That’s horrible, I don’t really know what to say, except best wishes to you.
I always thought Chinese were a more pragmatic people than most, but this is not pragmatic of your parents, this is cynical and evil.

Seems to me that Islam is discriminating strongly against women, and that could absolutely be a factor to prevent this sick culture from being abandoned.
I know there are Muslims who are good people, but I don’t think the religion is helping.
I knew many Muslims when I lived in Copenhagen, from many different countries, and common for the men were that they were way more discriminating against women than is normally acceptable among cultural Danes. They also commonly claimed that the women preferred it that way! For instance regarding very stereotypical strong gender roles.
I also don’t believe the honor thing is without heavy influence from religion, and religion is helping preserve these medieval standards in modern times.

I know there are Muslims that are more modern and more moral, and just like most Christians have abandoned ancient doctrines that are clearly bad.
It just seems to me that Islam has not progressed away from such practices as much as Christianity generally has.
For instance by far the most Muslims still believe apostasy is a sin that should be punished. In a modern society that is unacceptable.

Funny then that when they move to another culture, and take it with them, it is always muslims.

It’s insane how twisted in the head you have to be to think that killing your daughter is the honorable thing to do!
Religion is harmful to both individuals and society. Extreme religion is extremely harmful to both individuals and society.

As well as a human, and without fucking up because of stress.
Also my guess is these would be monitored by trained professionals.

The AI will (probably) be familiar with every possible issue that no human will be able to match.
I’m not sure what kind of “completely unexpected” situation is possible can happen, that a normal surgeon would handle better?
But I agree it would have to be a lot smarter than current LLM and self driving for instance. Like a whole other level of smarter. But I think that is where we are heading.

At some point in a not very distant future, you will probably be better off with the robot/AI. As it will have wider knowledge of how to handle fringe cases than a human surgeon.
We are not there yet, but maybe in 10 years or maybe 20?

Yes, when CD and later DVD came out, they were truly groundbreaking. A huge step forward compared to anything that went before.
Both in music/video and as a computer storage media. That kind of exciting progress is rare in any field. I think the only equivalent with broad impact since then is the smartphone.

Say what you want about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler.

That is not what I remember, Pentium was horrible, and even Pentium Pro was horrible too, except not quite as much.
Of course if you compare with an old i486 25SX that’s worse and lacked a floating point unit. But when Pentium MMX came out the AMD 486 DX4 at 120 MHz had been out for a while. You have to compare with the i486 that was available at the same time. I don’t quite remember the details, but here was also AMD K6 and K6-2 that competed well against Intel.
Pentium 2 was decent and a lot better than the original Pentium, and Pentium Pro and Pentium MMX were not very good either. Pentium 3 was very good. Then Pentium 4 was horrible again. And it became AMD with Athlon.

But GPU, RAM and Motherboards were also significant factors in responsiveness back then. Those are generally not an issue for ordinary desktop usage today.
But in the mid 90’s Windows 95 was pretty taxing for just a slightly old computer. Running Windows with a slow GPU/Driver driver would absolutely kill the performance no matter which CPU was onboard.

Pentium was only cool because it followed i8086 - i80186 - i80286 - i80386 - i80486.
So instead of just increasing the number by 100 and calling it i80586 like they’d done for more than a decade, Pentium was the first to even have a name. AFAIK this was only for copyright reasons, because you can’t copyright a number. Pentium as a descriptive name however was a dead end, because following that logic the next gen would be Hexium which sounds stupid. So it was not a good naming scheme.

Apart from that the first Pentium 60 and 66 MHz definitely weren’t cool, they sucked balls, because they got hot and performed terribly, and were very expensive for the time. 486 were generally better up until Pentium 2 came out.

48 Tops NPU!

I don’t know how that compares to AMD, but for fucks sake that’s fast!
It just dawned on me that in the early 80’s we used MIPS for million when stating how fast a CPU was, and Tops is for Trillion! That’s a million times faster than 40 years ago!

It was so obviously stupid back then, that only people too young to remember don’t know this.
Trump had no reason to tear up that agreement, he did it because it was an agreement Obama had made, and Trump was hellbent on reversing everything Obama did out of spite and nothing else.

OK, except the post indicate building a new garage to get rid of the unused car.
Kind of overkill IMO.

Being mindless about anything has pretty similar results, I don’t see the point of this?
Forget you have a car parked in your garage and it will get dirty over time.
Maybe not the best analogy, but if you don’t give a shit, things tend to fall apart.

Are you saying you don’t know when you install additional packages?
How does that work?

This doesn’t make sense to me.
If you install features over time, it’s because you want to use them, if you want to use them, it’s not bloat.
If it’s to try it, and it’s not for you, why not just remove the package again?

I can’t say for others, but my system definitely does not get bloated over time.
On the contrary, I remove preinstalled features I don’t use, when I get tired of seeing them updating.

they are definitely not doing everything they can to increase their conversion rate.

Oh you mean like prompting users to buy extra services all the time?
Yes they are actually doing exactly that.

Of course I do, but ChatGPT still has a free option. And the basis to compare paid subscriptions when there is also a free option stand IMO.
Without a good free option, how would it be only 5% who pay? It’s exactly the same as with Youtube in that regard.

The free option is a form of advertising and allowing people to get to know the service. With Youtube the free option isn’t really free, you pay by allowing advertising.
So by that comparison Youtube is actually the worse free option of the two. And despite that more people pay for ChatGPT.
So your argument that they are not the same, actually makes ChatGPT numbers even more impressive not less.

Paying gives advantages on youtube, just the same as ChatGPT.