56 million to drop the OD death rate by nearly a quarter? This is exactly the sort of thing I want to see my taxes doing, directly improving people's lives, and the cost is a drop in the bucket for federal budgets.

And his reasoning is bullshit, you can work to address the deeper cause while mitigating the symptoms, it isn't an either/or

I've got a few capacitive buttons in my car, none of them critical, but I'd gladly replace them with the physical buttons in the lower tier version of that car...

Like, how is this considered the nicer option? Hell, I think they're actually cheaper for the manufacturer than proper buttons at this point...

But sure, I really want to have to try three times to turn the vented seats on because I don't hit the exact right spot on the pad, only to accidentally switch it to the heated seats in triple digit weather while reaching for the AC knob (which actually is physical, thankfully)

That's only really true if you're going to be storing the password in a secure vault after randomly generating it; otherwise, it's terrible because 1) nobody will be able to remember it so they'll be writing it down, and 2) it'll be such a pain to type that people will find ways to circumvent it at every possible turn

Pass phrases, even when taken with the idea that it's a limited character set that follows a semi predictable flow, if you look at it in terms of the number of words possible it actually is decently secure, especially if the words used are random and not meaningful to the user. Even limiting yourself to the 1000 most common words in the English language and using 4 words, that's one trillion possible combinations without even accounting for modifying capitalisation, adding a symbol or three, including a short number at the end...

And even with that base set, even if a computer could theoretically try all trillion possibilities quickly, it'll make a ton of noise, get throttled, and likely lock the account out long before it has a chance to try even the tiniest fraction of them

Your way is theoretically more secure, but practically only works for machines or with secure password storage. If it's something a human needs to remember and type themselves, phrases of random words is much more viable and much more likely to be used in a secure fashion.

New name suggestion:

"The Distro Formerly Known As openSUSE"

Ew.

Feels like they should, I'm not exactly thrilled by the idea of my tax dollars going into Musk's pocket just for the hell of it

I mean... The kernel is called NT, not Windows, but okay

That one wasn't the customer feeding it exactly what to say, though, it was the customer asking how to get a discounted price honored, what steps they would need to take, and they followed the chat bot's instruction... A customer using a company's bot in good faith to understand how a process works (one of the things it was supposedly meant for) is not the same as one blatantly abusing the bot's design to get money for nothing.

While this is true, the flip side of that is that being a publicly traded company all but guarantees they'll be forced to make bad decisions. So, the original point still stands: more companies should do this. They may be shitty anyway, but at least they'll be shitty on their own terms and have the best chance of not being shitty.

"Foolish mortals" is my go-to gender neutral form of address

How can we expect a predictive language model trained on our violent history to come up with non-violent solutions in any consistent fashion?

Just looks like a bunch of stars to me