Also, technically XP was Windows NT 5.1, so it was built on a solid basis.

Whereas 98 was still in the kinda DOS-based 9x line.

And I fully agree with you to not mention Windows Me.

> KGB could have never even imagined

Well, maybe they did.

> I'm the former head of Cookie Compliance

If the Internet didn't turn out the way it turned out, this could have been the greatest job ever.

Being the best in the world at what you do and not being allowed to do it is...not the greatest job. ;-)

Thank you for doing it anyways. The state of things seriously depresses me. We used to leave platforms just for putting up banner ads.

The Swiss SBB also has a real estate division, which makes them a lot of money actually (I think a lot of that comes from leases from shops in train stations).

They also have an energy company which runs some hydroelectric power stations.

> Before someone says Linux offers GPG signing it's mostly useless without a central PKI

One could also argue that GPG signing is useful exactly because it doesn't rely on a central PKI.

It's as useful as self-signed certificates.

> France doesn't need to roll its own shit unless it just wants to for the hell of it.

Which, knowing France, is not unlikely.

Rightfully so, I would say? Given that strategic independence is the starting point for this discussion.

Personally happy that my country has some measure of military autonomy from the U.S.

Though I am in favor of European integration, too.

Oh absolutely. I'm living in Switzerland, there was big discussion some years ago whether we should go with F-35 jets or European alternatives like the Rafale or Gripen. We went with the F-35, which, especially now, more and more looks like the wrong decision.

And Google has a lot of data that the others don't have.

And TPUs, their own hardware designed specifically for AI, and designed to scale better to larger models.

Data for AI training is increasingly synthesized.

I was more thinking about data to augment inference. Google already "knows" its users.

People get things wrong all the time as well, so I wouldn't trust them either.

People get things wrong in a different, more observable/predictable way. Sure, we are easily tricked dummies and we can't know if a human is right or wrong, but our human-trust heuristics are highly developed. Our AI-trust heuristics don't exist.

I mean I had people serve me expired food and chicken that was half raw. The latter I could observe, the former I couldn't so easily. Both were things that could have made me sick.

For sure. I'm not defending human perfection, I'm defending human caution (Disclaimer: The format of the preceding sentence was chosen without AI assistance).

Safari is snappier now

But the Finder is not.

FTFF

The cast is just perfect IMHO. Super green! ;

Also one of my all time favorites.

I thought slightly less of the casting for Fifth Element after I learned about the "Born Sexy Yesterday" thing in conjunction with Luc Besson's personal life. Same with Leon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Sexy_Yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thpEyEwi80

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Besson#Personal_life

While I enjoyed watching the movies, I feel like I would have to point out this dynamic if I were to show the movie to my kids.

Hmm, I mean that "thing" appears to be the opinion of one guy on YouTube. Which he is entitled to of course, but I don't necessarily agree.

Especially considering he's using Leeloo as "the most quintessential example" but then also "emphasizes that the Born Sexy Yesterday trope intensifies the dynamic by positioning women as submissive rather than equal partners", which is clearly not really the case here.

Or for example a scene early on where Korben tries to kiss her, to which she reacts with a gun to his head and says "never without my permission". Doesn't really sound very innocent or without agency to me.

I get the point of the analysis and it's certainly not completely wrong, but it seems to be a bit far-fetched and incoherent to be honest.

That's a pretty wild take, but ok. I think you really have to be digging deep and "looking for trouble" to take issue with a fun and relatively wholesome movie like Fifth Element.

Not to mention them getting together for the Fifth Element led to the Joan of Arc movie they did together afterwards (or at least contributed).

Let's just cancel everything.