Back in the last quarter of the 20th century, many POTS telephone switches had an A side and a B side.

During software upgrades - and yes those were a thing - they would route all new calls to the A side and wait until the last call on the B side ended before they would take the B side down for the upgrade.

Then they would do some testing before bringing up the B side.

Only after they were confident that the B side was working would they upgrade the A side.

This worked in part because they could schedule upgrades when the load was low enough to be handled only by half of the switch's capacity.

Johnny: I'm going to City Junior College!
Jimmy: I'm going to be a Space Cadet!

If you read a lot of computer-generated writing, it shouldn't be any surprise when you writing looks a little more like it was written by a computer than it did a few years ago.

Because "get it coded fast, we'll worry about resource-related problems in a future release" is a winning strategy if you expect to never hit your resource limits.

... when you have to prove your identity to submit a job application, much like how banks in the United States are required to verify identity before opening an account for a new customer.

I see what you did there.

Expect AI-written material to be put through a "cleanup to make it look less like AI and more like a person" post-processing step in the very near future.

It's probably already happening.

modern safety features and modern fuel economy.

OK that may mean a 2020s car with a 1970s user interface. Minus the 8-track, I don't need that.

Multiple places in the USA. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

Back in the early days of cable, I sometimes switched to dialup because of high packet loss on the cable connection. The dialup might have been slow but it was as solid as a rock.

A decade earlier I would sometimes throttle my modem to a slower speed for similar reasons.

... for slower technologies!

https://www.wired.com/story/fl... (may be paywalled by the time you read this).

One person's "OMGTHATSSOSTUPIDYOUAREANIDIOTIFYOUTHINKTHAT" is another person's "hmm, I haven't thought of things that way, tell me more about what you think so I can contemplate it."

We need more people in the second group.

I don't know how IPOs work in China but if this happened in the US, it would indicate the IPO price was set way too low.

The idea "IPO spike" is about 0 or maybe a little bit above 0.

If it drops on the first day that's obviously bad.

If it's goes up it means the company left money on the table. Sometimes its good to leave a little money on the table to give the IPO underwriters an others a reason to stay excited about your company.

Um, yeah, if you say so.