Posts by Yorick Hunt 493 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2022
Paradoxically, those pushing for it are precisely the ones whose jobs would be most suited for replacement by "AI."
Seeing a team of bots playing daily Bullshit Bingo could even become a popular televised sporting event (hey, if they can classify breakdancing as a sport, it's open season).
Chinese companies are heading their own way, innovating with software and using ever more home-grown tech - which might not be quite up to the level of western technologies at the moment, but it's (1) cheap, (2) available, and (3) highly likely to evolve beyond what the western players are offering.
Faces, noses, etc...
The price of eggs is lower than it was six months ago, and deportations are still at least 30% lower than they were under Obama. But don't let the BBC, CNN, NBC or any of the others hear that.
Congratulations for thinking that re-arranged deck chairs actually make a difference.
About a quarter of a century ago, I installed a painfully expensive tape backup system for a customer and left instructions on best practices, including regular manual trial restorations.
About a year down the track, disaster struck - as luck would have it, when I was interstate with no easy/quick way to get back.
I had a local agent pop out with a replacement drive, but he said there were no valid backups to be found. Quizzing the customer yielded something to the effect of "we started getting tape errors so we removed the tape and the errors stopped."
They hadn't performed a proper backup in months, had only done one trial restore about a week after I set the backup up, and didn't even think to get a replacement tape or simply roll onto the next day's tape - nor even to call me for advice.
No skin off my nose as they were only a casual customer, but it really makes you wonder just which cereal packet some people got their brains from.
Those affected deserve nothing.
They exposed themselves by voluntarily (even eagerly) surrendering their entire lives to FaecesHook. The fact that one more scumbag got their data in addition to the hundreds of scumbags El Zucko already gave it to, is of no consequence.
You can't lick the walls of a sewer and then complain that you got a disease.
"I think trying to secure against stupid, or developing for stupid, or trying to sell to stupid, or catering to stupid, or appealing to stupid, just creates more stupid.”
Hear, hear!
The number of times (including half an hour ago, f@#cking Roku!) I've been nearly reduced to tears because something was made to only be used by idiots (and therefore entirely alienating anyone who has even half a brain) is startling.
It's easy for Mickey$oft to argue that they weren't charging other customers more - they were simply offering discounts for customers who were also using M$'s cloud.
It's not as if those customers weren't aware of the prices before clicking on "buy now."
I have every aspect of Microsoft, but on this particular subject I see no case to answer.
How does your car's engine run if you can't pour petrol into your cup holder?
The two networks should be entirely separate and distinct - what you use for controlling infrastructure should NEVER be the same network you use for watching cat videos during quiet times.
It's a simple concept, but alas in this age of iPad-qualified management, stupidity knows no bounds.
I'd hoped back in the day that the future would belong to Motorola or Zilog - or even (gasp!) the Transputer.
Sadly we'll be using essentially hyperscaled 8080s for a long time to come - unless ARM takes over or RISC-V actually gets bedded down (in both cases sacrificing compactness for speed, but then programmers these days don't even know what compactness is, let alone care about it).
"It can SERIOUSLY screw your life for decades"
Unless you're one of the disgustingly well-heeled, in which case all traces of the bankruptcy miraculously evaporate overnight and you continue business as usual, perhaps at worst with the inconvenience of having to create a new trading name.
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