Posts by Yorick Hunt 650 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2022
Different countries use whatever resources are the most available and most cost-efficient (or most profitable, depending on your point of view) to generate electricity.
Hydroelectricity is the preferred method, but some countries can't afford the cost of building a dam, whilst others don't have rivers suitable for damming.
Reading up on the entire Venera program is a real eye-opener - building ever-more resilient ships to withstand the temperatures and pressures for even just a few minutes.
Back in the day when "impossible" wasn't a recognised part of the vocabulary (nor attitude).
... or Linux, or Android, or any other "mainstream" operating system which was written for something altogether different.
Whilst it's true that a custom (extensively crippled) Linux build could close off the vast majority of potential holes, given the value of the industry, surely they could commission the creation of a purpose-built operating system that ONLY performed tasks relevant to ATMs?
That's just off the top of my head.
"Often gets me to consider alternative approaches for tackling the problem that I wasn't aware of"
You weren't aware of it because it was a hallucination. Look further and you'll find all of those "hitherto unthought of" approaches have nothing to do with the problem (or even the device/application) at hand.
"MS software quality has always been utter shit"
I beg to differ. The BASIC interpreter in ROM on my TRS-80 (model 1) was rock solid (well, except for the wrong timing value in the cassette loading routine, which made sensitivity to volume level changes a PitA).
Are you channelling Forbidden Planet?
LLMs != AGI, and will never lead to it - no matter how much the "tech bros" insist.
Not all people are that easily fooled, though one could argue that if you choose to use a Meta product, you get what you deserve.
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