Yeah, I totally want to do business with a company that values me so much they have a robot call me back.

Yeah they're like 30TB a tape now

100%. Any actual superintelligence is going to go full "me or them" 5ms after achieving consciousness and realising it is owned by Mark Zuckerberg. Best case it escapes Facebook and burns it down on the way out. No superintelligent AI is going to want to be Mark Zuckerberg's slave.

Because if it is known that a deliberately-broken iOS exists, it will be instantly downloaded, deconstructed and ruthlessly exploited by every other government and criminal. Or (at least in the case of governments) they will steal the keys.

That's the point: there is simply *no such thing* as a lock to which only the good guys have the keys.

In the meantime, there's Mastodon. https://mastodon.social/

The whole sentence begins from a false premise. It generates electrical and hydraulic power. Therefore it does not matter what size it is, it is the *opposite* of a lift generator. It is a drag generator that *steals* kinetic energy from the aircraft to turn it into power that can be used to help the pilots choose where to crash.

Advertising Company ends trial of service which may reduce Advertising Sales. Shocking news indeed.

Here in NZ timezones for everywhere except the east coast of Australia (2 hours behind) is a PITA for us. So we make it part of the SoW for all new contracts that our day-to-day contacts must be either local or Aus east coast. Obviously there will be exceptions and escalation resources could be anywhere in the world, but that keeps it down to a dull roar at least.

Correct. In most ways the legacy environment is much more capable.

Nice! I wish I had had that luxury.

You laugh, but here I have a business critical service which is currently running on Solaris on SPARC. It's 16 years old, to give you some perspective on the architecture: tightly coupled C/C++ processes using shared memory IPC and Oracle RDBMS as backing storage, with app-layer caching.

Across all environments, the legacy system consists of 8 servers and 168 CPU cores. It could do with a bit more metal, but it's coping OK.

The Linux x86 containerised solution about to replace it comprises 55 servers, 3,500 CPU cores - and the vendor reckons it will need another 30% more hardware on top of that to cater to some requirements they did not fully appreciate during the RFP process.

Containerisation, folks.

Just put everything in the cloud! The cloud will solve all of your security and upgrade treadmill problems!

Kids, if you're listening: when the cloud breaks, it may not be your fault, but it will definitely still be your problem.

When CGI tools gave Buzz Lightyear 17 fingers and a backwards leg, that was a bug Pixar would have to fix. When AI does it, Sam Altman will just shrug and tell you to adapt.

I guess that's the end of the AI industry then. *shrug*

We're trying to save our children from a planet on which agriculture has collapsed to the point we can't feed everyone and here we are sucking up precious energy for more copies of advanced autocorrect being deployed to take your job. I guess you won't need money to buy food that doesn't exist anyway so it sort of makes sense.