small, but very vocal group? Though probably that should have happened years ago, maybe it's just time to cut their losses.

    > everything is untrue, that's why we have changed every aspect of our business in the past 96 hours

  >  interest rate of 1.5% per month, which could rise to 3% if a liquidity event is not completed within a year

Are sizzling hot AI startups really forced to go to loan sharks, reputable banks and other venture capitalists don't even come into picture?

Not saying I support stealing, but Nestle isn't exactly going to go bankrupt from this, and frankly, it is one of the last corporations I will ever shed a single tear for. They definitely make it hard to feel bad for them.

On a different note, this industry used to have so much more fun - just solving puzzles to herd bits - before it was flooded by politics.

(Not sure which would be more appropriate)

on the head-roll day HR sends a friendly message asking you to pay a visit in their office. While you do that, security folks clear your desk, and a few minutes later you are outside the building with the signed paperwork in your hands. And suddenly another guy gets a friendly message from HR...

Of course the severance is paid according to the law - but such sudden (mass)termination does happen here too.

But your timeline is off, however. Their partnership started in 2016[1]. In 2019 MS started to invest publicly in OpenAI - but by then they have had some history.

To me, this is at least suspicious. Granted, I have no hard proof.

[1]: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/11/15/advancing-ambiti...

Of course, MS every once in a while says that it makes a lot of money, but they don't really say how much is costs to keep it up. Their free tiers are still very generous, even they are buggy as hell - I can't imagine that the profit it makes even dents MS' bottom line (assuming it's not in the red). But at the end of the day the model training is done.

I guess Github doesn't have a lot of use anymore, beside having a lot of users that you can use to experiment with such shenanigans to see what can you get away with.

  > net-zero marginal cost

Spare me your tears.

    > Autonomous weapons would require a much faster and much more reliable and deterministic AI. 

But no Home/End, PgUp/PgDown, Print Screen, merged Delete and Insert... where to start.

Edit: just noticed that the power button is just also next to Backspace. Hahahaha, I remember when keyboard-manufacturers loved to put power/sleep buttons just above the arrow keys. How many times I pressed them accidentally. I hated that viscerally.

Otherwise no one knows if something is a bug or a feature, and you are SOL. It's behavior.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Occlusion-Query-Fix

Oh well. Still, :(

    At first, I tried to build some other efforts I found online to make Zed work without the AI features just so I could check it out, but didn't manage to get them to work. At some point, the curiosity turned into spite.

I guess I have no choice but to give it a go.

I had the same with my ISP - currently I pay about $60 for 10 Gbps connection. Before I switched, I paid about $130 for 200 Mbps, years ago...

A few months ago I reviewed my bills from Godaddy, and it turned out that they have hiked the price of my domain every single year since I've had it. I switched to Porkbun, and now I pay half (the same that I paid to Godaddy, when I bought my domain 10 years ago...)

Switching bank will be a bigger bite, but I'm preparing for that too...