> an estimated $80 billion in capital expenditures over the past year created pressure to reduce operating costs.

I make $3000 a day but a $4 increase in my daily costs created pressure.

At Caltech we had developed an amazingly fast (femtoseconds!) Write-Only Memory.

The few times I leave my Linux machines and have to use Windows, it is always Windows 7. No 8, no 10, no 11. Sorry M$, count me among the losses. It was the least bad version of Windows, and a paradise compared to current versions with all kinds of telemetry, spying, ads and bloatware.

McCulloch-Pitts and Stephen Cole Kleene have entered the chat.

(Motivation for regular expressions)

I underestimated innovation!

"--DID YOU SAY A BILLION??"

"--Yes, I said a billion..."

"--Whew! For a moment there, I thought you said a million"

...somewhere in my basement. Is it coming back too? Should I fish it out?

#nostalgia_aint_what_it_used_to_be

...when, PACE Turing, you won't be able to tell apart an AI "friend" from a human friend.

Used Skype a lot, right from the start. Happy with it. Then MS bought it...and I promptly uninstalled it. I knew they were going to screw it up.

...is what I'm using right now to post this. It is kinda slow in booting, and responding, but considering the >7 windows it is a win. Of course I have Linux machines available for real work! :)

No more commenting on /. Cool.

HEY :-(

#username_checks_out

... :)

>> meant as sarcasm

Or a host of AIs and LLMs now including it in their training!