I worked for a place where I was on call about a week or two out of a month. It was pretty rare to get called out, but when you did, IT SUCKED. It might mean a three hour trip, one way, in the middle of the night. That's toward the top of my list why I no longer work there.

And even if you weren't on call, you might still have to deal with things locally or be available to help out the person on call.

Hollow core fiber

Why do you assume that the hardware running the simulation has problems with keeping the state of every particle in the universe?

Not even GNU C, the kernel is written in kernel C and C compilers have to be adapted to be able to compile it correctly.

GCC and Clang are the only compilers that work. There used to be support for icc as well, but compiler-specific tweaks are required for every compiler, and it was not worth the effort.

In the theory of games its called unconscious collusion.

In tournament poker in a 3-way hand, when one player is all in, it is common practice for the other two hands to then check it down, making sure that both of their hands have a chance to beat the all-in player knocking them out of the tournament...

Nobody agreed to this before-hand. The collusion is emergent.

last ice age, there was heaps of ice around the poles, and that ice has mass. Over time, gravity pulled that mass down, which caused the ice free equator to bulge up. Then the ice age ended and the ice went away, and ever since then the planet has been adjusting - the equator pulling down and the poles raising up. Like the spinning ice skater pulling her arms in, the equator pulling in speeds the planet's spin up.

But if this was the case, why hasn't this been a steady speed up over the last hundred years? Why the steady slow down, then sudden speed up? Global warming comes to mind, as it does in everything, but the mass of glacial ice lost is too small and too recent to be having this effect, surely?

Everyone's pretty confident that this anomalous speed up will end soon, and we'll return to the expected steady deceleration.

Because we know the Earth to be slowing in the long term, so an increase is speed has to be a short-term glitch. How short term? I don't see it stretching beyond a second , unlikely to stretch to tens of seconds, and a UTC/UT1 difference of even 10 seconds is unlikely to be problematic.

On the other hand, we've only had clocks accurate enough to measure this for under 100 years, so saying that we understand Earth's rotation might be a stretch.

The digital world is chasing something.

Unfortunately that something is mostly decided by marketing and fetish.

How many millions of lines of code are required to render this post on your screen? Apply that to all webified apps, even the ones that run locally.

We are so far removed from the metal at this point, the only rational direction is backwards.

It remains to be seen if AI-branded computers will outsell anything.

If it doesnt have an AI key then you need to replace it anyways

No, my argument is that the reduction is so tiny that it's meaningless. It's temporarily reducing the rates from, say, 3% to 2.96%. In reality, it should be reducing the fees from 3% to 0.5%.

Even if it only took a couple months for someone to be proficient with training and tuning models, that's too slow for a lot of the companies making these hires. It's a gold rush to be on top of this "next big thing", claims need to be staked out immediately. It doesn't matter that there might not be that much gold in the ground. A late mover isn't going to get any of it, so companies have to scramble to be there.

That's the entire point. They would, but they can't, and this settlement didn't do anything to fix the problem. Or any problem, really. The 0.04% reduction in rates will make literally zero difference to anyone.

The moderator must have the power to insert advertisements because a fee just aint going to work.

It was a limit set on what was supposed to be a temporary UI at a time when drive sizes were measured in megabytes, not gigabytes.