I completely agree. The WebAssembly multi-threading programming model with its reliance on the web worker API is a pain to deal with. Google’s Native Client had native threading support, why can this not be replicated in WebAssembly?

Summarizing a long article (possibly in a language I don't speak), querying it for specific information without having to come up with an exact greppable substring etc. is absolute what web browsers are for.

AI data centres can perhaps harvest some of the waste heat back as electricity.

That's low-grade heat. E = (T2 - T1) / T2, remember.

We just did the opposite and ripped up our solar hot water system. We have a metal roof and a salt water pool. Problem is that these systems can and do leak. Salt water on a metal roof makes creates rust.

With photovoltaic panels being dirt cheap, we decided to rather heat our pool with a heat pump that is powered by our own electricity.

Why has basic product management gone out of the window in this new era of AI enablement? Like on the most basic level: who ever asked for this, where is product-market fit for this kind of browser automation?

Well, it's a client-side AI spyware that monitors your activity in the internet or intranet. What Microsoft is doing makes sense if you consider that their clients are corporations and governments.

Seems like a low price to pay for eliminating the risk to have your production facilities overrun by Chinese invaders.

I have been wondering how culturally conservative societies would use future medical interventions that could shape people’s sexuality. Not necessarily the government requiring expecting mothers to subject the unborn child to some sort of “cure” for gayness. But parents doing this voluntarily and on their own. Even western couples might then be tempted to travel to countries permitting these treatments.

At the same time, it seems unlikely in the near future. It so happens that western societies will not fund this kind of research. And that culturally conservative countries do not have the scientific prowess to conduct research in this regard. Also, their scientists are busy developing nuclear bombs.

Most do not have the cognitive abilities for these kinds of philosophical debates.

No. Down Syndrome leads to an objectively worse outcome for the affected individuals. And their parents, I might add.

We should not let compassion for these people obstruct some basic facts. My only consideration would be the potential risks and side effects that are to be expected for any medical intervention. But if we were expecting a child that was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, I would not hesitate for a second to give this child the chance for a normal life. And us parents the chance for normal parenthood.

> Down Syndrome leads to an objectively worse outcome for the affected individuals. And their parents, I might add.

Please cite your sources and show your work.

My child with Down syndrome is a giant pain in my ass, I worry about him constantly, and there are days where I wonder “why me?”

The same is 100% true about my typically-developing daughter.

It sounds like your situation is anecdotal proof.

What is the objective standard? Subjectively, surveys consistently report that those who have DS and their families consider it a better outcome, so I'd like to know more about the details of an objective standard that ignores or overrides the reporting of those closest to the experience.

> And their parents, I might add.

Down syndrome has nothing to do with parent outcomes. Society refusing to actually provide support is the issue here.

To be fair, even outside of this sexual misconduct the CTO of SAP has not actually earned a high salary. Do you hear anyone talking about SAP when it comes to technological innovation? They are followers, not leaders. Not in AI, not in cloud computing, not in mobile or any other technical domain really. Their ERP software stack sits on a technological foundation of ABAP (a COBOL derivative) and a home-built database system that relies on large main memory caches to process complex queries at a halfway acceptable performance.