Back in the mid-ninties, working for Ameritech, for a while the idiots in charge demanded a DAILY status update from every team (which by this time, there were 27 of us). This mean the senior technical people had to go to this every single bloody weekday. We'd joke at how fast it ran if it lasted under an hour.

And that was when I was working 12, 13, and a few times 16 hour days. And getting paged at home.

or rather, what the efficiency would be for the exhaust from the HVAC from a large office building. Or, of course, any factory.

Someone found the OEM "secret code" to brick them. You know, like the ones John Deere used to brick the Ukrainian tractors that were pillaged by the Russians?

As Cory Doctorow noted in a recent blog post, the chip manufacturers, and the purchasers, are claiming the chips will last five year... but the reality is three... unless they put a seriously heavy compute load on them, in which case some will burn out in 56 DAYS.

Now consider the non-fully depreciated chips (and the related warranty) when they need replacing in *under* three years. The result... is, of course, "you should invest in AI, it's the future!!!", as they burn through ever more capital.

1. They don't need a subscription.
2. They don't need to be online - see #1.
3. They're a fuck of a lot cheaper.
4. They don't serve ads.
5. They don't send info back to the OEM.
6. You don't need to worry about the OEM never sending security updates.

Come on, they aren't getting vaguely enough paid subscribers, and this is the other way to monetise the Artificial Idiot that they're miles/kilometers deep in debt for.

I agree - you are a Russian troll.

The question then is how easy can that iban number be stolen and used?

Oh, are you the asshole who goes through a full-serve line, then waits until it's all rung up before you start looking for your phone or credit card?

That's a stupid comment. How many lines of Ruby are in use, compared with COBOL or Fortran? How many are in mission-critical use?

Ten or twelve years ago, the division I was a sr. Linux sysadmin had one significant Ruby app. When I did the monthly sysytem updates, I had to be careful to exclude updating Ruby, because that one *required* I think it was 1.92 (don't quote me on that), because newer versions *broke* the application. The researcher eventually moved on, the project wound down, and it went away (and there was much rejoicing).

Lies? And 47 cancelled jobs and inflation and another major report, but he says everything's wonderful. And you believe him.

Sucker. I mean, unless you're a chatbot.

This most certainly *is* a bubble. Over 90% of US GDP growth is *nothing* but data center buildouts. There was the story here on /. a week or two ago, of two *completed* datacenters in Nvidia's home county... that are sitting there, useless, because there's no electricity to run them.

And circular support - Nvidia and Anthropic and is it M$? is not a good sign... esp. when Anthropic is still operating at a loss, and is going to need 10 times the current revenue is a few years...

Right. And what, 1400 Israelis died. Right now, the death toll for Gaza is over SEVENTY THOUSAND, and overwhelmingly, the majority are women and children.

Meanwhile, the ILLEGAL settlers in the West Bank are attacking and murdering Palestinians, and stealing their land, and they had nothing to do with Oct. 7.

And Israel's attacking Lebanon. And Syria.

There is not a single person in this regime who has any intelligence, wo they wanted AI. Now they want robots to throw under the bus when they screw up, big time.

My plug-in hybrid *minivan* seems to be running about 34mpg. My old Odyssey minvan, on the highway, in the midwest where it's flat, would max about 27mpg. Oh, and on most of my driving, the short local shopping trips, I was lucky to get 17... while the hybrid does them 100% on electric.