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It was interesting to see Bing Chat try to turn the tables on @ryan by actually prompting him to answer its question (in the “AI creation” thread). Seems to that chatbots can already manipulate people. A Google AI safety engineer got himself fired as a result of a conversation with an AI, now a guy tried to kill the late Queen Elizabeth after discussing the matter with a chatbot, and is being tried for treason. It's easy to dismiss the latter case as a potential mental health / retardation issue, however, this just goes to demonstrate one of the many ways in which things can go wrong: Man Who Tried To Kill Queen With Crossbow Encouraged By AI Chatbot, Prosecutors Say

Yep, that guy has lots of creator-oriented content, and seems to be biased towards Asus. Well, to be fair when it comes to Sapphire Rapids there is hardly any choice. As for the price of admission, that 3475X he is showing off is ca. £4000 + £1200 for the ASUS Pro WS W790-SAGE SE board. Probably a bit more in $. In other words, the board alone costs more than 13900KS + a reasonable Z790 (or high end Z690) mobo :) (That said there is a cheaper W790-ACE and an Asrock board, both around £900)

If the issue was occurring across mobo brands, one might be reasonably tempted to blame AMD and their chipset and/or firmware.

Yes, but the demand for RAM is going up as well. I’m running 192 GB filled up to the brim, would welcome 64GB DIMMs. I remember folks in the audiovisual effects business were dumping Alienware Area 51M R2 because the number of RAM slots was cut to two and they needed 128GB of RAM (like 3 years ago). It all depends on who tends to buy high-end PCs. The fact that MSI put a high-end gaming board on ice while refreshing a prosumer one is telling. I would not worry though, Assus and SP ratings are not going away 😉 Incidentally they (and Gigab… or AsRock) are the only ones with W790 boards in the market right now, which I guess is a good indication of their financial standing, since that must be a fairly niche market at the moment. I remember there was a bit of initial excitement about Sapphire Rapids here, and now folks are probably like “right, it’s $4K for the mobo plus an entry-level CPU, I guess I’m fine with my 13900KS”.

Musk annoys Twitter users by capping number of tweets they can view each day Another desperate attempt to coerce folks into paying subscription fees. I guess the ad side of things isn't going that well.

Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books Oh dear, that's a Pandora's box big tech doesn't want to see getting open.

Good point but either way I reckon sales must have had something to do with it - their best sellers would be most likely to get refreshed. Remember that outside of our merry bubble here, the PC market has been suffering a sharp downturn lately.

The answer is likely straightforward - they weren’t selling enough of those, as Asus and maybe EVGA cornered the niche market. Many people who aren’t extreme overclockers would rather have 4 DIMM slots for upgradeability’s sake I imagine. Many probably because they are not aware of the drawbacks involved on the Alder/Raptor Lake platforms.

Yeah, can’t fault MSI ACE, enterprise-grade reliability so far.

EVs cleverly trade dependency on mostly middle-Eastern and Russian oil for dependency on mostly Chinese lithium. Discuss.

"Having 'read' a million text documents or so, I have no idea what that means lol"

The way this worked I imagine is the new Twitter CEO checked with Elon and they decided to lock guests out of the platform for some reason (clearly, they are hoping to force people to log in more, and believe this will have some benefits that outweigh the loss of traffic). If it doesn't work out, Elon will complain about not being able to do everything himself properly and fire the CEO person; if it does work out Elon will be going around saying he hired the smartest person possible as Twitter CEO lol Elon's record so far justifies his firing himself as the CEO: Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid

Twitter is now requiring login to view any content. Goodbye lol

Sorry to hear. Any reason given?

Interestingly, exactly the topic covered in the first episode of the new season of Black Mirror:

This is all quite disturbing. You need to prioritise your health. As someone who did a fair amount of fasting, including a bit of water fasting, I would say this can be taxing on the body, and definitely down-regulates the immune system - best done on vacation, with stress minimised (cortisol switches off immune system as well). Also, you don't really do this kind of fast for weight loss, as most of the weight bounces back - the primary idea is to trigger autophagy and clean up the body, followed by a period of re-feeding and cell regeneration. HR telling you people think you are an expletive is crazy. If you have some sort of evidence for that, then you are in a better defensive position. Obviously, this is not a good spot to go into the matter much further, however, I we assume they have really wanted to get rid of you, I do wonder why they haven't yet? Fear of possible litigation would be one reason, but if that's not it then perhaps the most straightforward explanation is true: you are of value to them. Still, I hope you can work out a better situation for yourself. Maybe take a sabbatical and unleash your eloquence abroad as an English teacher or something. Please get well and take good care of yourself. I think that cliche is quite accurate. Whether it falls on the shoulders of the company depends on its size - the company culture can be good overall, but that still doesn't guarantee the absence of bad apples. These things can also get complicated, a sophisticated toxic manager who has been in his position for ages can be very difficult to touch, especially if they have cleverly made themselves indispensable such that the cost and risk involved in trying to uproot them would be considered prohibitive.

Not sure who said that but you get frequent patches and updates, none of which are forced on you, mind you. Linux has been around for over 30 years, and while not mainstream on the desktop, it basically powers the Internet and a large proportion of mobile devices. You don't need to worry about it going away. Linux does have some learning curve involved, but learning is good, right? Pick a beginner-friendly distro and have fun. There is a ton of tutorials on the web and YT to get you started.

