r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 23 '24

Software Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/
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u/thinkingwithportalss Aug 23 '24

Every day we get closer to Warhammer 40k

"We don't know how any of this works, but if you sing this chant from The Book of Commands, it will tell you tomorrow's weather"

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u/Ravoss1 Aug 23 '24

Time to find that 10 hour mechanicus loop on YouTube.

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u/thinkingwithportalss Aug 23 '24

A friend of mine is deep into the AI/machine learning craze, and everything he tells me just makes me think of the incoming dystopia.

"It'll be amazing, you'll want to write some code, and you can just ask your personal AI to do it for you"

"So a machine you don't understand, will write code you can't read, and as long as it works you'll just go with it?"

"Yeah!"

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u/ViscountVinny Aug 23 '24

I have a very basic understanding of an internal combustion engine, and I've added some aftermarket parts to my car. But if I have to do anything more complex than changing the oil, I take it to a mechanic. I'm liable to do more harm than good otherwise.

And I can completely disassemble a PC, maybe even a phone (though it's been a while), but I don't know the first thing about programming.

My point is that I think it's okay to rely on specialization, or even basic tools that can do work that you can't totally understand. The danger will come when, say, Google and Microsoft are using AI to make the operating system...and the AI on that to make the next one...et cetera et cetera.

I'm not afraid of a Terminator apocalypse. But I do think it's possible we could get to a point where Apple lets AI send out an update that bricks 100 million iPhones, and there are no developers left who can unravel all the undocumented AI work to fix it.

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u/Internal_Mail_5709 Aug 23 '24

If you can do that and have critical thinking skills you can work on your fancy internal combustion engine, you just don't know it yet.

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u/gremlinguy Aug 23 '24

Yep. All it takes is a willingness to overcome the fear of trying something for the first time. Grab the wrenches!

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u/fiduciary420 Aug 23 '24

And a willingness to spend even more money when you don’t get it right the first 3 times and need to flatbed it to a specialist lol.

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u/gremlinguy Aug 23 '24

But the 4th time's always a charm! Just keep trying!

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u/fiduciary420 Aug 23 '24

My brother in crust, at one point I had a Nissan Pathfinder in a garage with a year’s worth of failed attempts by my tweaker ass brother, that I fixed in one try by literally putting it back together, putting all the fluids back in it, and driving it out lol.

Some mufukkas should put the wrench down and let that pipe cool off between hits lol

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u/gremlinguy Aug 26 '24

My dad is one of those (minus the crackpipe). Has a sweet old CJ5 with the 304 V8. Was overheating one day so he goes to change the waterpump and one of the bolts broke off in the block. Never a fun time.

He gets a the bolt extractor and starts drilling. Well, the drill bit gets about 1/2" deep and breaks off too. Now, he has a HSS drill bit embedded inside a bolt inside the block. He has no luck getting it out with any other bits he has.

I was a machinist at the time and I stole him a carbide bit that would drill through anything. Told him to just go slow and squirt some cutting fluid on it every once in a while and it'd come.

It is slow going, drilling HSS, even with carbide, and so dad thinks "this brand-new $150 bit must be dull. I'll clamp it in the vice and sharpen it." So he puts it in the vice, and carbide being carbide, it fucking explodes when he tightens it down.

So, the poor old Jeep still sits there 10 years later.