("Surely not MILLions," I hear you say. Well, it would have been just hundreds, but the hazard signalling system at both ends of the bridge is also broken, and has been even before the bridge broke several years ago.)

Hey, shitty engineers are still engineers. A bridge that breaks and dumps millions in the Mississippi to drown is still a bridge. Well, it was.

No, but I suppose 1^x is.

When people say "exponential growth", they usually mean geometric growth anyway. It's the "literally" of mathematics.

I was exaggerating for comic effect. I don't think anyone's ever gone to jail for pirating Rad Racer. Most days, I don't believe anyone outside of the development team has ever even played Rad Racer, at least not past the first level.

I've tried to see Nintendo's side of things over the decades, but I confess I'm having a harder and harder time seeing the moral justification for the thousands of kids that have been effectively orphaned because their parents received 30-year sentences for playing Rad Racer on unlicensed hardware.

The fuck is an "innovation"? I've never heard of it.

Oracle customers are like the frog who carried the scorpion across the river on his back. Well, no. Actually they're more like the sixteenth frog in line at the riverbank, patiently loading up his own scorpions despite the thirty-six sting-related drownings he's witnessed in the last hour.

Are you trying to tell me that there were 200 people whose full-time job was designing levels for Candy Crush? That is BLEAK.

Usually the best advice I can offer is to "burn it all down", but burning down the ocean presents some practical difficulties.

How much data are we talking here? How many tapes? How long is the average tape? Why am I the only one who cares?

"Gravy"? Urhm, you mean that stuff in the jars next to everybody's workstation? That's not gravy.

"Infinite Reality acquired Napster for $207 million in March..."

March of WHAT? 2000? Holy Tiamat-fucking Marduk, how long does it take to separate all the fools from all their money already?

Good idea. We can save a lot of--well, a LITTLE--money by taking the slightly-more-expensive people out of the equation entirely and just having LLMs teach LLMs.

That's cool. It's not really for me.