While he's not smart enough to understand what a tough problem cooling servers in space would be, at least some of the engineers working on it might invent some interesting technology while failing to build a datacenter in space. Which is more than I can say about his other expenses like failing to buy elections, or failing to only have sons.

the same thing we do every night, Pinky

Don't worry, I'm sure Trump will pay their attorneys' fees just as well as he pays the people who do work for him. With summary judgement, a court order, and senile murmuring about a witch trial.

"The engineer who spent last week writing it assured Zuck that every prompt used to write it closed with make no mistakes"

Do things with people, whether it's volunteering, a social group, whatever. Very few of us are happy without at least some social interaction, and sense of community.

Maybe for you that means to speak the languages you're learning with other people, or join a discussion group for a topic you're studying. But having the things you do personally anchored in a shared social reality adds a human element that studying more things and doing independent things that are academically good for you just can't.

Technology is famously hard for the law to keep up with, but I don't think that's what's going on here. We have laws for when a person uses a technical tool to obtain unauthorized access, exfiltrate data, or do other malicious things. These don't necessarily require any specific intent. If you've set up an AI tool and pointed it in the direction of hacking without proper airgapping, you've probably violated the CFAA if you're in the US when it's successful. Other countries generally have similar laws. Prosecutors don't need to try someone if it's really ambiguous or unclear what they actually did. Is this really unreasonable under the legal system?

To the extent there's a gap, it's the system around the law. Lawyers and judges aren't technical experts, and may not recognize "it wasn't me, it was the ai" as the same argument as "it wasn't me who shot him, it was my gun", in that it's usually foolish and unserious, but there can be a convoluted scenario in which it's a good argument.

Some MS office products are wedged deeply into companies' workflow, and that software lock-in supports Windows software lock-in. Maybe it doesn't fix the deeper problem, but a compatibility tool developer won't fix that anyway. That comes from people updating business processes per company.

If it helps more people get off of Windows, it goes about as far as a global patch can to help solve part of the problem.

Whereas my system is full of daemons and zombies, just the way I like it

VLAN? Why would you let a monitor have a network connection? Grab the Mac address, and put it on a denylist so you don't accidentally give it an IP address as part of your setup procedure.

Maybe a combination data center and nuclear power plant? But that's totally speculative and probably has never even been seriously sketched out.

Wikipedians are terrifyingly fast at getting out some updates. If someone dies, their article moves to the past tense often within 10 minutes of their death being known, assuming they were at all prominent.

You should always be a bit skeptical, sometimes really arcane subjects' articles are written by one of the handful of people who understand them, sometimes they're very subtly wrong but not prominent enough to get the right attention. If something seems off, Wikipedia has tools like the Talk page, and looking at Edit history, that can allow you to glean information in-platform about what might be happening. Edit wars, vandalism, disagreements among editors, maybe a negotiated agreement about a way to represent something controversial, all can become clearer by looking at those resources. You can also check its sources, to see if they agree with what felt off to you, or if there isn't a good source on that claim.

It's not perfect, any system can fail, but at least it has reasonable tools to figure out why it says what it says, and dig further.

Every day they put their list of features into copilot and let it set the new name for the product, whatever it says goes. This could be an improvement over their current strategy