Fluorescent lights burn bright over a windowless basement cubefarm. It is 1:24 AM, and Bill Alberts, 48, is living his best life.

Due to an org chart mishap, he has been given exclusive control over a neglected application shipped in the base install of Windows, and he is having going nuts, adding every feature he ever dreamed of.

He knows his time is short; soon enough some auditor will notice. He reviews his (HIS!) feature roadmap with a combination of anxiety and glee.

though of course you need a volcano to make it work.

Which explains Khosla's interest. If this ends up not working out as a retail power play, it can pivot to the supervillain volcanic lair market.

Although Zuckerberg has already probably had to solve power for Koolau Ranch.

So, we could use the renewable/carbon neutral (or negative) path .... OR .... not, but with lots of extra steps and no guarantee of success?

  "And then there's the problem of trying to stop. Because an abrupt end to geoengineering, with all the carbon still in the atmosphere, would cause the temperature to soar suddenly upward with unknown, but likely disastrous, effects... "

Just have an end to fossil-fuel use, you fucking idiots! That's a tractable challenge. That's something we have decades of experience with. Play to your strengths, humanity. Don't listen to fucking morons!!!

Utterly hilarious. You may have sounded out the words of my post, but you clearly did not understand them.

No, not that one.

The one I mean is when the argument switches from "climate change is a hoax, stupid hippy" to "Nothing we can do, climate change. Sucks to be you."

there can be content negotiation

What happened to a sense of professionalism? Hell, of wanting people to not laugh at your work? They expect people to pay money for this junk?

I have to imagine the C-suite at a lot of places feels intense pressure to have "an AI roadmap".

Fine. That doesn't mean you ship not even half-baked bullshit.

This isn't about jerking off to robot porn, it is about performance monitoring - the only thing that functionally matters is the accuracy.

It amazes me that so much simply non-functional junk is passed off as wizzbang magic technology.

I swear that's Microsoft's unofficial motto.

The Copy-Paste mechanism has been a well-defined, widely-understood basic action for personal computers since at least 1984, arguably before.

The defining characteristics are either duplicating or moving one or more digital objects to a new position in a document.

Notice those verbs. Nothing about rewriting/translating/making different. The closest the mechanism gets to that is, for inter-application transfer, there can be content negotiation to deal with format issues.

Just waiting for the first time this "fixes" something in a mortgage or a sentencing memo...

Yeah, there's already one made-for-tabloid-news lawsuit magnet out there.

That explains why you got so wound up over a cheap joke that you ranted at me about things I never said.

Thanks for explaining yourself.

I thought that the source got eaten by a Grue.

That sig quote is a line from a song.

"which today is an end user tools business, will become, essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work."

It sure sounds like he's saying he doesn't want the desktop anymore. I think everyone should help them with that and drop Windows today.

Argentina's Randian ubermench also got $40 billion of our money.

But if it makes you feel any better, a lot of that just flowed back to administration members and their friends.

This seems to have been an investment scheme. Who hired an architect who is this insane?

"One recalled warning Tarek Qaddumi, The Line's executive director, of the difficulty of suspending a 30-story building upside down from a bridge hundreds of metres in the air. 'You do realize the earth is spinning? And that tall towers sway?' he said. The chandelier, the architect explained, could 'start to move like a pendulum,' then 'pick up speed,' and eventually 'break off,' crashing into the marina below."

That level of nonsense is usually restricted to a flat-Earth message board. But these folks were hired? They had no intention of delivering this project. If they wanted to deliver it, they wouldn't have hired people from the local psyche-ward.