South Carolina has the best BBQ in the country, son. That Texas shit is just beef with ketchup. Real barbecue is pulled pork with hash. And real barbecue joints are not open every day of the week.

Ward's BBQ on Alice Drive in Sumter, SC. You're welcome.

I can't get past the improper used of "bricks" to care about whatever actually happened.

Any question that is essentially "are corporations screwing over something", the answer is always yer.

I had to do a pre-employment physical near the tail end of covid. The "physician" made some remarks about "doctors writing covid as the cause of death because it meant they got covid money"...... Just nod, say "mmhmmm" and get this over with.

Uh really, because I didn't see a single word in "TFA" addressing this.

I see slightly different colors from each eye. My brain actively picks one over the other, but I can "see" the difference by closing one eye or the other. Your mind does all kinds of "post-processing".

Um, you just made that up, didn't you? I'm 99% sure.

That seems like it still wouldn't work properly with Active Directory. There is no real "superuser" in AD. You can't impersonate a user without their credentials, and possibly some other security flags like delegation. A domain admin can force change a password, but that's irreversible.

Don't trust atoms, they make up everything.

Typically you can just virtualize this stuff and the software can essentially run forever.

You're not far off. Novell didn't see what was coming, and basically went out of business. Microsoft is not wanting to miss the boat, and spending like crazy to do so. I think the only difference here is that it's happening more publicly than usual because of they was OpenAI was initially structured. Apparently that structure is now less transparent, so it provides a competitive advantage to Microsoft. It's probably reasonable to assume that Microsoft now has a significant amount of control over the company, whether or not they admit it. Nadella probably had some harsh phone calls that went something along the lines of "we gave you billions of dollars, do what I say or I will have your balls cut off".

What you are describing is the essence of what copyright is intended to do. It allows artists to retain some ownership and control of their work, while at the same time allowing other artists and interested parties to observe and learn from it. However, AI is not "other artists", there is no human mind performing a creative act in the process. It's a reproducible algorithm. If you saved the state I'd an image generator, it should give you the same output for a given input*. We just give extra weight to the human factor. Eventually the legal system will weigh in on it, and the other side will have some clever argument of their own, but it's the humanity that matters**.

*I also wouldn't be surprised if someone thought they would be "clever" and toss in some randomness to make this seemingly impossible, but it's still just a matter of replicating ALL inputs precisely.

**I guess Data really is Starfleet property.

Microsoft clearly believes thar OpenAI will be the next Google. They fucked up when it came to search, let Chrome displace IE, and countless other mistakes over the last two decades. These failures directly led to trillion dollar companies like Google. They believe that trillion dollars should have been theirs, and they are going to spend whatever it takes to make sure they don't miss out this time around.

That's not always an option. Even useless meetings still let you "be seen" and give you face time with management that might otherwise not interact with you. Of course these don't necessarily need to be in person.

It's difficult to have sympathy for someone in the top 1% of income saying they "don't make enough". You have multiple houses and drive luxury cars. Fuck off, when is enough enough?