It is 12000 days into September, 1993: Usenet is long since an artifact in the memory of greybeards; the internet belongs to the monkey cage. Yet on Slashdot, we still get physics puns. Here, the golden age lives on.
the father accustoms himself to become like his child and fears his sons, while the son likens himself to his father, and feels neither shame nor fear in front of his parents, so he may be free ; the metic [563a] becomes the equal of a citizen and the citizen of a metic, and similarly with the foreigner.
It indeed so happens, he said.
To these, said I, such trifles do add up: the teacher, in such a case, fears his pupils and fawns upon them, while pupils have in low esteem their teachers as well as their overseers; and, overall, the young copy the elders and contend hotly with them in words and in deeds, while the elders, lowering themselves to the level of the young, sate themselves with pleasantries [563b] and wit, mimicking the young in order not to look unpleasant and despotic.
- Plato's "The Republic" (ca 375 BCE)
2 weeks ago my large company you've heard of had a townhall meeting where the CEO, who had hitherto been quite levelheaded and sensible about the AI stuff, finally threw all-in with the AI boosters and encouraged everyone to use as much AI as we could, for every possibly use we could think of.
3 days later we were out of tokens and even the useful stuff like support ticket summaries were unavailable.
And for some reason, Discord went to Klipy...?
Probably a Linux nerd (on
> next will be Jedi training school full of pointless teen angst.
Wasn't that "The Acolyte"?
> Heh, I've never heard that term before.
It's an acronym for "jack of all trades."
What, you mean you're not convinced to grab the no-name alpha-release "privacy browser" that cripples yourself if you don't let them MITM you?
It wasn't that hard - Netscape came on floppies, too.
if there was ever a moment for a robot to flip out and kill people, this was the one
just look at all the AI simps and the digital reams of text psoted over the last 3 years hyperglazing this shit
pretty sure you mean cowardly Iranian drones
i dont genuinely bellieve that
((plz forgive typos, im typing with gloves on since the temp went from 85F to 27Fin a day)
this is, as they say, the way
6 x 4TB Z2, in a scavenged proliant with 64GB ECC, one 16T WD gold in a separate normal box as a backup target, and that machine has backblaze so it's offsite unlimited for $100 / year
initial 4TB drives bought as a lot of used ebay drives and replaced as they become marginal, but it's been years now and i've only replaced 2 of them with new red pros so far
everything's ticking along nicely, only thing i really need to do is switch over to Scale at some point. insane value for bits over time.
how will we afford to rent our compute terminal
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