I don't believe that's the case. Remember Apple is a leading hardware, as well as software, company. Moreover, Tim Cook is more of a switched on CEO, and he is quite aware that Apple's USP is being an alternative to Google and Microsoft. They don't want to be like them. That said they have a whole host of their own problems, which is why Linux running on an open PC hardware platform is appealing. BTW I really despise Nadella, it's disappointing that's the best person Microsoft managed to find to run the company. For instance, in a recent interview he said things like "for some reason, the society has assigned more value to engineering jobs than to say social care work" (implying that's about to change because ChatGPT will be replacing engineering jobs). The statement alone proves he is a multi-level idiot.

I may have seen this before, but not sure it's legally enforceable. One of the hallmarks of suspect companies is that they try to put in clauses in contracts or internal regulations that are unenforceable to illegal, essentially as a form of bullying. Well, non-compete clauses are common, but I've never seen any clauses against working for a company disparaging towards the employer lol What a more switched on HR department would do is just say you require pre-approval for outside commercial activities and interests. That's understandable, especially if you've worked for them for some time, and climbed the ladder a bit. The ease of finding a new job tends to be inversely proportional to your seniority. There are just way fewer opportunities at senior levels. Of course, it helps to be exceptional individual like @Mr. Fox (and good for him), who has also been at least somewhat lucky to have had nice managers who have provided him with the recognition he deserves etc. But one corollary from that is that if you don't have such manager(s), you need to get out. This - clearly a toxic workplace. Very sorry to hear, even though @Reciever seems to be an extremely stoic and resilient individual, this kind of BS will eat away at the physical and mental health, and only those who lost any of those things really know how valuable they are. TL:DR; There is nothing more valuable, apart from the family. Once you lose them, you are done - especially in the US with no universal healthcare. Knowing almost nothing about the actual situation, I would suggest the smart thing to do here is to keep your head down, try to appear as positive and enthusiastic to the employer as possible, and otherwise spend every second looking for a permanent way out of the situation. There is very little chance the employer will change for the better. Rage-quitting without a solid plan B would obviously be a bad idea (for one thing, in the UK you can't claim any unemployment benefits if you do that, not sure if there are any in the US/your state), with the one exception where you want to sue them - this is called "constructive dismissal", basically you would be saying in the legal case is that the situation was so bad you had to quit. Of course, suing an employer could be a career limiting move if information about the proceedings becomes public or word gets out, a point lawyers probably wouldn't be pressing. That's great, well done. I have no doubt that's the case, but also remember that performance is relative. How much competition did you face on your way up? The drastic scenario is whereby pretty much everyone around you is a rockstar. Moreover, rather than being grateful for having exceptional hard working individuals working for them, your manager is a bit insecure, because he knows all those ambitious rockstars are ultimately out to replace him. Welcome to a lovely rat race in a corporation somewhere in San Francisco or NYC, good luck 😉 BTW having alternative opportunities available in your area of interest and expertise also helps a lot, not clear it applies in the case at hand. Yep, but then you don't have that performance review you deserve to show to prospective employers, and a toxic employer has further ways to mess you up. For instance, they may try to make it difficult for you to interview. I've actually heard of people getting fired for interviewing, and getting fired never looks good on a resume.

Sure, there is no reason to give notice unless it's contractually or legally required, other than perhaps to avoid burning bridges if the relationship had been very good. Where no employment-at-will applies, however, you may be shown the door (for security reasons, as an example), but have to get paid throughout your contractual (and some minimum statutory notice period, such as 2-4 weeks) anyway. Just a bit of protection to even out the quite unbalanced relationship between corporations and people. Apparently the point is moot in the US though - at-will is the default everywhere, with the minor exception of Montana which also has some probatory period protection. Oh well, you guys get paid more to compensate for this.

Microsoft Wants To Move Windows Fully To the Cloud - Internal Presentation Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers. From a report:In an internal "state of the business" Microsoft presentation from June 2022, Microsoft discuses building on "Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud to any device." The presentation has been revealed as part of the ongoing FTC v. Microsoft hearing, as it includes Microsoft's overall gaming strategy and how that relates to other parts of the company's businesses. Moving "Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud" is identified as a long-term opportunity in Microsoft's "Modern Life" consumer space, including using "the power of the cloud and client to enable improved AI-powered services and full roaming of people's digital experience." Windows 365 is a service that streams a full version of Windows to devices. So far, it's been limited to just commercial customers, but Microsoft has been deeply integrating it into Windows 11 already. A future update will include Windows 365 Boot, which will enable Windows 11 devices to log directly in to a Cloud PC instance at boot instead of the local version of Windows. Windows 365 Switch is also built into Windows 11 to integrate Cloud PCs into the Task View (virtual desktops) feature. Oh yes, Satya's wet dream: all of people's data in the Microslop cloud, no need to support PC hardware - just stream off the cloud. What a time to move to Linux, or at least macOS. @Mr. Fox @Papusan @Aaron44126 f

Yeah, neither the US nor the UK regs specify max temperature , although the UK rules say the temperature must be "reasonable". For one thing, many of those rules were written 50 years ago, when hot conditions were a less prevalent problem. Employment at will is strictly great for employers, and perhaps for the lucky folks who have plenty of alternative good job options available at a moment's notice.

I can’t work very effectively above 30C -productivity goes down significantly. Any employer forcing people to do computer work at 40C is a toxic and moronic org, probably at odds with regs in many countries.

There is a difference between an unavoidable situation and an employer skimping on aircon for employees working indoors. Would be interesting to know what it looks like from the legal perspective in @Reciever’s state.

Depends on the size of the bedroom, the starting temp, the desired temp, how many hours per day you need this on etc. Obviously depends on your electricity costs. Need to do the math, but I would ballpark at $50-100/p.m. in the summer. You work in 108F/42C? Geez. Can’t you sue them? (easier said than done, I know, especially if you are still in) I mean this must be affecting your health.