IMO it makes more sense if the humans in Star Trek are unreliable narrators.

How is it possible that a teenage mechanic can improve engine efficiency by 5% messing around in his spare time? Why didn’t the engineers whose full time job it is to build the engines figure that out?

In fact, cosmic radiation in space drives all humans insane. They truly believe they’re doing science experiments, but stuff goes wrong because they’re just jamming random household items into the engine.

Yeah that’s another difference. When something breaks on Windows people will do anything to fix it, including reinstalling Windows or buying another machine.

When something goes wrong on Linux they decide Linux doesn’t work and reinstall Windows.

I’ve had Windows installs slow down till they take 15 minutes to start. I once clicked the wrong button in Visual Studio and the computer became some kind of remote driver debugging target, permanently. Half the settings broke and every startup it would autologin as a debug user.

If anything like that happens on Linux it’s proof Linux is too complicated, but on Windows it’s just one of those things.

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It was always going to work, it’s kind of weird everyone expected it to backfire. There was never going to be a mass boycott because normal people don’t see “you have to pay for it to use it” as particularly unreasonable.

Say I shared my account with 4 other people. Even if all 4 decide not to sign up, Netflix don’t lose anything and they save 80% of their server costs. They only lose money if I quit as well, and why would I when I’m getting the same service for the same price.

The fact is hardly anyone publishes on the web anymore. Every time someone complains about Google search I look them up and discover they don’t have a website.

They have an Instagram and a YouTube and a Facebook and a Twitter account, all of which may or may not be accessible to some degree to a logged out web browser. Never a website though.

What do they think is going to show up in a search when all the content these days is published in walled garden social media apps?

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Or even just wait for a single replication of actual superconductivity, rather than a vague reaction to magnetic fields.

To be clear, absolutely no one has replicated zero resistance, which is the only thing that matters for a superconductor.

All of the “successful replications” so far have just been tiny flakes of material moving in a magnetic field. No one has even got it to fully levitate, they all stand on one end, which any ferromagnet would do. One video demonstrated that a flake was not attracted to the magnet, which could rule out ferromagnetism. Even assuming that’s true it could still just be diamagnetic - pyrolytic carbon behaves exactly the same way and it’s not a superconductor.

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But the naysayers will argue that your problem is not novel and a solution can be trivially deduced from the training data. Right?

Yes, obviously. Unless @Serdan is publishing papers about their solutions to previously unsolved computation problems, we should assume that by “novel problem” they actually just mean “a mundane problem for which every step of the solution is trivial, even if they’ve never been combined in that exact order before”.

He represents the meme well in the sense that these memes are all made by people who tried to climb up the bell curve but fell back down to the start, and think that’s the same as reaching the end.

He literally says he couldn’t figure it out. That doesn’t make him smarter than people who can figure it out and use Arch with no problem.