I was confused about what supposedly made Rowling a horrible person. Then I saw the username and it all became clear: A proper sense of biology and wanting to protect women from predators OBVIOUSLY makes one a bad person in your eyes.

Not surprised. Not even disappointed. I just wonder what went wrong between you and your parents.

While not wrong: The machine cannot deliver what they promised and people are getting fed up with it.

What the horrible people want is not exactly a perfect overlap with what is realistically possible.

We will find a new equilibrium.

I think Aristotle and Socrates have lamented the same thing.

Thank you for explaining my post so GenZ can understand it.

It is unconceivable to me how someone can actually go have a look at Roblox and still let their kids on that platform.

"They love it!"? Well, yeah my kids used to sit in front of Netflix like little consumer zombies because they were unable to resist Netflix' recommendations and couldn't tell when an episode ended...

So... I unsubscribed from Netflix.

Children would love Cocaine, too, is they were given access to it.

If people think they can vibe-code SAP out of business, that is a completely different understanding of the term vibe-coding compared to someone like Torvalds, who probably thinks in C++ by now, letting AI do the grunt-work and provide a basic construct he can then beautify and improve.

If a CEO extrapolates that he can replace an experienced miner with a yound man with a CAT machine, all he will produce is a cave-in.

You want to give the CAT to the experienced miner.

I agree but to determine that, you need to remove the emotional drama from the discussion. gweihir is not doing that.

That's about what I expected. I find it telling that the list of c-level doesn't include a CTO.

I know they think the CIO replaces the CTO but that's not the impression I get. A CTO IMO was expected to turn pipe-dreams realistic enough to make a product... CIOs just seem to have to HAVE the pipe-dreams.

It lets us do some napkin calculations though. Lets say this stuff runs at 50% load, then thats about 3.5 GW. OpenAI probably truly runs 24/7 without much load changes so that is 8760 hours per annum.

That is about 30.6TWh. Unless my math is completely off this early in the morning, we're talking about annual cost of 300 million if we assume just one cent per kWh in cost.

You can now extrapolate power cost for any price you wish to assume. At 20 cents per, we're looking at 6 billion, no?

And that doesn't include a single salary, rent of any kind and certainly not replacement of old hardware. I doubt they run their GPUs much longer than three years.

First, "CFOs, CISOs, CIOs and CEOs" is a list of people one doesn't exactly associate with competence and foresight.

And what in the name of all that is holy is "composable, API-driven best-of-breed systems" supposed to be?

I'm getting tired of hearing this.

Trump does a lot of things, and most of them please someone. Just because it isn't pleasing YOU doesn't men it's a dictatorship.

And let's be clear here, Trump is doing a lot of stuff in unpleasant ways that his predecessors have neglected to do in pleasant ways before.

As a non-American, I shure would prefer a US president that isn't rampaging like a mad bull in a china shop. Heh, I did a funny there.

But the state of the US before Trump had me more on edge than it does now, to be honest. From the right viewpoint, he's being rather predictable and he's forcing European governments to look at their own neglected backyards like people used to force a kitten's nose into its own urinal accidents.

It sure isn't the best way to go about things but man was it time someone did something. The establishment was way too comfortable.

In my opinion, Germany is much closer to catastrophe than the US.

Wouldn't wear resistant heels by definition be, you know, slippery?

They know to whom they need to send a text but instead of just crediting their balance, they make customers jump through hoops in the hopes that some forego the effort or can't work the app.

But that right there is my point... did they think they could make the DEI stuff rain profit? And why were they ready to wait for it for that long?

Vanguard is the largest stockholder of Blackrock at over 8% that isn't part of the "others" slice.

But Blackrock sure as hell IS a publicly traded company with a LOT of different interests... Why were they allowed to burn that money? Why is Fink still CEO? He holds less than a half percent in stock.

Ah, you're right, I didn't think it through. The 5.8 billion wasn't profit.

Yes, I read that the cinemas take about 50% of the box office and lets not forget that they do not include marketing in production cost. That's usuall 30 to 50% on top of production cost.

As for why people are allowed to operate like that I have no idea. I am GenX/Millennial. I grew up being told that to a CEO shareholders are akin to God and that shareholders are unfeeling ultracapitalists that would eradicate earths population if they saw a profit in it and had the opportunity.

Some people point to Blackrock and Vanguard saying they have an ideological agenda but what is more capitalist than Blackrock and Vanguard?

Frankly, my understanding of how humans operate has been put into question hard in the last decade.